Jose B. Ashford is a professor of social work, law and science at Arizona State University, where he is also an affiliate professor of criminology, criminal justice and sociology. Dr. Ashford is an affiliate faculty member in applied social sciences at the Sapienza University of Rome in the Department of Social Sciences and Economics. He testifies around the country about human development issues as a social history and life course expert in the assessment of mitigating factors in capital murder and juvenile lifer cases. He directs the joint graduate certificate in the School of Social Work with the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice in criminal sentencing and sentencing advocacy, and his research lab is at the Arizona Justice Project at Sandra Day O�Conner College of Law. He has published widely in areas dealing with the assessment, classification, and treatment of special need offenders; forensic social work; mitigation of punishment; and sentencing juvenile homicide offenders.
