Craig Schwalbe, MSW, PhD

Craig Schwalbe, MSW, PhD, is a Professor in the Columbia University School of Social Work and director of the Workplace Center. He has ten years of direct practice experience in child welfare and community mental health settings, including roles in direct practice and administration. Dr. Schwalbe’s current scholarship focusses on the twin goals of establishing evidence-based strategies for probation-involved adolescents and defining racial equity for community corrections. He was the recipient of the WT Grant Foundation Scholars award in 2009, which funded a study of success and failure on probation, and led a UNICEF-funded international development effort to design and implement juvenile diversion programs for delinquent youths in Jordan. Currently, he is the co-PI on an NSF funded study of adolescent comprehension of their conditions and case plans. He is the author of numerous peer reviewed journal articles and co-author of Hepworth’s Direct Social Work Practice: Theory and Skills (11^th edition). He holds a BA from Concordia College in Moorhead Minnesota, and MSW from Augsburg College, and a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Schwalbe, C. S. (2007). Risk Assessment for Juvenile Justice: A meta-analysis. Law and Human Behavior, 31, 449-462. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10979-006-9071-7

Schwalbe, C. S. J., & Koetzle, D. (2020). Condition comprehension predicts compliance for adolescents under probation supervision. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 26, 286-296. https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000235 .

Schwalbe, C.T., Lea, C., Edwards, K., & Koetzle, D. Associations of racial equity training, policies, and practices with routine supervision strategies in community corrections. Criminal Justice and Behavior. OnlineFirst. https://doi.org/10.1177/00938548241276517