William B. Brown

William B. Brown is the Research Director for Pacific Policy and Research Institute, and Pacific Sentencing Initiative, as well as an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Western Oregon University, where he has been a faculty member since 2002. He received in Bachelors Degree in Social Work at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Masters Degree and PhD in Sociology at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he completed his dissertation titled "The Subjective Nature of Decision-Makers in the Domain of Objective Sentence Processing," which focuses on pre-sentence reporting. He has successfully completed Individualized Sentencing Plans for clients in Oregon and Washington over the past year.

He is an author of Crime and Criminal Justice in American Society (Waveland Press 2008), Youth Gangs in American Society (Wadsworth, 1st Edition, 1996, 2nd Edition, 2001, and 3rd Edition, 2004) and Criminal Justice in America: a Critical View (Allyn and Bacon, 2003) and The American Jail (forthcoming, Waveland Press). He has authored or co-authored articles focusing on youth gangs, African-American families with gang affiliated children, girls and gangs, jail overcrowding, recidivism, and the criminal justice industrial complex. He has also published articles that focus on parents in jail, generational criminogenics, methamphetamine abuse, mental illness, homelessness, re-entry, veterans of the current Iraq War and the Vietnam War. He has also conducted ethnographic research in Nicaragua, Cambodia, and Vietnam with a focus on U.S. interventions and human rights. He was an invited lecturer at the University of Warsaw (Poland) and Open University (Vietnam). A much more detailed and complete Vita is available on request.

Randal B. Fritzler

Randal B. Fritzler, J.D. has over 34 years experience in criminal litigation in both state and Federal courts. From 1986 through 2003, he served as a trial judge in Clark County, Washington. In 1997, he began organization of the Clark County Domestic Violence Court and was honored as the “Outstanding Judge of 1998” by the Washington State Misdemeanant Corrections Association. He founded the Clark County Mental Health court and in 1999, he was selected to chair the American Judges Association Therapeutic Jurisprudence Committee and represent the AJA to the Council of Chief Justices. He also served on the Council of State Governments, Re-entry Policy Council.

Mr. Fritzler in addition to publishing articles and commentaries in five countries has contributed to several books. He is co-author of the recently published, Crime and Criminal Justice in American Society. The courts he created have been subject to comprehensive studies, which have shown favorable outcomes for both perpetrators and the public. He is an advocate for dynamic risk management processes to increase public safety while reducing the use of prisons and jails. Randal Fritzler has recently left the bench and has resumed private law practice. He is a founder and principal of Pacific Policy and Research Institute, Inc., teaches at Western Oregon University and consults on court reform issues. He has testified before the Washington State legislature and served as an expert witness in the courts of Washington and California. Recently he has focused upon applying Therapeutic Jurisprudence concepts to case disposition and sentencing.

A much more detailed and complete Vita is available on request.