- Professor
Biography
Community Supervision Within the Treatment Court Model: Practice Guidelines for the Field
Education
- Ph.D., Administration of Justice, 1996, The Pennsylvania State University
- M.S., Criminal Justice, 1988, University of Cincinnati
- B.A., Criminal Justice, 1986 Saginaw Valley State College, Michigan
Profile
Faith E. Lutze, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University. Her current research interests include police use of IPV lethality risk assessments, drug treatment courts, correctional industries, prison environments, and conducting outcome evaluations. Dr. Lutze is the author of the book, The Professional Lives of Community Corrections Officers: The Invisible Side of Reentry (2014) and has published the results of her research in numerous peer-reviewed journals related to criminal justice, rehabilitation and reentry, and gender-based violence. She teaches courses on gender and justice, violence toward women, institutional and community corrections, and is a certified instructor for the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program. Dr. Lutze is a 2016 graduate of the Washington State Department of Correction’s Correctional Worker Core training academy. As president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (2019) she advanced a framework steeped in justice, human rights, and activism to encourage others to take responsibility for justice through research, education, policymaking, and practice.
Courses Taught
Community Corrections, Gender and Justice, Criminal Justice Ethics, Violence Towards Women, Process and Institutions
Research Interests
Institutional corrections; community corrections; gender and justice; correctional industries; drug courts; and violence toward women.
Current Research
Correctional Industries and Incarcerated Workers; Lethality Assessment, TBI, and Intimate Partner Violence; Community Corrections, Prisoner Reentry, Homelessness; Juvenile, Adult, and Family Treatment Drug Courts; Inter-communal Violence Prevention; and Militarism and Masculinity in Criminal Justice.
Recent Publications
- Bagdon-Cox, C.. & Lutze, F. (2024). Normalizing Work And Working Relationships In Correctional Industries: Creating Space For Social Support And Mature Coping In A Prison Environment. Advancing Corrections, Journal of the International Corrections and Prisons Association. (Pages 85-100)
- van Wormer, J., Lutze, F., DeVall, K., & Lanier, C. (2023). Peer Recovery Support Specialists in Adult Drug Treatment Courts: A National Survey. Federal Probation Journal.
- Roig-Palmer, K. & Lutze, F. (2021). Confronting Oppression: Reframing Need and Advancing Responsivity for LGBTQ+ Youth and Young Adults. Women and Criminal Justice.
- Lutze, F. ACJS Presidential Address: Taking responsibility for justice: Transforming criminal justice at the intersection of human rights and activism. Justice Quarterly, 38 (1):1-21. (Published on-line: November 2020).
- Van Wormer, J. G., Abboud-Holbrook, M., Lu, R., Lutze, F. & Mei, X. Benefits and drawbacks of collaboration: A national survey of drug court professionals. Justice Evaluation Journal. DOI: 10.1080/24751979.2020.1744470.