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CJCJ Managers and Program Directors
Research and Program Fellows
Mike A. Males
Randall G. Shelden
Daniel Macallair, M.P.A
Tel: (415) 621-5661 x310
[dmacallair@cjcj.org]
Daniel Macallair is the Executive Director and a co-founder of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. His expertise is in the development and analysis of correctional policy for youth and adult offenders. He has implemented model programs throughout the country. In the past ten years his programs have received national recognition and were cited as exemplary models by the United States Department of Justice and Harvard University's Innovations in American Government program. In 1994, he received a leadership award from the State of Hawaii for his efforts in reforming that state's juvenile correctional system. He is presently a consultant to criminal justice systems around the country and frequently provides expert testimony on correctional practices.
Dan's research and publications have appeared in such journals as the Stanford Law and Policy Review, Journal of Crime and Delinquency, Youth and Society, Journal of Juvenile Law, and the Western Criminology Review. His studies and commentary are often cited in national news outlets. He is also serving as coeditor with Randall Shelden in the upcoming book Juvenile Justice in America: Problems and Prospects. He teaches in the Criminal Justice Program at San Francisco State University and is an invited speaker and trainer at conferences and seminars throughout the country.
Daniel Macallair will participate on the Little Hoover Commission's advisory committee as the Commission begins its examination of California's sentencing policies. The Commission will review sentencing reform as an important element guiding correctional policies like incarceration and parole. The goal of the Commission is to provide recommendations to policymakers to reform California's sentencing structure to improve public safety and control excessive corrections costs.
The advisory committee is composed of technical experts from the criminal justice field who will pursue information and exchange ideas on new approaches to problems in California's overall correctional policy.
Abu Qadir Al-Amin
Tel: (415) 621-5661 x252
[abu@cjcj.org]
Abu Qadir Al-Amin is the Associate Director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, and also the director and co-founder of the Supportive Living Program. Abu has worked with ex-prisoners for over 24 years in various capacities. He provided services at the Federal Correctional Institution in Pleasanton as a Muslim Chaplain for two years. Additionally he was the Coordinator of the American Muslim Missions' Prison Ministry from 1982 through 1985, and he has also served on two San Quentin Prison Wardens Citizen Advisories. Prior to coming to CJCJ, Abu attended Healds Business College, U.C. Berkeley Drug & Alcohol Certificate program, and he worked as a Youth Counselor with Project Thresholds, a project of the Urban League. Abu has extensive exposure as a speaker and trainer on criminal justice subject matter and is sought out by the media for his insights, both in local newspapers, radio, and television appearances such as the MacNeil Lehrer Report, CNN, and ABC's 20/20.
William "Bud" Brown, Ph.D
[wbrown@cjcj.org]
William "Bud" Brown is the Director of CJCJ's Northwest Regional Office. His areas of expertise include community corrections, pre-sentence investigation decision-making processes, and inner city youth gang intervention. Bud's research has appeared in numerous journals such as Humanity and Society, Crime and Delinquency, Critical Criminology, and Juvenile and Family Court Journal. He is a co-author of two books: Youth Gangs in American Society, 3rd edition, and Criminal Justice in America: A Critical View. He is currently working on an article addressing the topic of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder among inner city youth gang members, and is in the final stages of a book titled The American Gulag: The Emergence of the Prison Industrial Complex with Randall Shelden.
Bud received a B.A. in Social Work (1985), a B.A. in Sociology (1988), and a PhD in Sociology (1992)from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has held full-time teaching positions at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, University of Michigan-Flint, and currently teaches criminal justice at Western Oregon University.
Gerald Miller
Tel: (415) 621-5661 x306
[gerald@cjcj.org]
Gerald Miller is the director of CJCJ's Jail Services Project. He joined the CJCJ staff after 15 years with the internationally renowned Delancey Street Foundation. Mr. Miller directed Delancey's Street Institute for Social Renewal. He spent the last 15 years working to help ex-offenders in their efforts to develop life skills. During his tenure at Delancey Street, he performed leadership roles in a number of initiatives, including the planning and implementation of San Francisco's Juvenile Justice Action Plan and the creation of the Bay Area Services Network (BASN). BASN is a model network of reentry services for high-risk adult parolees from the California Department of Corrections. In addition to his expertise in community corrections, Mr. Miller serves on the advisory boards of a number of community and civic organizations.
Setima Uila (Kimo)
Tel: (415) 621-5661 x375
[kimo@cjcj.org]
Mike A. Males, Ph.D.
[http://home.earthlink.net/~mmales]
[mmales@earthlink.net]
Mike A. Males is a Senior Research Fellow at CJCJ. He has contributed research and writing to numerous CJCJ reports, including the "The Color of Justice, an Analysis of Juvenile Adult Court Transfers in California," "Drug Use and Justice: An Examination of California Drug Policy Enforcement," and "The Impact of California's Three Strikes Law on Crime Rates."
Mike has a Ph.D. in Social Ecology from U.C. Irvine and is currently a Sociology Instructor at U.C. Santa Cruz. With over 12 years of experience working in youth programs, his research interests are focused on youth issues like crime, drug abuse, pregnancy and economics. He is the author of dozens of articles and four books, the latest of which is Kids and Guns: How Politicians, Experts, and the Press Fabricate Fear of Youth. Recent articles and op-eds have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The American Journal of Public Health, Alternet, and Scribner's Encyclopedia of Violence in America. Mike sits on the Board of Directors for the National Youth Rights Association and is also a regular columnist for Youth Today.
Randall G. Shelden, M.A., Ph.D.
[http://www.sheldensays.com]
[shelden@unlv.nevada.edu]
Randall G. Shelden is a Senior Research Fellow with CJCJ. Among his most notable achievements at CJCJ is his evaluation of the Detention Diversion Advocacy Project, published by OJJDP in 1999. He is also the co-editor of the Justice Policy Journal.
He is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, University of Nevada-Las Vegas and has been a faculty member at UNLV since 1977. He received his Masters Degree in Sociology at Memphis State University and Ph.D. in Sociology at Southern Illinois University. He is the author or co-author of seven books including: Criminal Justice in America: A Sociological Approach; Girls, Delinquency and Juvenile Justice (which received the "Hindelang Award" for outstanding contribution to Criminology in 1992); Youth Gangs in American Society; Controlling the Dangerous Classes: A Critical Introduction to the History of Criminal Justice; Criminal Justice in America: A Critical View. His latest book is Delinquency and Juvenile Justice in American Society. He is also the author of more than 50 journal articles, book chapters and encyclopedia entries on the subject of crime and justice, plus more than 50 newspaper commentaries. His web site is www.sheldensays.com.
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