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Associate Professor of Social Work
Washington University
St. Louis
(314) 935-4953
jonsonrd@gwbmail.wustl.edu

Expertise: Domestic violence, family violence, child abuse and neglect.

Psychotherapist
Los Angeles
(310) 820-4111
mllpsych@earthlink.net

Expertise: Levittan has worked as an expert witness, psychotherapist and media consultant in cases involving domestic and school violence, child abuse and child custody.

Attorney
Boston
(617) 830-1217
Expertise: Halpern specializes in defending those accused of Internet sex crimes, including possession or distribution of child pornography and solicitation of a minor. He has also handled a number of cases in which law enforcers posed as minors in Internet chat rooms.

Psychology Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, Mass.
drhopper@jimhopper.com
Expertise: A licensed clinical psychologist, Hopper is a researcher, consultant and therapist with a doctorate in clinical psychology. He says his expertise includes the lasting effects of child abuse, including both male and female victims. He prefers email contact.

Forensic Psychologist, Mental Health Therapist
Baltimore
Lizzie Manganiello, media contact
617-717-8294
lizzie@ictusinitiative.com
Seifert is an expert in teacher-student sex, sexual predators, serial killers and rapists, bullying, forensic psychology, violent personality and behavior traits, family violence and child abuse. She is the author of a number of books and professional manuals in those subjects, including “How Children Become Violent,” “Childhood [...]

Professor of Justice, Law and Society
American University
Washington, D.C.
(202) 885-2953
eviano@american.edu
Expertise: Victims rights, sex crimes, domestic violence and child abuse. His publications include Intimate Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, and The Victimology Handbook.

Senior behavioral scientist
RAND Corporation
Media contact: Rand Office of Media Relations (703) 413-1100, ext. 5117
(310) 451-6913
media@rand.org
Expertise: Criminal justice system and drugs, mental health, HIV/AIDS, drug policy, drugs and child welfare, substance abuse and treatment, health disparities associated with the criminalization of drug use. Iguchi is a professor of public health at UCLA. The RAND Corporation is [...]

Washington, D.C.
Center for Juvenile Justice Reform
Georgetown University
(202) 687-7656
scb45@georgetown.edu
http://cjjr.georgetown.edu
 
Expertise: Bilchik, a former prosecutor, headed the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention during the Clinton administration, and then led the Child Welfare League of America. The center he now heads offers training for “public agency leaders, across systems of care and levels of government, on [...]

Psychotherapist
Los Angeles
(310) 820-4111
mllpsych@earthlink.net
www.michaellevittan.com
 
Expertise: Domestic and school violence, child abuse, post-traumatic stress, anger management.

Associate Professor of Nursing
State University of New York at Binghamton
607-777-5411
mmuscari@binghamton.edu
 
Expertise: Muscari is an expert in school violence, school shootings and their aftermath, and the warning signs of youth violence. She is the author of “Not My Kid: 21 Steps for Raising a Nonviolent Child.”

Center for Children’s Law and Policy
Washington, D.C.
(202) 637-0377, x104
msoler@cclp.org
www.cclp.org
 
Expertise: From 1978 to 2006, Soler worked at the Youth Law Center, a national public interest law firm that he eventually headed. He and colleagues worked in more than 40 states on juvenile justice, child welfare, health, mental health, and education issues. His current center describes itself [...]

As of July 1 
dtuerkhe@depaul.edu
Office Phone: (207) 780-4409
tuerkheimer@usm.maine.edu
Professor Tuerkheimer focuses her scholarship on the intersection of criminal law and the lives of women and children. As an ADA, she prosecuted child abuse, sex crimes, and internet crimes and conducted trainings for prosecutors, law enforcement officers, medical personnel and child protective workers.

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