Education

Ph.D., Criminal Justice: Policy, Oversight & Administration, CUNY Graduate Center, 2019
MPA, Management & Operations, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 2011
B.A., Public Justice & Psychology, SUNY at Oswego, 1998

Bio

Jason Ostrowe, Ph.D., has more than 25 years of experience as a criminal justice practitioner, analyst and educator. Prior to entering the higher education field, Dr. Ostrowe served as a member of the NYPD from 1999-2015, pursuing his studies while assigned as a patrol officer, police academy instructor and policy analyst. In 2020, Dr. Ostrowe was appointed as the first responder representative to the 9/11 WTC Scientific Technical Advisory Committee to advocate for health coverage to the more than 80,000 registered 9/11 first responders. Dr. Ostrowe is a member of numerous criminal justice professional organizations and was honored with the 2021 ACJS Ken Peak Innovations in Teaching Award for his work on experiential learning.

Scholarly & Professional Interests

• Criminal justice education
• Federal investigation and intervention of police
• Police reform
• Political crime and terrorism

Select Publications

• Ostrowe, J. W. (2024). A framework to forestall systemic police misconduct: Applying DOJ's pattern or practice findings to municipal police. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. Vol. 18, pgs. 1-12.
• Ostrowe, J.W. (2022). Intervention and reform: addressing misconduct in American police. In Ivkovic, S.K. et al., (Eds.) Exploring contemporary police challenges. Routledge.
• Ostrowe, J.W. (2021). The return of 14141? Federal intervention of police in the Biden administration. ACJS Today, Vol. XLVII, (2).
• Ostrowe, J.W. (2020). Federal intervention of police under section 14141 - a state-of-the-art-literature review. Policing: an international journal, Vol. 44, No. 1. pgs. 118-133.
• Ostrowe, J.W. (2020). Teaching 9/11 in the age of pandemic and protest. ACJS Today, Vol. XLVI, (4).

Quote

"I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand" - Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).