Deborah (Debi) Koetzle is Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Director of the Corrections Lab.  She received her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati in 2006 and is a research fellow with the University of Cincinnati Corrections Institute. Her research interests center around effective correctional interventions, with a focus on problem-solving courts, risk/need assessment, probation practices, reentry, and cross-cultural comparisons of correctional practices and policies, including whether and how evidence-based practices transfer across cultures. She has secured nearly $10 million in external funding to support her research, including awards from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Justice, and the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement. Current and recent projects include a survey of incarcerated individuals in Central America on their experience with the rule of law and life in prison, an analysis of the relationship between youth comprehension of probation conditions and success, and a multi-site study of the Organizational Coaching Model and its impact on revocations.  She has over 20 years of experience designing and delivering training curricula related to correctional interventions for community and prison-based settings and is a certified master trainer on multiple risk/need assessments. She has provided technical assistance to local, state, and federal agencies including the United States Administrative Office of the Courts, the Bahamas Department of Rehabilitative and Welfare Services, the Turks & Caicos Department of Rehabilitation and Community Services, and the Singapore Prison System., Her research has appeared in Justice Quarterly, the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, and other scholarly outlets.  She is editor of Drug Courts and the Criminal Justice System and author of What Works (and Doesn’t) in Reducing Recidivism, 2nd edition.