The Maxfield Graduate Research Fellowship supported research activities of Ph.D. students enrolled in the Criminal Justice Doctoral Program at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Students enrolled in good standing in the Criminal Justice Doctoral Program could use the funds to prepare and present research findings at academic and professional conferences. Topics could include policing and law enforcement, criminology, criminal justice, and other related matters of interest to the social and behavioral sciences.
Michael G. Maxfield (retired) was Professor of Criminal Justice at John Jay College and the author of numerous articles and books on a variety of topics — victimization, policing, homicide, community corrections, auto theft, and long-term consequences of child abuse and neglect. He is the coauthor (with Earl Babbie) of the textbook, Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology, now in its 8th edition, and served as the editor of the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency from 2008 through 2016. Professor Maxfield received his Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University.