Faculty & Staff

Jessica Henry
Assistant Professor
Dickson Hall, Room 326
Phone: 973 655 3416
E-mail: henryj@mail.montclair.edu
Office Hours: SP '08: WED & THUR 10 - 11:30 am.

Advisor:

• Justice Systems Concentration
  • Students with last names beginning M

EDUCATION
New York Univeristy School of Law, J.D. 1995
Bucknell University, B.A. 1990 Magna Cum Laude
Phi Beta Kappa
Fellow, Center for Research in Crime and Justice

BAR ADMISSION
New Jersey Bar, 1995
New York Bar, 1996
Southern District Court for New York, 1999
Second Circuit, 1999

TEACHING AREAS
Hate Crimes, Death Penalty, Criminal Law and Procedure, Legal Research and Writing, Justice Perspectives II

RESEARCH AREAS
Hate Crimes, Death Penalty, Prisoner Reentry, Criminal Law and Procedure

PUBLICATIONS

• 2009 Jessica S. Henry. “A Second Look at the Second Chance Act .” Criminal Law Bulletin. (in press).
• 2009 Jessica S. Henry. Hate Crime Laws: A Critical Assessment, In Perry, B. (Ed.), Hate Crimes: Perspectives and Appproachs , CT: Greenwood Publishing.
• 2008 Jessica S. Henry. “New Jersey's Road to Abolition.” Justice Systems Journal. 29:3.
• 2008 Jessica S. Henry. “Criminal History on a “Need To Know” Basis: Employment Policies that Eliminate the Criminal History Box on Employment Applications,” Justice Policy Journal. (in press).
• 2008 Jessica S. Henry. “Closing the Legal Services Gap in Reentry.” Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law and Society. 21(1): 15-27.
• 2008 Jessica S. Henry. “Police Brutality,” In Gregg Barak (Ed.), Battleground: Criminal Justice. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
• 2007 Jessica S. Henry. “Treating Bigots Like Pedophiles: Posting Personal Data of Convicted Bias Offenders on the Web.” LAE Journal of the American Criminal Justice Association, 16-19.
• 2007 Jessica S. Henry and James B. Jacobs. “Ban the Box to Promote Ex-Offender Employment” Criminology and Public Policy, 6(4):755-763.
• 2007 Jessica S. Henry. “Hate Crimes,” in America Sociology Association: Teaching About Ethnoviolence and Hate Crimes Resource Guide, edited by Abby Ferber and Kimberly Holcomb.
• 2007 Jessica S. Henry. “Hate Crimes” Film Review Criminal Justice Review,11:293.
• 2006 Jessica S. Henry. “Making the Case for Public Sector Paralegal Internship Placements.” The Paralegal Educator, 20:2.
• 1996 James B. Jacobs and Jessica S. Henry, "The Social Construction of a Hate Crime Epidemic," Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 86:2.
• 1994 James B. Jacobs and Jessica S. Henry, "Book Review, Rising Tide of Bigotry and Bloodshed: Hate Crimes," Criminal Justice Review, 19: 291.