Dorie Klein is a criminologist with a long-standing interest in drug policy, women and criminal justice, She is currently a researcher at one of the leading public health institutes, Public Health Institute, in Berkeley, California, where she is conducting a state-funded study on substance use treatment of adolescents in California. She is also involved in projects related to Proposition 36 implementation in California, substance use prevention for California American Indians and work on violence affecting substance-using women. In earlier years she directed projects on policy responses to driving under the influence.Dr. Klein has served as consultant to state and local government and community-based organizations on women's drug- and violence-related issues, as well as to the United Nations Crime Prevention Programme. She was one of three organizers of the first international conference on women's crime and victimization cosponsored by the National Science Foundation, and has taught at the University of California, California State University, and National Judicial College.Dr. Klein's doctoral degree in criminology is from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a postdoctoral fellow in alcohol studies at the University of California and University of Washington.

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