Help Us, Help Them: Understanding correctional staff responses to organizational policies within institutional and community supervision

CRS 2025 Presentation by Dr Danielle Rudes, Dr Faye Taxman and Dr Rose Ricciardelli (PID036)

Authors

Rosemary Ricciardelli

Research Chair, Safety, Security, and Wellness Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Dr. Rosemary Ricciardelli is Professor (PhD) in the School of Maritime Studies and Research Chair in Safety, Security, and Wellness, at Memorial University’s Fisheries and Marine Institute. The winner of the 2023 International Corrections and Prison Association’s Research Excellence Award and the Canadian Sociological Association’s Angus Reid Applied Researcher Award, Ricciardelli was also elected to the Royal Society of Canada. Her research centers on evolving understandings of gender, vulnerabilities, risk, and experiences and issues within different facets of the criminal justice system and among mariners. She has published 16 books, 270+ journal articles and 65+ chapters all in the areas of police, firefighting, correctional workers, public safety communicators, and criminalized persons, and wellness – broadly defined. As a sex and gender researcher, her interests lay in the social health, identity construction, and lived experiences of individuals. She leads a longitudinal study on the mental health and well-being experiences of correctional officers employed by Correctional Services Canada.

Danielle Rudes

Professor, Sam Houston State University, United States

Danielle S. Rudes is a Professor of Criminal Justice & Criminology at Sam Houston State University in Texas. She is also Deputy Director of the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence (ACE!). She is a Fellow with the Bureau of Justice Assistance focusing on Enhancing Correctional Spaces and Cultures. Dr. Rudes is an expert qualitative researcher with over 20 years of experience working with U.S. correctional agencies including prisons, jails, probation, parole, and problem-solving courts. She is recognized for her work examining how social control organizations understand, negotiate, and at times, resist change. Dr. Rudes has a broad grant portfolio with funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Justice. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Substance Use & Addiction Treatment and she is on the editorial boards of several other journals. Her book, Surviving Solitary: Living and Working in Restricted Housing Units (Stanford University Press, 2022), won the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

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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