Donald Braman is currently studying law at Yale University. Previously, he spent three years in Washington, D.C., studying the effects of incarceration on family life and is currently completing a book on the subject. Dr. Braman has published on a variety of subjects, including the role of race in constitutional law and the role of culture in political conflict.
Eric Cadora is a program officer for The After Prison Initiative, part of the Open Society Institute's (OSI's) Criminal Justice Initiative, and serves as a community justice advocate and consultant. Before joining OSI, he worked for 14 years at the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES), during which time he oversaw the Center's court communications, information systems, research, and policy units, as well as its day center program, and launched the Community Justice Project, which advocates for a reinvestment of justice resources in communities suffering high rates of incarceration and provides technical assistance to corrections and communities to implement community justice programs. In 1996, Mr. Cadora was the recipient of an Edna McConnell Clarke justice grant to help the North Carolina Division of Adult Probation/Parole—with whom he worked for the following five years as a criminal justice consultant—implement alternative-to-incarceration programs under the state's new structured sentencing guidelines. Using geographical analyses of criminal justice activity at the neighborhood level, he has spoken in national forums about the impact of high rates of incarceration on communities of color and promoted the use of financial reinvestment strategies to interrupt the existing cycle of impoverishment and criminalization.
K. Alison Clarke-Stewart is a developmental psychologist whose work focuses on child development, specifically on the effects of social environments on children's cognitive and emotional development. She has investigated the effects of day care, divorce and custody, and mothers' and fathers' behavior on children's development. Dr. Clarke-Stewart is a professor in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior and associate dean for research in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. She is also a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society and a member of the Society for Research in Child Development. Her new publications include Childcare: A Continuing Concern (Harvard University Press, in press) and Divorce (Yale University Press, in press).
Todd R. Clear is Distinguished Professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY), and executive officer of the Program of Doctoral Studies in Criminal Justice, CUNY Graduate Center. He is currently involved in studies of religion and crime, the criminological implications of "place," and the concept of "community justice." Dr. Clear is also the editor of Criminology and Public Policy, published by the American Society of Criminology. A programming and policy consultant to public agencies in over 40 states and five nations, his work has been recognized through several awards, including those of the Rockefeller School of Public Policy, the American Probation and Parole Association, the American Correctional Association, and the International Community Corrections Association. Dr. Clear has served on the faculties of Ball State University, Rutgers University, and Florida State University, and previous publications cover the topics of correctional classification, prediction methods in correctional programming, community-based correctional methods, intermediate sanctions, and sentencing policy. His recent books include Community Justice, The Offender in the Community, and American Corrections (all by Wadsworth, 2003); What Is Community Justice? (Sage, 2002); The Community Justice Ideal (Westview, 2000); and Harm in American Penology (State University of New York Press, 1995).
Stephanie S. Covington is the codirector of the Center for Gender and Justice in La Jolla, California. With more than 24 years of experience in the design and implementation of treatment services for women, she is recognized for her work in both the public and private sectors. For the past 15 years, Dr. Covington has worked to help institutions and programs in the criminal justice system develop effective gender-responsive services. She has provided training, technical assistance, and consulting services to the National Institute of Corrections, the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Correctional Services of Canada, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and many state and local jurisdictions. Dr. Covington has published extensively, including three gender-responsive curricula: Helping Women Recover: A Program for Treating Substance Abuse; Beyond Trauma: A Healing Journey for Women; and Voices: A Program of Empowerment and Self-Discovery for Girls. She also coauthored Gender-Responsive Strategies: Research, Practice, and Guiding Principles for Women Offenders (with Barbara Bloom and Barbara Owen, National Institute of Corrections, 2003).
J. Mark Eddy is an associate director and a research scientist at the nonprofit Oregon Social Learning Center in Eugene. He is an investigator on several long-term follow-up studies of preventive and clinical interventions conducted within the juvenile justice and the school systems. For the past three years, Dr. Eddy has been working closely with the Oregon Department of Corrections on the development of a research-based parenting program for incarcerated mothers and fathers. He is also a licensed psychologist in the state of Oregon.
Gerald G. Gaes is a visiting scientist at the National Institute of Justice since retiring as director of the Office of Research, Federal Bureau of Prisons, in July 2002. His research interests include prison privatization, evaluation methodology, inmate gangs, inmate classification, simulating criminal justice processes, prison crowding, prison violence, the effectiveness of prison program interventions on postrelease outcomes, prisoner reentry, and cost-benefit analysis. In July 2000, he received the Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award, U.S. Department of Justice, for his work in correctional research. Dr. Gaes's articles have appeared in such publications as the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, The Prison Journal, and Criminology and Public Policy. His recent book chapters appear in Securing Our Children's Future: New Approaches to Juvenile Justice and Youth Violence (edited by Gary Katzmann, Brookings, 2002), Privatization in Criminal Justice (edited by David Shichor and Michael Gilbert, Anderson, 2001), and Prisons: Crime and Justice (edited by Michael Tonry and Joan Petersilia, University of Chicago Press, 1999). He also coauthored a forthcoming book entitled Prison Performance: Laying the Groundwork to Compare Public and Private Prisons (with Scott Camp, Julianne Nelson, and William Saylor). Dr. Gaes's paper, "Using Inmate Survey Data in Assessing Prison Performance: A Case Study Comparing Private and Public Prisons" (with Scott Camp, Jody Klein-Saffran, Dawn Daggett, and William G. Saylor, Criminal Justice Review, 2002), was nominated for the Joseph Wholey Distinguished Scholarship Award, American Society of Public Administration.
Craig Haney is professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. One of the principal researchers on the highly publicized "Stanford Prison Experiment" in 1971, he has spent his career studying the psychological effects of living and working in actual prison environments. His work has taken him to dozens of maximum-security prisons across the United States and in several different countries, where he has evaluated conditions of confinement and interviewed prisoners about the mental health consequences of incarceration. Dr. Haney has also served as a consultant to various governmental agencies, including the U.S. Department of Justice, the California legislature, and various courts. His scholarly writing and empirical research have addressed a wide range of crime- and punishment-related topics and his articles have appeared in a variety of scholarly journals, including the American Psychologist and Psychology, Public Policy, and Law.
Creasie Finney Hairston is professor of social work and dean of the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has also served on the faculties of the University of Tennessee, the State University of New York, West Virginia University, and Indiana University. Dr. Hairston provides program consultation on parenting programs in correctional settings and conducts research on issues affecting families involved in the criminal justice and child welfare systems. She has reviewed and documented programs serving families of prisoners, conducted program evaluations of parenting programs in prisons and jails, and studied the impact of incarceration on families and communities. Dr. Hairston's recent articles on parents in prison and their children appear in publications for general audiences and in leading academic journals, including the Marriage and Family Review, Michigan Family Impact Seminar Briefing Report Series, Child Welfare, and the International Community Corrections Association Journal.
Newton E. Kendig is the medical director for the Bureau of Prisons and an infectious disease physician with Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Disease Society of America. Dr. Kendig has served on advisory panels for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Office of the Surgeon General. His involvement in correctional health care dates back to 1991, when he was appointed medical director for the Maryland Division of Corrections.
Ross D. Parke is distinguished professor of psychology and director of the Center for Family Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is past president of the Society for Research in Child Development and will complete his term as editor of the Journal of Family Psychology in 2003. Dr. Parke is also past president of the American Psychological Association's Division of Developmental Psychology, the 1995 recipient of this division's G. Stanley Hall Award, and past editor of Developmental Psychology. His research interests include fathers' roles in the family, family-peer linkages, and ethnic variations in families. Dr. Parke is the author of numerous books, including Fatherhood (Harvard University Press, 1996), and the coauthor of Throwaway Dads (with Armin Brott, Houghton Mifflin, 1999).
John B. Reid is a research scientist and a founder of the nonprofit Oregon Social Learning Center in Eugene. A licensed psychologist, he also directs the National Institute of Mental Health-funded Oregon Prevention Research Center. Dr. Reid's research focuses primarily on assessment methodology and the treatment of child abusive families and conduct disorder. He works closely with collaborators throughout the country on the study of the impact of preventive and clinical interventions delivered within the public school and the child welfare systems.
Dina R. Rose is director of research at the Women's Prison Association. She has also served on the faculties at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York, Florida State University, and the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Dr. Rose has written articles for such publications as Crime and Delinquency and the Corrections Management Quarterly, and has coauthored (with Todd Clear) a chapter in Crime Control and Social Justice: The Delicate Balance (edited by Darnell Hawkins, Samuel Myers, and Randolph Stone, Greenwood Press, 2003). She recently completed a National Institute of Justice grant, Drugs, Incarceration and Neighborhood Life: The Impact of Reintegrating Offenders into the Community, which examines the impact of high levels of prison admissions and releases on community life and the problems of reintegrating offenders into two neighborhoods in Tallahassee, Florida.
Shelli Balter Rossman is a senior research associate in the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center, focusing on community-based services related to public health and safety issues. Over the past decade, she has directed several research projects that emphasize integrated services for juvenile and adult offenders as well as other high-risk populations. She was the principal investigator for the Opportunity to Succeed (OPTS) project, funded in California, Florida, Missouri, and New York by the National Institute of Justice and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. OPTS provided case-managed aftercare—including substance abuse treatment, employment services, medical and mental health care, and family strengthening and emergency support—to substance-abusing felons returning to targeted communities from incarceration treatment programs. Ms. Rossman is currently the principal investigator for the multiyear National Evaluation of Drug Courts (2003-2008) and also served as co-principal investigator for the National Evaluation of Juvenile Drug Courts Project (both funded by the National Institute of Justice).
Jenifer L. Wood is managing director of the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, a national coordinating center jointly operated by the University of California, Los Angeles, and Duke University. The Center provides leadership and support to a national network of university- and community-based sites focused on expanding access and raising the standard of care for traumatized children and their families. Dr. Wood has worked as an advocate, researcher, and clinician, focusing on children and families exposed to violence and trauma as well as those who have been drawn into the criminal and juvenile justice systems. Before her arrival at the Center, Dr. Wood served at the National Mental Health Association and the National Institute of Justice and she worked as a consultant to UNICEF in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
