Associate of Arts in Criminal Justice Online

Faculty

• Frank Jones

  

  Assistant Professor of the Practice, Criminal Justice
  Office: Spaulding 108, Henniker Campus
  Phone: 603.428.2395
  Email: fjones@nec.edu

  Expertise, Awards, and Achievements
  Expertise:

  • Community policing and problem solving
  • Law enforcement hiring processes
  • Law enforcement professional development
  • Use of force and tactics
  • Organizational management and design

   

  Awards:

  • NEC ONESHIP Award, 2020
  • NEC Adjunct Professor of the Year, 2015
  • NEC KGA Collegium Professor of the Year, 2009
  • NEC Advisor of the Year (Criminal Justice Club), 2005–2006

   

  Member, Board of Directors for Concord Regional Crimeline

  Educational Background
  Command Training Institute, Session 243, Babson College
  New Hampshire Police Standards and Training Academy
  MA in Criminal Justice, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  BA in Sociology, Nathaniel Hawthorne College

  Research Interests

  • Mass incarceration of offenders
  • Community corrections
  • Police and community relations

   

  Bio
  Frank Jones joined NEC in 2005, following a long and successful career in law enforcement for the State of New Hampshire. During his career as a law enforcement officer, Frank served as a supervisor, detective, and chief of police. He also served as an instructor and staff officer for the New Hampshire Police Academy. He continues to serve in a law enforcement capacity on a part-time basis in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire. Frank has accumulated thousands of hours of in-service training and certifications in areas that include drug investigations, outlaw motorcycle gang investigations, sex assault crimes, evidence identification, collection and preservation, and more. He is a past president of the Hillsborough County Law Enforcement Association. Frank served two five-year terms on the New Hampshire Juvenile Parole Board following the recruitment and selection process by two different New Hampshire governors and members of the Executive Council.

  First teaching as an adjunct professor at NEC, Frank was appointed as a full-time faculty member in 2019 for the Criminal Justice Department. Frank teaches Introduction to Criminal Justice, Police in Society, and the capstone Senior Seminar course, and he coordinates off-campus travel to the greater Washington, DC, area for criminal justice students and faculty. He has worked with his criminal justice colleagues to design an associate degree program and to help develop curriculum to keep the Criminal Justice program contemporaneous. He has worked to develop partnerships with several different law enforcement agencies at the Federal, State, County and local levels that has helped alumni from NEC get their careers started. He also serves as a co-advisor to the NEC Criminal Justice Club and the Alpha Phi Sigma National Honor Society for Criminal Justice, a member of the NEC Judicial Board (Appeals), and as an advisor to many students. He is the current Vice-Chair to the NEC Academic Standards Committee. Frank has also served as a Faculty Mentor and has participated in many different community-based functions at the college and in the Henniker area.

  Frank has produced written articles for POLICEONE, focusing on the advantages of college-educated law enforcement personnel. He has been successful with the review and commentary of textbooks for publishers such as Oxford University Press and Cengage/Pearson. He enjoys doing research on a variety of topics connected to the criminal justice field.

  Outside of these professional engagements, Frank enjoys spending time with his family, reading, hiking, camping in the North Woods, and being with his dog. He resides in Bow, New Hampshire.

• Richard Hubbard

  Associate Professor, Criminal Justice

  Office: Spaulding 105A, Henniker Campus
  Phone: 603.428.2451
  Email: rhubbard@nec.edu

  Recent Press

  • “Juvenile Life Without Parole—Where Are We Now?” in ACJS Today, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, November 2019
  • “The Search and Seizure Implications for Motor Vehicle Stops Due to the Decriminalization of Marijuana” in Critical Issues in Justice and Politics, March 2019
  • “Criminal History That Repeats…and Punishes…Severely: How Career Drug Offenders Relive Their Past Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines” in Critical Issues in Justice and Politics, June 2009

   

  Educational Background
  JD, Antonin Scalia School of Law, George Mason University
  BA, Plymouth State University

  Bio
  Rick Hubbard regularly teaches Criminal Justice Ethics, Criminal Procedure, and Introduction to Criminal Justice. Other courses have included Undercover Operations and Use of Informants; Federal Crimes and Procedure; Judicial Processes; and Gender, Race, and Crime. He has been a member of the New Hampshire Bar for 35 years. His practice included a concentration in federal criminal defense. His professional career includes employment with the Legal Counsel Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C. At NEC, he serves as a co-advisor to the Criminal Justice Club and is the faculty advisor to the NEC Student Senate. In addition, he is on the NEC Men’s Soccer coaching staff as faculty advisor.