Rate My Professor Faye Taxman

Faye S. Taxman is a University Professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, where she serves as the founding Director of the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence (ACE!). A leading scholar in social science fields such as health services criminology, she earned her Ph.D. from Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice and a B.A. from the University of Tulsa. Taxman's career features extensive collaborations with correctional agencies nationwide, including an 18-year agreement with the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and ongoing partnerships with the Virginia Department of Corrections, North Carolina Department of Corrections, Delaware Department of Corrections, Alameda County Probation Department in California, and Hidalgo County Community Corrections Department in Texas. She has secured substantial funding, including three R01 grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, support from the National Institute of Justice, National Institute of Corrections, and Bureau of Justice Assistance, and serves as Principal Investigator for the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN), backed by a $16.5 million grant within NIDA’s $141 million initiative.

Taxman’s research centers on implementation and intervention sciences, pioneering seamless systems-of-care models that link criminal justice with health care and service delivery systems, alongside reengineering probation and parole supervision to align with evidence-based practices, risk-need-responsivity frameworks, and organizational change. She has authored more than 220 articles in leading journals including Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, as well as key books such as Implementing Evidence-Based Community Corrections and Addiction Treatment (Springer, 2012, with Steven Belenko), Handbook on Moving Corrections and Sentencing Forward: Building on the Record (Routledge, 2020, with Pamela Lattimore and Beth Huebner), and Tools of the Trade: A Guide to Incorporating Science into Practice (National Institute of Corrections). Her contributions have earned her the 2023 August Vollmer Award from the American Society of Criminology, ASC Fellowship (2018), Joan McCord Award (2017) from the Division of Experimental Criminology, lifetime achievement award (2019) and Distinguished Scholar recognition (twice) from the ASC Division of Sentencing and Corrections, University of Cincinnati Award (2002) from the American Probation and Parole Association, and Fellowship in the Academy of Experimental Criminology. Taxman co-edits Health & Justice and Perspectives, and serves on editorial boards for Journal of Experimental Criminology and Journal of Offender Rehabilitation.