Jennifer Hunt

Professor
Dickson Hall, Room 351
Phone: 973 655 7226
E-mail: huntj@mail.montclair.edu
Office Hours: SP '08: MON 11:15 am - 1:15 pm & by appointment.

Advisor:

• Justice Systems Concentration:
  • Students with last names beginning E - F
• Criminal Justice Minor

Dr. Hunt has conducted more than four years of participant observation among police in two large urban cities. Most recently, she worked as an Assistant to the Deputy Commissioner, Training, New York Police Department. In that capacity, she researched and wrote or co-authored six chapters of the new recruit student guide and developed a new executive curriculum for captains and above. She is currently working on her second book which is based on archival research and interviews with police. Dr. Hunt has published one book and numerous scholarly articles in journals in psychology, sociology and anthropology, including Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (Urban Life), The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Human Organization, and Journal of the Society of Symbolic Interaction. Areas of expertise include police culture, women in policing, police use of force, risk and injury in sports, police training, and hostage negotiation. Jennifer Hunt is a graduate of the Psychoanalytic Institute, New York University Medical Center. She has a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.