Fredrick Butcher is Research Assistant Professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and a Senior Research Associate at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education. His research involves a number of projects around juvenile justice diversion and criminal justice policy analysis. Through these projects, Dr. Butcher seeks to help state and local criminal justice agencies to better serve justice-involved individuals by implementing policies based in evidence. Dr. Butcher’s work has been published in a number of criminal justice and social work journals.
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