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Christy Visher
CHRISTY A. VISHER (Ph.D. in Sociology, Indiana University) is Co-Director of the CDAS (Newark Office) and Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice. Prior to joining the University of Delaware, she was Principal Research Associate with the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. From 1993 to 2000, she was Science Advisor to the Director of the National Institute of Justice, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Justice. Her research interests focus on communities and crime, substance use, criminal careers, the role of social factors in criminal desistance, and the evaluation of strategies for crime control and prevention. She has published widely on these and other topics in numerous social science journals, and co-edited Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America, with Jeremy Travis.
