Carmen Dorsey
Carmen Dorsey is Director of the Justice Policy Program and Maine Statistical Analysis Center. Since 1999 she has provided oversight and leadership of SAC 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 Justice Policy Program. 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 Justice Policy Program 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
Becky Noréus is a Research Analyst at the Justice Policy Program Center.  Ms Noréus works primarily on juvenile justice research and program evaluation.  In 2007, she co-authored the Maine Division of Juvenile Services Annual Recidivism Report, and will author the updated (2006-2008) Annual Recidivism Report to be released in late 2010.  Ms. Noréus is the lead author of the 2009 Maine Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) Report.  She continues to monitor DMC trends in the state, and contributes to other research activities such as exploring factors that contribute to DMC in Maine.   Ms. Noréus recognizes the importance of data in demonstrating program effectiveness, and works with organizations to develop evaluation strategies and build capacity to use data to measure outcomes through training and technical assistance.   She has helped numerous community organizations to develop their own logic models, evaluation plans, and data collection instruments.  Currently, she is working with the MDOC Division of Juvenile Services Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Council to define outcomes and develop indicators and measures to monitor performance.     In addition to helping organizations increase capacity to evaluate themselves, she conducts evaluations of correctional program using the Correctional Program Assessment Inventory, 2000 (CPAI-2000), a standardized instrument that assesses correctional programs on their adherence to Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs). 

Tina Aubut
Ms. Aubut is a Project Assistant at the Justice Policy Program Center. She has over twenty-five 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 SAC/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.