Daniel Macallair is the Executive Director and a co-founder of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. His expertise is in the development and analysis of youth and adult correctional policy. He has implemented model community corrections programs and incarceration alternatives throughout the country. In 1993, Mr. Macallair established the Detention Diversion Advocacy Program (DDAP) for serious and chronic youth offenders in San Francisco’s juvenile justice system. This program was cited as an exemplary model by the United States Department of Justice and Harvard University's Innovations in American Government program. In 1994, Mr. Macallair received a leadership award from the State of Hawaii for his efforts in reforming that state's juvenile correctional system and developing model community-based reentry programs. In August 2007, Mr. Macallair initiated a technical assistance project to assist California counties in developing model intervention programs for high-end youthful offenders. Mr. Macallair is presently involved in the efforts to reform California’s adult sentencing and parole practices and serves as an advisor to the State’s prestigious Little Hoover Commission.

Mr. Macallair’s research and publications have appeared in such journals as the Stanford Law and Policy Review, Journal of Crime and Delinquency, Youth and Society, Journal of Juvenile Law, and the Western Criminology Review. His studies and commentary are often cited in national and international news outlets including the BBC, CBS Evening News, ABC Nightly News, NBC Evening News, CNN, FOX News, the Today Show, National Public Radio, New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, and Los Angeles Times. He is also the coeditor with Randall Shelden in the upcoming book Juvenile Justice in America: Problems and Prospects and with Vincent Schiraldi on Reforming Juvenile Corrections; Reasons and Strategies for the 21st Century. He teaches in the Department of Criminal Justice Studies at San Francisco State University and is an invited speaker and trainer at conferences and seminars throughout the country (http://bss.sfsu.edu/cjustice/index.htm ). To learn more about Mr. Macallair, go to his Director's Message.

Abu Qadir Al-Amin
(415) 621-5661 ext. 252
abu@cjcj.org

Abu Qadir Al-Amin is the Associate Director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, and is the director and co-founder of CJCJ’s Supportive Living Program – a pioneering social modal reentry program for parolees with histories of substance abuse.

Mr. Al-Amin has worked with formally incarcerated people in various capacities for over 25 years. He provided services at the Federal Correctional Institution in Pleasanton as a Muslim Chaplain and was the Coordinator of the American Muslim Missions' Prison Ministry from 1982 through 1985. He has served on two San Quentin State Prison Citizen Advisory Panels. In 2006, he returned from a United Nations sponsored Africa tour, where he advised the Nigerian government on the establishment of substance abuse treatment modalities that incorporate Muslim principles. Mr. Al-Amin’s expertise and commentary on criminal justice issues is regularly sought by major media outlets including past appearances on the New Hours with Jim Lehrer, CNN, and ABC's 20/20.

Dinky Manek Enty serves as CJCJ’s Deputy Director.  Ms. Enty holds a Master's degree in Public Administration and Bachelor's degrees in Criminal Justice and Child and Adolescent Development from San Francisco State University.  She joined the CJCJ staff in 2004 and currently oversees all aspects of the agency’s programs and operations including budgeting, contracts, and human resources.  Ms. Enty is highly regarded throughout San Francisco for her overall management and administrative skills, particularly her acumen on budgeting and contract oversight.  Prior to joining CJCJ, Ms. Enty held positions with the San Francisco Police Department and San Francisco Prisoner Legal Services.

Ms. Enty also serves as the agency's Webmaster continuously working on maintaining and improving the most visible non-profit criminal justice website in the nation.

Catherine McCracken, Program Director for SSP and Development Director, began at the agency as a consultant with the Sentencing Service Program and was hired as a full-time employee in October 2007.  She has a Masters of Science in Conflict Resolution from Portland State University and is trained in the areas of restorative justice, alternative sentencing, and prisoner reentry.  Prior to joining CJCJ, Ms. McCracken was a program coordinator for the Mid-Michigan Dispute Resolution Center in Saginaw, Michigan where she supervised the Victim-Offender Mediation Program and conducted trainings on victim-offender reconciliation.  Ms. McCracken has 193 hours of mediation training and several hundred hours of at-the-table mediation experience.  Since joining CJCJ, Ms. McCracken has applied her training and experience towards promoting individualized and restorative approaches to sentencing. 

Gerald Miller is the Program Director of CJCJ's No Violence Alliance (NoVA). Mr. Miller has implemented some of the most innovative community-based services for special needs offenders in the nation. In 2006, Mr. Miller contributed to the establishment of an intensive case management reentry program for violent offenders returning to the community from the county jail. The NoVA project, a partnership between the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department and various community-based agencies is now recognized as among the most successful reentry programs.

Mr. Miller joined the CJCJ staff after 15 years with the internationally renowned Delancey Street Foundation, where he directed the Institute for Social Renewal. He spent the last 15 years working to help ex-offenders in their efforts to develop life skills. During his tenure at Delancey Street, he performed leadership roles in a number of initiatives, including the planning and implementation of San Francisco's Juvenile Justice Action Plan and the creation of the Bay Area Services Network (BASN). BASN is a model network of reentry services for high-risk adult parolees released from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. In addition to his expertise in community corrections, Mr. Miller serves on the advisory boards of a number of community and civic organizations.

Kimo Uila is the Director of CJCJ’s Juvenile Justice Services. Prior to becoming Director, Mr. Uila served as a case manager and then co-director for the Detention Diversion Advocacy Program (DDAP).  He joined CJCJ after many years of providing faith-based outreach and social services in San Francisco's Bay View Hunters Point.  He is currently a minister with Grace Tabernacle Church and was a founder of a community-based organization called the Sisters of Samoa.  Mr. Uila has quickly established himself as a strong program and community juvenile justice leader.

William (Bud) Brown is the Fellow for CJCJ's Northwest Regional Office. His areas of expertise include community corrections, pre-sentence investigation decision-making processes, and inner city youth gang intervention. Mr. Brown's research has appeared in numerous journals such as Humanity and Society, Crime and Delinquency, Critical Criminology, and Juvenile and Family Court Journal. He is a co-author of two books: Youth Gangs in American Society, 3rd edition, and Criminal Justice in America: A Critical View. He is currently working on an article addressing the topic of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder among inner city youth gang members.

Dr. Brown received a B.A. in Social Work (1985), a B.A. in Sociology (1988), and a PhD in Sociology (1992) from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has held full-time teaching positions at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, University of Michigan-Flint, and currently teaches criminal justice at Western Oregon University.

Randall G. Shelden is a Senior Research Fellow with CJCJ. Among his most notable achievements at CJCJ is his evaluation of the Detention Diversion Advocacy Project, published by OJJDP in 1999.  He is Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, where he has been a faculty member since 1977. He is also a Senior Research Fellow with the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice in San Francisco. He received his Masters Degree in Sociology at Memphis State University and Ph.D. in Sociology at Southern Illinois University. He is the author or co-author of the following books: Criminal Justice in America: A Sociological Approach; Girls, Delinquency and Juvenile Justice (3rd edition), with Meda Chesney-Lind (which received the Hindelang Award for outstanding contribution to Criminology in 1992); Youth Gangs in American Society (3rd ed.), with Sharon Tracy and William B. Brown (both of these are third editions with Cengage Publishers); Crime and Criminal Justice in American Society (with William Brown, Karen Miller and Randall Fritzler, Waveland Press); Controlling the Dangerous Classes: The History of Criminal Justice (2nd edition, Allyn and Bacon); Delinquency and Juvenile Justice in American Society (Waveland Press); Juvenile Justice in America: Problems and Prospects (Waveland Press, co-edited with Daniel Macallair). His next book is Our Punitive Society, to be published by Waveland Press. He is also the author of more than 50 journal articles and book chapters on the subject of crime and justice. He has also written more than 100 commentaries appearing in local and regional newspapers. He is the co-editor of the on-line Justice Policy Journal. His web site is: www.sheldensays.com.