McCoy Appointed to GC Faculty

Dr. Candace McCoy, a nationally renowned criminal justice scholar, was appointed both to the faculty of The Graduate Center and John Jay College of Criminal Justice as a Professor of Criminal Justice, effective September 1. She comes to The Graduate Center after 13 years as a faculty member at the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice in Newark.

McCoy received her B.A. cum laude in both Spanish and political science from Hiram College in Ohio in 1974; a J.D. from the University of Cincinnati in 1977, when she was admitted to both the Ohio and federal bars; and a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987. She served as a Senior Research Associate for the United States Sentencing Commission in Washington, D.C. from 1987 to 1989. McCoy is a well-known specialist in issues relating to plea bargaining and its alternatives, and frequently publishes important research on related topics such as the right to trial by jury; her work is considered influential on public policy. She was elected Executive Counselor for the American Society of Criminology from 1997 to 2000, and is the author of Politics of Plea Bargaining: Victims' Rights in California (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993) and co-author, with Malcolm Feeley and Jerome Skolnick, of the textbook Criminal Justice: Introductory Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 2005).

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Candace McCoy
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