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Education:
1970 Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Riverside.
1990 Master of Arts, Criminal Justice, California State University, San Bernardino.
Criminal Justice Background: 1970 - 2004 San Bernardino County Probation Department. Retired as Deputy Chief Probation Officer. Administrative responsibilities for all adult probation services and for all personnel services.
Criminal Justice Program Development
1977. Implemented an intensive supervision program for juvenile and adult probationers in the west valley of San Bernardino County.
1980. Developed ahome supervision program as an alternative to juvenile hall detention for minors awaiting court proceedings.
1985. Developed a community mediation center as an alternative to criminal prosecution and civil litigation of minor offenses.
1992. Developed the Youth Accountability Board concept in San Bernardino County as an alternative diversion program for juvenile first offender. This program is a California State Association of Counties Challenge Award winner.
1994. Supervised the development of Project Focus, a community based multi-agency, cooperative intervention for high-risk youth.
1996-97. Developed various demonstration programs for grant funding including a multidisciplinary program for early intervention with high risk youth. This program was funded by the California Board of Corrections and was implemented in 1997.
Professional Specialties:
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Community-Based Corrections policy and programs
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Juvenile Justice
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Diversion and Mediation
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Corrections Administration and Organization |
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Probation and Parole Officer perceptions of their careers |
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Restorative and Community Justice |
Selected Publications:
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1987. Developed the methodology and supervised data collection for the evaluation of an experimental juvenile institution known as the Regional Youth Education Facility. Findings published by the California Youth Authority, February 1989.
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1989. "Evaluation Pays Off", California Correctional News. May, 1989. California Probation Parole and Correctional Association.
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1990. A chapter in Intensive Interventions with High-Risk Youths, with Norman Skonovd, edited by Troy Armstrong. Criminal Justice Press.
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1991. Study of classification errors and its effect on probation case management. Paper presented at Association for Criminal Justice Research (CA) meeting April 1991.
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1991. Study of the relabeling of status offenders in the population of San Bernardino County wards. Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meeting November 1991. |
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1992. "Examining the Non-serious Juvenile Offender in Out-of-home Placement", The Presley Institute Bulletin with Marilyn McShane. Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1992. |
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1993. Community Corrections, a textbook for courses on probation and parole theory and practices, with Marilyn McShane. MacMillan Publishing. |
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1994. Community Corrections Advisory Boards and Commissions: Decision Makers or Decoration, with Marilyn McShane. Presented to the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, March 1994. |
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1994. "Communities that Correct: Diversion, Mediation and Dispute Resolution", with Marilyn McShane, a chapter for a text edited by Albert Roberts, Director, Administration of Justice, Rutgers University. |
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1995. "Community Corrections Advisory Boards and Commissions: Decision Makers or Decoration", with Marilyn McShane, Spring 1995 Public Administration Quarterly. |
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1996. "Drug Treatment" in the Encyclopedia of American Prisons. Marilyn McShane and Frank Williams, Garland. |
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2001. "Juvenile Justice Community Action Boards" in Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice. Marilyn McShane and Frank Williams, Sage. |
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2007. "Juvenile Probation: Effective Supervision or Babysitting" in Youth Violence and Delinquency Interventions. Marilyn McShane and Frank Williams. Praeger. |
Affiliations,
Associations, Consultations:
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1977-1997 California Probation Parole and Correctional Association, (delegate, legislative committee, chapter chair, regional vice president, 1988 state conference chairperson.
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1982-1984 Foundation for Continuing Education in Corrections, (Executive Board).
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1989-1997 Criminal Justice Advisory Board, California State University, San Bernardino (Chair).
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1992-1997 Alumni Advisory Board, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, California State University, San Bernardino. |
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2007-2011 San Bernardino County Juvenile Justice, Delinquency Prevention Commission. |
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