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Association for Criminal Justice Research
(California)

Seventy-fourth Semi-Annual Meeting, October 20-21, 2011

Hotel Huntington Beach
7667 Center Avenue
Huntington Beach, CA 92647
(714) 891-0123

     PROGRAM CHAIR:  James Hess, Analyst, Center for Evidence-Based Corrections, UC Irvine
     CO-CHAIRS:              Shirley Hunt,Corrections Research Consultant
Elizabeth Siggins, Director, Div. Rehabilitative Programs, CDCR

Reshaping California Criminal Justice:
Realignment, Rehabilitation, and Research

Thursday, October 20, 2011

8:15 AM          Registration: Pacifica Ballroom

9:15 AM           President’s Welcome and Introduction: Elizabeth Siggins, Director,
                         Division of Rehabilitative Programs, CDCR

9:30 AM           Keynote Address:  Education-Based Incarceration
Sheriff Lee Baca, Los Angeles County Sheriff.

10:45 AM          Realignment: An Overview of the Most Significant Change to California’s Criminal                           Justice System in Decades

    CHAIR:         Lee Seale, Director, Division of Internal Oversight & Research,
                         California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

    PANEL:         Mark Delgado, Executive Director, Countywide Criminal Justice
                             Coordination Committee, County of Los Angeles
Chief David Maggard, Irvine Police Department;
                              President, California Police Chiefs Association
Honorable Stephen Manley, Judge, Superior Court,
                              Santa Clara County
Sharon Ishikawa, Assistant Project Scientist,
                              Center for Evidence-based Corrections, UC Irvine

12:30 Noon     Luncheon: Hotel Restaurant

1:15  PM         Careers in Criminal Justice (Informal Roundtable with Q&A)
                        Participants TBA 

2:00 PM          Realignment: What Will it Look Like Locally?  Several Different
                        Counties Discuss their Plans and their Challenges

    CHAIR:       Elizabeth Siggins, Director, Division of Rehabilitative Programs,
                              California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

    PANEL:       Mack Jenkins, Chief Probation Officer, San Diego County

Wendy Still, Chief Adult Probation Officer, City and County of San Francisco

Marjorie Rist, Chief Probation Officer, Yolo County

3:45 PM          Juvenile Justice:  Models for Serving At-Risk to High-Risk
                       California Youth

    CHAIR:       Shirley Hunt, Ph.D., Corrections Research Consultant

    PANEL:      Nazly Restrepo, MSW, Associate Director, Orange County Bar Foundation
                       A Comprehensive Prevention Model for Latina Youth At-risk for HIV Infection,
                       Delinquency and High-Risk Behaviors

Kimberly Bushard, Field Representative, Corrections Standards Authority,
                        California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
                         Juvenile Realignment:  Year One Outcomes for the Youthful Offender
                         Block Grant Program

Cory Woods, Statistical Analyst, Anesa Cronin,  Division Director I of Research, 
                         San Bernardino Probation Department
                         GATEWAY:  Charting Progress

Elizabeth Cauffman, Ph.D., Professor,
                         Dept. of Psychology and Social Behavior, UC Irvine
                         Pathways to Desistance: A Longitudinal Study of Serious Adolescent Offenders

5:15 PM          Adjourn to No-Host Reception:  Bar Lounge

6:30 PM          Association Business Meeting and Dinner:  Boardroom

Friday, October 21

8:30 AM          Late Registration:  Pacifica Ballroom

8:45 AM          President's Report: Elizabeth Siggins, Director, Division of Rehabilitative
                        Programs, CDCR

9:00 AM          Risk Assessment in Practice

    CHAIR:       Jim Hess, Statistician/Analyst,  Center for Evidence-based Corrections, UC Irvine

    PANEL:       Jim Hess, Statistician/Analyst, Center for Evidence-based Corrections, UC Irvine
Implementing the California Static Risk Assessment

                       Patrick J. Kennealy, Doctoral Candidate, Dept, of Psychology and Social
                             Behaviour, UC Irvine
                       Isaias R. Hernandez, Staff Research Associate, Risk Reduction Research
                             Laboratory, UC Irvine
                      CA-YASI Reliability: Rating youths’ risk of recidivism in California’s
Division of Juvenile Justice

10:00 AM          Realignment and Budget Issues: Some Local Law Enforcement Responses

    CHAIR:        Michael Stefanko, Consultant           

    PANEL:        Darrell Myrick, Assistant Chief of Police (ret), Special Assistant to the Chief of Police,
                         West Covina Police Department;
                             The Use of Evidence-based Practice in Allocating Diminished Funds"

                         Detective (pending), Rampart Division, Los Angeles Police Department;
                             "Proposed Responses to Expected Increases in Parolees in the MacArthur Park Area"

11:00  AM     Recidivism Reduction: Re-entry and Parole Models

CHAIR:     Frances Coles, Professor (Emerita), Dept. of Criminology, CSC San Bernardino

    PANEL:    Darlanne Hoctor Mulmat, Associate Research Analyst,
Cynthia Burke, Ph,D. Director, Applied Research Division, San Diego Association of Governments
Improving Reentry for Ex-Offenders in San Diego County:  Preliminary Outcomes

Joseph Tartar, Doctoral Candidate, Dept, of Psychology and Social Behavior,
                      UC Irvine
The California Parole Supervision and Reintegration Model (pending)

Sharon Ishikawa, Assistant Project Scientist, Center for Evidence-based Corrections,  
                      UC Irvine
               Evaluating the Implementation of CDCR’s Project Hope

12:00 Noon   Adjourn