Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire

Schedule Change: The conference will be held July 9 - July 11

PLEASE NOTE: ALL PRESENTERS ARE REQUIRED TO PAY THE REGISTRATION FEE

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International Family Violence and Child Victimization Research Conference

FAMILY RESEARCH LABORATORY & CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN RESEARCH CENTER

2006 Featured Speakers

Mark Chaffin, Ph.D.

Mark Chaffin is a Psychologist, Professor of Pediatrics and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He serves as Director of Research for the Section of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics and at the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect at OUHSC. His areas of research interest include child maltreatment, delinquency, intervention outcome research and implementation of evidence-based models in public service systems.

Presentation Topic: Ten-Year Follow-Up of a Randomized Trial for Children with Sexual Behavior Problems

Theodore P. Cross, Ph.D.

Theodore P. Cross is a Senior Research Psychologist for RTI International on the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being and was the director of the Multi-Site Evaluation of Children’s Advocacy Centers at the University of New Hampshire. He has 20 years of research experience and numerous publications on societal interventions on behalf of troubled and victimized children. His research interests include investigation and prosecution of child abuse, outcomes of foster care, program evaluation of children’s services, and polygraph testing to assess child abuse. For many years he taught graduate-level statistics and was a practicing child clinical psychologist.

Presentation Topic: The National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being: Resource and Opportunity for Research, Policy and Practice

Lynette Feder, Ph.D.

Lynette Feder is an Associate Professor at Portland State University. She has worked with the police, courts, corrections, social service agencies and country health departments conducting research on a wide variety of subject matters including domestic violence, juvenile delinquency, mentally disturbed offenders, discretion and discrimination in the criminal justice system, and delinquency prevention programs. Her focus has been on conducting research examining the effectiveness of criminal justice and treatment interventions that is methodologically rigorous so as to address both policy questions ("evidence-based policy") as well as underlying theoretical issues.

Dr. Feder has engaged in experimental research to test the effectiveness of court-mandated counseling for men convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence ( The Broward Experiment) and is presently implementing and experimentally testing an intimate partner violence prevention program for pregnant women at risk of domestic violence being funded through CDC (with Dr. Jacqueline Campbell). She has also served as a guest editor for a special issue on domestic violence (Women and Criminal Justice ) and served as a co-editor (with Dr. Robert Boruch) for a special issue on the need for experimental research to guide evidence-based decision-making in criminal justice.

Presentation Topic: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Court-Mandated Batterer Intervention Programs: Can Courts Affect Abusers’ Behavior?

David Finkelhor, Ph.D.

David Finkelhor is Director of Crimes against Children Research Center, Co-Director of the Family Research Laboratory and Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire. He has been studying the problems of child victimization, child maltreatment and family violence since 1977. He is well known for his conceptual and empirical work on the problem of child sexual abuse, reflected in publications such as Sourcebook on Child Sexual Abuse (Sage, 1986) and Nursery Crimes (Sage, 1988). He has also written about child homicide, missing and abducted children, children exposed to domestic and peer violence and other forms of family violence. In his recent work, he has tried to unify and integrate knowledge about all the diverse forms of child victimization in a field he has termed Developmental Victimology. He is editor and author of 11 books and over 150 journal articles and book chapters. He has received grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the US Department of Justice, and a variety of other sources. In 1994, he was given the Distinguished Child Abuse Professional Award by the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and in 2004 he was given the Significant Achievement Award from the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers.

Presentation Topic: Update about Declines in Child Victimization and Abuse

Lawrence W. Sherman, Ph.D.

Lawrence W. Sherman is the Director of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology. He was appointed the University of Pennsylvania's first Professor of Criminology in 2003, with a five-year term as Chair of the Department of Criminology, and has been the Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations in the Department of Sociology since 2000. He stepped down as Director of the Fels Institute of Government after six years' service on June 30, 2005, in order to concentrate on Penn Criminology. He continues to serve as President of the International Society of Criminology, which will hold its 14th World Congress at Penn in August of 2005 (see www.worldcriminology2005.org), as well as President of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. The American Society of Criminology elected Sherman a Fellow in 1994, winner of the Edwin H. Sutherland Award in 1999, and President for 2001-2002.

Since beginning his career as a civilian research analyst in the New York City Police Department as an Alfred P. Sloan Urban Fellow in 1971, he has collaborated with over 30 police agencies around the world, evaluating policies designed to prevent crime, reduce domestic violence, get illegal guns off the streets, prevent police corruption, close down crack houses, and help victims of crime.

The author or co-author of four books and hundreds of articles, he has received awards for distinguished scholarship from the American Society of Criminology, the American Sociological Association, and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. His research has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Blair Government in Great Britain as the basis for its $400 million crime prevention program. He has frequently testified before the U.S. Congress, and has advised national governments in ten other countries. He is currently collaborating with the Australian Federal Police on an evaluation of victim-centered restorative justice programs for juvenile violence and crime, and serves as President of the International Society of Criminology in Paris.

His service in government includes staff appointments with Mayor John Lindsay in New York, Mayor Stephen Goldsmith in Indianapolis, and a decade of policy research with Mayor Donald Fraser and Police Chief Anthony V. Bouza in Minneapolis. He has advised Police Commissioner John Timoney in Philadelphia on the reliability of crime reporting, Fortune 500 corporations on protecting customers and employees against crime. His publications include the 1997 Congressionally-mandated report to Attorney General Janet Reno, Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising, which he co-authored with a team of distinguished University of Maryland criminologists. With support of the National Institute of Justice, he is also author of Policing Domestic Violence: Experiments and Dilemmas, as well as articles identifying the "hot spots of crime" phenomenon and effectiveness of concentrating police patrols in small street corner zones where crime is heavily concentrated. His research on gun violence in Kansas City, also published by NIJ, found a 50% reduction in gun crime in response to a concentrated police patrol strategy. A magna cum laude graduate of Denison University, he holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago, the Diploma in Criminology from Cambridge University, and the Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University. He holds appointments as adjunct professor of law at the Australian National University and as Jerry Lee Research Professor of Criminology at the University of Maryland. He previously served as Distinguished University Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, as Seth Boyden Distinguished Visiting Professor at Rutgers University, and as assistant and associate professor of criminal justice at the State University of New York at Albany.

Presentation Topic: Criminology and the Human Condition: Unpacking the Power of the Few