Gary Hinzman shares his thoughts about the challenge of educating the public about how the criminal justice system operates, the danger of so-called “copycat” programs and the need to educate the public about what criminal justice reforms can actually accomplish.
Criminologist Joan Petersilia shares her thoughts about the importance of modest expectations for criminal justice reform, the scientific legacy of Robert Martinson, and how best to prepare for high-profile tragedies that can threaten criminal justice reform efforts.
Ed Rhine is the Deputy Director of the Office of Policy and Offender Reentry for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. He received his B.A. degree in Sociology from Ohio University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology from Rutgers University. He has served in administrative positions in corrections in New Jersey and Georgia. He teaches part-time as an instructor in the Sociology Department at The Ohio State University.
This study examines the perceptions of self-represented tenants in an innovative housing court at the Harlem Community Justice Center. Harlem tenants viewed the experience in more positive terms than litigants in a conventional court, in large part because they were more likely to perceive the court process and outcome as fair.
Amy Solomon is the Senior Advisor to the Assistant Attorney General at the Office of Justice Programs at the Department of Justice. Prior to that, she was a Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center.
Roger Werholtz was appointed Acting Secretary of Corrections by Gov. Bill Graves on Sept. 30, 2002, and was appointed Secretary of Corrections by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on Jan. 13, 2003.
The late Carol Weiss was a Professor of Educational Policy at Harvard Graduate School of Education where she taught courses on evaluation, organizational decision making, and research methods. Her ongoing research dealt with educational policymaking, the uses of research in policymaking, and the influence of ideology, interests, information, and institutional rules and structures on policy.
Doris Layton MacKenzie, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland and Director of the Evaluation Research Group. She has an extensive publication record on such topics as examining what works to reduce crime in the community, inmate adjustment to prison, the impact of intermediate sanctions on recidivism, long-term offenders, methods of predicting prison populations, self-report criminal activities of probationers and boot camp prisons.
A 35-year law enforcement veteran, R. Gil Kerlikowske was selected by President Barack Obama to lead the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Prior to being named drug czar, he was the chief of the Seattle Police Department. In that capacity, he talked to Aubrey Fox of the Center for Court Innovation about innovation and what can be learned from failed criminal justice initiatives.
David Wilson is Associate Professor, Administration of Justice at George Mason University and a member of the Campbell Collaboration's Crime & Justice Coordinating Group, an international network of researchers that prepares, updates, and rapidly disseminates systematic reviews of high-quality research conducted worldwide on effective methods to reduce crime and delinquency and improve the quality of justice.
