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Pamela K. Lattimore

Expertise

Prisoner Reentry
Corrections Research and Policy
Criminal Recidivism
Substance Use, Mental Health, and Criminal Behavior

Biography

Pamela K. Lattimore, Ph.D., is a principal scientist in RTI's Crime, Justice Policy, and Behavior Program. She is an expert in prisoner reentry and multi-modal correctional program evaluation, and evaluates interventions, investigates the causes and correlates of criminal behavior, and assesses approaches for improving criminal justice system operations. Dr. Lattimore has been a project director or principal investigator for multiple studies, including the Multi-site Evaluation of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative, the Comparison of Alternative Coercive Drug Treatment Models, the Evaluation of the Juvenile Breaking-the-Cycle Program, the National Evaluation of the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative, the Coordinating Center for the Criminal Justice Diversion Program for Individuals with Co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders, and the Re-entry Court Process Evaluation. She served as chair of the Division on Corrections and Sentencing of the American Society of Criminology from 2001 to 2003, has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, and serves on the editorial boards of several professional journals.

Education

PhD, Economics (Econometrics and Public Finance), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; BA, Interdisciplinary Studies (Economics and Environmental Studies), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Selected Publications

Lindquist, C.H., Krebs, C.P., & Lattimore, P.K. (2006). Sanctions and rewards in drug court programs: Implementation, perceived efficacy, and decision making. Journal of Drug Issues, 36 (1):119-145.

Lattimore, P.K., Brumbaugh, S.M., Visher, C., Lindquist, C.H., Winterfield, L., Salas, M., & Zweig, J. (July 2004). National Portrait of SVORI. Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative.

Broner, N., Lattimore, P.K., Cowell, A.J., & Schlenger, W.E. (2004). Effects of diversion on adults with co-occurring mental illness and substance use: Outcomes from a national multi-site study. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 22 (4):519-541.

Lattimore, P.K., MacDonald, J.M., Piquero, A.R., Linster, R.L., & Visher, C.A. (2004). Studying the characteristics of arrest frequency among paroled youthful offenders. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 41 (1):37-57.

Chari, K., Baker, J.R., & Lattimore, P.K. (1998). A decision support system for partial drug testing: DSS-DT. Decision Support Systems, 23 (3):241-257.

Lattimore, P.K., Baker, J.R., & Clayton, E.R. (1998). A nonlinear multiple criteria model base for the problem of balancing caseload risk in probation departments. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 35 (3-4):511-514.

Lattimore, P.K., & Baker, J.R. (1997). Demand estimation with failure and capacity constraints: An application to prisons. European Journal of Operational Research, 102 (3):418-431.

Baker, J.R., Lattimore, P.K., & Matheson, L.A. (1996). Cost-effective drug testing in the transportation industry. IIE Transactions, 28 (9):735-744.

Lattimore, P.K., Baker, J.R., & Matheson, L.A. (1996). Monitoring drug use using Bayesian acceptance sampling: The Illinois experiment. Operations Research, 44 (2):274-285.

Baker, J.R., Lattimore, P.K., & Matheson, L.A. (1993). Constructing Optimal Drug-Testing Plans Using A Bayesian Acceptance Sampling Model. Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 17 (2):77-88.

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