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Kimberly Houser, is an Associate Professor of Law and Justice Studies and Director of the Cannabis Policy Center at Rowan University. She received her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Temple University in 2011. Her work has been published in scholarly journals such as Criminal Justice and Behavior, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, and International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. She co-authored the book, Rethinking the Reentry Paradigm: A Blueprint for Action with Dr. Melinda Schlager Arnold. Her areas of focus include co-occurring disorders, problem-solving courts, reentry, and corrections. She has worked extensively with criminal justice agencies and mental health courts. Her research has included a congressionally mandated evaluation of a federal mental health court and the impact of police athletic leagues in reducing violence in El Salvador. Evan Sorg, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches in the Master of Applied Criminology and Police Leadership program. A former New York City police officer, he received his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Temple University in 2015. Before joining Penn, he was a faculty member at Rowan University for 11 years. Sorg's research focuses on policing, crime and place, evidence-based policing, and the evaluation of criminal justice policies and practices. His work has appeared in leading journals including Criminology, Justice Quarterly, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. He has worked extensively with police and criminal justice agencies on research and evaluation projects and has taught police commanders and crime analysts in the United States and abroad. He is the coauthor, with Jerry Ratcliffe, of Foot Patrol: Rethinking the Cornerstone of Policing and a National Institute of Justice W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow for Research on Race and Crime.
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