Ep. 173 Reforming Criminal Reform
About this episode
CJ Appleton shares his journey from homelessness to becoming a faculty member focused on bridging criminology and US policy.
In this episode: from living under a bridge to building bridges between policy and practice, CJ Appleton's story is one of resilience, purpose, and possibility. Appleton is a new faculty member at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. After a rocky start to his academic career, including dropping out of college and becoming homeless, today he's eager to bridge the gap between criminology scholarship and US policy. His focus is on desistance , the process of ending a criminal career. Duke Sanford interim Dean Manoj Mohanan hosts. Read show notes/transcript at our website.
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