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Section on Law and Ethics

David S. Festinger, Ph.D. is the Director of TRI's Section on Law and Ethics Research and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Festinger holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, Masters Degrees in both counseling and clinical health psychology, and is a licensed clinical psychologist. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Psychological Association's Division of psychopharmacology. Dr. Festinger's research has focused primarily on empirically isolating the active mechanisms of drug courts, developing empirically based dispositional procedures for substance abusing offenders, and bringing experimental research methods to bear on major ethical questions facing research participants in substance abuse research. Dr. Festinger has served as Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator on numerous grants from the National Institute of Drug Abuse and has authored numerous articles and chapters, as well as a widely used introductory text on research methods.

Douglas B. Marlowe, J.D., Ph.D. is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and former Director of the Division of Law & Ethics Research at the Treatment Research Institute (TRI). A lawyer and clinical psychologist by background, Dr. Marlowe has received numerous state and federal research grants to study the role of coercion in drug abuse treatment, the effects of drug courts and other specialized programs for drug-abusing offenders, and behavioral treatments for drug abusers and criminal offenders. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and has received proficiency certification in the treatment of psychoactive substance use disorders from the APA College of Professional Psychology. He has published over 100 professional articles and chapters on the topics of crime and drug abuse and is on the editorial boards of the journals, the Drug Court Review and Criminal Justice & Behavior. From 2004 through 2007, Dr. Marlowe was a member of NADCP’s Board of Directors on which he served as Chair of the Research Committee and the Drug Policy Reform Committee.

Steven Belenko, Ph.D. is a Senior TRI Scientist and adjunct Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Prior to joining TRI, he was a CASA Fellow at the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, a Senior Research Fellow at the New York City Criminal Justice Agency (where he also held positions of Research Director and Acting Executive Director), a senior research associate at the New York City Office of the Mayor and the Vera Institute of Justice, and a research psychologist at Mathematica Policy Research. Dr. Belenko has conducted extensive research on substance abuse and crime, the impact of drugs on the adult and juvenile justice systems, adolescent substance abuse, prescription drug abuse and diversion, HIV risk behaviors and related service needs for offenders, and the integration of treatment and other services in criminal justice settings, including drug courts, diversion programs, and prisons. He has published numerous articles and book chapters, and is the author of two books: Crack and the Evolution of Antidrug Policy (winner of the American Library Association’s Choice Magazine academic book of the year award), and Drugs and Drug Policy in America: A Documentary History. Dr. Belenko earned his B.S. in applied mathematics and Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Columbia University.

Karen Leggett Dugosh, Ph.D. is a Quantitative Psychologist at the Treatment Research Institute. She holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Experimental Psychology from the University of Texas at Arlington. In addition to providing methodological and statistical expertise to TRI scientists, Dr. Dugosh is involved in research that examines ethical issues surrounding research participation and is particularly interested in the construct of coercion. Her current research focuses on the development of an assessment to measure coercive pressures to participate in research that is tailored to the doubly vulnerable population of substance abusing offenders.

Jason Matejkowski, Ph.D. is an Associate Research Scientist in the Section on Law and Ethics at the Treatment Research Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice. He has direct practice, program development and evaluation experience in mental health and substance abuse settings and has also served as a Research Associate and Program Manager for a state criminal justice planning agency. His research interests lie in the intersection of mental health and criminal justice systems and include projects that have focused on the social relations of mental health service consumers; dual diagnosis treatment and housing services; persons with severe mental illness who have been convicted of murder and the relationships among mental illness, criminal risk factors and parole release decisions.


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