Kristin Bechtel
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Missouri/Kansas City. M.S., University of Missouri/Kansas City. Coauthor of “Assessing the Risk of Reoffending for Juvenile Offenders Using the Youth Level of Service/ Case Management Inventory,” Journal of Offender Rehabilitation (forthcoming).
Matthew DeMichele
Doctoral candidate at the University of Kentucky; Research Associate at the American Probation and Parole Association. M.S., A.B.D., University of Kentucky. Co-author of “Community Policing in Battle-Garb: A Paradox or Coherent Strategy,” in Militarizing the American Criminal Justice System: The Changing Roles of the Armed Forces and the Police, ed. By Peter Kraska (2001).
David A. Fullard
Visiting Associate Professor, Empire State College, State University of New York (SUNY). Ph.D., The Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, OH. Author of “A Psychodynamic Paradigm of Male Inmate Violence” (forthcoming).
Joe Gergits
Assistant General Counsel, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Previously, trial attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. J.D., University of Illinois College of Law. Author of “Criminal Law & Criminal Procedure,” 18 S. Ill. U.L.J., 747 (1994). Leslie Ann Hayashi District Court Judge, State of Hawai’i. J.D., Georgetown University Law Center. Author of “A Fishy Alphabet in Hawai’i” (June 2007).
Leslie Ann Hayashi
District Court Judge, State of Hawai’i. J.D., Georgetown University Law Center. Author of “A Fishy Alphabet in Hawai’i” (June 2007).
Jill Levenson
Assistant Professor of Human Services, Lynn University, Florida. Ph.D. in Social Welfare, Florida International University. Author (with A. Hern) of “Sex Offender Residence Restrictions: Unintended Consequences and Community Re-entry,” Justice Research and Policy, 9(2) (June 2007).
Charles Lindner
Professor Emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Previously, Professor of Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. J.D., Brooklyn Law School. Author of “Perspectives—A Century of Revolutionary Changes in the United States Juvenile Court System” (Spring 2004).
Christopher T. Lowenkamp
Assistant Research Professor, University of Cincinnati. Ph.D., University of Cincinnati. Coauthor of “Assessing the Risk of Reoffending for Juvenile Offenders Using the Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory,” Journal of Offender Rehabilitation (forthcoming).
Brian K. Payne
Chair, Department of Criminal Justice, Georgia State University. Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Author of Crime and Elder Abuse (2nd edition, 2005).
Richard Tewksbury
Professor of Justice Administration, University of Louisville, Kentucky. Ph.D., The Ohio State University. Author (with J. Mitchell Miller and Christopher Schreck) of Criminological Theory: A Brief Introduction (2nd Edition, 2008).
Lorenn Walker
Health Educator, Waialua, HI. J.D., Northeastern University School of Law. M.P.H., University of Hawaii School of Public Health. Author of “Waikiki Youth Circles: Homeless Youth Learn Goal Setting Skills,” Journal of Family Psychotherapy (August 2007).
Kristen M. Zgoba
Supervisor of Research and Evaluation, New Jersey Department of Corrections. Ph.D., School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University. Author of “The Offending Histories and Patterns of 350 Male and Female Inmates,” Aggression and Violent Behavior: A Review Journal (October 2007)