Jill Viglione, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the criminal justice department at the University of Central Florida. She joined the UCF College of Community Innovation and Education in 2017. Dr. Viglione\u2019s research focuses on correctional agencies, implementation of evidence-based practices, organizational change, and program evaluation. She is currently PI on a National Science Foundation funded study to examine the impact of COVID-19 on community corrections agencies and co-PI on a National Institute of Mental Health study to examine the Stepping Up initiative, which aims to reduce the number of individuals with mental illnesses in jail. Dr. Viglione\u2019s work has been published in Criminal Justice and Behavior, Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, and International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jill Viglione, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the criminal justice department at the University of Central Florida. She joined the UCF College of Community Innovation and Education in 2017. Dr. Viglione\u2019s research focuses on correctional agencies, implementation of evidence-based practices, organizational change, and program evaluation. She is currently PI on a National Science Foundation…","protected":false},"featured_media":23888,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2521],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-23887","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-justice","tag-criminal-justice","people_group-faculty"],"yoast_head":"\n