Roger Jarjoura

Roger Jarjoura is an Associate Professor in the Indiana School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis. He is also the founder of Aftercare for the Incarcerated through Mentoring (AIM). He has a background in research, program design, implementation, and evaluation; his work has focused specifically on mentoring, juvenile justice, and reentry. He was recently a co-investigator on a multi-year evaluation of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America’s Targeted Re-Entry project. Roger has served as an investigator on many evaluation studies, including the evaluation of AIM, which involved a randomized experimental design and a four-year post-release follow-up period. He has extensive experience developing mentor training materials. He founded the AIM Re-Entry Training Institute, which offers state-of-the-art, immersion-based training to prepare professionals to work in the field of re-entry. He has also developed training for mentors of children with incarcerated parents, and has provided training and technical assistance for mentoring programs serving children of incarcerated parents. Roger received his Ph.D. in criminology from the University of Maryland.