In April 2023, the School of Law and Criminology is pleased to host two visiting professors from the United States. Professors Harry Dammer and Jay Albanese are visiting Maynooth University from the US, forging further international relationships and fostering partnership links between the School of Law and Criminology and other institutions globally.
Professors Dammer and Albanese are experts in the field of comparative criminal justice and during their stay, they will contribute their knowledge to the MA in Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice, as well as contributing guest lectures to first years on the criminology undergraduate programme.
Professor Harry Dammer, who received his PhD from Rutgers University’s School of Criminal Justice, is professor of criminal justice at Saint Leo University, Florida. He is the author of several books and has published extensively on a variety of criminal justice topics including religion in prison and comparative criminal justice. Prof Dammer has twice been a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, in 1993/1994 and again in 2009, through which he lectured and undertook research in Germany. He was previously professor of sociology, criminal justice and criminology at the University of Scranton from 2002.
Professor Jay Albanese, who also received his PhD from Rutgers, is professor in the Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author and editor of 20 books on organised crime, ethics, corruption, transnational crime, and criminal justice. Prof Albanese served as chief of the National Institute of Justice's International Center. He is a past president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, former executive director of the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime and served on the executive board of the American Society of Criminology. He is a fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and co-founder of Criminologists without Borders.
Together, Professors Dammer and Albanese co-authored the text Comparative Criminal Justice Systems (Cengage), now in its fifth edition.