From Lecture Hall to Justice Hall: Tapping Campus Talent for Probation and Parole

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Dr. Grant was the Director of Research of the Police Executive Research Forum. He has also developed and delivered training and technical assistance programs to many prevention programs and criminal justice agencies internationally that have reached many thousands throughout the world. He is an expert in policing, crime prevention and resiliency, the correlation between law and society and has published a number of books, training manuals and articles on these subjects. He is the author of Evidence-based Policing, 2024, Building a Culture of Lawfulness, 2006 and Law Enforcement in the Twenty-first Century, 2007 amongst others.

Deborah Koetzle, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, Director of the Corrections Lab at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her research interests center around effective correctional interventions in both institutional and community settings, with a focus on problem-solving courts, organizational culture, program evaluation, and cross-cultural comparisons of correctional practices and policies. She is particularly interested in examining whether and how evidence-based practices transfer across cultures. Current and recent projects include a survey of incarcerated individuals in Central America on their experience with the rule of law and life in prison, a multi-site drug court study aimed at assessing the relationship between treatment quality and drug court outcomes, and a multi-site study of the Organizational Coaching Model and its impact on revocations. Beyond her research activities, Dr. Koetzle works closely with correctional agencies and practitioners to implement evidence-based practices. She has over 20 years of experience designing and delivering training curricula related to correctional interventions for community and prison-based settings and is a certified master trainer on multiple risk/need assessments. She has provided technical assistance to local, state, and federal agencies including the United States Administrative Office of the Courts, the Bahamas Department of Rehabilitative and Welfare Services, the New York City Department of Probation, and the Singapore Prison System.

Ray Wahl is a partner with JustUs Consulting Consortium. After working 45 years in the Community Corrections field, he retired in 2019. He began his career in community corrections as a probation and parole officer for Utah Adult Probation and Parole. He held several management positions in that organization and in 1989 was appointed Director: one of the few career service employees to serve in that position. In 1998, he began working for the Utah Courts as the Juvenile Court Administrator where he oversaw both court and probation activities. He was appointed Deputy Court Administrator in 2012 and served in that position until his retirement. He served as President of the American Probation and Parole Association from 1999 to 2001 and has been a member of APPA since 1983. He has received a number of awards including the Walter Dunbar Award , the Probation Executive of the Year and the Russell VanVleet Award from the Utah Criminal Justice Center. He has done international consulting in Trinidad and Tobago, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Colombia. He serves as a volunteer in 2nd District Court as a Court Appointed Special Advocate and is a member of the Guardian Ad Litem Oversight panel.

Valerie West, PhD, is Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of the MA in Criminal Justice Program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.