Drexel App

Mentor: David DeMatteo

• Has written research promoting overdose prevention sites

• Lots of research into insanity standards

• Research into sex offenses- connects to juvenile SO treatment and Jacob Wetterling case work from my crim class

  • Possible connections to carceral feminism

Research Areas:

Ethical Psychiatric Treatment

• Troubled teen industry

• Juvenile justice systems

  • Aligns w/ Heilbrun’s research on juveline risk assessment leading to placement decisions

• School to prison pipeline

• PDA/ low arousal approach

Post-doctoral Goals

• Forensic assessments

  • Aligns w/ Heilbrun’s research

• Activist work

• Service provider-potentially w/ harm reduction

  • Work directly w/ adolescents