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Patricia Van Voorhis, Ph.D.

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Professor Van Voorhis is a 1983 PhD in criminal justice from SUNY-Albany. She served on the faculty of the Department of Criminology at Indiana State University prior to assuming her current position at UC. She is a past deputy editor of Justice Quarterly, a past president of the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association, and currently serves as co-founder and Vice President for the Division of Sentencing and Corrections for the American Society of Criminology. She has published in leading criminal justice journals such as Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Criminal Justice and Behavior, and Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. She is the author of Psychological Classification of the Adult, Male, Prison Inmate, and co-author of Correctional Rehabilitation and Counseling. She has directed several state and federally-funded research projects pertaining to prison classification, gender-responsive classification and correctional treatment in both community and institutional settings.

 

Ashley L. Bauman, M.S.

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Ashley Bauman received her M.S. in Criminal Justice in 2005 from the University of Cincinnati. She currently serves the Project Manager on the Women's Risk Needs Assessment Project. She has served as the book review editor for the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice and as an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati and the College of Mount St. Joseph. Her research interests include gender-responsive assessments and programming, gendered pathways to crime, correctional rehabilitation, the relationship between motherhood and criminality, and organizational and policy issues in criminal justice agencies.

 

Krista Gehring, M.S.

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Krista Gehring received her Master’s of Science from Northeastern University in Boston in 2003. After receiving her master’s degree, she taught at Northeastern University, the University of Northern Colorado, and Metropolitan State College of Denver as an adjunct professor. Ms. Gehring entered into the doctoral program at the University of Cincinnati in 2006 and was offered a teaching assistantship. Her research interests include gender-responsive programming, risk and need factors, and assessments; gendered pathways to crime; correctional rehabilitation; and the connection between relationship dysfunction and criminality for women offenders.   

 

Valerie Bell, M.S.

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Valerie Bell received her Master of Arts in criminal justice administration from Boise State University in 2005. She received a position as a Guest Lecturer at Boise State University in the Criminal Justice Department in 2005 to 2006. Valerie is currently a doctoral student at the University of Cincinnati studying criminal justice and maintains a Graduate Assistant position. She is a past managing editor of the Journal of Criminal Justice Education. She has co-authored articles published in Criminal Justice Studies, Criminal Justice Policy Review, and Justice Quarterly. Her research interests include gender responsive classification, assessment, and U.S. Supreme Court law.

 

Emily Wright, Ph.D.

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Dr. Wright earned her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati in 2008, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina.  Her research interests involve intimate partner violence and women offenders.  She is currently examining contextual effects on community levels of intimate partner violence, and is exploring the measurement of IPV.  Dr. Wright has been involved in national classification projects examining gender-responsive risk and need factors among women offenders.  She continues to conduct research regarding the theoretical and policy implications of such factors.

 

Emily Salisbury, Ph.D.

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Emily J. Salisbury, Ph.D. graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 2007 and is now an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Portland State University.  As a doctoral student, she was Project Manager of two research sites involved in the construction and validation of the gender-responsive risk/needs assessment instruments developed in conjunction with the National Institute of Corrections.  Her areas of interest and research include gendered pathways of offending behavior, risk/needs assessment and classification, and correctional rehabilitation.