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Jeffrey A. Butts is a Research Fellow with Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago where he studies youth development and community safety. Since 1991, he has managed more than $8 million of research and evaluation projects including investigations of teen courts and juvenile drug courts, the methods used to anticipate changing juvenile corrections populations, strategies for measuring disproportionate minority contact in juvenile justice, the coordination of substance abuse services for court-involved youth, and the incorporation of positive youth development concepts in youth justice. Before moving to Chicago in 2005, Jeff Butts was director of the Program on Youth Justice at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC. He began his career as a drug and alcohol counselor for the juvenile court in Eugene, Oregon.

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