| | Newark, DE 19716 | <div class="ExternalClass00A849EF16A047E3B0F24C846CB1C4F0"><p><strong></strong>Christy Visher (Ph.D. in Sociology, Indiana
University) is Director of CDHS and Professor of Sociology and Criminal
Justice. She is Principal Investigator of the five-year, NIDA-funded
collaborative, Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS).
CJ-DATS is studying organizational strategies for improving the
implementation of evidence-based practices for substance-abusing
offenders as they leave prison and return to the community. Prior to
joining the University of Delaware, she was Principal Research Associate
with the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute in Washington,
D.C. At the Urban Institute, she directed <em>Returning Home</em>, a
longitudinal study of men and women released from prison in four states,
and was co-Principal Investigator of the Multi-Site Evaluation of the
Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative. From 1993 to 2000, she
was Science Advisor to the Director of the National Institute of
Justice, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Justice. Her
research interests focus on communities and crime, substance use,
criminal careers, the role of social factors in criminal desistance, and
the evaluation of strategies for crime control and prevention. She has
published widely on these and other topics in numerous social science
journals, and co-edited Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America, with
Jeremy Travis.</p></div> | | | | | | | | | | | | visher@udel.edu | /Documents%20Bios%20CVs/Christy-Visher-CV-2021.pdf | Visher, Christy | | 302-831-6107 | <img alt="" src="/Images%20Bios/Headshots_Christy%20Visher1%20-%20Cropped.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Director | Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice | | | |
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