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A Registered Psychologist in Alberta since 1987 (and in currently British Columbia, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan), I am also credentialed as a family therapist and family therapy supervisor. I have worked as a psychologist in children’s mental health, employee assistance programs, private practice, and academia. I am now a Professor Emeritus after eighteen years as a full-time faculty member in the Master of Counselling program at Athabasca University. 

I integrate practice, training, and publishing in the areas of clinical supervision, high conflict divorce, school-based service delivery, and family therapy. In the arena of clinical supervision, I have supervised close to 80 practicum students, predoctoral residents, and provisional psychologists in psychology and family therapy. I developed and continue to curate the Psychologists’ Association of Alberta on-line supervision course. I share my experience by training supervisors regionally, nationally, and internationally, mentoring clinical supervisors on behalf of organizations and privately, and via publications. My professional volunteer work supports the education, training, and supervision of psychologists and other mental health professionals.  

This presentation will explore the successes and challenges using scientific research to inform criminal justice policy decisions across a range of criminal justice outcomes and highlight directions for future inquiry.

Alex R. Piquero is Professor in the Department of Sociology & Criminology and Arts & Sciences Distinguished Scholar the University of Miami and previously served as the Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, one of the nation’s thirteen federal statistical agencies (appointed by President Biden, June 2022). Dr. Piquero is a nationally and internationally recognized criminologist with more than 26 years of experience. Over the course of his career, Dr. Piquero has given congressional testimony on evidence-based crime prevention practices and has provided counsel and support to several local, state, national and international criminal justice agencies and elected leaders. His expertise ranges from criminal careers to criminal justice policy and crime prevention to the intersection of race/ethnicity and crime, with a focus on quantitative methodology. Dr. Piquero has published over 500 scholarly articles and several books and is among the most highly cited criminologists in the world. He also served as editor of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology and the Justice Evaluation Journal. He is a Fellow of both the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. In 2019, he received the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Bruce Smith Sr. Award for outstanding contributions to criminal justice, and in 2020, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology of the American Society of Criminology.