Judith A. Ryder
Judith A. Ryder, Ph.D., Criminal Justice, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), is Assistant Professor in the Sociology and Anthropology Department, St. John’s College of Liberal Arts, St. John’sUniversity. She teaches undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in criminology; women and crime; evaluation methods; corrections; family violence; and juvenile delinquency; and also has taught courses at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) on juvenile delinquency and on gender violence. Previously, she was a Senior Project Director in the Institute on Trauma and Violence, National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI). Her research focuses on girls’ violence, investigating the linkages between traumatic experiences and delinquency, substance use, lack of social supports, and violent offending; she is particularly interested in examining this violent and delinquent behavior within the framework of attachment and developmental theory, and in understanding how young female offenders define, contextualize and give meaning to violent behavior. Additionally, Dr. Ryder is developing a typology of prior trauma studies among adolescent female offenders to review methodological issues and to explore how differences in definitions and measures may contribute to inconsistencies in published prevalence rates of traumatic events and related mental health symptoms. As part of her research, she also is examining the social construction of drug treatment policy; her current focus is on the "political career" of methadone maintenance in the early 1970s, analyzing how and why it became prominent on the American national agenda only to be substantially discarded shortly thereafter. Dr. Ryder has directed several National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded studies that focus on trauma, violence, and coping strategies among incarcerated adolescents and young adults; substance use and homelessness; and prison-based drug treatment; a National Institute of Justice (NIJ) project investigating the effect of incarceration on neighborhood stability in Tallahassee, Florida; and recently completed a needs assessment for The Fortune Society which examines substance use and HIV/AIDS services for young adults released from correctional facilities in the New York City area.She has been a reviewer for The Sociological Quarterly, Women & Criminal Justice, and Violence Against Women, and is the Editor-in-Chief for Criminal Justice Abstracts. In 2004, Dr. Ryder was selected to participate in the first national Inside-Out Prison Exchange Instructor Training Institute, funded by the Soros Foundation, in which college professors were trained to teach courses inside correctional facilities, attended by both incarcerated individuals and by college students, in an effort to promote dialogue, deepen students’ understanding of crime and justice issues, and to foster social change.
Publications:
Ryder, J. (In Press). "I wasn't really bonded with my family": A qualitative study of loss, violence, and detachment among adolescent female offenders. Critical Criminology.
Ryder, J. (In Press).Loss, violence and detachment among female juvenile offenders. Women, Girls & Criminal Justice Newsletter.
Ryder, J.,Rose, D.,Gordon, J. (2006). Rethinking prevention: Assessing the need for substance abuse, HIV, and hepatitis prevention services for young adults returning to the community from jail and prison. New York: The Fortune Society.
Ryder, J. (2004). Juvenile female offenders. In D. Altschuler & T. Armstrong (Eds.). The intensive juvenile aftercare reference guide. Washington, D C: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Ryder, J. (2002). Auburn State prison. In D. Levinson (Ed.), Encyclopedia of crime and punishment (pp. 84-86). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
Clear, T., Rose, D., & Ryder, J. (2001). Incarceration and the community: The problem of removing and returning offenders. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 47(3), 335-351.
Rose, D., Clear, T., & Ryder, J. (2001). Addressing the unintended consequences of incarceration through community-oriented services at the neighborhood level. Corrections Management Quarterly, 5(3), 62-71.
Rose, D., Clear, T. & Ryder, J. (2001). Drugs, incarceration and neighborhood life: The impact of reintegrating offenders into the community (1999-CE-VX-0008). Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice.
Ryder, J. (2000). History of women’s prisons. In N. Rafter (Ed.), Encyclopedia on women and crime (pp. 304-305). Phoenix: Oryx Press.
Crimmins, S., Brownstein, H., Spunt, B., Ryder J., & Warley, R. (1999). Child maltreatment, drugs and crime among male offenders (RO1 DA08893). Washington, DC: National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Crimmins, S. Brownstein, H., Spunt, B., & Ryder, J. (1998). Learning about violence and drugs among adolescents (RO1 DA08679). Washington, DC: National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Liberty, H., Johnson, B., Jainchill, N., Ryder, J., Messina, M., Reynolds, S., et al. (1998). Dynamic recovery: Comparative study of therapeutic communities in homeless shelters for men. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 15(5), 401-423.
Johnson, B., Jainchill, N., Ryder, J., Liberty, H., & Messina, M. (1996). A comparative study of a therapeutic community for homeless, substance-abusing men (1 R03 DA08499-02). Washington, DC: National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Ryder, J. (Ed.) (1996). Terrorism: A historical and contemporary perspective.New York: American Heritage Custom Publishing.
Presentations:
Ryder, J. (2006, November). “I don’t know if you consider that as violence…”: Girls’ perspectives on interpersonal violence and possible interventions. American Society of Criminology, Los Angeles, CA.
Ryder, J. (2006, May). Girls, attachment, loss, and violence.Annual Conference on Girls in the Social Margins, Girls in Conflict with the Law. University of MassachusettsDartmouth, Fall River, MA.
Ryder, J. (2005, November). The politicization of U.S. drug treatment policy: Methadone maintenance 1968-1978. American Society of Criminology, Toronto, Canada.
Ryder, J., & Biafora, F. (2004, November). Stressful life events and substance use among young women: The South Florida Youth Development Project. American Society of Criminology, Nashville, TN.
Ryder, J. (2003, November). A framework for understanding violent female offending. American Society of Criminology, Denver, CO.
Ryder, J. (2002, November). Intensive aftercare programming for female juvenile offenders. American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL.
Ryder, J. (2002, June). Invited speaker. Trauma and violence among adolescent females. 10th National Roundtable for Women in Prison, New York, NY.
Ryder, J., Rose, D., & Clear, T. (2000, September). Invited speakers. Incarceration and the Community: Removing & Returning Offenders. Student Roundtable, New York University, New York, NY.
Ryder, J., Rose, D., & Clear, T. (2000, August). Coercive mobility and crime. American Sociological Association, Washington, DC.
Ryder, J. (1997, November). Childhood maltreatment and coping strategies among adult male offenders. American Society of Criminology, San Diego, CA.
Ryder, J. (1994, June). Defining homelessness among substance abusers: A profile of STAR House clients. International Congress on Alcohol and the Addictions, Prague, Czech Republic.