Race/Racism
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Laura Abrams, UCLA
Professor & Chair, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Email: abrams@luskin.ucla.edu
Website: https://luskin.ucla.edu/person/laura-abrams
About: Laura S. Abrams, MSW, PhD is Professor and Chair of Social Welfare at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Her ethnographic scholarship has critically examined experiences of youth in the US justice system through reentry and the transition to adulthood. Currently she is pursuing research in the area of youth justice policy, urban youth civic engagement, and the aftermath of youth sentenced to life in prison. She is the author of two award winning ethnographic books: Compassionate Confinement: A Year in the Life of Unit C (2013, Rutgers University Press) and Everyday Desistance: The Transition to Adulthood Among Formerly Incarcerated Youth (2017, Rutgers University Press) and over 85 peer reviewed articles. She is the lead editor of The Voluntary Sector in Prisons: Encouraging Personal and Institutional Change (2016, Palgrave) co-editor of The Palgrave International Handbook of Youth Imprisonment (2021, Palgrave), and co-author of the monograph Pathways to Civic Engagement Among Urban Youth of Color (2020, Society for Research on Child Development).
Elizabeth Allen
Email: eallensocialphd@gmail.com
Website: http://www.drelizabethallen.org/
About: I bring more than 25 years of clinical experience with justice-involved women and other marginalized groups. I am tenaciously committed to smart decarceration research, policy, and practice and throughout my career aimed to embrace what academia together with activism can offer change-agents and guide and support radical social change.
My dissertation research was an inquiry into redemptive narratives and the distance process for justIce-involved women with the goal of adding to the knowledge base of desistance, advocating for policies and interventions that support the process of distance and promoting a unifying framework to bridge micro and macro approaches with vulnerable and marginalized populations. Currently, I am a PI on a CBPR project using Photovoice with the urban youth with the lived experience of parental incarceration.
The synthesis of my clinical and research experience prepares me for the dual role of researcher and policy-maker and utilizing evidence to advance policy and practice. My research interests are vast and include the intersection of micro and macro issues amplified within criminal justice systems including racial, gender and economic justice and human rights.
Janae Bonsu, UIC
Doctoral Candidate, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO
Email: jbonsu2@uic.edu
About: I am a doctoral candidate at Jane Addams College of Social Work, activist, and restorative justice practitioner. My work is based in an intersectional and structural analysis. My current work interrogates the intersection of gender-based violence, policing, and survivor empowerment; building and sustaining models of transformative justice; and policies that directly impact incarcerated people and their families.
Brita Bookser, UC Berkeley
Doctoral Candidate, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
Email: britabookser@berkeley.edu
Website: https://socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/people/phd-students
About: Brita A. Bookser’s research interests include early care and education, education policy, carceral logics in education, feminist anti-carceral studies, womanism, and critical race theory. Her research-praxis agenda is facilitated by varied agency partnerships that explore policies and pedagogies for inclusion and civic engagement. Bookser’s qualitatively-driven mixed-method dissertation explores a typology of exclusionary discipline measures in preschools and examines how structural factors influence exclusionary tactics in early care and education settings.
Kristen Brock-Petroshius, Stony Brook University
Assistant Professor, STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY
Pronouns: She/Her
Email: kristen.brock-petroshius@stonybrook.edu
Website: https://kristenbrockpetroshius.com
About: Kristen Brock-Petroshius studies attitude change to build support for racial, economic, and social justice policies. She is particularly interested in how community organizing tactics and message frames—including methods that explicitly discuss systemic racism or focus on sharing personal stories—can shift dominant political attitudes. Several recent studies examine the use of a community organizing tactic, deep canvassing, and race and class-based advocacy messages (including race-class narratives) on building support for anti-carceral policies. She has also examined how voters form attitudes about anti-carceral policies, developed a measure of “carceral justification” – which predicts support for the carceral status quo, and written theoretically about abolition and social work.
Christino Chavez, New York University
Adjunct Professor, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Email: cnc350@nyu.edu
Website: https://socialwork.nyu.edu/faculty-and-research/our-faculty/adjuncts/bios-a-c.html#chavez
About: My research interests and professional experience revolve around criminal and juvenile justice, gang violence and membership, racism in justice, restorative justice practices, mental health and trauma, policies and legislations regarding criminal justice, and immigration.
Wesley T. Church, II, LSU
J. Franklin Bayhi Endowed Professor, LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
Email: wesleyc@lsu.edu
Website: https://www.lsu.edu/chse/socialwork/faculty-staff/church.php
About: My research agenda has been concentrated in two areas. First, I have been examining issues facing children and adolescents and their families. I am interested in the impact of race, socio-economic status, gender, education, crime, and family on the involvement of children and their families as they navigate their way through major systems (i.e. welfare, justice, and healthcare). Second, I have been exploring personal perceptions and attitudes towards offenders, focusing on sexual offenders and mentally ill offenders. I use an interdisciplinary approach in my research and utilize resources derived from criminal justice, psychology, history, minority studies, social work, gerontology, and rural studies.
Phillipe Copeland, Boston University
Clinical Assistant Professor, BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Email: copelanp@bu.edu
Website: https://www.bu.edu/ssw/profile/phillipe-copeland/
About: My interest is in the policing and punishment systems as mechanisms of racial capitalism and educating people to not only effectively abolish them, but help survivors to recover from their consequences.
Matthew J. Cuellar, University of Alaska-Anchorage
Professor, UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA-ANCHORAGE
Pronouns: he/him/his
Email: mjcuellar@alaska.edu
About: Scholarship focuses on school violence and school security. Teaching expertise incudes mental health and juvenile justice.
Varsha DuBose, LCSW, Southern Connecticut State University
Doctoral Student & Teaching Assistant, SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY
Email: Dubosev1@southernct.edu
About: Varsha Dubose is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 10 years of practice experience and legal and mental health settings. Varsha is currently a doctoral student and teaching assistant at Southern Connecticut State University. Varsha has practical experience working with justice-involved veterans with significant mental health and substance use disorders. One of the theoretical approaches that Varsha is focusing her research on is critical race theory. Varsha is interested in addressing the intersections of racial oppression and social injustices that are prevalent in the United States judicial system. Varsha’s teaching interests are in areas related to veterans, race/oppression, mental health and substance use disorders within the criminal justice systems.
Gina Fedock, University of Chicago
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SERVICE ADMINISTRATION
Email: gfedock@uchicago.edu
Website: https://ssa.uchicago.edu/ssascholars/g-fedock
Gina Fedock is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Service Administration. Her work focuses on improving women’s mental health and spans the boundaries of public health, criminal justice, law, and social work. Her research includes implementing, testing, and evaluating interventions that are designed to improve the quality of women’s health in the community and within correctional settings. In addition, her work expands a trauma-informed framework of understanding and addressing women’s health needs. She integrates women’s experiences of gender-based violence, such as sexual violence and intimate partner violence, into her research. Through a human rights framework, her work incorporates advocacy for addressing social injustices in order to improve women’s health and wellbeing.
Currently, she is working on several studies, including examining women’s experiences of staff sexual misconduct in prisons and on parole and investigating racial and gender disparities in suicide attempts by prisoners. Through a faculty grant from the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, she is investigating how human rights standards influence women’s imprisonment.
Her research is in journals such as: Trauma, Violence, & Abuse; Cognitive and Behavioral Practice; Research on Social Work Practice; Journal of Interpersonal Violence; and the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research.
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John R. Gallagher, Morgan State University
Associate Professor, MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
Pronouns: He/Him
Email: john.gallagher@morgan.edu
About: Gallagher teaches in the Master of Social Work (MSW) Department. His expertise is in clinical social work, substance use disorder and mental health treatment and recovery, and policy analysis and advocacy. Dr. Gallagher’s research agenda is focused on the use of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) in treating opioid use disorders; exploring drug court and other treatment court participants’ lived experiences in programming; identifying the factors that may contribute to racial disparities in treatment court outcomes; program evaluation for drug courts and other treatment courts; and implementing evidence-based interventions to promote substance use disorder and mental health recovery. He serves as Associate Editor for Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, is on the editorial board for the Journal for Advancing Justice, and has been invited to serve as a peer-reviewer for over 30 academic journals. Dr. Gallagher has developed a national reputation for excellence in drug court research, and he helped develop the Racial and Ethnic Disparities (RED) Program Assessment Tool, presents the equity and inclusion curriculum for the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP), and advocates for best-practice standards in serving African Americans in drug court. Dr. Gallagher is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Licensed Clinical Addiction Counselor (LCAC) who has practiced substance use disorder and mental health counseling since 2002.
Amanda Geller, NYU
CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY, DIRECTOR OF MA PROGRAM IN APPLIED QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Email: amanda.geller@nya.edu
Website: https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/amanda-beth-geller.html
The focus of my research is twofold: examining the causes and effects of incarceration for men and their families, and examining racial disparities in the administration of justice.
Matthew Gilmour, Florida State University
Doctoral Student, FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
Email: mgilmour@fsu.edu
Website: https://csw.fsu.edu/person/matthew-gilmour
About: My current research interests are focused on correctional and criminal justice system policies and reform, particularly inmate medical and mental health care, inmate rights, privatization of correctional/criminal justice services, reentry and rehabilitation. I am also interested in the utilization of research in advocacy work as it relates to social justice in general, particularly racial disparities and other issues involving the oppression of marginalized populations.
Sulaimon Giwa, Memorial College of Newfoundland
Associate Professor, SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK, ST. JOHNS COLLEGE, MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND
Email: sgiwa@mun.ca
Website: https://www.mun.ca/socialwork/about/people/faculty/DrSulaimonGiwa.php
About: Dr. Giwa’s professional experience includes direct practice; research and policy work at the community and federal level, primarily in youth health promotions, community and organizational practice in diverse communities, corrections (including as a Community Parole Officer and Case Manager for Time for Change, a Crime Prevention Ottawa funded gang exit program), and policing.
His applied research program and professional activities centralize critical race transformative pedagogies and theories as frameworks and analytic tools for social justice and equity. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of race and sexuality; critical social work pedagogy; antiracism/oppression; and the criminal justice system. He has taught in the social work programs at Ryerson University and York University, and in the Police Foundations program at Sheridan College.
Sara Goodkind, University of Pittsburgh
Associate Professor, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
Email: sara.goodkind@pitt.edu
Website: https://www.socialwork.pitt.edu/people/sara-goodkind
About: Dr. Goodkind’s research and scholarship focus on marginalized youth and the inequities they experience. Much of her work examines social service programs and systems that work with young people, concentrating on young people’s experiences in educational, child welfare, and juvenile justice systems and how these systems both construct and meet the needs of the young people they serve. Dr. Goodkind developed her scholarly interests as a result of working with youth, as a teacher, mentor, facilitator, and social worker. She utilizes a critical perspective in her work to examine understandings of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and age that shape service design and delivery and then to explore the effects of this service provision, with the aim of ensuring that interventions are culturally relevant, gender responsive, fair, and effective. Dr. Goodkind’s research also focuses on institutional biases and systemic inequities, tracing young people’s pathways through systems and providing evidence and advocacy for much-needed policy change. Much of this work is via community-based participatory research projects that engage youth as collaborators in effecting systemic change.
Aaron Gottlieb, University of Chicago
Assistant Professor, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CROWN FAMILY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK, POLICY, AND PRACTICE
Email: agottlieb@uchicago.edu
Website: https://crownschool.uchicago.edu/directory/aaron-gottlieb
About: Dr. Gottlieb’s research focuses on the causes and consequences of mass incarceration, how to effectively reduce U.S. reliance on incarceration, and examining the implications of reallocating resources away from traditional forms of public safety. His scholarship has been published in leading social work, criminology, and sociology journals, and has been cited in a wide range of media outlets, including the New York Times and the Atlantic.
Warren Graham, SUNY Stony Brook
Clinical Assistant Professor & Assistant Dean of Field Education, SUNY STONY BROOK
Email: warren.graham@stonybrook.edu
Website: https://socialwelfare.stonybrookmedicine.edu/faculty-staff-warren-graham
About: Having taught on both the graduate and undergraduate levels multiple institutions over the years, I oversaw the administration of Nassau County Adult and Juvenile Drug Court Programs for 7 years. prior to that I worked in outpatient substance abuse and alternatives to incarceration treatment programs. I have also been active in NASW, having been elected as Delegate to the National Assembly, Division Director, Program Committee, and selected as Advocacy and Governmental Relations Committee member. I am currently a member of the NASW NYS Diversity Committee, member of the NASW Social Work in the Courts Specialty Practice Section where I publish annually, and am a CSWE Council on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity member. I have authored/co-authored “Criminal Injustice Competency” (NASW, 2019), “Navigating Privilege and Confidentiality for Social Workers in Legal Settings” (NASW, 2020), and “Specialized opportunities for Social Workers in the Courts” (NASW, 2010) as a part of the inaugural newsletter, co-authored “The Death of Black Males: The unmasking of cultural competence and oppressive practices in a micro-aggressive environment” (Routledge, 2016), “Evidence Based Practices for the Criminal Justice System” (2018), “To Protect and to Serve,” a book chapter in the Violence Against Black Bodies book. I am a Board member of DC based non-profit, re-entry program, Darnice’s Place, and the NYS Social Work Educator’s Association and am interested in decarceration. On the Board of Advisors for the Center for Children, Families, and the Law at Hofstra University, I am a forensic social worker in private practice for over 12 years, and member of the National Organization of Forensic Social Workers.
Ashley N. Jackson, Rutgers University
Assistant Professor, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
Email: aj1036@ssw.rutgers.edu
Website: https://socialwork.rutgers.edu/ashley-jackson
About: Ashley Jackson is a doctoral student at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis where her research focuses on police violence and racial and legal socialization. She earned a BS in Administration of Justice from George Mason University in 2009 and an MSW from the University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration in 2011. Ashley was a funded by the 2017-2018 Fulbright U.S. Student Program to conduct research in Cali, Colombia where she explored how local NGOs support vulnerable communities impacted by conflict and violence. Prior to moving to Colombia, Ashley worked at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) and the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) in New York. At LISC she provided support to communities across the country helping to address public safety issues and improve community-police relations. During her time at Vera, she conducted mixed-methods criminal justice research focusing on youth experiences during and post- incarceration and youth experiences interacting with the police in New York.
Jennifer Kenney, California State University, Sacramento
Assistant Professor, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO
Email: jennifer.l.kenney@csus.edu
About: Clinical and policy-oriented social work in the criminal legal system and outside the system working towards decarceration and abolition, with a special focus on clinical work and research related to women and trauma-responsive care.
Phillip Marotta, Washington University in St. Louis
Assistant Professor, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS
Email: phillip.marotta@wustl.edu
Website: https://brownschool.wustl.edu/faculty-and-research/phillip-marotta/
About: My research examines the role of the criminal justice system in structuring inequities in overdose, substance use and HIV infection.
Jax Kynn, Michigan State University
Doctoral Student, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Pronouns: they/them/their
Email: kynnjami@msu.edu
Website: https://socialwork.msu.edu/PhD/doctoral-directory/kynn-jax.html
About: Jax’s research interests include sexual and gender minority youth and the role of involvement in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems as sites of institutional betrayal. With a background in policy evaluation, their research interrogates systemic oppression as it manifests through inter-institutional practices and policies to promote systems change.
Husain Lateef, Washington University in St. Louis
Assistant Professor, BROWN SCHOOL AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY OF ST. LOUIS
Email: hlateef@wustl.edu
Website: https://brownschool.wustl.edu/faculty-and-research/husain-lateef/
About: Dr. Husain Lateef’s research intersects with his practice experience working with serious juvenile offenders by advancing scholarship to inform reentry for this population post-conviction. His scholarship also examines issues related to misattributions of criminal risk to ethnic minority populations with implications for reentry policy. He teaches courses related to preparing social work students to work with criminal justice-involved adults, forensic social work practice & criminal justice policy & interventions.
Charles H. Lea III, Columbia University
Assistant Professor, UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
Email: chl2159@columbia.edu
Website: https://socialwork.columbia.edu/directory/charles-h-lea-iii
About: Dr. Lea’s research and scholarship investigate the intersectionality of race/ethnicity, class, and gender in educational, correctional, and neighborhood contexts, and the impact these issues have on the health and well-being of young Black men and boys at risk and involved in the juvenile and criminal punishment systems. The overarching aims of this work is to develop knowledge and build theory that informs policies, practices, and interventions that can promote resilience and healthy development among young Black men and boys’, as well as lessen their risk for health-compromising behaviors, arrest, incarceration, and recidivism.
Susan McCarter, UNC Charlotte
Associate Professor, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHARLOTTE
Email: smccarter@uncc.edu
Website: https://pages.uncc.edu/smccar17/
About: Dr. McCarter’s career began as a juvenile probation officer, inner-city mental health counselor, and policy analyst and advocate in Virginia. For over 20 years she has served as a Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) Scholar (now Racial and Ethnic Disparities (RED)) and a forensic practitioner. Nationally, Dr. McCarter serves as an expert juvenile justice forensic witness, on the board of the National Organization of Forensic Social Work, and chairs the Society of Social Work and Research’s Criminal and Juvenile Justice Interest Group. Regionally, she co-chairs the NC RED Subcommittee and the Charlotte Racial Justice Consortium (funded by the AAC&U and dedicated to truth, racial healing and transformation), and serves on the leadership team for Race Matters for Juvenile Justice as well as their Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE) Team. Dr. McCarter currently facilitates the UNC Charlotte Racial Equity Skill Building Caucus and leads multiple funded research studies examining the School-to-Prison Pipeline (STPP), Juvenile Diversion, and Racial Equity.
Oluwayomi Paseda, MSW, LMSW, University of Georgia
DOCTORAL STUDENT, UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
Email: oluwayomi@uga.edu
My research interests include reentry programs, interventions, and services for women transitioning from incarceration to the community.
Carrie Pettus, Florida State University
Associate Professor, Founding Director, INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT, FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
Email: c.pettus@fsu.edu
Website: https://csw.fsu.edu/person/carrie-pettus
About: Dr. Carrie Pettus is Associate Professor of Social Work at Florida State University and Founding Executive Director of the Institute for Justice Research and Development. Pettus conducts applied research on smart decarceration of prisons and jails through policy and practice intervention development. Pettus generates research on ameliorating racial, economic, and behavioral health disproportionality. She works with community partners to develop interventions to enhance positive social support, treat trauma experiences and behavioral health disorders, and generate well-being for those impacted by criminal justice involvement. Dr. Pettus holds a doctorate in social work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Taylor Reed, UCLA
MSW/PHD STUDENT, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
Email: taylorashlyn@ucla.edu
I’m particularly interested in how environmental factors that are at play once individuals are no longer incarcerated affect the success of reentry programs, and how re-entry programs address these exposures. The focus of my research will center around identifying success and weaknesses in existing re-entry programs and highlighting data-backed modifications to these programs to bolster a successful transition back into society. My research will also include studying minority youth in urban neighborhoods and how exposure to violence (both frequency and type) affect their incarceration rates. This work can hopefully be adapted to study other social and environmental factors in order to better understand which experiences are most associated with juvenile incarceration. My work will allow for policy makers and stakeholders to comprehensively understand what occurs in these neighborhoods and identify vulnerable areas that can serve as intervention points to help protect these at-risk youth.
Jacoba Rock, Boise State University
Clinical Associate Professor, BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY
Pronouns: She/They
Email: jacobarock@boisestate.edu
Website: https://www.boisestate.edu/socialwork/jacoba-rock-ph-d/
About:Jacoba Rock is an Clinical Associate Professor of Social Work at Boise State School of Social Work. She received her Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies, with a doctoral minor in Criminology, from Pennsylvania State University. She received a Master of Social Work degree, with a clinical concentration in work with High-Risk Youth, and a graduate certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution, both from the University of Denver. Dr. Rock’s applied research focuses on incarcerated youth (juveniles and young adults), opportunities for improved system response and reform, as well as deimplementation and abolition. Dr. Rock has conducted many program evaluations within carceral and other criminal/juvenile legal settings, offered professional development trainings to both courtroom and correctional staff, and also offered consultation, assessment, and testimony on hundreds of cases of juvenile and young adult life, virtual life, and capital sentences. Dr. Rock has taught Social Work since 2012 in BSW, MSW, and DSW programs, and focuses on courses on Intersectionality and other critical approaches, Human Behavior and Social Environment, Program Evaluation, and Pedagogy.
Christopher Thyberg, Augsburg Univeristy
Assistant Professor, AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Email: thyberg@augsburg.edu
Website: https://www.augsburg.edu/faculty/thyberg-christopher/
About: My research is heavily informed by my clinical experience as a therapist working with children, adolescents, and families. Many of my clients had exposure to traumatic experiences, which profoundly impacted their mental and behavioral health. Through my work, I observed how schools played a pivotal role in the process of helping or harming students, often criminalizing behaviors instead of seeking to provide support or ask questions. I saw how schools act as an access point to the criminal legal system for many students who were sent to court, fined, charged, or otherwise punished. Moreover, I witnessed how often this occurred differentially based on race, class, gender, ability as various forms of oppression and discrimination impacted these students’ experiences. This informs my research, as I am passionate about finding ways to break the pathway between schools and incarceration through restorative justice, transformative justice, and anti-oppressive practices of mental health and community support initiatives. My dissertation is focused on building anti-racist and critical consciousness professional development for teachers within school spaces that are using restorative justice to further address racial disparities in exclusionary school discipline. This process has also had an impact on my teaching and inspired my passion for critical and structural social work as my paradigm of practice and teaching
Durrell Malik Washington Sr., University of Chicago
MSW, Doctoral Candidate, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Email: dwashington5@uchicago.edu
About: Durrell Malik Washington Sr. is a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice. He takes an interdisciplinary approach towards scholarship drawing from social work, sociological, criminological, life course, and family system theories and perspectives. Durrell’s research interest lies at the intersections in P.I.C. Abolition, Juvenile legal practice and policy, Social Networks, Families and Other Social Context. Specifically, Durrell is a Mixed Method Researcher whose research agenda is geared at understanding the impact of juvenile incarceration on family life and youths transition to adulthood. Durrell has methodological training across several different qualitative and quantitative methods. have served as both a Research Assistant and Project Manager during his time at the Crown Family School and prior to his doctoral training, at Columbia University. To date, he has published a combination of several co- and solo-authored peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and currently has a number of other peer-reviewed articles under review. Because our work as social workers do not just reach academics but also community and policy audiences as well, he has also published several other public-facing products, including research reports, op-eds, editorials, and news articles.
Katherine Van Wormer, University of Northern Iowa
PROFESSOR EMIRITA OF SOCIAL WORK, UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA
Email: katherine.vanwormer@uni.edu
Website: https://csbs.uni.edu/socialwork/faculty-staff-directory/katherine-vanwormer-phd
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Dr. van Wormer is the author or co-author of 15 books (not counting new editions), including Death by Domestic Violence: Preventing the Murders and the Murder-Suicides. Some of her recent books are: Confronting Oppression, Restoring Justice: From Policy Analysis to Social Action (2nd ed.) (co-authored by L .Kaplan and C. Juby) (CSWE, 2012); The Maid Narratives (LSU Press, 2012); Restorative Justice Today (SAGE, 2013); Women and the Criminal Justice System (co-authored with C. Bartollas) (Pearson, 2014); Social Welfare Policy for a Sustainable Future (SAGE, 2016), Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Micro Level and HBSE, Macro Level (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Addiction Treatment: A Strengths Perspective (4th ed.) (co-authored with D.R. Davis) (Cengage, 2018). Van Wormer is currently working on a 5th edition of Women and the Criminal Justice System.
Mel Wilson, NASW
SENIOR POLICY CONSULTANT, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS
Email: mwilson.NASW@socialworkers.org
My interest and experience with criminal justice and social work includes being active in criminal justice policy and legislative actions via my affiliation with – NASW, the Justice Roundtable , the Justice Reform Taskforce, and the Criminal Justice Behavioral Health Work Group. I have also written several NASW Social Justice Briefs on topics including bail reform, racial profiling, drug policy, and juvenile justice issues.