Criminal Justice, Behavior, & Law Faculty

Alfred D. Chapleau, M.A., J.D.
Mr. Chapleau served 19 years (1990-2008) as Chief Assistant District Attorney for Schenectady County New York. He has also served as a New York State Assistant Attorney General and as confidential law secretary to several New York State superior court judges. He earned his B.A. in Political Science from Siena College, M.A. in Criminal Justice from SUNY Albany and J.D. from Albany Law School of Union University. Mr. Chapleau has held positions as both a full-time and adjunct faculty member at several colleges in the greater Capitol Region before coming to Saint Rose in 2011. Since 2006 he has been an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Education at Albany Law School. Professor Chapleau also holds a position as curriculum advisor and senior instructor for the New York State Office of Court Administration’s Office of Town and Village Justice Court Support Services where he assists in the development and delivery of basic and advanced training to over two thousand New York State town and village court justices. He is the author of a number of articles on local criminal court criminal practice.
Courses at St. Rose: Intro to Criminal Justice ,Court System, Substantive Criminal Law, Drugs, Crime, and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure, International Criminal Law, Internship in Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Association.

Christina Lane, PhD Criminal Justice, Behavior & Law, Forensic Psychology, and Forensic Science Program Coordinator
Professor Lane is a multiple year honoree in America’s Who’s Who Teachers of Excellence. She has taught at various colleges and universities in the capital region since 2000. Professor Lane joined the St. Rose faculty in 2006. She earned her BA in Psychology and MA in Sociology at the University of Alberta in Canada, MA and PhD from University of Albany School of Criminal Justice.
Courses at Saint Rose: Intro to Criminal Justice; Criminal Behavior; Nature and Theory of Crime; Serial Crime; Punishment; Deviance and Control; Juvenile Justice; Senior Seminar; Sex Crimes and Paraphilia; Internship in Criminal Justice; Criminal Justice Association

Frank J. Padula, PhD
Dr. Padula, a former Marine, is a New York State Police Forensic Scientist specializing in trace evidence analysis. He received his PhD from Kansas State University (2000). He also earned Master of Science and Bachelor of Arts degrees in chemistry. He has attended Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms schools as well as the FBI Academy at Quantico for forensic hairs and fiber examinations. He is the author or co-author of more than a dozen scientific research articles.
Courses at Saint Rose: Introction to Forensic Science, Special Forensic Topics and Forensic Assays

Adjunct Faculty

William R. Chapman, PhD
Mr. Chapman earned a PhD in Criminal Justice from the State University of New York at Albany in 1986. His PhD thesis was entitle d “Delinquency Theory and Attachment to Peers” and his graduate school course work concentrated on theories of criminal behavior and on planned change in criminal justice agencies. He earned a Masters Degree in Criminal Justice at SUNY Albany in 1975 and a Bachelors Degree in Political Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder in1973.
Mr. Chapman is a research analyst in the Division of Program Planning, Research and Evaluation for the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. His current research activity involves evaluation of specialized programs/units for seriously mentally ill inmates housed in state correctional facilities. He has also done research work on drug treatment programs for incarcerated offenders, offender classification, offender re-entry, population projections, unusual incidents in correctional facilities, and characteristics of offenders admitted to and released from state correctional facilities.
Mr. Chapman is also a member of the Schenectady County Metroplex Economic Development Authority and has served three terms as a Town Board member in the Town of Niskayuna. (7-22-2011)
Courses at Saint Rose: Community Corrections, Criminal Behavior

Antoine J. Karam, MPA
Holds a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and Criminal Justice from SUNY College at Brockport and a Master's Degree in Public Administration from SUNY Albany. He has been a certified police officer since 1989 and currently investigates White Collar Crimes for the New York State Attorney General's Office. He is also a recent graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy in Quantico, Virginia.
Courses at Saint Rose: Intro to Criminal Justice, Ethics in Criminal Justice

Christopher Kunkle, Psy.D
Dr. Kunkle holds a Doctorate and a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology from C.W. Post and a Masters Degree in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He completed his undergraduate study in Chemistry and Forensic Science at the State University of New York at Oswego. As a Forensic Psychologist, Dr. Kunkle regularly evaluates sexual offenders for the New York State Office of Mental Health and testifies in court as an expert in the dangerousness and reoffense risk posed by these offenders. Dr. Kunkle is also a criminal investigation consultant and provides investigation assistance and training to law enforcement in Behavioral Evidence Analysis / Criminal Profiling, serial violence and sexual crimes. Dr. Kunkle’s past professional experience includes work as a forensic psychologist and forensic scientist. He has held positions at the New York State secure treatment facilities for dangerous sexual offenders in Ogdensburg, NY, the Bellevue Hospital Forensic Psychiatry Service in New York City, the Federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in NYC, the Schneider Children’s Hospital Forensic Treatment Program for Juvenile sex offenders, and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Dr. Kunkle has also conducted and published research on violent offenders with mental illness, as well as stalkers and threateners of celebrities, judges and the President of the United States.
Courses at Saint Rose: Introduction to Forensic Psychology, Serial Crime, and Criminal Profiling

Jim Gilmer, MA
Jim Gilmer is a researcher at the State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS), where he has worked for more than 20 years. In 2007, Mr. Gilmer was appointed chief of the Crime Research and Analysis unit in the Office of Justice Research and Performance, and oversees projects in a variety of areas, including: domestic violence, juvenile justice, and sex offender risk assessment, as well as the analysis of crime patterns. In 2009, he received a temporary appointment as Director of Research for the Governor's Task Force on Police-on-Police Shootings. Mr. Gilmer's focal interest includes analyzing and understanding temporal and spatial relationships between crime and offending patterns. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, he holds a master's degree in criminal justice from the UAlbany School of Criminal Justice, where he was a doctoral candidate prior to joining DCJS. He also serves on the New York State GIS Coordinating Body.

Criminal Justice, Behavior and Law Faculty Lineup

Alfred Chapleau

Christina Lane

Antoine Karam