Full-Time Faculty

Donald Morton, Associate Professor, Director of the Master of Science in Criminal Justice Program
Carolyn Boyes-Watson, Professor
Erika Gebo, Associate Professor
Gini Mann-Deibert, Assistant Professor
Maureen Norton-Hawk, Associate Professor
James Ptacek, Professor
Steven Spitzer, Professor
Felicia Wiltz, Associate Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department

Lecturing Faculty

Anthony Benedetti, Esq.

Anthony J. Benedetti is Chief Counsel for the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS), the Massachusetts agency responsible for providing legal services to the indigent. 

From 1998 to 2010, he was the agency General Counsel, representing CPCS before the executive, legislative and judicial branches on budget and legislative issues.  Prior to that he spent five years as a public defender trial lawyer in the CPCS Brockton office where he represented hundreds of clients in the District and Superior Courts.

He sits on the boards of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Massachusetts Criminal Systems History Board and is an active member of the Boston Bar Association. 

Finally, Anthony has been an adjunct professor in the Suffolk University Criminal Justice Masters program since 2002, teaching courses in Legal Issues, Criminal Justice Policy and Seminar on the Death Penalty.

Kenneth Bresler, Esq.

Ken Bresler, a lawyer, began teaching as an adjunct professor in the Master’s Program in Crime and Justice in 1997, the program’s first academic year.  He teaches or has taught Legal Issues in Criminal Justice; Ethical Issues for Criminal Justice Professionals; and Counter-Terrorism Policy.  He has been an adjunct professor at Northeastern University School of Law; and has been an instructor in various programs at Harvard Law School, the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, the Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute, and the National District Attorneys Association.

Bresler is an Assistant District Attorney in Essex County (Mass.), handling appeals before the state’s appellate courts and opposing the release of dangerous criminals before the Parole Board.

He previously prosecuted street crime as an Assistant District Attorney in Middlesex County (Mass.); prosecuted financial crime in New England as a federal prosecutor in Boston; and worked in The Hague, the Netherlands with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to assess cases of genocide and related crimes. 

He has written extensively, including about prosecutorial ethics.  In 2009, he began writing a textbook tentatively titled Constitutional Law for Criminal Justice Professionals and Students, which he expects to finish in 2011.

Michael Chapman

Michael A. Chapman is a staff instructor and the Executive Officer of the Boston Police Academy.

He has been a Boston Police Officer for 24 years. His assignments have included patrol officer assigned to the patrol division in Dorchester & South Boston. In 1996 he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant and assigned as the Patrol Supervisor in Mattapan. In 2006 he was promoted to his current rank of Lieutenant. At the Academy he has taught Patrol Procedures, Homeland Security and Constitutional Law.

Since 1998 he has sat on the Municipal Police Training Committee, which is responsible for setting police training curriculum and standards. He also has been a member of the Police Standards sub-committee responsible for reviewing various police training issues and making recommendations to the MPTC.

He has been an adjunct professor in the Suffolk University Crime and Justice Studies Masters program since 2005, teaching courses in Policing in Society, Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism and Perspectives on Drug Policy.

Georgia Critsley, Esq.

Attorney Georgia K. Critsley has been the General Counsel of the Criminal History Systems Board since 2008.  As General Counsel, she provides assistance and counsel to the organization on public policy and legislative matters, substantive legal issues, and general agency administrative issues, as well as providing training to the legal and criminal justice community.  She was a member of the team that drafted the original CORI Reform provisions of Governor Deval Patrick’ most recent Crime Package Bill and is currently working on implementation of the CORI Reform provisions that were signed into law by Governor Patrick this summer.

Attorney Critsley began her career as an Assistant District Attorney for the Northwestern District including Hampshire and Franklin Counties where she handles primarily domestic violence, drug and firearms cases.  After serving the Northwestern District for several years, Attorney Critsley became an Assistant District Attorney for Suffolk County. In this position, Attorney Critsley prosecuted gang cases, high-level felonies and homicides. While at the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, she was also a member the Homicide Response Team for the communities within Suffolk County. Soon after, she worked as an associate for Brody, Hardoon, Perkins & Kesten.  In this position, Attorney Critsley focused on municipal, employment and constitutional law.  She represented local towns including police and fire departments.  Most recently, Attorney Critsley served as Deputy Division Chief and Assistant Attorney General for the Insurance Fraud Division of the Attorney General’s Office.  In this role, she prosecuted white collar crime and public corruption cases.

Attorney Critsley currently serves on the Criminal Justice Steering Committee for the Boston Bar Association and serves on the Legislative Policy Committee for the Women’s Bar.  She is also an adjunct professor for the Crime and Justice Master’s Program at Suffolk University.

Attorney Critsley graduated magna cum laude from Boston College with a Bachelor of Arts and graduated cum laude from Suffolk University Law School.

Elizabeth Curtin

Elizabeth L. Curtin is the Director of Social Justice Services for Community Resources for Justice.  In her current position she oversees a Department with adult and youth programs, serving male and female offenders, adjudicated youth, and aging-out youth.  Ms. Curtin is responsible for the overall operation of the Department, including: contracting with the local, state and federal agencies; interagency collaborations with local law enforcement and social service partners; and managing growth opportunities throughout New England. 

She has over 30 years of experience in both institutional and community-based corrections.  Ms. Curtin was involved with the design and implementation of the nation’s first Day Reporting Center in Springfield, MA, and oversaw the Metropolitan Day Reporting Center in Boston for 13 years.  She has served as a consultant on community corrections issues for projects with the National Institute of Justice, the National Institute of Corrections, the McConnell Clark Foundation, and the Vera Institute of Justice. 

Ms. Curtin is an adjunct faculty member for the Justice Studies Graduate Program at Suffolk University in Boston. She is also on the Board of Directors for the Correctional Association of Massachusetts (CAM), and for the International Community Corrections Association (ICCA).

Casey Hatchett

Officer Casey Hatchett has been a police officer for 13 years with the Brookline Police Department.  She has worked in the Patrol Division and the Community Service Division, as well as on the Department’s Critical Incident Task Force post-9/11.  For the last eight years she has been assigned as the Department’s Crime Analyst. 
 
In addition to crime analysis, Officer Hatchett sits on the town’s Emergency Management Team and coordinates the CERT program (Community Emergency Response Team).  She is a certified child seat safety technician and the grant writer for the Department.   Casey has served as VP of Membership for the Massachusetts Association of Crime Analysts for six years. 
 
Before becoming a police officer, Officer Hatchett was a policy analyst and speech writer at the Executive Office of Public Safety.  In addition to her work in law enforcement, she is an elected Town Meeting Member in Brookline and is Vice Chair of the Brookline Commission for Women.  

Donald Hayes

Donald Hayes is the Director of the ASCLD/LAB accredited Boston Police Department (BPD) Crime Laboratory. Donald has served as the Director of the BPD Crime Laboratory since 1997 and he been employed at the BPD Crime Laboratory since December 1987.  Donald received a Masters Degree in Forensic Science from the University of New Haven in 1996, where he studied under Dr. Henry Lee and Dr. Robert Gaensslen. His undergraduate degree in Biology (1980) is from Suffolk University, where he currently serves as an adjunct faculty member and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Forensic Science. He has served as Technical leader of the DNA Section of the Boston Police Crime Laboratory. Boston Crime Laboratory became the first Accredited public DNA laboratory in New England in August 1998. Donald is a certified criminalist by the American Board of Criminalistics. He has received training in numerous aspects of the field of Criminalistics. He has lectured at several teaching and medical institutions in Massachusetts on topics of Crime Laboratory Services, Collection and Preservation of Physical Evidence, Forensic Investigation of Homicide Cases, Forensic Investigation of Sexual Assault Cases and Forensic DNA Analysis. He participates in the training for investigators, attorneys and health care providers and he serves on boards and committees for forensic science services here in Massachusetts.

Memberships:

American Society of Crime Lab Directors

American Academy of Forensic Sciences

Northeastern Association of Forensic Scientists

International Association for Identification

New England Society of Crime Laboratory Directors

Edward Loughran