Stacy Calhoun is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. She has directed several federally-funded research studies while employed at the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs that examined the effectiveness of various interventions designed to improve the mental health, substance abuse and offending outcomes of individuals involved in the criminal justice system. For her dissertation, she is examining why some mentally ill offenders do not adhere to their psychiatric medication regimen and how this relates to their offending behavior.