Change in the Correctional Field: Evidence-Based Strategies That Include Science Translation

ICPA 2025 Presentation by Faye Taxman (PID140)

Author

Professor Faye Taxman

University Professor, George Mason, United States

Faye S. Taxman, Ph.D., is a University Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. She is a health service criminologist. She is recognized for her work in the development of seamless systems-of-care models that link the criminal justice system with other health care and other service delivery systems and reengineering probation and parole supervision services. She has conducted experiments to examine different processes to improve treatment access and retention, to assess new models of probation supervision consistent with RNR frameworks, and to test new interventions. She developed the translational RNR Simulation Tool (www.gmuace.org/tools) to assist agencies to advance practice. Dr. Taxman has published more than 250 articles. She is the current Principal Investigator for the National Institute on Drug Abuse ‘s Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN). She is co-editor of The Routledge Handbook on Global Community Corrections (2024). The American Society of Criminology's Division of Sentencing and Corrections has recognized her as Distinguished Scholar twice.

She received the Joan McCord Award in 2017 from the Division of Experimental Criminology. In 2018, she was appointed a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and in 2019, she received the lifetime achievement award. In 2023, she won the August Vollmer Award from the American Society of Criminology. The Society for Implementation Research Collaboration (SIRC) in 2022 identified Dr. Taxman and her team for their work on collaborative and engaged research with the Mission Award. She has a Ph.D. from Rutgers University’s School of Criminal Justice.

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