Senior Research Associate
Justice Policy Center
Jocelyn Fontaine’s research focuses on prisoner and jail reentry, community-based initiatives, and program evaluation. She directs projects using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies and has experience developing survey instruments, facilitating focus groups, conducting field work, and translating evidence-based practices into implementation. She is also the deputy director of the District of Columbia Crime Policy Institute, where she collaborates with government and community-based agencies working on crime and justice issues in the District. Before coming to the Urban Institute, Fontaine worked at the Pew Charitable Trusts on their Public Safety Performance Project after being a researcher in the Violence and Victimization Research Division at the National Institute of Justice for several years.
Areas of expertise
Prisoner and jail reentry, housing, homelessness, criminal justice policy, community-based crime initiatives
Selected Publications from Jocelyn Fontaine
Impact of Family-Inclusive Case Management on Reentry Outcomes: Interim Report on the Safer Return Demonstration Evaluation Strategic Plan for a Collaborative Neighborhood-Based Crime Prevention Initiative The District of Columbia Mayor's Focused Improvement Area Initiative: A Review of Past Practice Publications by topic:
Washington D.C. and Region
DC Criminal Justice
Housing
Homelessness
Crime and Justice
Corrections, Reentry, and Community Supervision
Courts and Policing
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