TRENTON — A professor at City College of New York is going to jail in connection with a protest of New Jersey’s bear hunt, which is nearing the end of its scheduled season.

A municipal court judge on Thursday ordered the psychology professor, William Crain, of Dutchess County, N.Y., to spend 10 days in jail in Sussex County, N.J., beginning on Jan. 6.

Professor Crain, 72, admitted he refused to return to an area set up for protesters when he walked along a road near a weigh station in Fredon, N.J., where hunters were bringing their bears in October. It was his seventh arrest connected to protesting bear hunts.

“Bears, like humans, have families, emotions and individual personalities,” the professor told Judge James J. Devine. “Like us, each bear wants to live. These defenseless animals need our help.”