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Stephanie Hartwell, PhD

  • Graduate Program Director, Sociology Department, College of Liberal Arts Professor of Sociology
  • Telephone: 617.287.6271
  • Fax: 617.287.6288
  • Office Location: Wheatley Hall,04,00017

Areas of Expertise

Drugs and Society, Mental Health, Criminality, Applied Sociology, Environmental Justice and Disasters

Degrees

PhD, Yale University

Professional Publications & Contributions

  • Hartwell, Stephanie W., Xiaogang Deng, William Fisher, Julianne Siegfriedt, Kristen Roy-Bujnowski, Craig Johnson, and Carl Fulwiler. Forthcoming, 2013. “Predictors of Accessing Substance Abuse Services Among Individuals with Mental Disorders Released from Correctional Custody,” Journal of Dual Diagnosis.

  • Hartwell, Stephanie W., Xiaogang Deng, William Fisher, Carl Fulwiler, Usha Sambamoorthi, Craig Johnson, Debra Pinals, Lisa Sampson, and Julianne Siegfriedt. “Harmonizing Databases? Using a Quasi-Experimental Design to Evaluate a Public Mental Health Re-entry Program.” Evaluation and Program Planning. Volume 35(1): 461-472.

  • Hartwell, Stephanie, Robert McMackin, Robert Tansi, and Nozomi Bartlett. 2010. “I Grew Up Too Fast For My Age: Post Discharge Issues and Experiences of Male Juvenile Offenders.” Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. Vol. 49:495-515.

  • Hartwell, Stephanie and Laura Watts. 2010. “The Clubhouse Family Legal Support Project: A Framework for Replication and Development.” International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation. Vol 15(1) 17-22.

  • Hartwell, Stephanie W., William H. Fisher, and Maryann Davis. 2010. “Emerging Adults with Psychiatric Disabilities Involved with the Criminal Justice System.” International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. Vol. 54(5):756-768.

  • Hartwell, Stephanie W. 2010. “Ex-inmates with Psychiatric Disabilities Returning to the Community from Correctional Custody: The Forensic Transition Team Approach After a Decade.” New Approaches to Social Problems Treatment. Research in Social Problems and Public Policy Series, Vol.17, pp.263-283. Cambridge, MA: Emerald Press.

  • Hartwell, Stephanie W., William H. Fisher and Xiaogang Deng. 2009. “The Impact of Regionalization on Reentry Service Outcomes.” Psychiatric Services. Vol. 60:394-397.

  • Hartwell, Stephanie W. and Karin Orr. 2009. “Reentry Needs of Female Mentally Ill Offenders.” In Rosemary Gidio and Lanette Dalley (Editor), The Mental Health Needs of Women In the Criminal Justice System, Ch. 12, pp.216-224. Prentice Hall.

  • Hartwell, Stephanie W. 2008. “Homelessness and Crack Use: A Case Study in Historical, Environmental and Social Context.” In Robert Hartmann McNamara (Editor), Homelessness in America, Vol. 2, Ch. 5, pp.75-92. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishing Group.

Additional Information

View Professor Hartwell's Curriculum Vitae

Current Research

Currently conducting research on the community re-entry of ex-inmates with psychiatric disabilities, jail diversion of veterans with trauma histories, and juvenile delinquents leaving detention and residential treatment. Adjunct Associate Professor of Research at UMass Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Center for Mental Health Services Research.