The Marriage of Research and Practice: A New Way of Thinking About Evidence-based Practices

SESSION INFO

Tuesday, August 30, 2022
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Session Type: Workshop

The supervision field lacks guided practice guidelines regarding how best to manage individuals in the community.  Arnold Ventures funded Dr. Faye Taxman and Dr. JoAnn Lee to develop practice guidelines using a modified RAND/University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Appropriateness Method (RAM). Practice guidelines will be created in six areas: Violent or Gang-Involved, Mental Health Disorders, Young Adults, Intimate Partner Violence, Driving While Intoxicated, and Substance Use Disorders.  This workshop will present an overview of the practice guidelines based on research on effective tools to facilitate change and the guidance by chiefs and probation staff on how to use in their office. A panel of probation chiefs/staff will highlight what they learned in looking at the appropriateness statements. We will discuss how to put these practices into operations.

SESSION PRESENTERS

CJ Appleton
Doctoral Student, George Mason University


CJ Appleton is a doctoral student in Criminology, Law and Society and works at the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence at George Mason University.


JoAnn Lee
Professor, George Mason University

Ben Mackey
Graduate Student, George Mason University


Ben Mackey is a doctoral student in Criminology, Law and Society and a researcher at the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence at George Mason University.


Faye S. Taxman, PhD
University Professor, George Mason University


Faye S. Taxman Faye S. Taxman, Ph.D., is a University Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.She has active "laboratories" with numerous agencies including Virginia Department of Corrections, Alameda County Probation Department (CA), Hidalgo County Community Corrections Department (TX), North Carolina Departmen She is a health service criminologist. She is recognized for her work in the development of seamless systems-of-care models that link the criminal justice system with other health care and other service delivery systems and reengineering probation and parole supervision services. She has conducted experiments to examine different processes to improve treatment access and retention, to assess new models of probation supervision consistent with RNR frameworks, and to test new interventions. t of Corrections, and Delaware Department of Corrections. She developed the translational RNR Simulation Tool (www.gmuace.org/tools) to assist agencies to advance practice. Dr. Taxman has published more than 200 articles. She is the current Principal Investigator for the National Institute on Drug Abuse ‘s Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN). She is author of numerous books including Implementing Evidence-Based Community Corrections and Addiction Treatment (Springer, 2012 with Steven Belenko) and Handbook on Moving Corrections and Sentencing Forward: Building on the Record (with Pamela Lattimore and Beth Huebner, Routledge Press, 2020). She is co-Editor of Health & Justice. The American Society of Criminology's Division of Sentencing and Corrections has recognized her as Distinguished Scholar twice as well as the Rita Warren and Ted Palmer Differential Intervention Treatment award. She received the Joan McCord Award in 2017 from the Division of Experimental Criminology. In 2018, she was appointed a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology. In 2019, she received the lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Criminology's Division of Sentencing and Corrections. She has a Ph.D. from Rutgers University’s School of Criminal Justice. JoAnn Lee is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work. Lee’s research interests are to improve the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, public systems that intervene in the lives of marginalized individuals. Her research activities revol