As of April 1, 2010 Jeffrey A. Butts will be executive director of the Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation Center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Previously, Jeff was a research fellow with Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, director of the Program on Youth Justice at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC, and senior research associate at the National Center for Juvenile Justice. He began his career as a drug and alcohol counselor for the juvenile court in Eugene, Oregon.  
               
               
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