Criminal Justice Office Hours

Dr. Barry Feld from the University of Minnesota Law School joins the podcast to talk about the evolution of the juvenile court in the United States.  Get Dr. Feld's book, "The Evolution of the Juvenile Court: Race, Politics, and the Criminalizing of Juvenile Justice" here: https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Juvenile-Court-Politics-Criminalizing/dp/1479895695/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517951722&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Evolution+of+the+Juvenile+Court+Barry+Feld

Veronica Cunningham, the Executive Director of the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA), joins the podcast to talk about community corrections and the resources APPA provides.  Join APPA in Miami, FL at their 2019 Winter Training Institute from March 10 to March 13, 2019.  

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Dr. Pamela Wilcox - a Professor at the University of Cincinnati School of Criminal Justice - joins the podcast to talk about environmental criminology.  https://cech.uc.edu/criminaljustice.html 

Dr. Krista S. Gehring joins the podcast to talk about CrimComics - a highly visually illustration of criminological theory which traces the development of theory and demonstrates its' application to the real world.  

Dr. Brian Lovins - Assistant Director for Harris County Community Supervision and Corrections Department - joins the podcast to talk about the state of community corrections and probation officers as coaches.  

Professor Mark Godsey joins the podcast to discuss the Ohio Innocence Project.  Professor Godsey is the co-founder of the Ohio Innocence Project, which has freed from prison 27 innocent people who collectively served more than 500 years for crimes they did not commit.  

Sara Sullivan from the Vera Institute of Justice joins the podcast to talk about the use of solitary confinement in correctional institutions and Vera's Safe Alternatives to Segregation Initiative.  

Dr. Michael Leo Owens joins the podcast to discuss his new book project 'Prisoners of Democracy'. Dr. Owens is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Emory University.  Prisoners of Democracy discusses the ways in which public policy hinders the restoration of formerly imprisoned people as full citizens and the collateral consequences of incarceration.  Further, Dr. Owens book focuses on the victories of reform towards formerly incarcerated individuals at the local, state, and national level. 

Ian Silver, a Doctoral Student at the University of Cincinnati, joins the podcast to talk about his recent publication - "The moderating effects of intelligence: An examination of how IQ influences the association between environmental factors and antisocial behavior".   

Dr. Justin Pickett from the University of Albany joins the podcast to talk about how public opinion research in criminal justice is conducted, the implications of it, and the findings.