About Us
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John T. KirkpatrickCo-Director 110 Murkland Hall |
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John T. Kirkpatrick, a criminologist, earned his baccalaureate degree at Colby College in 1977 and his Ph.D in sociology in 1983 from the University of New Hampshire. Over the course of his career, he has served as a juvenile case worker, correctional officer in a maximum security prison for men, trained with municipal police officers at a state academy, conducted a comprehensive study of female criminal homicide, and worked for nearly twenty years with students at risk at the University of New Hampshire in his role as Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Kirkpatrick also holds an appointment as Clinical Professor of Sociology at UNH. His research interests include criminal homicide, information sharing in the justice system, and emergency preparedness and response systems in the post-9/11 world. |
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Charles PutnamCo-Director 208 Huddleston Hall |
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Charles Putnam is Co-Director of Justiceworks, a research institute at the University of New Hampshire and he is a Clinical Associate Professor of Justice Studies at the University of New Hampshire. He joined Justiceworks in December, 2001, after working for 15 years as a member of the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office. At Justiceworks Putnam works with social scientists and criminal justice professionals to define policy issues, evaluate current methods and to devise creative solutions to those issues. Putnam's research interests include the prosecution of crimes against children, the impact of technology on justice information systems, and the evolving issues of personal privacy versus public access to information held by government agencies. Putnam previously worked at the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office as chief of the Homicide Prosecutions Unit and the chief of the Criminal Justice Bureau. Before that he served as a homicide prosecutor, chief of the Consumer Protection and Antitrust Bureau, and an advisor to state boards and agencies. Putnam is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Connecticut School of Law. He served in the United States Peace Corps in Ecuador, South America from 1979 until 1982 and recently returned from Budapest, Hungary where he was faculty in residence for a group of UNH students. |
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Laurence Armand FrenchSenior Research Associate Huddleston Hall |
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French has the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in sociology (social disorganization/social psychology) from the University of New Hampshire, a Ph.D. in cultural psychology (educational psychology and measurement) from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a M.A. in school psychology from Western New Mexico University. He pursued postdoctoral studies in “minorities and criminal justice education” at the State University of New York-Albany and completed the post-doctoral prescribing psychology program including the national exam. He is professor emeritus of psychology from Western New Mexico University; life-member and Fellow of the American Psychological Association; Fellow of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues; Diplomate/Fellow of the College of Prescribing Psychologists (charter member); life-member of the American Society of Criminology; life-member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW Post 2860); life-member of the Third Marine Division Association; served honorably in the US Marine Corps; and is a licensed clinical psychologist (Arizona). He is a Fulbright Scholar (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina – 2009-2010) and Visiting Endowed Chair of Criminology and Criminal Justice at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada (fall semester 2010). He has over 280 publications including 15 books—his latest books are Running the Border Gauntlet: The Mexican Migrant Controversy (Praeger, 2010) and War Trauma and its Aftermath: An International Perspective on the Balkan and Gulf Wars (University Press of America, 2012). His major areas of research interest are international and comparative social, human and criminal justice; Native American and minority issues; police and criminal psychology and neuro-, clinical, and forensic psychology. |
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Andrew MacphersonDirector, Technical Analysis Group 212 Huddleston Hall |
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Mr. Macpherson is a Research Assistant Professor of Justice Studies in the University of New Hampshire Justiceworks program and serves as the director of the Technical Analysis Group. TAG is currently serving as the interim J-One project manager for the New Hampshire Department of Safety’s J-One initiative. The J-One is a state wide criminal justice information sharing project. TAG completed support to the New Hampshire Attorney General's office and state law enforcement partners as they increased the state's capabilities to respond to cyber crimes in the spring of 2008. Mr. Macpherson also advises the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Training and Technical Assistance Program and Fox Valley Technical College on strategic planning. Mr. Macpherson has served as an advisor to the Department of Homeland Security National Cyber Security Division on state and local law enforcement matters. Prior to his appointment at the University of New Hampshire Mr. Macpherson served at Dartmouth College's Institute for Security Technology Studies. In his role as Technical Program Coordinator he received funding from the Department of Homeland Security Office for Domestic Preparedness and National Institute of Justice for research efforts including the studies titled Examining the Cyber Capabilities of Islamic Terrorist Groups and Law Enforcement Tools and Technologies for Investigating Cyber Attacks: A National Research and Development Agenda. Prior to his work at Dartmouth Mr. Macpherson served at the United Nations Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics where he received his M.A. in the History of International Relations. Mr. Macpherson earned his undergraduate degree, cum laude, at Mercyhurst College in the Research Intelligence Analysts Program. Mr. Macpherson was named one of the top 40 under 40 in New Hampshire for 2007 by the Union Leader newspaper. The award honors 40 individuals, under the age of 40, who are making a difference in the state. |
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Stacy KolliasProject Director, Technical Analysis Group Huddleston Hall |
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Stacy Kollias served in the United States Army for more than twenty years, during which she gained extensive experience with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the National Security Agency (NSA), and various Special Operations Programs. She has directed, planned and executed multidiscipline counterintelligence operations with national level agencies, host nation national elements, service cryptologic elements, and installations, including classified contingency operations and operations Just Cause and Desert Storm. Ms. Kollias has participated in several “red-team” efforts assessing physical, transmission, cryptographic and computer security, and provided counterintelligence support to NATO operations in the Former Republic of Yugoslavia as well as during the Kosovo crisis. Ms. Kollias has most recently been involved in projects focusing on National Security and tools and technologies to assist the law enforcement community in the investigation of cyber crime. Specifically:
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Kevin O'SheaProject Director, Technical Analysis Group Huddleston Hall |
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Kevin O’Shea is currently employed as a Project Director for the Technical Analysis Group in the Justiceworks program at the University of New Hampshire. In this capacity Mr. O’Shea supports the implementation of the New Hampshire Strategic Plan to Combat Cyber Crime. Prior to working with the University of New Hampshire, Mr. O’Shea was a Research Associate for Project Management within the Technical Analysis Group in the Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth College. He was a member of the research team and substantive author of three critical national reports to document and present the most pressing impediments facing the law-enforcement community when investigating and responding to cyber attacks. Mr. O’Shea is a certified GSEC and has lectured on information security, law enforcement technology, cyber terrorism and online research methodology to numerous organizations including the Silicon Valley HTCIA and the Board of Directors of The International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC). Most recently, Mr. O’Shea provided content and instruction on open source intelligence research methodology and terrorist use of technologies based on the TAG Examining the Cyber Capabilities of Islamic Terrorist Groups report at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center’s pilot Counter Cyber Terrorism Investigator Training course. Mr O’Shea recently contributed to the Office for Domestic Preparedness sponsored study assessing the interoperability of available Crisis Information Management Software (CIMS) and data fusion solutions. |
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Kevin SousaOperations Coordinator 208 Huddleston Hall |
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Kevin Sousa earned his BA at the University of New Hampshire in Political Science in 1997, a Masters in Public Administration from the University of New Hampshire in 2000, and his Juris Doctorate from Franklin Pierce Law Center in 2003. His specialty is juvenile justice and the role that local and state law enforcement play in this vital issue, as well as higher educational law. He is an accomplished researcher with published works on underage drinking, and the role of juvenile justice information in the measurement of adolescent well-being. Mr. Sousa recently took part in the New Hampshire Governor’s Commission on Child Protection and was instrumental in the writing and publication of the first report from the group. His current position concentrates on research and analysis of data for numerous projects within Justiceworks as well as administrative and organizational duties. Mr. Sousa also works in the Dean’s Office College of Liberal Arts as Educational Assistant to the Dean. This position includes over seeing and processing of records for over 4000 students as well as assisting the Associate Dean in managing conflict and problematic situations relating to student’s academic work. He is also a liaison between the College of Liberal Arts and the other colleges within the University system and the community as a whole. |
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