James Austin
President, The JFI Institute. Ph.D., University of California, Davis. Co-author of “The Diminishing Returns of Increased Incarceration,” NIC (2004).
Kimberly Bender
Doctoral student, University of Texas at Austin. M.S.W., Colorado State University. Previously, Outpatient Child and Family Therapist, Fairfax County Community Mental Health Center, Fairfax, VA. Co-author of “Treatment effectiveness with dually diagnosed adolescents: A systematic review,” Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, 6(3) (2006).
James Byrne
Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of Massachusetts, Lowell . Co-author of Emerging Roles and Responsibility in the Reentry Partnership Initiative: New Ways of Doing Business (NIJ 2003).
Terry Fain
Senior Research Associate, RAND Corporation. M.A., Vanderbilt University. Co-author of “Accomplishments in Juvenile Probation in California,” Federal Probation (June 2006).
Anthony W. Flores
Assistant professor, California State University, Bakersfield . Doctoral candidate, University of Cincinnati . M.S. in Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati. Has provided technical assistance with offender risk assessment, case planning, and effective rehabilitative programming to correctional agencies in more than 15 states. Author of “Evidence of Professionalism or Quackery: Measuring Practitioner Awareness of Risk/Need Factors and Effective Treatment Strategies,” Federal Probation (Dec. 2005).
Steve Gottfredson
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University. Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University. Coauthor of “Statistical Risk Assessment: Old Problems and New Applications,” Crime and Delinquency (January 2006).
Andrew J. Harris
Massachusetts-based public policy consultant in cross-disciplinary approaches to human services and criminal justice issues; visiting faculty member (2006-2007 academic year) in the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. Ph.D.,
Patricia Harris
Associate Dean and Professor, College of Public Policy, University of Texas at San Antonio. Ph.D., Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Co-author of “Ex-offenders Need Not Apply: The Criminal Background Check in Hiring Decisions,” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice (January 2006).
Edward J. Latessa
Professor and Division Head, University of Cincinnati; consultant with the National Institute of Corrections. Ph.D., Ohio State University. Co-author of Corrections in America (2006).
Christopher T. Lowenkamp
Assistant research professor, University of Cincinnati, Division of Criminal Justice; director, The Center for Criminal Justice Research. Previously, Probation Officer, Akron, OH . Ph.D. in Criminal Justice, the University of Cincinnati . Author of “Does Correctional Quality Really Matter?” Criminology and Public Policy (August 2006).
Arthur Lurigio
Associate Dean for Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences, Loyola University, Chicago. Previously, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University. Ph.D., Loyola University, Chicago. Author of “Taking Stock of Community Corrections Programs, Criminology and Public Policy, 4, 259-262 (2005).
Laura Moriarty
Acting Associate Vice Provost for Academic affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University. Ph.D., Sam Houston State University. Coauthor of “Statistical Risk Assessment: Old Problems and New Applications,” Crime and Delinquency (January 2006).
April Pattavina
Associate Professor, The University of Massachusetts, Lowell . Editor of and contributing author to Information Technology and the Criminal Justice System (2004).
Albert Roberts
Professor of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University. Previously, Associate Professor and Chair, Planning and Management, Curriculum, Indiana University School of Social Work, Indianapolis. D.S.W., University of Maryland .
Paula Smith
Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati. Ph.D., University of New Brunswick.
James A. Swartz
Associate Professor, Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago . Ph.D., Northwestern University, Chicago . Author of “Screening for Serious Mental Illness Among Criminal Offenders,” Research in Social Problems and Public Policy (in press).
Faye Taxman
Professor, Wilder School of Government and Public Policy, Virginia Commonwealth University. Previously, Director of the Bureau of Government Research, University of Maryland, College Park . Ph.D., Rutgers University, Newark, NJ . Author of Reentry Partnership Initiative (NIJ).
Susan Turner
Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine. Previously, Senior Behavioral Scientist, RAND Corporation. Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill . Co-author of “Accomplishments in Juvenile Probation in California,” Federal Probation (June 2006).