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Dr. Wiltsey was a co-presenter at the Officer Safety and Wellness Symposium in Anaheim, California, on March 5, 2023, on The New Jersey Resiliency Program for Law Enforcement - 3 Years of Growth. Dr. Wiltsey is the Coordinator for Minor in Forensic Studies, a joint educational program to be offered with the Criminal Justice Department, which was approved by the Board of Trustees in April 2022, with the hope that it will be offered to students in 2023. Dr. Wiltsey is continuing a cross-institution collaboration with a colleague from John Jay College of Criminal Justice on a research study on the impact of resilience training for law enforcement. To date, data has been collected from over 3,000 law enforcement officers..

Presentation:
Wiltsey, M.T., Salfati, C.G., & Korzun, E. (2022, September 23). Building Evidence-Based Wellness Programs by Contextualizing Training in Officer Illness & Wellness. Presented at the 2022 Annual Conference of the Society for Police & Criminal Psychology, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

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Current Publications:
Wiltsey, M.T., & Foster, E. (2022). Combatting Impostor Phenomenon – An Overview for Attorneys. For the Defense, 7(2), 13-16.

Wiltsey, M.T. (2022). Promoting Resilience in Law Enforcement, Public Safety, and Beyond – The New Jersey Resiliency Program. FEMA Higher Education Newsletter. 

Wiltsey, M.T., Atkins, E.A., Hey, A. (2022). Driving While Manic: Differentiating Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder from Intoxication. American Journal of Forensic Psychology. 

Dr. Scott Fisher continued presenting on data analytics and public policy, with recent presentations for the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, and for students and faculty in the (IC CAE) program. Other recent presentations include North Korean History and Ideology through Propaganda Posters at SRI International in Princeton. Recent grants include a one-semester award from NJCU’s 2023 Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) to create materials that help faculty members incorporate data analysis into pedagogy.  

Recent and pending publications include:  
Find it. Vet it. Share it. The US Government’s Open-Source Intelligence Problem and How to Fix It, with Brian Cheng and Jason Morgan; Modern War Institute, West Point, March 2023 

[paper proposal] Russia’s Rhetoric & Soft Power in the Near Abroad: Assessing the Influence of Strategic Narratives, with Graig Klein and Juris Pupcenoks, Conflict Research Society conference, King’s College London, September 2023 

[under review] Sentiment Analysis and Strategic Narratives: Russian Rhetoric on Ukraine, with Graig Klein and Juris Pupcenoks, Europe-Asia Studies, January 2023

Dr. Kutub Thakur has published the following text: with Sadia Ismat, Abu Kamruzzaman, and Muath Obaidat. Dr. Thakur presented the following paper at the IEEE conference on December 8, 2022. “A ”

, an assistant professor and doctoral program coordinator in the Department of Professional Security Studies, contributed a chapter to . Newly published at Rowman & Littlefield, the book brings together a group of international scholars to provide the first review of intelligence cultures in every African country. The volume explores how intelligence cultures are influenced by a range of factors, including past and present societal, governmental, and international dynamics. Dr. Codjo’s contributions examine the evolution of Benin’s intelligence services since the country’s independence in 1960, finding a pattern of 'presidentialization' of intelligence services. This pattern, he argues, has severely compromised the country's ability to build a professional organization dedicated to providing actionable intelligence for national security purposes.

Forthcoming Book (June 2023): 
 and Sebastián Cutrona, eds., Mano Dura Policies in Latin America (New York, NY: Routledge, 2023).  

Recent Articles
Jonathan D. Rosen and José Miguel Cruz, “Dancing with the devil: Intervention programs under criminal governance in Northern Central America,” Criminology & Criminal Justice (2022): 1-18.  

Jonathan D. Rosen, “Understanding Bukele’s Gang Crack Down in El Salvador,” El Centro/  Small Wars Journal (2022): 1-7. 

Jonathan D. Rosen, Sebastián Cutrona, and Katy Lindquist, “Gangs, Violence, and Fear: Punitive Darwinism in El Salvador,” Crime, Law and Social Change (2022): 1-20.  Sebastián A. Cutrona, Jonathan D. Rosen, and Katy A. Lindquist, “Not Just Money. How Organized Crime, Violence, and Insecurity are Shaping Emigration in Mexico, El  Salvador, and Guatemala,” International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (2022): 1-24.  

José Miguel Cruz and Jonathan D. Rosen, “Leaving the Pervasive Barrio: Gang Disengagement under Criminal Governance,” Social Problems (2022): 1-17.

Dr. Abdullah Al-Hayajneh, Assistant Professor and Cybersecurity Program Advisor, conducted a series of Cybersecurity Workshops and Marketing events from December 16-17, 2022 at Union County College (UCC). Over 25 students from UCC attended the event and explored the academic and professional opportunities in the field of Cybersecurity and the Cybersecurity B.S. program at NJCU.

NJCU D.Sc. Class of 2017
D.Sc. Alumnus Promoted to Assistant Vice President for Campus Safety & Preparedness

has recently been appointed to the position of Assistant Vice President for Campus Safety and Preparedness at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y. Dr. Bowman is a 2017 graduate of NJCU's Doctor of Science program in Civil Security Leadership, Management, and Policy. He is an accomplished public health, emergency management, and public safety professional with experience developing comprehensive emergency management plans and serving as a senior leader responsible for statewide emergency management programs. Prior to his promotion, Dr. Bowman served as the Director for Northeastern Operations for the Olson Group, LTD, where he provided subject matter expertise and consultative homeland security and emergency management solutions to a wide array of clients across all sectors. His experience spans the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Dr. Bowman is also an adjunct professor at Wichita State University, where he instructs courses in Emergency Management and Risk Assessment. We are all proud of his impressive achievements.