Jeff Mellow John Jay College of Criminal Justice Department of Criminal Justice 445 West 59Th Street, Rm 2122N New York, NY 10019 212-237-8035 [email protected]
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Mellow/ May 2015 Curriculum Vitae Jeff Mellow John Jay College of Criminal Justice Department of Criminal Justice 445 West 59th Street, Rm 2122N New York, NY 10019 212-237-8035 [email protected] Research Interests: Issues in correctional policy and practice, community corrections, reentry, evaluation of criminal justice programs, evidence based practices in prisons and jails ______________________________________________________________________________ Professional Experience 2010-present Professor Department of Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York (CUNY) 2006-present Faculty Member Program of Doctoral Studies in Criminal Justice, The Graduate Center, CUNY M.A. Program in Criminal Justice, John Jay College 2010-2013 Deputy Executive Officer Program of Doctoral Studies in Criminal Justice, The Graduate Center, CUNY 2011-2012 Faculty Research Fellow Research and Evaluation Center, John Jay College, CUNY 2009-2010 Associate Professor Department of Criminal Justice, John Jay College, CUNY 2007-2010 Senior Research Associate Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation Center, John Jay College, CUNY Prisoner Reentry Institute, John Jay College, CUNY 2005-2009 Associate Professor Department of Law, Police Science & Criminal Justice Administration, John Jay College, CUNY 2004-2005 Associate Professor Department of Sociology, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ. 1 J. Mellow/ May 2015 1998-2004 Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ. 1998-1999 Teaching Associate The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, State University of New York, Albany, NY. 1991-1992 News Producer Law Enforcement Training Network (LETN), Dallas, TX. Academic Degrees 2001 Ph.D., Criminal Justice University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany NY. 1994 M.A., Criminal Justice University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany NY. 1989 B.A., International Studies American University, Washington, DC. Publications ‘*’ student author (designates research conducted while a student) Refereed journal articles Peterson, Bryce*, Adam Fera* and Jeff Mellow. (In press). Escapes from Correctional Custody: A New Examination of an Old Phenomenon. The Prison Journal. Sung, Hung-En, Jeff Mellow, Robert Vaughan & Ernie Drucker. (In press). Building Infrastructure and Capacity for Correctional Health Research in a College of Criminal Justice: Lessons and Promises. The Prison Journal. Cantora, Andrea, Jeff Mellow and Melinda Schlager. (In press). Social Relationships and Group Dynamics inside a Community Correction Facility for Women. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. Chintakrindi, Sriram*, Hung-En Sung, Jeff Mellow and Jeremy Porter. (In press). Empirical Test of Low Self-Control Theory Using Post-Treatment Substance Use and Recidivism Outcomes of Parolees Participating in an Experimental Intervention. Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society. Yu, Violet, Hung-En Sung and Jeff Mellow. (2015). Self-perceived Health Improvements among Prison Inmates. Journal of Correctional Health Care, 21, 59-69. 2 J. Mellow/ May 2015 Cantora, Andrea*, Jeff Mellow and Melinda Schlager. (2014). What about Nonprogrammatic Factors? Women’s Perceptions of Staff and Resident Relationships in a Community Corrections Setting. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 53, 35-56. Sung-Suk Yu, Hung-En Sung, Jeff Mellow and Amy Shlosberg*. (2014). Prevalence and Correlates of Suicidal Ideation among Parolees. Psychiatric Services, 65, 381-386. Williams, Brie, Marc Stern, Jeff Mellow, Meredith Safer and Robert Greifinger. (2012). Aging in Correctional Custody: Setting a Policy Agenda for Older Prisoner Health Care. American Journal of Public Health, 102, 1475-1481. White, Michael D., Jessica Saunders*, Christopher Fisher* and Jeff Mellow. (2012). Exploring Inmate Reentry in a Local Jail Setting: Implications for Outreach, Service Use, and Recidivism. Crime and Delinquency, 58, 124-146. Sung, Hung-En and Jeff Mellow. (2011). Health and Justice in the 21st Century: Criminalization of Disease, Medicalization of Justice and Beyond. Corrections Compendium, 36, 11-16. White, Michael D., Jeff Mellow, Kristin Englander*, and Marc Ruffinego*. (2011). Halfway Back: An Alternative to Revocation for Technical Parole Violators. Criminal Justice Policy Review, 22, 140-166. Sung, Hung-En, Annette M. Mahoney, and Jeff Mellow. (2011). Substance Abuse Treatment Gap among Parolees: Prevalence, Correlates, and Barriers. Criminal Justice Review, 36, 40-57. Stern, Marc F., Robert B. Greifinger, and Jeff Mellow. (2010). Patient Safety: Moving the Bar in Prison Health Care Standards. American Journal of Public Health, 100, 2103-2110. Online version available at: www.patientsafetyincorrectionalsettings.com Sung, Hung-En, Mellow, Jeff, & Mahoney, Annette M. (2010). Jail Inmates with Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Problems: Correlates and Service Needs. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. 49, 126-145. Hoge, Steven K., Robert B. Greifinger, Thomas Lundquist and Jeff Mellow. (2009). Mental Health Performance Measurement in Corrections. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 53, 634-647. Baillargeon, Jacques, Brie A. Williams, Jeff Mellow, Amy Jo Harzke, Steven K. Hoge, and Robert Greifinger. (2009). Parole Revocation among Prison Inmates with Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders. Psychiatric Services. 60, 1516-1521. Williams, Brie, Karla Lindquist, Terry Hill, Jacques Baillargeon, Jeff Mellow, Robert Greifinger, and Louise C. Walter. (2009). Caregiving Behind Bars: Correctional Officer Reports of Disability among Geriatric Prisoners. Journal of the American Geriatrics 3 J. Mellow/ May 2015 Society. 57, 1286-1292. Mellow, Jeff, Melinda Schlager and Joel Caplan*. (2008). Using GIS to Evaluate Post-Release Prisoner Services in Newark, NJ. Journal of Criminal Justice. 36, 416-425. Mellow, Jeff and Johnna Christian. Transitioning Offenders to the Community: A Content Analysis of Reentry Guides. (2008). Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. 47, 4, 339-355. Naday, Alexandra*, Josh Freilich and Jeff Mellow. (2008). The Elusive Data on Supermax Confinement. The Prison Journal. 88, 1, 69-93. Mellow, Jeff and Robert Greifinger. The Evolving Standard of Decency: Post-Release Planning? (2008). Journal of Correctional Health Care. 14, 1, 21-30. Mellow, Jeff and Robert Greifinger. (2007). Successful Reentry: The Perspective of Private Correction Health Care Providers, Journal of Urban Health. 84, 85-98. Abridge version reprinted in CorrDocs (2008), the newsletter of the Society of Correctional Physicians, 11, 1, 10. Christian, Johnna, Jeff Mellow and Shenique Thomas*. (2006). Social and Economic Implications of Family Connections to Prisoners. Journal of Criminal Justice. 34, 443-452. Mellow, Jeff and James N. Dickinson. (2006).The Role of Prerelease Handbooks for Prisoner Reentry. Federal Probation, 70, 1, 70-76. Mellow, Jeff and Lenny Ward. (2003). Community Strategies for Successful Reentry. Perspectives, 27, 4: 26-28. Book Chapter Mellow, Jeff. (2007).Written Health Informational Needs for Reentry. In Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities. Edited by Robert Greifinger, NY: Springer Press. Monographs Mellow, Jeff, Gary Christensen, Kevin Warwick and Janeen Buck Willison. (2010). Transition from Jail to Community Online Learning Toolkit. Washington: National Institute of Corrections. 238 pages. Revised 2014. Available at: http://nicic.gov/tjctoolkit2 Mellow, Jeff, Debbie Mukamal, Stefan LoBuglio, Amy Solomon and Jenny Osborne. (2008). The Jail Administrator’s Toolkit for Reentry. Washington: Bureau of Justice Assistance. Solomon, Amy, Jenny Osborne, Stefan LoBuglio, Jeff Mellow and Debbie Mukamal. (2008). 4 J. Mellow/ May 2015 Life After Lockup: Improving Reentry from Jail to the Community. Washington: Bureau of Justice Assistance. Mellow, Jeff, Steven K. Hoge, Josh Lee, Mangai Natarajan, Sung-suk Violet Yu*, Robert Greifinger, and Gary Belkin. (2008). Mapping the Innovation in Correctional Health Care Service Delivery in New York City. NY: John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Technical Reports Cory Feldman*, Mellow, Jeff, and Robert E. Worden. (2011). Borough of Manhattan Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) II Bulletin, Volume 1, Number 2, NY: John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Mellow, Jeff, Cory Feldman* and Robert E. Worden. (2010). Borough of Manhattan Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) II Bulletin, Volume 1, Number 1, NY: John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Mellow, Jeff, Mike White, Nancy Jacobs, and Gipsy Escobar*. (2009). The Community Oriented Correctional Health Service Model: Implementation in the District of Columbia Department of Corrections. NY: Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation Center, John Jay College. Other Publications Peterson, Bryce* and Jeff Mellow. (In press). Escapes from Prison. In The Encyclopedia of Corrections, edited by Kent Kerley, Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford. Mellow, Jeff. (2008). Guest Editorial: The Trend is Your Friend: Why We Must Embrace Discharge Planning, CorrectCare. 22, 1, 3. Mellow, Jeff. (2005). Fourteenth Amendment. In Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities, edited by Mary Bosworth, Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA. Fishman, Nancy and Jeff Mellow. (2005). The Essex County Smart Book: A Resource Guide for Going Home. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Department of Corrections. Reprinted 2008. Mellow, Jeff and Paul Shane. (2002). The Prisoners and their Families Newark Agency