Migdalia Baerga-Buffler
Probation and Pretrial Administrator, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Office of Probation and Pretrial Services. A.M., Clinical Social Work, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago. Co-author of “Doing Justice for Mental Illness and Society,” Federal Probation (Dec. 2003).
Shannon M. Barton
Assistant Professor, Indiana State University. Ph.D., University of Cincinnati. Co-author of “Convicted Drunk Drivers in a Day Reporting Center Program,” Criminology and Social Integration, 13, (1), pp. 1-9.
Kat Brady
Coordinator, Hawaii Community Alliance on Prisons, Honolulu, HI. Author of “Time for a Better Solution,” Honolulu Advertiser (Oct. 2, 2005).
James M. 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).
Michael D. Clark
Director, Center for Strength-Based Strategies. Previously, Senior Probation Officer & Hearings Officer, 30th Judicial Circuit Court, Lansing, MI. M.S. in Clinical Social Work, Michigan State University. Author of “Motivational Interviewing for Probation Staff: Increasing the Readiness to Change,” Federal Probation (Dec. 2005).
James M. Dickinson
Strategic Initiatives Coordinator, the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers; Director of Planning & Research, The Marion I. & Henry J. Knott Foundation. Previously, Consultant, Annie E. Casey Foundation. Ph.D., Clemson University. Coauthor of “Morale During Military Operations: A Positive Psychology Approach,” in T.W. Britt, C.A. Castro, & A.B. Adler (Eds.) Mind in the Military: Psychology and Life in the Armed Forces, Vol 1,: Military Performance (2005).
Terry Fain
Senior Research Associate, RAND Corporation. M.A., Vanderbilt University. Co-author of “ Oregon’s Get Tough Sentencing Reform: A Lesson in Justice System Adaptation,” Criminology and Public Policy, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2006).
Ray Gingerich
B.S., Goshen College, Goshen, IN. Retired, Texas State Probation Officer.
James B. Johnson
Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha. Ph.D., Northwestern University. Co-author of “The impact type of attorney has on the judicial decision of bail,” Criminal Law Bulletin (2003).
James L. Johnson
Probation Administrator, Data Analysis Branch, Office of Probation and Pretrial Services, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. ABD in Sociology, American University. M.A. in Sociology, University of Missouri-St. Louis. Author of “Local Prosecutors’ Response to Terrorism” (2005).
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 Systems” (Spring, 2004).
Jeff Mellow
Associate Professor, Department of Law, Police Science & Criminal Justice Administration, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany. Author of The Essex County Smart Book: A Resource Guide for Going Home (2005).
Melissa Meltzer
Graduate student, University of Texas School of Public Health. Formerly, Information Resource Specialist, Harris County Criminal Court House. M.A., Sam Houston State University. Author of “Going to the Other Side: An Analysis of Resilience Among Institutionalized Delinquent Youth” in Kathleen Kendall-Tacket and Sarah Giacomoni (Eds.), Child Victimization (2005).
Sudipto Roy
Associate Professor, Indiana State University. Ph.D., Western Michigan University. Co-author of “Convicted Drunk Drivers in a Day Reporting Center Program,” Criminology and Social Integration, 13 (1), pp. 1-9.
Ted Sakai
Consultant, Ted I. Sakai and Associates. Previously, Director of Public Safety, Hawaii. M.B.A., University of Hawaii.
Faye S. 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).
K.B. Turner
Assistant Professor, The University of Memphis. Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Co-author of “Perceptions of African American Males toward Racial Profiling in a Mid-Southern City: A Descriptive Analysis” (2006).
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. Author of “A Decade of Drug Treatment Court Research,” Substance Use & Misuse (2002).
Lorenn Walker
Public health educator and consultant. Formerly, deputy attorney general, Hawaii Attorney General’s Office. J.D., Northeastern University School of Law. Author of “ E Makua Ana Youth Circles: A Transition Planning Process for Youth Exiting Foster Care,” Connections , No. 21, Fall 2005.
Scott Walters
Assistant Professor of Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas School of Public Health. Ph.D., University of New Mexico. Co-author of Talking with College Students about Alc ohol: Motivational Strategies for Reducing Abuse (2006).