Featured Sessions
Opening Session
Sunday, February 10 • 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Hon. Rebecca White Berch
Vice Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona
Using Evidence Based Sentencing to Move from “Good to Great”
As part of the Arizona Supreme Court’s goal to move the Arizona Judicial Branch from “Good to Great,” Arizona courts strongly emphasize probation supervision. Vice Chief Justice Rebecca White Berch will examine the philosophical and practical shift in Arizona from applying traditional sentencing theories to employing evidence-based practices as a means to reduce offender recidivism and improve public safety. Learn what Arizona is doing now, how it is working and what is in store for the future.
Vice Chief Justice Rebecca White Berch, a native Arizonan, was appointed to the Arizona Supreme Court in March 2002. Before her appointment to the Supreme Court, she served as a judge on the Arizona Court of Appeals. From 1986 to 1995 she served as the Director of the Legal Writing Program at the ASU College of Law.
Marshall
Trimble
Arizona State Historian
Marshall Trimble has been called the Will Rogers of Arizona and one of America’s most humorous raconteurs of this nation’s colorful folk history. Marshall Trimble is an Arizona native, poet, singer and purveyor of Arizona’s stories, myths and legends. He has been the head of Southwest Studies, a cultural-historical program at Scottsdale Community College for the past 25 years. Marshall Trimble began his career as a folk singer and today appears on the stage, radio and television as a humorist and storyteller of Arizona and the West. He grew up in a small northern Arizona town of Ash Fork and his homespun humor reflects those rural roots.
In 1997 the Governor of Arizona appointed him Official Arizona State Historian. The Arizona Office of Tourism honored Trimble as the recipient of the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Plenary Session
Monday, February 11 • 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Joel
Dvoskin, Ph.D.
Diplomate in Forensic Psychology
University of Arizona College of Medicine
Community Violence Prevention
Community corrections provides the opportunity to teach and reinforce pro-social behaviors and skills, so that those criminals who want to live crime-free lives have a chance to do so. Dr. Dvoskin discusses violence in our community and offers practical advice in assessing risk that will assist in making all of us safer. He will discuss how to assess the risk of violence and intervene in practical ways that will help insure the safety of the offender, community corrections agents and the community at large. Dr. Dvoskin’s unabashedly optimistic view of our role as potential agents of positive change is an inspiring and welcome message, as he recommends evidence-based strategies for enhancing offenders’ pro-social skills and behaviors.
Dr. Dvoskin is one of America’s leading forensic psychologists. He is certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology, a fellow of the American Psychological Association, President of the Psychologists in Public Service division of the American Psychological Association, and President of the APA ‘s American Psychology – Law Society division. He has received awards from the National Coalition for the Mentally Ill in the Criminal Justice System and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Dr. Dvoskin is an assistant professor at the University of Arizona, New York University Medical School, and Louisiana State University Medical Center. Since 1995, he has operated a full-time private practice of forensic psychology, providing expert testimony on civil and criminal matters and consultation to mental health and criminal justice agencies throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as corporations that wish to reduce the risk of workplace violence.
Closing Session
Wednesday, February 13 • 9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
David
Fitzsimmons
Editorial Cartoonist
The Arizona Daily Star
You don’t want to miss the closing session featuring David Fitzsimmons, award-winning political cartoonist for the Arizona Daily Star. Part performer, part caricaturist, part satirist, part clown and part teacher there’s no one like him. No face in the news, or in the audience, is safe from the master caricaturist! End the APPA Winter Training Institute with a few laughs!
David Fitzsimmons is the award-winning editorial cartoonist of the Arizona Daily Star. Since 1986, his political cartoons have been nationally recognized for their excellence. Mr. Fitzsimmons, a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1988, is known as “Fitz-the Fastest Draw West of the Potomac!” David’s rapier-like pen has touch upon subjects ranging from immigration, crime, the courts, and local and national political and social issues.
