Professional Lives of Community Corrections Officers: The Invisible Side of Reentry

Faith E. Lutze (Ph.D., Administration of Justice, Pennsylvania State University; M.A., Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University. Her current research interests include drug courts, the professional role of community corrections officers, offender adjustment to community corrections supervision, and gender and justice with an emphasis on masculinity in prisons. She teaches criminal justice courses on corrections, violence toward women, ethics, and gender and justice. Dr. Lutze has published her research on boot camp prisons, masculine prison environments, community corrections officers, and drug courts in various journals including Justice Quarterly, Crime & Delinquency, Criminology and Public Policy, and The Journal of Criminal Justice. She received the Coremae Richey Mann Leadership Award (2010) presented by the Minorities and Women Section of ACJS and the ACJS Corrections Section Award (2010) for scholarship and service in corrections.