Researchers and Partner Organizations

Gary L. Wells (Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa)

Ebbe B. Ebbesen (University of California, San Diego)  

Elizabeth Loftus (University of California, Irvine)

Otto MacLin (Eyewitness Identification Laboratory at the University of Northern Iowa),

Roy S. Malpass (Eyewitness Identification Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at El Paso)

Steven Penrod (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York)

Nancy K Mehrkens Steblay (Augsburg College)

The Center for Modern Forensic Practice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)

Criminal justice professionals need a new place to meet science insulated from the adversary battle of courtroom expert testimony and the ‘gotcha’ traditions of daily journalism, a new way to inform scientists about the realities of practice—in short a new tradition that integrates science into the criminal process. The science portrayed on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is real, and there is more science available than is ever shown on television. The Center for Modern Forensic Practice of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice mobilizes that science to support criminal justice professionals who are making a concrete difference on the streets—it uses science to provide not only more evidence, but a higher quality of evidence, and an enhanced ability to evaluate evidence.

The Police Foundation

An independent and unique resource for policing, the Police Foundation acts as a catalyst for change and an advocate for new ideas, in restating and reminding ourselves about the fundamental purposes of policing, and in ensuring that an important link remains intact between the police and the public they serve.

The Center for Problem-Oriented Policing

The mission of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing is to advance the concept and practice of problem-oriented policing in open and democratic societies. It does so by making readily accessible information about ways in which police can more effectively address specific crime and disorder problems.

The Center for Problem-Oriented Policing is a non-profit organization comprising affiliated police practitioners, researchers, and universities dedicated to the advancement of problem-oriented policing.

The Innocence Project (Benjamin J. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University)

The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University to assist prisoners who could be proven innocent through DNA testing. 

The Innocence Project’s full-time staff attorneys and Cardozo clinic students provided direct representation or critical assistance in most of these cases. The Innocence Project’s groundbreaking use of DNA technology to free innocent people has provided irrefutable proof that wrongful convictions are not isolated or rare events but instead arise from systemic defects. Now an independent nonprofit organization closely affiliated with Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, the Innocence Project’s mission is nothing less than to free the staggering numbers of innocent people who remain incarcerated and to bring substantive reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment.