John Klofas is a professor of criminal justice and director of the Center for Public Safety Initiatives at RIT.

Klofas is an expert in crime reduction, urbanization and youth services and is currently leading a joint crime analysis research initiative between RIT, the City of Rochester, the County of Monroe and the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The project is designed to provide better analysis of current public safety initiatives and assist law enforcement agencies in reducing recidivism and improving community based policing.

Klofas has previously served as chair of the Mayor’s Public Safety Committee for the City of Rochester and as a member of the U.S. Assistant Attorney General’s Advisory Board and the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Understanding Crime Rates Working Group.

Benjamin N. Lawrance holds the Barber B. Conable Jr. Endowed Chair in International Studies at Rochester Institute of Technology. A graduate of Stanford University and University College London, his research interests include comparative and contemporary slavery, child trafficking, globalization, human rights, and asylum. He has published five books, the most recent on trafficking in women and children with Ohio University Press. Professor Lawrance is also a consultant on the contemporary political, social and cultural climate in West Africa and has served as an expert witness for over 180 asylum claims of West Africans in North America and Europe. He is the recipient of national and international awards, including fellowships at Yale, Harvard, the University of Notre Dame, the Rotary Foundation, and the University of California President’s Fellowship in the Humanities.

Sam McQuade is a professor and graduate program coordinator for the cross-disciplinary professional studies master’s degree program in RIT’s Center for Multidisciplinary Studies.

He has 30 years of experience as a practitioner, teacher and researcher of criminal justice and security. He is a former Air National Guard security police officer, deputy sheriff, police officer and detective, police organizational change consultant, National Institute of Justice program manager for the U.S Department of Justice, and study director for the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Research Council of the National Academies of Sciences. He participated in and directed federally funded grant research projects on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice and Congress.

McQuade completed doctoral degree studies in 2001 at George Mason University, School of Public Policy, in Fairfax, Va. His dissertation combined content analysis, history construction and archival records analysis methodologies to articulate and provisionally test aspects of a new theory for understanding the technological co-evolution and perpetual relative complexity of crime, policing and security. In 1994, he earned a Master of Public Administration Degree from the University of Washington, Graduate School of Public Affairs. In 1992, he earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Human Services Management from the Western Washington University, Woodring College of Education.

McQuade has received numerous honors and awards, including a Presidential Management Internship award that placed him at NIJ in 1994 where he managed computer crime and other technology-related social science and criminal justice research projects. While in Washington, D.C., he also provided independent consulting services to the Urban Institute, among other clients, and served as Deputy Director of Research and Resource Development at the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia. In that capacity he worked with technology developers to experiment with new applications of crime and intelligence analysis software.

McQuade currently teaches courses in multidisciplinary professional studies including those relating specifically to high tech crime, information security, and infrastructure assurance. His textbook, Understanding and Managing Cybercrime, published by Allyn & Bacon (2006), provides an introduction to these and related topics. He has also taught several professional courses including grants administration and research methods at training institutions such as the FBI National Law Enforcement Academy in Quantico, Va. His university teaching experience includes adjunct faculty instruction at the University of Maryland, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice; and for both the Department of Sociology and the Department of Political Science at George Mason University. He has authored scholarly papers and awarded grants, managed peer reviews of grant proposals and book manuscripts, and presented and moderated at academic and practitioner conferences in areas of law enforcement, criminal justice and security technology administration, high tech crime and human services management and education.

Laverne McQuiller Williams currently serves as chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at RIT.

She is an expert in domestic violence issues and legal policy and conducted one of the first studies on the incidence of domestic abuse in the deaf community. Her research also includes work on women and crime and minority issues in criminal justice.

Prior to joining RIT, McQuiller Williams served as an assistant district attorney in Rensselaer County, NY.

Schreck's research focuses on the victim-offender overlap, but he also publishes studies on delinquency. He is past editor of two scholarly journals: the Journal of Criminal Justice Education (2008-2011) and the Journal of Crime and Justice (2003-2006), and a present member of the editorial board for Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice (2011- ). In 2012, he was the inaugural recipient of the College Research Award for the College of Liberal Arts at RIT. Schreck earned his bachelor's degree in criminal justice at the University of Florida (1994), his master's degree in sociology at the University of Arizona (1997), and his Ph.D. in crime, law and justice at the Pennsylvania State University (2000).