Marian Gewirtz has been a member of the Research Department since 1976. She served as Research Director from 1981 to 1983 and was responsible for early CJA research evaluating Agency operations, including studies of court-date notification efforts and patterns of failure to appear. She directed the Assigned Counsel Eligibility Screening Project and co-authored a report that explored the high rates of conviction for disorderly conduct and its use as a catchall disposition. Among her most recent publications is an examination of recidivism among youths in the processed in the first year of New York State’s Raise-the-Age law. She currently prepares the Agency report on juvenile offenders prosecuted in the adult court. She earned a B.A. in Sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and an M.A. in Sociology from Indiana University.