Tuesday, November 10, 2026 | St. Lawrence County, NY
Two SUNY Canton researchers have highlighted how technology is challenging traditional definitions of sexual predators and have identified where policy may not have kept up with modern online interactions. In September, Associate Professor Michelle Johnston, Ph.D., and Associate Professor Charles Robinson, J.D., won the C. Edward Shaffer Award for Best Research Presentation for their study "Online Predation: Legal and Scholarly Gaps in Classifying Cyber Sexual Offenders" at the 2026 Society for Police and Criminal Psychology Annual Conference in Atlanta, Ga. Johnston is the lead faculty member in the college's Forensic Criminology program and Robinson teaches in the Criminal Justice program. See more here.
