About PCRC
Michael L. Prendergast, Ph.D., UCLA’s Principal Investigator, is Director of the Criminal Justice Research Group at the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs. UCLA key personnel include: Patricia Noble-Desy, M.A., Criminal Justice Co-Investigator. Ms Noble-Desy is Administrator of Chemical Dependency Treatment Programs and Drug Testing in the Washington State Department of Corrections. David Farabee, Ph.D., Co-Investigator. Dr. Farabee is a Professor-in Residence at UCLA and Director of the Juvenile Justice Research Group at ISAP. His research areas include drug abuse, adult and juvenile crime, HIV/AIDS, and offender treatment. Hildi Hagedorn, Ph.D., L.P., Scientific Advisor on Implementation, is Implementation Research Coordinator for the Department of Veteran’s Affairs Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative, Substance Use Disorders Center. William Burdon, Ph.D., Co-Investigator, is a social psychologist with research experience in prison-based substance abuse treatment, contingency management in drug abuse treatment settings, and HIV/AIDS among incarcerated and post-incarcerated populations. Elizabeth Hall, Ph.D., Center Administrator, is a psychological anthropologist with research experience in program evaluation, qualitative methodology, substance abuse treatment for women offenders, and contingency management among correctional populations. Jerry Cartier, M.A., is a study director and facilitator for the Assessment project and has considerable experience in the corrections drug and alcohol treatment field as a practitioner, administrator, and researcher. Stacy Calhoun, M.A., Data Manager/Qualitative Researcher, has been involved in substance abuse research for over nine years. Her research interests include offender reentry, drugs and crime, treatment for substance abusing offenders, and gender issues in substance abuse treatment.
The Pacific Coast Research Center is situated in the Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP) in UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. ISAP brings to the CJ-DATS initiative three decades of experience in research on the relationship between drugs and crime and on program- and system-level interventions for drug-using offenders.