Carmen Dorsey
Carmen Dorsey is Director of the Maine Justice Policy Center and Maine Statistical Analysis Center. Since 1999 she has provided oversight and leadership of MJPC criminal justice applied research, evaluation and organizational development initiatives. Ms. Dorsey has extensive program management and leadership experience in non-profit, state government and university settings, and has been a USM Muskie School employee since 1992. She serves as Vice Chair on the Board of Directors of Volunteers of America, Northern New England, Inc., is the USM Muskie School liaison to the Maine Criminal Justice Commission, and has taught undergraduates in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Program at USM’s Lewiston-Auburn campus. In 2007, she was awarded the G. Paul Sylvestre Award for outstanding achievement in advancing criminal justice statistics in the states.

Erica King
Erica Hansen King is a Policy Associate at the Maine Justice Policy Center. Ms. King evaluates correctional programs, delivers coaching, provides training and technical assistance in evidence based practices, and designs organizational and workforce development strategies in corrections, child welfare and other state systems. For over 12 years Ms. King has been a leader in moving innovative programs forward to full implementation. She has designed and implemented successful initiatives impacting a variety of vulnerable populations, including adults and youth who are incarcerated, homeless, in foster care, refugees, underprivileged and/or impacted by mental illness, substance abuse, and developmental disabilities. She provides leadership and project management in collaboration with state and non-profit agencies for juvenile recidivism, organizational effectiveness, gender responsive programming, disproportionate minority contact, correctional program effectiveness and other areas.

George Shaler
Mr. Shaler has been a Research Associate at the Muskie School of Public Service since 1999. He provides program evaluation and consultation services to state and local government agencies as well as community-based organizations. He provides technical assistance in evaluation capacity building (using logic model approach) to many Maine non-profits, including to all Maine Juvenile Justice Advisory Group grantees. Mr. Shaler has extensive experience in the application of statistical methods and techniques. He has worked on criminal history records, county jail trends, disproportionate minority contact, prison/jail health care issues, community policing program evaluation, and juvenile and adult recidivism analysis. He authored two policy briefs examining the characteristics of repeat offenders and law enforcement use patterns of the largest county jail in Maine. He is also project director of the Maine SAC’s grant from JRSA, entitled Maine SAC - CHRIS Capacity Building Project. The purpose of the project is to build the SAC’s capacity and access to Maine’s CHR system, with the goal of access to a rich, accessible source of data for various analyses.

Mark Rubin
Mr. Rubin is a Research Associate at the Maine Justice Policy Center. He is the author of the 2007 Maine Crime Victimization Report: Informing Public Policy for Safer Communities, which gained national attention and has been used extensively in Maine. Mr. Rubin has served as lead research director of a wide variety of crime and justice initiatives, including mental health and criminal justice, gun violence, adult offender recidivism, and adult correctional and sentencing practice and policy. He has also been the primary developer and author of the Maine Crime & Justice Data Book and Maine Crime & Justice Brief Series. Mr. Rubin formerly served as Director of Research and Neighborhood Information Services at DC Agenda, a non-profit intermediary in Washington, DC. From 2001-2003, Mr. Rubin worked to create an updated neighborhood level data system to help measure community conditions across the District. He developed a series of analysis reports to help better understand neighborhood conditions that affect the well being of children and families. He was previously a Research Associate at the Urban Institute in the Metropolitan Housing and Community Development Center, where he focused on economic development and housing challenges for low-income residents. He has extensive experience in the application of statistical methods and techniques.

Becky Noréus
Ms. Noreus has extensive experience collecting, reviewing, cleaning, and analyzing criminal justice data on the NIC evidence-based project in Maine, and in analyzing criminal history records as part of the Maine SAC - CHRIS Capacity Building Project funded by JRSA. Ms. Noreus is primary author of a Maine Crime & Justice Brief, entitled Property and Violent Crimes Increase in 2006, But 30-Year Trend is Downward, and co-author of the annual Maine Department of Corrections’ Annual Juvenile Recidivism Report. She also provides technical assistance and evaluation planning services to juvenile justice programs, analyzes risk assessment data for the Maine Department of Corrections, and conducts correctional program evaluations with colleagues at the Maine Justice Policy Center.

Tina Aubut
Ms. Aubut is a Project Assistant at the Maine Justice Policy Center. She has over twenty years of experience in administrative and technical support in non-profit and university settings. Ms. Aubut is proficient in data collection system design and administration, event and training coordination, and multiple software applications including desktop publishing and website design and maintenance. She is the primary developer and webmaster of the MJPC/Maine SAC website. Ms. Aubut has served on the Board of Directors of a group home for pregnant and parenting young women, has been a liaison to external agencies and state departments, and has also provided direct service to clients.

Kimberly Pukstas, Ph.D., is an MJPC affiliate. Dr. Pukstas has extensive experience with mixed-method designs, and currently directs two large-scale evaluation projects for the Muskie School of Public Service.  She has a strong track record in developing successful partnerships with probation and parole officers in her previous evaluations of drug courts and jail diversion programs.  She has worked on several NIJ-Funded projects that have resulted in panel presentations at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology. 

Michael Rocque is an MJPC affiliate. Mr. Rocque’s recent work examines the increase of adjudications for Maine girls. He is also exploring racial/ethnic disparities within the Maine criminal justice system, using data extracted from the CORIS database. Mr. Rocque received his Master’s degree from the University of Maryland in Criminology and Criminal Justice in 2007. He is author of the recently published Strain, Coping Mechanisms, and Slavery: A General Strain Theory Application, in the Journal of Crime, Law and Social Change. His paper, Student Discipline and Official Bias: Does Race Matter?, is currently under review. Mr. Rocque’s thesis, entitled Social Bonds and Change During Incarceration: Testing a Missing Link in the Re-entry Literature, will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology this November. He previously served as a research assistant for a large research project examining the implementation of Instructional Consultation Teams in Prince William County, Virginia. Currently, he teaches Sociology at the University of Maine, in addition to a full-time position at the Eastern Maine Medical Center’s research department. His research interests are criminological theory, racial disparities in the criminal justice system, and statistical/analytic methodology. He is planning on pursuing his PhD in criminology in the near future.