Advancing Corrections Journal - Edition #11 - Envisioning Corrections in 2030 - Where Should the Evidence Take Us (ACJ11-A007)

Article 7: Designing Effective Pre-Release Programs-Challenges and Pathways Towards Successful Reintegration (ACJ11-A007)

Authors

Dr. E. Rely Vîlcică

Associate Professor

Dr. Vîlcică is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. Prior to joining Temple, she served as a Judge at the Court of the Fourth District of Bucharest, Romania. Adopting a systemic perspective, her interests center on issues of discretionary justice, especially punishment and liberty decisions, criminal justice policy and interventions, and comparative justice. Specifically, her research addresses the following areas: processing and adjudication in criminal courts, including preventive detention; parole (conditional release) and correctional issues; and comparative justice policy, in particular, contrasting inquisitorial and adversarial justice practices. Most recently, she has been involved in a large-scale investigation of the correction and parole processes in Pennsylvania, US, with a special focus on the handling of violent offenders. Her research has been published in journals such as Criminal Justice and Behavior, Criminology, European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, Journal of Criminal Justice, and Revista de Criminologie, Criminalistică şi Penologie (journal of the Romanian Society of Criminology and Criminalistics).

Steven Belenko

Professor

Steven Belenko, Ph.D. is Professor in the Temple University Department of Criminal Justice, in Philadelphia, PA. With funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, U.S. Department of Justice, and various foundations, Dr. Belenko’s research focuses on the integration of behavioral health interventions in the adult and juvenile correctional systems; the impact of substance abuse, HIV, and other health problems on adult and juvenile justice participants; and developing and testing organizational change strategies to improve implementation of evidence-based drug treatment and HIV health services in correctional and other settings. He has published more than 100 journal articles and book chapters, and is the author of four books, including one on the implementation of drug treatment in community corrections. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology.

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