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Curriculum Vitae
Jeff Mellow John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Department of Criminal Justice
445 West 59th Street, Rm 2122N
New York, NY 10019
212-237-8035
Research Interests: Issues in correctional policy, practice and organizational effectiveness,
community corrections, reentry, evaluation of criminal justice programs,
critical incidents in corrections.
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Professional Experience
2010-present Professor
Department of Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
City University of New York (CUNY)
2006-present Faculty Member
Program of Doctoral Studies in Criminal Justice, The Graduate Center, CUNY
M.A. Program in Criminal Justice, John Jay College
2010-2013 Deputy Executive Officer
Program of Doctoral Studies in Criminal Justice, The Graduate Center, CUNY
2011-2012 Faculty Research Fellow
Research and Evaluation Center, John Jay College, CUNY
2009-2010 Associate Professor
Department of Criminal Justice, John Jay College, CUNY
2007-2010 Senior Research Associate
Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation Center, John Jay College, CUNY
Prisoner Reentry Institute, John Jay College, CUNY
2005-2009 Associate Professor
Department of Law, Police Science & Criminal Justice Administration, John Jay
College, CUNY
2004-2005 Associate Professor
Department of Sociology, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ.
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1998-2004 Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ.
1998-1999 Teaching Associate
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, State University of New
York, Albany, NY.
1991-1992 News Producer
Law Enforcement Training Network (LETN), Dallas, TX.
Academic Degrees
2001 Ph.D., Criminal Justice
University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany NY.
1994 M.A., Criminal Justice
University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany NY.
1989 B.A., International Studies
American University, Washington, DC.
Publications
‘*’ student author (designates research conducted while a student)
Refereed journal articles
Peterson, Bryce*, Adam Fera* and Jeff Mellow. (In press). Escapes from Correctional Custody:
A New Examination of an Old Phenomenon. The Prison Journal.
Mellow, Jeff, Bryce Peterson and Mijin Kim*. (2016). An Analysis of CRIPA Findings Letters
Issued to Jails for Constitutional Violations by the Department of Justice, American
Journal of Criminal Justice. Available online at:
http://link.springer.com.ez.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/article/10.1007/s12103-016-9347-5
Kim, Mijin* and Jeff Mellow. (2016). Analysis of “Powder Keg Theory” in State Escape
Statuses. Criminal Justice Policy Review. Available online at
http://cjp.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/12/03/0887403415619006.abstract
Sung, Hung-En, Jeff Mellow, Robert Vaughan & Ernie Drucker. (2016). Building Infrastructure
and Capacity for Correctional Health Research in a College of Criminal Justice: Lessons
and Promises. The Prison Journal, 96, 304-328.
Chintakrindi, Sriram*, Hung-En Sung, Jeff Mellow and Jeremy Porter. (2015). Empirical Test of
Low Self-Control Theory Using Post-Treatment Substance Use and Recidivism
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Outcomes of Parolees Participating in an Experimental Intervention. Criminology,
Criminal Justice, Law & Society, 16, 41-42.
Cantora, Andrea, Jeff Mellow and Melinda Schlager. (2015). Social Relationships and Group
Dynamics inside a Community Correction Facility for Women. International Journal of
Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. Online first: DOI:
10.1177/0306624X15591805
Yu, Violet, Hung-En Sung and Jeff Mellow. (2015). Self-perceived Health Improvements
among Prison Inmates. Journal of Correctional Health Care, 21, 59-69.
Cantora, Andrea*, Jeff Mellow and Melinda Schlager. (2014). What about Nonprogrammatic
Factors? Women’s Perceptions of Staff and Resident Relationships in a Community
Corrections Setting. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 53, 35-56.
Sung-Suk Yu, Hung-En Sung, Jeff Mellow and Amy Shlosberg*. (2014). Prevalence and
Correlates of Suicidal Ideation among Parolees. Psychiatric Services, 65, 381-386.
Williams, Brie, Marc Stern, Jeff Mellow, Meredith Safer and Robert Greifinger. (2012). Aging
in Correctional Custody: Setting a Policy Agenda for Older Prisoner Health Care.
American Journal of Public Health, 102, 1475-1481.
White, Michael D., Jessica Saunders*, Christopher Fisher* and Jeff Mellow. (2012). Exploring
Inmate Reentry in a Local Jail Setting: Implications for Outreach, Service Use, and
Recidivism. Crime and Delinquency, 58, 124-146.
Sung, Hung-En and Jeff Mellow. (2011). Health and Justice in the 21st Century:
Criminalization of Disease, Medicalization of Justice and Beyond. Corrections
Compendium, 36, 11-16.
White, Michael D., Jeff Mellow, Kristin Englander*, and Marc Ruffinego*. (2011). Halfway
Back: An Alternative to Revocation for Technical Parole Violators. Criminal Justice
Policy Review, 22, 140-166.
Sung, Hung-En, Annette M. Mahoney, and Jeff Mellow. (2011). Substance Abuse Treatment
Gap among Parolees: Prevalence, Correlates, and Barriers. Criminal Justice Review, 36,
40-57.
Stern, Marc F., Robert B. Greifinger, and Jeff Mellow. (2010). Patient Safety: Moving the Bar in
Prison Health Care Standards. American Journal of Public Health, 100, 2103-2110.
Online version available at: www.patientsafetyincorrectionalsettings.com
Sung, Hung-En, Mellow, Jeff, & Mahoney, Annette M. (2010). Jail Inmates with Co-Occurring
Mental Health and Substance Use Problems: Correlates and Service Needs. Journal of
Offender Rehabilitation. 49, 126-145.
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Hoge, Steven K., Robert B. Greifinger, Thomas Lundquist and Jeff Mellow. (2009). Mental
Health Performance Measurement in Corrections. International Journal of Offender
Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 53, 634-647.
Baillargeon, Jacques, Brie A. Williams, Jeff Mellow, Amy Jo Harzke, Steven K. Hoge, and
Robert Greifinger. (2009). Parole Revocation among Prison Inmates with Psychiatric and
Substance Use Disorders. Psychiatric Services. 60, 1516-1521.
Williams, Brie, Karla Lindquist, Terry Hill, Jacques Baillargeon, Jeff Mellow, Robert
Greifinger, and Louise C. Walter. (2009). Caregiving Behind Bars: Correctional Officer
Reports of Disability among Geriatric Prisoners. Journal of the American Geriatrics
Society. 57, 1286-1292.
Mellow, Jeff, Melinda Schlager and Joel Caplan*. (2008). Using GIS to Evaluate Post-Release
Prisoner Services in Newark, NJ. Journal of Criminal Justice. 36, 416-425.
Mellow, Jeff and Johnna Christian. Transitioning Offenders to the Community: A Content
Analysis of Reentry Guides. (2008). Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. 47, 4, 339-355.
Naday, Alexandra*, Josh Freilich and Jeff Mellow. (2008). The Elusive Data on Supermax
Confinement. The Prison Journal. 88, 1, 69-93.
Mellow, Jeff and Robert Greifinger. The Evolving Standard of Decency: Post-Release Planning?
(2008). Journal of Correctional Health Care. 14, 1, 21-30.
Mellow, Jeff and Robert Greifinger. (2007). Successful Reentry: The Perspective of Private
Correction Health Care Providers, Journal of Urban Health. 84, 85-98.
Abridge version reprinted in CorrDocs (2008), the newsletter of the Society of
Correctional Physicians, 11, 1, 10.
Christian, Johnna, Jeff Mellow and Shenique Thomas*. (2006). Social and Economic
Implications of Family Connections to Prisoners. Journal of Criminal Justice.
34, 443-452.
Mellow, Jeff and James N. Dickinson. (2006).The Role of Prerelease Handbooks for
Prisoner Reentry. Federal Probation, 70, 1, 70-76.
Mellow, Jeff and Lenny Ward. (2003). Community Strategies for Successful Reentry.
Perspectives, 27, 4: 26-28.
Book Chapter
Mellow, Jeff. (2007).Written Health Informational Needs for Reentry. In Public Health
Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities. Edited by Robert Greifinger, NY:
Springer Press.
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Monographs
Mellow, Jeff, Gary Christensen, Kevin Warwick and Janeen Buck Willison. (2010). Transition
from Jail to Community Online Learning Toolkit. Washington: National Institute of
Corrections. 238 pages. Revised 2014 & 2015. Available at: http://nicic.gov/tjctoolkit2
Mellow, Jeff, Debbie Mukamal, Stefan LoBuglio, Amy Solomon and Jenny Osborne. (2008).
The Jail Administrator’s Toolkit for Reentry. Washington: Bureau of Justice Assistance.
Solomon, Amy, Jenny Osborne, Stefan LoBuglio, Jeff Mellow and Debbie Mukamal. (2008).
Life After Lockup: Improving Reentry from Jail to the Community. Washington: Bureau
of Justice Assistance.
Mellow, Jeff, Steven K. Hoge, Josh Lee, Mangai Natarajan, Sung-suk Violet Yu*, Robert
Greifinger, and Gary Belkin. (2008). Mapping the Innovation in Correctional Health
Care Service Delivery in New York City. NY: John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Mellow, Jeff. (2001). The development and validation of a questionnaire to measure ethnicity:
Targeted for legal, security, programming, and reporting purposes with prison
populations (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.
(Accession Order No. 3012368)
Technical Reports
Barnes-Ceeney, Kevin and Jeff Mellow. (2015). The NeON Initiative: An Evaluation of a
Community-Oriented Probation Model in New York City. NY: John Jay College of
Criminal Justice.
Cory Feldman*, Mellow, Jeff, and Robert E. Worden. (2011). Borough of Manhattan Arrestee
Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) II Bulletin, Volume 1, Number 2, NY: John Jay College
of Criminal Justice.
Mellow, Jeff, Cory Feldman* and Robert E. Worden. (2010). Borough of Manhattan Arrestee
Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) II Bulletin, Volume 1, Number 1, NY: John Jay College
of Criminal Justice.
Mellow, Jeff, Mike White, Nancy Jacobs, and Gipsy Escobar*. (2009). The Community Oriented
Correctional Health Service Model: Implementation in the District of Columbia
Department of Corrections. NY: Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation Center, John
Jay College.
Other Publications
Peterson, Bryce* and Jeff Mellow. (In press). Escapes from Prison. In The Encyclopedia of
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Corrections, edited by Kent Kerley, Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford.
Mellow, Jeff. (2008). Guest Editorial: The Trend is Your Friend: Why We Must Embrace
Discharge Planning, CorrectCare. 22, 1, 3.
Mellow, Jeff. (2005). Fourteenth Amendment. In Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional
Facilities, edited by Mary Bosworth, Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA.
Fishman, Nancy and Jeff Mellow. (2005). The Essex County Smart Book: A Resource
Guide for Going Home. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Department of Corrections.
Reprinted 2008.
Mellow, Jeff and Paul Shane. (2002). The Prisoners and their Families Newark Agency
Directory. Rutgers-Newark.
Mellow, Jeff. (1996). Measuring Race: Historical and Contemporary Issues. The Criminologist.
21, 2, 6-7.
In Progress
Mellow, Jeff and Kevin Barnes-Ceeney. High-Level Implementation: Key Factors to Promote
Successful Comprehensive Reentry Initiatives (in progress)
Mellow, Jeff, Jacqueline Scott, Bryce Peterson and Gohar Petrossian. Understanding Risky
Facilities: Analysis of Factors Associated with Jails Escapes in Four States (in progress)
Honors and Awards
2015 Honoree, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Recognition of Faculty and Staff
who have Received Major and External Grants and Awards
Provost’s Office, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
2011-2013 Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Scholarly Achievements
The City University of New York
2010-2012 Certificate of Appreciate for Guidance and Encouragement of Dean’s List
Students
Provost’s Office, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
2010 Certificate of Recognition, Recipients of Major Institutional Grants for
Education and Public Service.
The Graduate School and University Center New York City
2008 Certificate of Appreciate for Guidance and Encouragement of Dean’s List
Students
Provost’s Office, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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2007-2010 Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Scholarly Achievements
The City University of New York
2008-2009 Faculty Scholarly Excellence Award.
Provost’s Office, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Research Grant Activities
External
2012-2015 The Transition from Jail to Community Project, Phase 2
Role: Consulting Investigator (PI, Jesse Jannetta, Urban Institute)
Funding: U.S. Department of Justice, $499,000
2012-2014 Neighborhood Opportunity Network (NeON) Evaluation.
Role: Co-principal Investigator (with Kevin Barnes-Ceeney)
Funding: The City of New York Department of Probation, $264,184
2010-2013 Institutional Development Program for Correctional Health & Healthcare
Research
Role: Co-principal Investigator and Project Coordinator (with Jeremy Travis and
Hung-En Sung)
Funding: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National
Institute of Health, $1,208,517. More information at www.johnjayhealth.org
2010-2012 Correctional Incident Database of Collective Violence, Homicides, Hate
Crimes and Escapes
Role: Co-principal Investigator (with Joshua Freilich & Steven Chermak)
Funding: Academy of Critical Incident Analysis, $30,000
2008-2011 Seizing Public Health Opportunities through Correctional Health Care
Role: Co-principal Investigator (with Robert Greifinger)
Funding: Langeloth Foundation, $155,666
2008-2009 Medical Home Pilot and Health System Literacy Training Project for
Correctional Populations Role: Consultant
Funding: New York Academy of Medicine, $10,000
2007-2011 The Transition from Jail to Community Project
Role: Consulting Investigator (PI, Amy Solomon, Urban Institute) Funding: U.S. Department of Justice, $1,900,000
2007-2008 Evaluation of the Community Education Centers’ (CEC) Halfway Back
Parolee Program
Role: Co-principal Investigator (with Mike White)
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Funding: Community Education Center, $24,336
2006-2009 Evaluation of the Community-Oriented Corrections Health Model in the
Washington, DC Jail System Role: Co-principal Investigator (with Mike White)
Funding: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $150,000
2006-2008 New York City Jail Reentry Planning Project
Role: Co-principal Investigator (with Sinead Keegan)
Funding: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $98,597
2006 Jail Reentry Roundtable Initiative
A collaborative grant between Prisoner Reentry Institute, John Jay College and
the Urban Institute
Role: Consulting Investigator
Funding: Department of Justice, Office of Justice Program, $242,040
2004 Meeting the Information Needs of Parolees: Internet Database Training for
NJ State Parole Officer In collaboration with the New Jersey Association on Corrections
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: New Jersey State Parole Board, $3,000
2004 Essex County Discharge Planning and Resource Guide for Counselors and
Inmates In collaboration with the New Jersey Institute of Social Justice
Role: Co-principal Investigator (with Nancy Fishman)
Funding: New Jersey Department of Corrections, $20,000
2002-2003 Resources for People Leaving Prison
In collaboration with the New Jersey Association on Correction
Role: Co-principal Investigator (with James Hemm and Margaret Smith).
Funding: The Fund for New Jersey, $15,000
2001-2002 Coordinating Social and other Service Agencies in the Newark Area
In collaboration with the Prisoners and their Families Project
Role: Co-principal Investigator (with Paul Shane)
Funding: Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies, $9,000
Internal
2016-2017 Facility-, Incident-, and Inmate-Level Factors Associated with Jail Suicides?
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: PSC-CUNY 47 Research Award, $5,931.36
2013 (fall) Recipient. Sabbatical, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY
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2012-2013 Escapes from Custody and Violence: Do the Courts Have it Wrong?
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: PSC-CUNY 43 Research Award, $11,998
2007-2008 Assessing the Expectations, Realities, and Outcomes of Women Leaving
Prison to a Gender-Specific Halfway House Environment Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: PSC-CUNY University Committee on Research, $4,744
2006-2007 Using Geographic Information Systems to Evaluate Post-Release Prison
Reentry Needs in the Greater Newark, NJ Region Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: PSC-CUNY University Committee on Research, $3,990
2005 Assessing The Essex County Smart Book: A Resource Guide for Going Home
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: Bloomfield College’s Faculty Development Committee, $1,220
2003-2004 Advocating, Marketing, and Enhancing NewarkSuccess.org
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: Bloomfield College’s Faculty Development Committee, $1,729
2002 Recipient. Study Leave, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ. Fall 2002
Consulting Activities
2006-2013 Site Director in Manhattan. Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program (ADAM
II), Abt. Associates and the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
2005 Research Consultant. Drafted the text on the needs, issues, and procedures to
implement post-secondary education in a correctional facility for the New Jersey
Institute for Social Justice, September 2005.
2005 Research Consultant. Evaluated Youth Challenge’s residential drug treatment
facility, as an alternative to incarceration, for men in Newport News, VA. For J.C.
Kellogg Foundation, Summit, NJ.
2004 Training Consultant. Conducted a training session titled “Meeting the Health
and Human Service Needs for Probationers: Internet Database Training for
Probation Officers” for New Jersey Office of the Public Defender’s Life Skill
Advocates, Trenton, NJ.
2004 Training Consultant. Conducted two training sessions titled “Meeting the Health
and Human Service Needs for Parolees: Internet Database Training for Parole
Officers” for New Jersey State Parole Board training officers, Newark &
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Bloomfield, NJ.
2004 Research Consultant. Drafted the text on the needs, issues, and procedures to
implement HIV/AIDS outreach to parolees for the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention HIV Prevention Projects’ Community-Based Organization Grant
#04064, Isaiah House, East Orange, NJ, 2004. 1
Panel Memberships (selected)
2014-present Advisory Board Member, The Reset Foundation, San Francisco, CA.
2016 Participant, Technical Review Panel for the Survey of Local Jail Inmates,
Bureau of Justice Statistics, Aurora, CO (scheduled in June).
2007-2015 Advisory Group Member, Transition from Jail to Community project.
National Institute of Corrections & The Urban Institute, Washington, DC.
2015 Participant, Topical Working Group on the Use of Administrative Segregation in
the United State, National Institute of Justice, Arlington, VA.
2015 Observer, Approaches to Reforming Long-Term Isolation: A Colloquium to
Further a National Consensus on Ending the Over-Use of Extreme Isolation, John
Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY.
2015 Participant, Probation Revocation in the Era of Mass Incarceration, John Jay
College and the University of Minnesota’s Robin Institute of Criminal Law and
Criminal Justice, New York, NY.
2012-2013 Advisory Group Member, Research and Evaluation Center, John Jay College of
Criminal Justice, New York, NY.
2011-2013 Advisory Committee Member, Justice and Health Data Exchange Initiative,
Bureau of Justice Assistance & Vera Institute of Justice, New York, NY.
2012 Search Committee Member, Director of Research position at the Vera Institute
of Justice, New York, NY.
2011-2012 Evaluation Advisory Board Member, The Choice is Yours (TCY) Alternative
to Incarceration Program, Public/Private Ventures, Philadelphia.
2009-2012 Research Associate, Rutgers Center on Public Security.
2007-2011 Member, Health Reentry Work Group, New York Academy of Medicine.
2009-2010 Member, Bergen County, NJ Health Services Advisory Committee.
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2010 Participant, Equal Justice, Unequal Results: Security Classification of
Incarcerated Women Conference, Corrections Committee of the Criminal Justice
Section of the American Bar Association, New York, NY.
2007-2009 Participant, Connecting Health Care in Jails to the Health of Communities: A
Collaboration of Stakeholders, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The
Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation, Washington, DC.
2002-2008 Director, NewarkSuccess.org, an interactive database of community resources for
people leaving prison and their families in the Newark, NJ metropolitan area.
2006-2007 Member, National Advisory Group, Jail Reentry Roundtable Initiative, The
Urban Institute, Washington, DC.
2006 Member, The Public Health Association of New York City: Public Safety,
Criminal Justice, and Health Work Group, Bellevue Hospital, NYC.
2006 Participant, Jail Reentry Roundtable, June 26-28, The Urban Institute,
Washington, DC.
2005-2006 Affiliate, The Reentry Mapping Network, The Urban Institute, Washington, DC.
2005-2006 Participant, “Incarceration, Reentry and the Family Roundtable Series.” Rutgers-
Newark School of Criminal Justice and New Jersey Institute for Social Justice,
Newark, NJ.
2002-2005 Co-director, Prisoners and their Families Project. A project designed to develop
a coordinated, collaborative approach to services for people leaving prison and
their families in the Newark, New Jersey area. The project is shared with the
Department of Social Work at Rutgers University - Newark.
2002-2004 Advisory Committee Member, Seth Boyden Community Resource Center, Seth
Boyden Housing Project, Newark, NJ.
2002-2003 Participant, “New Jersey Reentry Roundtable.” New Jersey Institute for Social
Justice, Trenton, NJ.
2002 Co-organizer, Prisoners and their Families conference, Rutgers-Newark, (June).
Invited Presentations and Interviews (selected)
Mellow, Jeff. (2016). High-Level Implementation: Key Factors to Promote Successful
Comprehensive Reentry Initiatives, National Science Foundation funded Prisoner Reentry
and Reintegration Workshop, Rutgers University, Newark School of Criminal Justice,
April 14.
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Barnes-Ceeney, Kevin and Jeff Mellow. (2013). Examination of NeON’s and Their Impact on
Youth on Probation. Testimony to the Committee on Juvenile Justice, The Council of the
City of New York, December 6.
Barnes-Ceeney, Kevin and Jeff Mellow. (2013). Advancing Motivational Interviewing. The New
York City Department of Probation Professional Development Day, NY, January 17.
Barnes-Ceeney, Kevin and Jeff Mellow. (2012). From Partnership to Participation: Developing
Trust through Action Research of the NeONs. The New York City Department of
Probation Professional Development Day, NY, June 21.
Mellow, Jeff, Gary Christensen and Kevin Warwick. (2011). Transition from Jail to Community
Part I: Resources for Building Systems Approach to Jail Transition. American Jail
Association’s Annual Training Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, May.
Stageman, Dan, Jeff Mellow, Andrea Colan and Adam Fera. (2010). United States Correctional
Incident Database (CID) 2006 - Present: Preliminary Results. The Academy for Critical
Incident Analysis (ACIA): Critical Incident Education and Training Conference. John Jay
College, October 21, NY.
Mellow, Jeff. (2010). What Goes on Behind the Walls. Back to the Community: Making Systems
Work for Reentry. Rutgers-Camden, NJ. April.
Mellow, Jeff. (2010). Prisoner Reentry. American Constitution Society for Law & Policy, New
York Law School.
Mellow, Jeff. (2009). Why Innovation Works: Best Practices in Reentry. Keynote address at the
Re-Entry Summit, Bergen County, NJ. June.
Mellow, Jeff. (2009). Correctional Health Webinar: MPA Capstone Project. New York
University - Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. March.
Mellow, Jeff. (2008). Interview: Research Expert Jeff Mellow on the Elements of Inmate
Re-entry, COCHS Connection, 3, 4-5.
Reprinted in Corrections.com. The elements of inmate re-entry, 12/22/2008.
www.corrections.com/articles/20296
Mellow, Jeff. (2007). Quoted in Family Matters’ article, Using maps to tell a story. A
publication of Family Justice, Fall 2007.
Mellow, Jeff. (2006). The Evolving Standard of Decency: Is Post-Release Planning Next?
Committee on Corrections, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York,
June.
Mellow, Jeff. (2006). Discharge Planning. Doctoral Colloquium Series, John Jay College of
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Criminal Justice, February.
Mellow, Jeff. (2005). Scholarly Commentator for Movies in Time, The History Channel
(discussed Cool Hand Luke), September.
Mellow, Jeff. (2005). Two Keys to Success: Education & Employment. Presented at Pathways
Home: Parole – Community Conference in Offender Reentry, Woodrow Wilson School,
Princeton University, September.
Mellow, Jeff. (2005). Two Keys to Success: Education and Employment. Presented at Making
Connections: Parole Community Strategies in Offender Re-Entry, Passaic County
Community College, Paterson, NJ, May.
Mellow, Jeff. (2004). Collective community corrections: Seth Boyden Project. Presented
to the New Jersey Chapter American Correctional Association, 22nd Annual Conference,
Atlantic City, NJ, October.
Mellow, Jeff. (2004). Understanding the Needs of Parolees. Presented to the Rutgers-Newark
Social Work Advisory Council, September.
Mellow, Jeff. (2004). The Digital Divide in Discharge Planning: Problems and Solutions.
Presented to social worker managers at the New Jersey Department of Corrections,
Trenton, NJ, September.
Conference Presentations
Presentations for professional meetings (including American Society of Criminology, Academy
of Criminal Justice Sciences, and other professional organizations) available upon request
Quoted in the Following Media on Correctional Related Issues
Asbury Park Press (NJ), Campus Progress, Capital (Annapolis, MD), Chicago Tribune,
Columbia News Service (NY), History Channel, Modest Bee (CA), New Jersey Star-
Ledger, Record (Bergen County, NJ), New Jersey Pubic Television (NJN), New York
Times, Orlando Sentinel (FL), Sun-Sentinel (FL), The Daily, The Long Islander (NY),
Uptown1Radio, Wall Street Journal, Yale Daily News.
Professional Service (selected)
Journal reviewer Crime & Delinquency, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Criminal Justice Policy Review,
Criminal Justice Review, Health & Justice, Journal of Correctional Health Care, Journal
of Criminal Justice, Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Journal of Research in Crime and
Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, and Public Administration Review
Proposal reviewer
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National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
Proposal, 2015
The Jacob & Valeria Langeloth Foundation, 2013
Faculty grant applications at St. Joseph’s College, New York, 2009
Technical reviewer National Institute of Justice: Researcher-Practitioner Partnership Project. June 2015.
Urban Institute: Transition from Prison to Community Initiative Process Evaluation
Report, 2012
RAND Corporation: Understanding the Public Health Implications of Prisoner Reentry
in California: State of the State Report, 2011
RAND Corporation: Understanding the Public Health Implications of Prisoner Reentry
in California. 2009 (acknowledged in report)
The New York City Department of Justice report: The Collaborative Family Initiative.
April 2008 (acknowledged in report)
Peeples, Carole & Christie Donner. (2007). Getting on after getting out: A re-entry guide
for Colorado. Denver: Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition
(acknowledged in book).
Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer’s report: Breaking Parole: An Analysis
of the New York State Division of Parole’s Caseload Management Guidelines.
December 2006. (acknowledged in report)
Other Service
Chair, Student Affairs Committee of American Society of Criminology’s Division on
Corrections and Sentencing, 2016
Member, American Society of Criminology, Vollmer Committee, 2011-2012
Chair, Outreach Committee of American Society of Criminology’s Division on
Corrections and Sentencing, 2009-2012
Outside Advisor, MA Student Colin Asher at the Columbia University Graduate School
of Journalism. Topic: Prison based higher education, 2009-2010
Program committee member, Annual Meeting of the American Society of
Criminology, Philadelphia, PA. November 2009.
Advisor, Provided assistance to the National Democratic Institute for International
Affairs on prison issues, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2002.
Doctoral Program in Criminal Justice, The Graduate Center (selected)
AY=Academic Year
Member, Ph.D. Executive Committee, AY 10, 11, 12, 14, 15
Member, Ph.D. Core Faculty, AY 14, 15
Member, Ph.D. Curriculum Committee, AY 10, 11, 12, 15
Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Award Committee, AY 13, 14, 15
Grader, Criminal Justice, Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination, AY 06, 07, 10, 11, 12, 14
Deputy Executive Officer, Program of Doctoral Studies in Criminal Justice, AY 10, 11,
12
Member, Ph.D. Membership Committee, AY 10, 11, 12
Member, Ph.D. Admission & Financial Aid Committee, AY 06, 10, 11, 12, 15
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Member, Ph.D. Election Committee, AY 10, 11, 12
John Jay College of Criminal Justice (selected)
Presenter, Grants 101 Workshop, John Jay College Faculty Development Day, 2013
Member, John Jay College IRB Committee, AY 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10
Chair, AA Degree Educational Partnerships Committee, AY 07, 08, 09
Reviewer, PSC-CUNY Research Award Program, 2008
Member, AA Degree Educational Partnerships Committee, AY 06
John Jay College’s M.A. in Criminal Justice Program (selected)
Grader, Comprehensive Examination, AY 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15
Member, Master of Public Health in Criminal Justice Graduate Program Development,
AY 14, 15
Member, Admissions Committee, AY 10
Chair, GRE Subcommittee, 2009
John Jay College’s Criminal Justice Department (selected)
Member, Outstanding Criminal Justice Thesis, AY 15
Member, Personnel & Budget Committee, AY 10, 11, 12, 14, 15
Member, Grade Appeal Committee, AY 09, 10, 11, 12
Member, Curriculum Committee, AY 09
Member, Search Committee, Lecturer Position, AY 09
Bloomfield College (selected)
Member, Students Affairs Committee, AY 98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04
Member, Enrollment Management Committee, AY 03, 04
Member, Admission & Financial Aid Committee, AY 03, 04
Member, Honors Council, AY 02, 03, 04
Member, Faculty Council, AY 00, 01, 02
Member, Presidential Search Committee, 2002
Member, Strategic Planning Committee, AY 01
Member, All College Planning Committee, AY 00, 01
Bloomfield College’s Sociology Department (selected)
Advisor, Criminal Justice Concentration Majors, AY 98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04
Coordinator, Criminal Justice Concentration, AY 00, 01, 02
Teaching and Mentoring
Chair of Ph.D. dissertations
Peirce, Jennifer. (In progress). “Good governance” in the prison sector: Policymaking and
reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Rogers, Erin. (In progress). An examination of organizational, operational, and traumatic
stressors in relation to job burnout among correctional employees in order to address
staff retention and job satisfaction
Kim, Mijin. (In progress). Behavioral effects of restrictive housing
Peterson, Bryce. 2014. Inmate-, incident-, and facility-level factors associated with escapes
from custody and violent outcomes.
Received 2015 John Jay College Ph.D. program Outstanding Dissertation Award
Goodman, Marna. 2014. Obtaining their GED: The Pennsylvania Academic Career/Technical
Training Alliance Initiative: Engaging youth in school and work.
Barnes-Ceeney, Kevin. 2013. Negotiating labyrinths of risk: The impact and implementation of
a structured violence risk assessment instrument in juvenile parole.
Received 2013 John Jay College Ph.D. program Best Dissertation Award
Neusteter, S. Rebecca. 2012. Exploring change in local criminal justice systems: An
examination of the implementation of the Justice Reinvestment at the Local Level model
in three U.S. counties.
Crayton, Anna Lee. 2012. Long-term incarceration and public safety: Predicting the
recidivism risk of long-term prisoners.
Cantora, Andrea. 2011. Perceptions of correctional treatment: Understanding how women
offenders respond to a female halfway house.
Member of Ph.D. dissertations
(1) Kim M. Marino (2) Younoh Cho (3) Amy Shlosberg (4) Yvonne Neiman (5) Sriram
Chintakrindi (6) Megan Welsh (7) Michelle Cubellis (8) Cassandra Ramdath (9) Celia
Sporer (10) Janet Wiersema (Graduate Center – Public Health) (11) Lauren Paradis (12)
Ronald Day (13) Laura Lutgen (14) Susruta Sudula
External reader for Ph.D. dissertation proposals
(1) Tonya Desa (2) Christopher R. Hermann (3) Matasha Harris (4) LaNina N. Cooke (5)
Kevin Barrett (6) Ahmet Kule (7) Phillip Kopp (8) Jisun Choi
Chair of M.A. Theses
(1) Jean Lem (2) Catherine Salzinger (3) Mijin Kim
Member of M.A. Theses
(1) Shari Bath (New York University) (2) Rosanna Cruz (3) Natalie Loveland (4) Colin
Asher (Columbia University) (5) Ben Schwerin
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Teaching
Ph.D. courses
Community Corrections
Punishment & Special Population in Corrections
M.A. courses
Field Work in Public Administration
Issues of Criminal Justice
Probation and Parole
Problems in Contemporary Corrections
Readings in Criminal Justice
Undergraduate courses
Adolescent Psychosocial Problems
Criminal Justice and Gender
Criminology
Correctional Management
Corrections
Drugs, Crime and Social Policy
Freshman Seminar
Institutional Treatment of the Offender
Juvenile Delinquency
Prisoner Reentry
Race and Crime
The Law and Institutional Treatment
Professional Memberships
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS)
American Correctional Association (ACA)
American Jail Association (AJA)
American Society of Criminology (ASC)