Northpointe Institute for Public Management is an experienced and nationally recognized correctional consulting and research firm providing software products, training and implementation services to federal, state and local criminal justice systems and policy makers.
For Immediate Release: November 5, 2007
Contact: Carla Newman – 303.831.0970
cnewman@npipm.com
Dr. Tim Brennan is honored for his contributions to the field of juvenile and adult offenders.
Atlanta, GA - Tim Brennan, PhD., Senior Scientist for Northpointe Institute for Public Management, was awarded the prestigious Marguerite Q. Warren and Ted B. Palmer Differential Intervention Award, at the American Society of Criminology Conference. Dr. Brennan was recognized for his important contributions to classification and differential interventions through the development of both the COMPAS instrument and its training curriculum.
The award is presented annually to individuals who have significantly advanced the understanding, teaching or implementation of classification, differential assignment, or differential approaches designed to promote improved social and personal adjustment and long term change among juvenile and adult offenders.
Dr. Brennan’s work has been reported in the BBC, National Public Radio, ABC-TV’s 20/20, Psychology Today, and other popular media. He consults regularly on offender classification and risk assessment for the National Institute of Corrections; and many State and Local Departments of Corrections.
He is published widely in: criminological assessment, delinquency, jail and prison classification, youth runaway, adolescent loneliness and suicide, information technology and implementation processes in Criminal Justice. His work has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Justice, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Corrections, and so on. He was elected to the Board of the North American Classification Society and chaired several national conferences on classification and assessment.
Tim Brennan received his Ph.D from Lancaster University, England in 1972. He is Director of Human Systems Institute in Boulder; Sr. Vice President of Northpointe Institute for Public Management and an Associate Member of the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado.