Faculty Spotlight: Nancy Rodriguez
Faculty Spotlight: Nancy Rodriguez – Nancy Rodriguez Associate Dean, College of Public Programs Professor Nancy Rodriguez is associate dean of the College of Public Programs and a professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Washington State University in 1998. Her research interests include sentencing policies, juvenile court processes, and substance abuse. She also conducts research in the area of restorative justice. Her research has included program evaluations of drug courts, restorative justice programs, and three strikes laws. She has also conducted studies on the role of race/ethnicity and gender in juvenile court processes. Rodriguez recently completed a study of prosecution and sentencing practices of imprisoned drug offenders pre and post Arizona’s mandatory drug treatment law. She is currently working on a statewide analysis of race/ethnicity and gender in Arizona’s juvenile court system. Rodriguez has received several grants from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She is the co-author of Just Cause or Just Because? Prosecution and Plea-bargaining Resulting in Prison Sentences on Low-level Drug Charges in California and Arizona and co-editor of Images of Color, Images of Crime: Readings. Her recent work has appeared in Crime Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, and Criminology Public Policy.
Drug deaths in county have been rising but nearly tripled in 2012
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15 Wall Street Journal article that documented how doctors sometimes cherry-picked statistics and were paid by companies like Purdue Pharma LP, the company that released OxyContin, to lobby state medical boards. The boards were encouraged not to …
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… is designed to save lives and offer treatment for overdoses by educating residents about the rescue accidental overdose kit. According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, the program has five components …
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Crack In Brazil: Authorities Debate Treatment Options For Crack Epidemic …
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With a boom in crack use over the past decade, Brazilian authorities are struggling to help such users and stop the drug's spread, sparking a debate over the legality and efficiency of forcibly interning users. Adults can't be forced to stay in …
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