AEC Fellows: Adele Harrell

Adele Harrell Consultant Email: adeleharrell@gmail.com

Dr. Harrell focuses on criminal justice responses to drug abuse and domestic violence. She was founding director of the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center. Her large scale experimental and quasi-experimental studies include evaluations of the Children at Risk, a community-based drug prevention program, the Breaking the Cycle Demonstration, a system-wide intervention for drug involved felony defendants, the DC Superior Court’s Drug Intervention Program, the Brooklyn Treatment Court, drug court services for female offenders, and Evaluation of the Judicial Oversight Demonstration, a multi-site longitudinal evaluation of court and community services to reduce intimate partner violence. She is currently a member of the District of Columbia Sentencing Commission and member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel assessing federal funding of justice research.

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