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Download Newsletter (PDF) lloyd sealy library Classified Information The Newsletter of the Lloyd Sealy Library Spring 2019 Inside: OneSearch: Four Years Later The John Jay Justice eReader Newly digitized Criminal Trial Transcripts john jay college of criminal justice 1 classified information 5,000 students and faculty Table of contents Spring 2019 have downloaded it so far. Library News Collections The app serves as a directory The John Jay Justice eReader 4 Selected books on refugees 10 of student services and clubs, Graduate students by the numbers 6 New films in the Media Collection 11 a campus notification hub, Ebooks on computer science topics 7 and a unified campus events Library faculty favorites 15 Special Collections listing. The Library piloted The Fuld Collection: Police uniforms 12 listing weekly workshops on Databases Criminal trial transcripts 14 the app’s calendar this se- OneSearch: Four years later 8 The online edition of this newsletter is available at mester. In the app, students LLMC Digital: “Saving the law” 9 jjay.cc/news can discover our workshops, add them to their schedules, and check in. Student feed- back so far has been positive. Library news in brief For those who don’t have the 24-hour Library Lab app, workshops are always The Library Reserve Lab, in- listed on the library website, cluding the new expanded the main College calendar, study area, will be open con- and on flyers throughout tinuously from 8:30am on campus. RD May 13 until 9:45pm on May 22, 2019. That’s 220+ hours Faculty notes straight of open study space! Larry Sullivan was elected With support from Student to the Caxton Club, a Chicago Council, as well as the Li- bibliophilic society founded brary and Public Safety, we in 1895. are happy to provide a safe Ellen Belcher presented place for John Jay students to the paper “Peopling Pots prepare for their final exams and Potting People: Anthro- and projects. The Reserve The Library Department’s 2019 yearbook photo, featuring some of our faculty and staff. From left to right, top row: Kathleen Collins, Ellen Sexton, Jeffrey pomorphic Ceramics in the Lab’s expanded study area Kroessler, Geng Lin, Maria Kiriakova, Robin Davis, Dolores Grande. Bottom row: Halaf and Neolithic Anatolia” seats 24 users at computer Ellen Belcher, Larry Sullivan, Karen Okamoto. Photo by Caroline Kim, Committee at the Third International workstations and provides on Commencement Activities Workshop on Ceramics from many outlets for students to the Late Neolithic Near East, bring their own devices. The places: The ProQuest Dis- Theses largely come from the in Antalya, Turkey on March Library has sponsored the sertation and Theses data- fields of psychology, forensic 8, 2019. 24-hour Library Lab every se- base (available via Databases science and criminal justice. Robin Davis presented mester since Spring 2014, and menu from library home These data are a strong bit “The Final Death(s) of Digi- it is one of the most popu- page) and CUNY Academic of evidence illustrating the tal Scholarship: An Ongoing lar services we offer. See our Works (the university’s in- impact and reach of the in- Case Study of DH2005 Proj- website for full details. RD stitutional repository, also stitutional repository. Theses ects” at the Digital Afterlives linked on the home page). published to these platforms Symposium at Bard Graduate Digital theses update Via CUNY Academic Works, in the last two years are no Center, March 1, 2019. She Ninety-nine theses have been theses have been download- doubt getting significantly also presented “Bot Literacy: submitted electronically ed in 126 countries. The top more traction than theses Teaching Librarians to Make since the process was estab- of the list for some time has that would otherwise be dis- Twitter Bots” with Mark Ea- lished in late Fall 2016. Al- been “Tattoos and Criminal coverable only through li- ton at Computers in Libraries most half of those (47) were Behavior: An examination brary catalogs. If you are a in Arlington, VA on March submitted by students in Fo- of the relationship between student or faculty member 27, 2019. As of June 13, 2019, rensic Psychology, followed body art and crime” by Daniel publishing work that you she will be leaving John Jay by Forensic Science (27), then D. Dajani followed by “Risk hope to be read and cited, to join NC State University Criminal Justice (11), Digital and Prevalence of Personal- please consider submitting to Libraries as the User Experi- Forensics and Cybersecurity ity Disorders in Sexual Of- Academic Works. KC ence Librarian. (6), Forensic Mental health fenders” by Allison Sigler. To Counseling (6), and Interna- see what all the fuss is about JJAY Students app Image on cover: marbled paper tional Criminal Justice (2). (854 and 506 downloads re- The new John Jay app for stu- cover of La Femme en prison John Jay theses are pub- spectively), see for yourself dents debuted last summer et devant la mort (see opposite page). lished and accessible in two in CUNY Academic Works. on iOS and Android, and over 2 spring 2019 lloyd sealy library From the Desk of the Chief Librarian When Ladies Go A-Thieving Larry E. Sullivan hese monsters in nature, models of The first large department store in Paris with behavioral addictions, including Thell, curse of the earth, women that was Le Bon Marché, founded in 1838. those associated with the serotonin, do- “ dare attempt anything, and what they Dubuisson, a French psychologist, men- pamine, and opioid systems. attempt they care not how they accom- tions that “a special folly seizes a woman Raymond de Ryckère in La Femme en plish.” This quote from John Marston’s after she crossed the threshold of a great prison… took a Freudian view of female Jacobean revenge drama The Malcontent department store.” Even honest women, criminality viewing women as “unpre- (ca. 1603) typifies many of the psycho- he goes on to say, are fallible to the “dis- dictable narcissistic cats.” He believed logical, biological, anthropological, and ease of kleptomania.” In 1816, klepto- that females were much more deceitful criminological views of women’s crimi- mania was first diagnosed as an impulse than men and more wily. His conclusion nality well into the twenty-first century. control disorder. By the beginning of was that female judges should adjudicate In honor of Women’s History Month in the 20th century, such Freudians and crimes committed by women because March, the Sealy Library acquired two eugenicists as Eugen Bleuler considered they were “more astute and more pitiless classic French studies on female crimi- kleptomania among pathological and re- than men.” nality that are exemplars of this view: active impulses, and indicated that klep- These acquisitions illustrate once Paul Dubuisson, Les voleuses dans les tomania is irresistible and not related to again the scope and depth of our his- grand magasin [“Shoplifters in Depart- antisocial behaviors. In the twenty-first torical and international criminal justice ment Stores] (1902), and Raymond de century many studies have reverted to collections and burnish our reputation Ryckère, La Femme en prison et devant la more sophisticated biological theories as the premier research library in crimi- mort [“Women in Prison and to Death”] of such crimes, a neurobiologic disorder nal justice in the United States. Such (Lyon, 1898). Both of these books follow rather than a psychological one. For ex- rare French studies, both from the hold- such theories as those of Cesare Lom- ample, in 2017, the Mayo Clinic reported ings of noted French collector Philippe broso, Sigmund Freud, and W. I. Thomas in a study that two-thirds of kleptoma- Zoummeroff, broaden our understand- on the causes of crimes committed by niacs are women. Today, we often link ing of the development of theories of women. For example, Lombroso, in his this crime with biological disorders that crime and are welcome additions to the The Female Offender (1903), concluded link kleptomania with the neurotrans- Sealy Library. that criminality among females was an mitter pathways in the brain associated inherent tendency reduced to biologi- cal atavisms. He attempted to prove this assertion by using, among other meth- ods, anthropometric analysis to con- clude that the cranial capacity of female criminals and prostitutes are more simi- lar to lunatics than to normal women. Sigmund Freud in his New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1933) saw women using crime to avenge on men their lack of a penis. W. I. Thomas in The Unadjusted Girl (1923) described women as manipulating the male sex urge for ulterior purposes. In addition, Otto Pol- lack depicts women as inherently deceit- ful in his work, The Criminality of Women (1950). We could cite many other theo- ries of female crime in the literature, but most hearken back to our opening quotation from the early seventeenth century. Our two new additions are very rare French works that fit right into this tradition of theories about the female offender. Sealy Library’s copy of Paul Dubuisson’s work on shoplifting is the only known copy in the United States. john jay college of criminal justice 3 classified information Library news The John Jay Justice eReader An Open & Alternative Educational Resource Vee Herrington ow do we define justice at John Jay College? What if the for faculty who would bring a distinctive set of scholarly assets Hinstructors had a collection of key readings on justice, to the project with diverse approaches and backgrounds. As serving as a springboard for classroom discussions—an intel- the Founding Editorial Board, they will not only get the reader lectual hub for conversations? These questions were the impe- started but will also set the tone for how the project unfolds tus for the creation of the John Jay Justice eReader.
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