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Criminal Justice
Program Faculty
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 Walter Broughton, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology
Dr. Broughton received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in sociology from Cornell University. He has been a member of the Marywood University faculty since 1976 and now serves as the director of the University’s criminal justice programs.
Dr. Broughton has served as a Faculty Associate with the Military Family Institute, Marywood University, a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan and the Schepps Health Services Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China and Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China. Locally he is a founder, past president and board member of the Scranton Primary Health Care Center. He recntly published a popular history of Lake Carey where he is an active member of its lake association.
Dr. Broughton’s areas of interest are criminology, applied social research, poverty, family studies, and careers. His research has appeared in Social Forces, Armed Forces & Society, Journal of Long Term Care Administration, Profession 2001, and other scholarly journals. He is the author or coauthor of successful grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the J. Howard Pew Freedom Trust, the Ben Franklin Technology Center, and the Pennsylvania departments of Aging, Environmental Protection, and Health.
He is a former Treasurer of the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Justice Educators.
Patrick M. Seffrin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology
 Dr. Seffrin earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in sociology from the Bowling Green State University before joining the Marywood faculty in 2009. He teaches courses in the areas of sociology, criminology, and criminal justice. Before entering graduate school, he was a supervisor in an Ohio juvenile residential center housing felony sex offenders. He is certified as a Chemical Dependency Counselor in Ohio.
Dr. Seffrin's research interests include juvenile delinquency, at risk youth, socioeconomic disadvantage, and the study of crime over the life course. His recent publication in the journal Justice Quarterly highlights the role of early heterosexual relationships in the development of a pattern of delinquent involvement and drug use. His current research investigates the role of heterosexual relationships as an intermediate link between crime and social class.
 Michael A. Foley, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Professor of Philosophy
Dr. Foley is the recipient of a doctoral degree from Southern Illinois University and an M. P. A. from New York University. He has served as a member of the Marywood faculty since 1974, where he has long offered popular courses in “Philosophy, Society, and Law,” and “Perspectives on Punishment.”
Dr. Foley is the author of Arbitrary and Capricious: The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Death Penalty, recently published by Praeger Press. He has held two NEH summer stipends for the study of the courts in American society and served as a PA Humanities Council speaker on issues relating to constitutional rights.
Professor Foley specializes in the study of the Constitution and its application to the criminal justice system, philosophical issues of punishment, the philosophy of law, and the ethics of criminal justice administration. His publications have appeared in the Dickinson Law Review , St. John's Law Review , Law & Psychiatry and Contemporary Education.
 Raymond J. Colleran , M.S., Adjunct Lecturer in
Criminal Justice
Raymond J. Colleran received his M.S. in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Scranton . He has been teaching courses in Criminal Justice at Marywood since 2005 and has previously taught at the University of Scranton.
From 1989-2005, Mr. Colleran was associated with SCI Waymart which serves 1,400 mentally ill or minimum security adult male inmates. During that time he served as Deputy Superintendent for Centralized Services and then Deputy Superintendent for Forensic Services. From 1998-2005, he served as Superintendent. Previously he served as Deputy Warden and Warden of the Lackawanna County Prison and as Chief Juvenile Probation Officer for Lackawanna County . He is a member of the American Correctional Association, the American Jail Association, the PA Warden's Association, and the Carbondale YMCA Board of Trustees.
Mr. Colleran's interests are in correctional rehabilitation, inmate mental health services, criminal justice administration and social justice.
 Joseph Donohue, Adjunct Lecturer in Criminal Justice
Joseph Donohue holds an MA from Fordham University and a MSW from Marywood University. He has previously taught at College Misericordia, and King’s College.
From 1974 until his retirement in 2003, Mr. Donohue served the Federal Middle District of PA as chief probation officer. In this capacity he supervised 50 employees in Scranton and three regional offices. His responsibilities included providing sentencing guidelines training to the district’s federal judges, magistrates and the staffs of the US Attorney’s Office, the Federal Probation and Public Defenders Offices, and the Clerk’s Office. He has served as a Director of the Scranton Counseling Center and a member of the Human Resources-Criminal Justice Task Force.
Mr. Donohue’s specializations include criminal justice administration, and community corrections.
 Anthony Peter Gach, Adjunct Lecturer in Criminal Justice
Tony Gach received a Masters in Criminal Justice from Marywood University. He has taught at the University of Scranton, and Lackawanna College, as well as Marywood where he has long offered courses in juvenile justice.
Mr. Gach began his career as a patrolman, but soon entered corrections as a Probation Officer with Lackawanna County Juvenile Court. For twenty years he served as Chief Juvenile Probation officer for the county. In that capacity he supervised a staff of 18, scheduled and reviewed all cases entering the Juvenile Court System, and administered a growing department.
Mr. Gach's interests are in criminal justice administration and the juvenile justice system. |
