AEC Fellows: Susan Turner

Susan Turner University of California, Irvine Email: sfturner@uci.edu Phone: (949) 824-6130 or 6943 Fax: (949) 824-3001 http://ucicorrections.seweb.uci.edu/

Susan Turner is a Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California's Irvine campus.  She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She has lead a variety of research projects, including studies on racial disparity, field experiments of private sector alternatives for serious juvenile offenders, work release, day fines and a 14-site evaluation of intensive supervision probation.  Dr. Turner's areas of expertise include the design and implementation of randomized field experiments and research collaborations with state and local justice agencies.  Dr. Turner has conducted a number of evaluations of drug courts, including a nationwide implementation study.  Her article, "A Decade of Drug Treatment Court Research" (2002) appeared in Substance Use and Misuse, summarizing over 10 years of drug court research conducted while she was at RAND Corporation.  Dr. Turner is a member of the American Society of Criminology, the American Probation and Parole Association,

 

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