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CDCPS Staff
Troy L. Armstrong, Ph.D.
Dr. Armstrong, who is a Professor of Anthropology and Director
of the Center for Delinquency and Crime Policy Studies at California
State University in Sacramento, received his doctorate from Boston
University in 1980. Along with Dr. David Altschuler, he is currently
serving as Co-Principal Investigator on the OJJDP-funded "Intensive
Juvenile Aftercare Project." This project has recently completed
a five-year test of the IAP model in pilot programs at sites in
three states: Colorado, Nevada, and Virginia. Dr. Armstrong is
also currently serving as Principal Investigator on two other juvenile
justice research and evaluation projects: 1) the recently OJJDP-funded
project, "Action Research on Youth Gangs in Indian Country,
" and 2) the California Department of Education-funded project,
"Statewide Evaluation of the High Risk Youth Education and
Public Safety Program." Throughout his career he has focused
upon applied research and has endeavored largely to link theory
to practice and explored for purposes of program design and development
a variety of issues related to community-based interventions with
severely delinquent youth. Dr. Armstrong has published widely on
a number of programming issues including serious and violent offenders,
restitution and community service, the balanced approach to juvenile
justice intervention, school crime, intensive probation, and community-based
alternatives to formal justice system processing. Among his recent
publications are "OJJDP Juvenile Justice Bulletin: Reintegration,
Supervised Release, and Intensive Aftercare" and a book chapter,
"Recent Developments in Juvenile Aftercare: Assessment, Findings,
and Promising Programs," in Juvenile Justice: Policies, Programs,
and Services (Nelson-Hall), both co-authored with Dr. David Altschuler.
Dr. David M. Altschuler
Dr. Altschuler is Principal Research Scientist at The Johns Hopkins
Institute for Policy Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor in
the Sociology department. Dr. Altschuler has a doctorate in social
service administration and a master's degree in urban studies from
the University of Chicago. His work focuses on juvenile crime and
justice system sanctioning, juvenile aftercare and parole, privatization
in juvenile corrections and crime among inner-city youth. Dr. Altschuler
is Project Director and Co-Principal Investigator on the Intensive
Aftercare Project. He has also been providing technical assistance
on transition and aftercare to other OJJDP-funded juvenile initiatives,
as well as state and local agencies. He directed a statewide workload
study of the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services. Additionally,
he was part of a three person federal research team that studied
the federal government's juvenile justice and delinquency prevention
formula grant program. Dr. Altschuler also conducted research on
drug involvement and crime among a sample of inner-city teenage
males in Washington D.C., and the cost-effectiveness of private
and public secure treatment programs for youth in Massachusetts.
He travels extensively, consulting with public and private juvenile
justice officials, state legislators, direct service practitioners
and researchers.
Barbara Mendenhall
Ms. Barbara Mendenhall is currently Assistant Director for the
Center for Delinquency and Crime Policy Studies at California State
University, Sacramento. She is responsible for day-to-day management
of the Center and participates as a research associate with the
Center's projects, which include evaluation of the California Department
of Education's statewide "High Risk Youth Education and Public
Safety Program," the Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) funded "Intensive
Juvenile Aftercare Projects," and "Action Research on
Youth Gangs in Indian Country." She recently completed work
as a consultant with the Judicial Branch of the Navajo Nation on
the OJJDP-funded "Field Initiated Gang Research: Finding and
Knowing the Gang Naye'e' in the Navajo Nation." She was previously
research assistant with Dr. Troy Armstrong for the National Indian
Justice Center, OJJDP-funded "Native American Community-Based
Alternatives for Adjudicated Youth." Ms. Mendenhall was an
administrative analyst with the City of Sacramento where she was
office-manager for a division and trained public works department
staff on customer service skills. She has organized a number of
academic and other conferences. Ms. Mendenhall received a first
place student paper award from the Western Society of Criminology
in February 2000, is a member of Lambda Alpha, the anthropology
honors society, and graduated magna cum laude with her bachelor's
and master's degrees. She has presented numerous papers on intensive
juvenile aftercare, education/probation collaboration for high
risk youth, and Native American gangs at meetings of national and
regional criminology and social science organizations. Ms. Mendenhall
received a B.A. in anthropology and an M.A. in applied anthropology
from California State University, Sacramento.
Randy S. Thomas
Randy has twenty-two years of experience in the juvenile justice
system. Early in his career he worked as a direct childcare worker
in an adolescent group home and then became a juvenile court officer
in Jefferson City, MO. As a juvenile court officer Randy was responsible
for a caseload of juvenile probationers, supervising a juvenile
detention facility, and investigating child abuse and neglect.
Randy subsequently worked for the Missouri Juvenile Justice Association
before serving ten years as Missouri’s Juvenile Justice Specialist
for the Department of Public Safety. As the Juvenile Justice Specialist,
Randy was responsible for managing Missouri’s implementation
of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act.
Randy has also served as the project director of a national training
and technical assistance project for the U.S. Department of Justice,
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).
Additionally, he has been providing direct technical assistance
on a variety of juvenile justice issues to hundreds of local jurisdictions
around the Country and the U.S. Territories for the past six years.
Randy has been associated with the Intensive Aftercare Project
(IAP) for the much of this time and joined the project as the training
and technical assistance coordinator in 2000.
Randy has extensive experience in juvenile justice planning, community
assessment, delinquency prevention, juvenile detention services
and variety of special issues such as the disproportionate confinement
of minority youth. In addition to authoring numerous reports for
state and local agencies and organizations, Randy is the co-author
of:
- Community Planning Manual: The Comprehensive Strategy for Serious,
Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders (Community Research Associates,
1999)
- Standards for the Operation of Juvenile Detention (Missouri, 1995)
- Protocol for the Treatment of Juvenile Sexual Offenders in Missouri
(1995)
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