Event for 01/28/10
Invitation to NJJN Teleconference on New Research Findings that Support Community-Based Alternatives to Incarceration
The MacArthur Research Network has been conducting a multi-state, longitudinal study on felony youth offenders. This on-going research has produced many findings of relevance to the juvenile justice field. However, the latest series of findings are incredibly useful to system reformers who are working to increase the use of community-based alternatives to detention and incarceration as they provide hard data that shows that putting youth in institutions does not further public safety.
In specific, the research shows that:
Please join Professor Edward Mulvey has he walks teleconference participants through a presentation that provides an overview of the research and details the research findings in easy-to-understand terms.
The teleconference will be held on:
Thursday, January 28th @ 3:00 EST.
Call in Number: 1-866-548-4703
Passcode: 743157
Please RSVP to info@njjn.org.
To read more about this research, click here.
Edward P. Mulvey is a Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Law and Psychiatry Program at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He received his B.A. in psychology from Yale University in 1973, his Ph.D. in Community/Clinical Psychology from the University of Virginia in 1982, and post-doctoral training in quantitative methods in criminal justice at Carnegie-Mellon University . He has been on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh since 1983. He has done work on how clinicians make judgments regarding the type of risk posed by adult mental patients and juvenile offenders. Currently, he is the principal investigator for a large, multi-site longitudinal study, "Pathways to Desistance", examining how serious adolescent offenders make the transition from adolescence to adulthood.