Dr. Talia Harmon
Talia Roitberg Harmon obtained her Ph.D. from the School of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York at Albany. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Niagara University. She has published work on death qualification, wrongful convictions in capital cases, wrongful executions, racial discrimination and innocence. Future projects include an examination of the potential discriminatory impact of the commutation process in New York State.

Her published work includes the following:

Harmon, T., & Lofquist, W. (July 2008). Fatal Errors: Compelling Claims of Executions of the Innocent in the Post-Furman Era. In R. Huff and M. Killias (Eds.), Wrongful Conviction: International Perspectives on Miscarriages of Justice (pp. 93-115). Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Harmon, T. (2008). Themes of Wrongful Executions in the Post-Furman Era. In R. Bohm (Ed.), The Death Penalty Today (pp. 61-80). London: Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.

Harmon, T., & Lofquist, W. (2005). Too Late for Luck: A Comparison of Post-Furman Exonerations and Executions of the Innocent. Crime & Delinquency, 51(4), 498-520.

Dr. Craig Rivera
Craig Rivera joined the faculty of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the fall of 2002. He received a B.S. in Administration of Justice from Penn State University in 1994, M.A. in Criminal Justice from the University at Albany in 1996, and Ph.D. in Criminal Justice, also from the University at Albany, in 2002.

His current research interests span a variety of areas, including juvenile delinquency, the impact of imprisonment policy on crime rates, and testing theories of crime. Much of his research involves identifying different patterns of delinquency displayed by individuals over time, and on examining the inter-relationships between these patterns and various risk factors. He has recently co-authored articles and book chapters on topics such as the relationship between official labeling and later criminal behavior, and the impact of stressful life events during adolescence on involvement in delinquency. These are some of his journal articles:

Spano, R., Rivera, C., Vazsonyi, A.T., and Bolland J. (in press). The impact of exposure to violence on a trajectory of (declining) parental monitoring: a partial test of the ecological-transactional model of community violence. Criminal Justice and Behavior.

Spano, R., Rivera, C., and Bolland, J. (2006). The impact of timing of exposure to violence on violent behavior in a high poverty sample of inner city African American youth. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 35(5), 681-692.