Joseph Arvidson is the Executive Director of The Paragon Group, LLC.
The Paragon Group strives to promote and advance evidence-based practices in criminal justice. Their services include speaking engagements, training, and consulting on risk needs responsivity (RNR) and desistance-based models. Joseph’s training and consulting clientele have ranged from Federal Probation to local for-profit and non-profit agencies and international training and consulting. Additionally, he is the founder of The Criminologist Media Group, serving as producer and host of The Criminologists podcast.
Joseph Arvidson has been an adjunct faculty member at Concordia University and Metropolitan State University since 2000, where he teaches several graduate and undergraduate-level Criminal Justice courses. He currently serves on the Criminal Justice Advisory Board for Concordia University. He also serves as a board member for Volunteers in Corrections.
