John Lawrie, Ed.D.

Department	Criminal Justice
Title	Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Director of the Master of Science in Criminal Justice and Undergraduate Criminal Justice Program Chair, Department of Criminal Justice
Background	Ed.D., American International College M.S., Westfield State University B.A., Westfield State University
Office	Aquinas Hall, Room 120
Phone	(203) 773-6142
Email	jnlawrie@albertus.edu
Website(s)	https://www.corrcommnet.com/
Courses	Undergraduate Courses Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice Systems Corrections Correctional Administration Deviance & Criminology Issues in Corrections Juvenile Delinquency Senior Seminar: Ethics Graduate Courses Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice Systems Criminal Justice Ethics Criminology History and Future of American Corrections Issues in Correctional Supervision Probation, Parole and Community-Based Corrections
Description	Dr. John (Jay) Lawrie retired from the Connecticut Department of Correction in 2013, spending his entire 20-year career at the MacDougall/Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, Connecticut. In 2014, Jay joined the faculty at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, CT, where he currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice, and MSCJ Program Director. Prior to assuming this position, he was a criminal justice adjunct faculty member for 15 years at various Massachusetts colleges. He received his bachelor’s degree in political science in 1989 and master’s degree in criminal justice in 2000 from Westfield State University, as well as his doctorate in education from American International College in 2014. Jay is also the co-founder of, The Corrections Community Network, an online social network exclusively for those working in the fields of corrections, parole and probation.
Specialties	Corrections, correctional reform, correctional training and educational development
Publications	Lawrie, John, et al (2025). Correctional Best Practices in the 21st Century. Kendall Hunt. Lawrie, J. N. (2024) Transitioning From my Career in Corrections: From Cell Blocks to Academia. American Jails: The Magazine of the American Jail Association. November/December 2024. p. 5 (Digital).
Affiliations	Mid-Atlantic States Correctional Association (MASCA): Emerging Leader Coach, American Jail Association: Membership Committee Member, SAMHSA Gains Center: Trauma Informed Care Trainer, Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP): Speaker and Correctional Subject Matter Expert.