Mary Finn has been named the new director of the MSU School of Criminal Justice. She has been a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia State University and brings a research background in criminal justice policy with a focus on domestic violence, human trafficking and community supervision.
She has served as the associate provost for institutional effectiveness and acting director of institutional research at Georgia State. She also participated in the Harvard University program, Performance Assessment in Higher Education, and the Bryn Mawr College Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration.
Finn has collaborated extensively with local justice agencies, advocacy organizations and divisions of state government in efforts to bridge the world of academia and the world of policy and practice. Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Justice and the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles and Department of Corrections. She is currently a co-principal investigator on a National Institute of Justice project assessing the influence of home visits and their temporal ordering on the supervision outcomes with high-risk parolees.