Jeffrey A. Butts
Jeffrey A. Butts (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is director of the Research and Evaluation Center '[1] at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and an adjunct member of the doctoral faculty in the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is a specialist inthe problems of youth in the justice system.
Career[edit]
Previously, he was a research fellow with Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, director of the Program on Youth Justice at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., and senior research associate at the National Center for Juvenile Justice' in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He began his career in Oregon, first as a juvenile court drug and alcohol counselor in Eugene and then as a public child welfare caseworker in Portland.
He earned the Ph.D. at the Rackham Graduate School of the University of Michigan and worked on projects at the Institute for Social Research and the Center for the Study of Youth Policy. In 2015, United States Attorney General Eric Holder appointed him to the Science Advisory Board for the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice [2]. From 2010 to 2012, he was a member of the committee on assessing juvenile justice reform for the National Research Council of the National Academies [3]
Publications[edit]
Books[edit]
- Poe-Yamagata E, Butts JA. Female offenders in the juvenile justice system: Statistics summary. DIANE Publishing; 1996.
- Barton WH, Butts JA. Building on strength: Positive youth development in juvenile justice programs. Chicago, IL: Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago; 2008.
most-cited peer-reviewed articles[edit]
- Butts JA, Roman CG, Bostwick L, Porter JR. Cure violence: a public health model to reduce gun violence. Annual review of public health. 2015 Mar 18;36:39-53. (Cited 202 times, according to Google Scholar [4] )
- Butts, J.A. and Mears, D.P., 2001. Reviving juvenile justice in a get-tough era. Youth & Society, 33(2), pp.169-198. (Cited 175 times, according to Google Scholar. [4])
- Barton WH, Butts JA. Viable options: Intensive supervision programs for juvenile delinquents. Crime & Delinquency. 1990 Apr;36(2):238-56. (Cited 134 times, according to Google Scholar. [4])
His research findings and policy views have been covered by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today, the Economist, the Guardian, Le Monde, Christian Science Monitor, BusinessWeek, US News & World Report, Time Magazine, CNN, CBS News, and National Public Radio among others. Jeff grew up in Springfield, Ohio.
- ↑ [1] John Jay Research and Evaluation Center
- ↑ [2] 'Science Advisory Board]
- ↑ [http://sites.nationalacademies.org/dbasse/claj/reforming_juvenile_justice/?_ga=2.67788884.472901062.1537328166-1449703367.1537328166 National Research Council of the National Academies .
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 [3] Google Scholar Author page, Accessed Sept. 7, 2021
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