Experts Guide

Verona is co-director of the Center for Justice Research and Policy at the University of South Florida, and and affiliate in USF's Department of Criminology. She studies personality disorders, externalizing and antisocial behaviors and self- and other-directed violence. Her recent research has focused on treatment implementation and prevention services adapted to field settings. Her lab applies science to understand individual and contextual routes to externalizing behaviors and criminal legal involvement and to uncover intersections between mental health and criminal justice system involvement.

Wagers is a former law enforcement officer and director of the BRIGHT (Bridging Information and Resource Gaps in Human Trafficking project through the USF Trafficking in Persons Lab. She can discuss human trafficking and domestic violence.

Buckles is director of the Addictions & Substance Abuse Counseling Graduate Certificate Program, which enables professionals in mental health, rehabilitation counseling, counselor education, social work, psychology, and other human service fields to enhance their knowledge and skills in marriage and family therapy. Her research focuses on life care plans for adopted children with disabilities, domestic violence and substance misuse.