This issue contains the first set of manuscripts processed and accepted for publication primarily by my editorial team. As such, I thought it relevant to introduce you to me and my team:
Editor in Chief: Robert D. Morgan is the John G. Skelton Jr. Regents Endowed Professor in psychology, chairperson for the Department of Psychological Sciences, and directs the Institute for Forensic Science at Texas Tech University. His research and scholarly activities include treatment and assessment of justice-involved persons with mental illness, effects of incarceration including in restricted housing units, and forensic mental health assessment. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Justice among other agencies. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, and authored or edited four books including A Treatment Program for Justice Involved Persons With Mental Illness: Changing Lives and Changing Outcomes and Clinician’s Guide to Violence Risk Assessment. He has over 20 years of experience in correctional and forensic psychology, provided forensic mental health services at the request of courts, defense, and prosecution, and consults with state and private correctional agencies to inform practice.
Managing Editor: Jaime S. Henderson, PhD, is the executive director of Research and Development for the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania. In addition to conducting and overseeing research endeavors within the court system, she is the lead researcher for the MacArthur Safety + Justice Challenge in Philadelphia. Her research focuses on risk assessment, reducing racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system, collateral consequences of policy, supervision of pretrial populations, and case processing. She has been continuously involved with Criminal Justice and Behavior (CJB) since 2004.
Associate Editor: Beth M. Huebner, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Her principal research interests include the collateral consequences of incarceration, racial and gender disparities in the criminal justice system, and public policy. She is currently serving as co-principal investigator for the St. Louis County MacArthur Safety + Justice Challenge, and collaborating on a study of monetary sanctions in Missouri with funding from the Arnold Foundation. She is the current chair of the Division on Corrections and Sentencing for the American Society of Criminology. She earned her PhD in criminal justice from Michigan State University in 2003.
Associate Editor: James Ogloff, JD, PhD, is trained as a lawyer and psychologist. He is a foundation professor of Forensic Behavioural Science and director of the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science at Swinburne University of Technology. He is also executive director of psychological services at Forensicare. Professor Ogloff was appointed a member of the Order of Australia in 2015 for significant service to education and to the law as a forensic psychologist, as an academic, researcher, and practitioner. Professor Ogloff has specific expertise in forensic psychology, forensic mental health, mental health law, and the assessment and management of offenders. He served as British Columbia’s first director of Mental Health Services for Corrections. He is the past president of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law and a former chair of the College of Forensic Psychologists of the Australian Psychological Society. He is a past president of the Canadian Psychological Association and a past president of the American Psychology-Law Society. Professor Ogloff has published 17 books and more than 275 scholarly articles and book chapters. He has served as editor and associate editor of leading scholarly journals in his field. He is the recipient of the distinguished contributions awards in law and psychology/forensic psychology from the Australian Psychological Society, the Canadian Psychological Association, and the American Psychology-Law Society.
Associate Editor: Mark Olver, PhD, is a professor and registered doctoral psychologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, where he is involved in program administration, graduate and undergraduate teaching, research, and clinical training. Prior to his academic appointment, he worked as a clinical psychologist in various capacities, including providing assessment, treatment, and consultation services to young offenders in the Saskatoon Health Region and with adult federal offenders in the Correctional Service of Canada. He has published more than 100 journal articles and book chapters, and his research interests include offender risk assessment and treatment, young offenders, psychopathy, and the evaluation of therapeutic change. He is a codeveloper of the Violence Risk Scale–Sexual Offense version (VRS-SO) and Violence Risk Scale–Youth Sexual Offense Version (VRS-YSO), and he provides training and consultation services internationally in the assessment and treatment of sexual, violent, and psychopathic offenders.
Book Review Editor: Joseph Eastwood, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Forensic Psychology program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. His research focuses on the area of investigative interviewing, including studies looking at comprehension of interrogation rights, the generation and assessment of alibis, and improving recall from interviewees through memory-enhancing procedures. Along with his academic activities, he also conducts investigative interviewing training courses for law enforcement and community organizations from across Canada.
Editorial Assistant: Lexie Brown, BA, is a graduate student in the Counseling Psychology doctoral program at Texas Tech University. During her time at Texas Tech, she has worked with Dr. Robert Morgan to research treatment programs for justice-involved individuals with mental illness.
This issue also introduces At the Forefront. I hope you all enjoy this new feature. For more information about future directions and forthcoming developments in CJB, please see my January 2018 Editor’s Note (p. 5; Vol. 45, Issue 1).
CJB is the flagship publication of the International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology first published in 1974. I encourage you to visit the association’s new website at www.myiacfp.org. My team and I thank you for contributing to CJB as Editorial Board Members, Reviewers, and Authors, and for reading the journal. We hope you will continue to look forward to and enjoy each issue. Finally, I have appreciated several suggestions for improving the journal and I welcome similar dialogues.
