Alison Farringer is a doctoral candidate in Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. Her current research is focused on implementation and fidelity of correctional programs and policies, inter-agency collaborations in specialty courts, and the experiences of people with mental illness and addiction on community supervision. Her dissertation evaluates the development and implementation of a new state Supreme Court data collection and reporting policy for specialty courts in Ohio. She received her master’s degree in Forensic Psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and earned undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati. Since 2017, she has worked as an evaluator in correctional treatment programs funded by grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). Throughout her career, Alison has worked as a practitioner and/or researcher in a variety of clinical and correctional contexts, including court-ordered residential and outpatient drug treatment programs, halfway houses, as well as children’s and forensic psychiatric hospitals.