Faye Taxman: ''How Corrections Systems Can Deter Future Crime''

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Sentencing and Corrections

12/05/2011 Vera Institute of Justice

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About This Podcast

Professor Faye Taxman of George Mason University talks with Vera director Michael Jacobson about how U.S. corrections systems can adopt practices to help reduce recidivism—a shift that will require substantive and cultural changes. This podcast is part of the 2011 Neil A. Weiner Research Speaker Series.

Professor Taxman is the director of the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence at George Mason and has published more than 125 articles. In 2008, the American Society of Criminology’s Division on Corrections and Sentencing recognized her as a Distinguished Scholar.

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