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Building and Sustaining Academic Researcher and Criminal Justice Practitioner Partnerships: A Corrections Example

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Bringing researchers and practitioners together in partnerships has substantial benefits. Partnerships can inform research questions and provide researchers with data to further their academic dialogues. Collaborative research provides practitioners with a better appreciation for research, and its integration into the provision of service. Published examples of successful partnerships in the criminological field offer insight into navigating the relationship building and maintenance process. The current paper discusses a partnership between researchers and practitioners at a corrections institution. The benefits and challenges to partnerships and recommendations for building and sustaining researcher-practitioner partnerships are discussed.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 222 Maple Ave, Chang Building, Shrewsbury, MA, 01545, USA

    Dara C. Drawbridge

  2. Measures for Justice, 60 Park Ave, Rochester, NY, 14607, USA

    Sema A. Taheri

  3. School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University, 420P Renaissance Park 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Natasha A. Frost

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Drawbridge, D.C., Taheri, S.A. & Frost, N.A. Building and Sustaining Academic Researcher and Criminal Justice Practitioner Partnerships: A Corrections Example. Am J Crim Just 43, 627–640 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12103-018-9432-z

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