Professor Charley Flint Honored by New Jersey Association on Corrections for Long-term Service Flint served as president of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Association on Corrections from 1999 to 2015 left to right, Lisa King, legal counsel to State of New Jersey, Professor Charley Flint, Dr. Matthew Sheridan of Brookdale Community College, and Pat McKernan, CEO of Volunteers of America Charley Flint, professor of sociology at William Paterson University, was honored by the New Jersey Association on Corrections for her long-term service to the organization and to the field. Flint served as president of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Association on Corrections from 1999 to 2015 and has spent many years in the field of corrections education. Flint teaches Criminology, Sociology of Corrections, Senior Seminar in Criminal Justice, Internship in Criminal Justice, Gender, Crime and Society and serves as coordinator of the Criminal Justice program. Her writings include "Reaction Essay: Diminished Responsibility as a Systems Issue" in Research into Practice: Bridging the Gap in Community Corrections, 2009, and "Pregnancy, Prisons, and Parenting" in the Encyclopedia of Social Problems, 2008, Vincent N. Parrillo (ed) among numerous other research papers. Flint has given lectures at various colleges and universities, professional meetings, conferences, and other venues. She has been interviewed on CBS, NBC, FOX, and BET as well as in local, national, and international newspapers on issues related to race/ethnicity, criminal justice, and gender. Her most recent research interests focus on interracial families, women (especially mothers) in corrections, and assessing community-based corrections as an alternative to incarceration. She serves as research consultant to the Juvenile Drug Team of the Superior Court of Passaic County, Family Division. In addition to serving as president of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Association on Corrections, she has held the positions of president of the Board of Directors of the YWCA of Eastern Union County; member of the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Correctional Association; a peer reviewer for the Journal of Violence against Women and several other social, professional, and community boards. Charley Flint received her BS degree from North Carolina A&T State University, and her MA and PhD degrees from Rutgers University.
