Jessica Castillo

Jessica Castillo, Research Assistant, is currently in the CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies undergraduate program where her areas of concentration are International Criminology and Deviance in Social Behavior. She will be receiving her B.A. in the Spring of 2020. While attending John Jay College, she has been involved in an alternative to incarceration program called Bronx Connect and serves as an active, bilingual participant in the Manteca/Fanteca Research project. Jessica is interested in studying the causes of juvenile delinquency, the theoretical explanations for the aberrant criminal behaviors that are manifested in a population, and bringing about social and economic change for disadvantaged individuals.

March 2018