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Innate Health: A Novel Examination of What Explains Well-Being, Prosocial Behavior, and Aggression Among Men Living in a U.K. Prison Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Jeanne L. Catherine-Gray, Adriaan J. M. Denkers
Evidence shows that well-being for mental health in prison is an important component of prison rehabilitation efforts—including notably lowering recidivism rates after release. While support for well-being initiatives in U.K. prisons has grown, few prison programs offer a health-promoting focus or invest in well-being interventions. Therefore, this study seeks to replicate and extend emerging data
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Mental Health Needs, Substance Use, and Reincarceration: Population-Level Findings From a Released Prison Cohort Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Amanda Butler, Tonia L. Nicholls, Hasina Samji, Sheri Fabian, M. Ruth Lavergne
This article examines the role of mental health, substance use, and comorbidity in relation to time to reincarceration. Our study included all people released from provincial correctional facilities in British Columbia, Canada, from 2012 through 2014 ( N = 13,109). Using data from a mental health screening tool, we examined the relationship between four diagnostic groups (mental health needs alone
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Justice Perceptions, Sexual Identity, and Race: Likelihood of Police Reporting Intentions Following Sexual Assault Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Elizabeth Culatta, Kaitlin M. Boyle, Sophia Shaiman, Tara E. Sutton
Perceptions of law enforcement shape a willingness to report crime and are particularly important for sex crimes and among groups oppressed or neglected by the legal system. We examine three types of perceptions of justice—the fairness of outcomes (distributive), procedures (procedural), and victim treatment (interpersonal). We expect each measure of justice perceptions to increase the likelihood of
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Working Alliance, Risk, and Recidivism: A Community-Based Corrections Analysis Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Anthony Tatman, H. Daniel Butler, Brittany Zenz
The relationship between the working alliance and rates of recidivism for individuals on probation or parole has been underexplored, and what information has been reported provides inconsistent findings. This study sought out to explore this relationship further by examining the degree to which client perceptions ( N = 145) of the working alliance were related to, and predicted, general and violent
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Testing Predictive Biases at the Intersection of Race-Ethnicity and Sex: A Multi-Site Evaluation of a Pretrial Risk Assessment Tool Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Matthew Demichele, Ian A. Silver, Ryan M. Labrecque, Debbie Dawes, Pamela K. Lattimore, Stephen Tueller
Pretrial assessment instruments provide courtroom actors with information about the likelihood that someone who has been charged with a criminal offense would engage in criminal behavior if released prior to trial. Although prior research supports the ability of pretrial instruments to predict pretrial outcomes, there are concerns that pretrial instruments may inadvertently exacerbate racial-ethnic
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An Examination of Differences in Detected Versus Undetected Child-to-Parent Violence in Spanish Justice and Community Youth Samples Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 M. Carmen Cano-Lozano, Samuel P. León, Lourdes Contreras
The number of crimes related to child-to-parent violence (CPV) has increased in recent years. Most cases are undetected. This is the first study to compare CPV-justice involved youth (CPV-JI/detected CPV) and CPV non-justice involved youth (CPV non-JI/undetected CPV), with the aim of examining differences in risk factors and pattern of violence. The sample included 306 Spanish youth (229 males, 77
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Offending Trajectories in an Australian Birth Cohort: Differences and Similarities Across Sex Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Aydan Kuluk, Troy Allard, Carleen Thompson, James M. Ogilvie, Lisa Broidy
Despite the rise in female offending, we know little about how female offending patterns vary with age and how they compare to those of males. In this study, we used linked administrative data from a 1983 and 1984 Australian birth cohort ( N = 83,362) to estimate offending trajectories separately for males and females and to examine how these patterns vary within and across sex. Results indicated that
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Humane Interrogation Strategies Are Associated With Confessions, Cooperation, and Disclosure: Evidence From a Field Study of Incarcerated Individuals in the United States Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Talley Bettens, Hayley M. D. Cleary, Ray Bull
The techniques used to interrogate individuals suspected of a crime can profoundly impact their decisions to confess, cooperate, or disclose information. Research using different methods suggests that two prevailing interrogation approaches—accusatorial and information-gathering—differentially impact interrogation outcomes. However, confession, cooperation, and information disclosure are ultimately
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The Importance of Social Support for Individuals on Specialized Probation: A Gender Comparison of Relapse and Revocation Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Leanne Fiftal Alarid, Adam K. Matz
Informed by social support theory, this study examined gender differences of revocation and relapse of 526 probationers diagnosed with a substance use disorder, mental health disorder, or co-occurring disorder who were court-ordered for treatment. Within 18 months of starting probation, 51% of men and 56% of women were revoked. Although not statistically significant, the relapse rate was 34% for women
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The Influence of Parenting on Delinquency: The Mediating Role of Peers and the Moderating Role of Self-Control Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 James V. Ray, Hyunmin Park
This study uses data from the Pathways to Desistence study to test if parenting (monitoring and warmth) indirectly influences delinquency through its impact on delinquent peer association (antisocial influence and behavior) among a sample of serious juvenile offenders ( n = 1,354) and if this indirect effect is moderated by self-control. The results suggest that parental monitoring (but not warmth)
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Specialized Mental Health Supervision: Revocations and Risk Composition Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Nicholas K. Powell, Angela Gunter, Mari Roberts, Tonya Van Deinse
Although many studies have investigated the disproportionate representation and negative experiences of justice-involved persons with mental illness (MI), we know less about probation/parole revocations among this population. Using statewide data and propensity score matching, we compare rates of rearrests and revocations between individuals with and without MI and assess the effectiveness of Specialized
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The Association Between Organizational Justice and Organizational Trust Among Correctional Staff Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Monica Solinas-Saunders, Eric G. Lambert, Stacy H. Haynes, Linda D. Haynes, Matthew C. Leone, David C. May
This study employed organizational justice theory to examine the influence of employee perceptions of distributive, procedural, and interactional justice on whether employees trust their supervisors and management. Analysis of survey results from 322 employees of a state prison located in the Southern United States indicate that procedural and interactional justice—but not distributive justice—predict
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Predicting Burnout, Well-Being, and Posttraumatic Growth in Correctional Officers Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Olivia Miller, Jane Shakespeare-Finch, Dagmar Bruenig
Correctional officers work in a stressful environment and are exposed to elevated levels of critical incidents. Such exposure can lead to negative psychological outcomes like burnout. However, positive psychological experiences including well-being and posttraumatic growth are also possible under such adverse conditions. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore predictors of burnout, well-being
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A Comparison of Police Use of Force by Male and Female Officers in Canada: Rates, Modalities, Effectiveness, and Injuries Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Jennifer Sheppard, Ariane-Jade Khanizadeh, Simon Baldwin, Craig Bennell
Research has reported inconsistent findings with respect to how female and male police officers use force. This study examined this issue in a Canadian context. Use of force data over 9 years were collected from a large Canadian police agency. The results demonstrated that, overall, female officers used force less frequently than male officers relative to the number of female and male officers within
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Using Latent Class Analysis to Produce a Typology of Korean Stalking Based on Court Judgments Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Minkyung Bae, Bojeong Kang, Soo-Jung Lee
This study was carried out to develop guidelines for more appropriate interventions for people who stalk following the enforcement of the Stalking Crime Punishment Act. By content analysis, 407 cases of the first trial judgment data from the start of the stalking punishment law application were collected and substituted with categorical data. Three types of stalking persons—Aggressors, Indirect Contactors
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Sustainability of Evidence-Based Practices: Risk-Need-Responsivity in Probation 7 Years Later Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Gina M. Vincent, Dara C. Drawbridge, Spencer G. Lawson, Kristina Todorovic, Rachael T. Perrault
This quasi-experimental, pre-post study investigated the sustainability of risk-needs assessment (RNA) and the risk-need-responsivity (RNR) practices in five juvenile probation offices across two states 7 years after rigorous implementation. The study evaluated adherence to practices and facilitators of sustainability via interviews with leadership ( N = 10) and probation officers ( N = 84) and a seventh-year
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A Good Place to Do Time? Detailing the Construction of Symbolic Social Boundaries in Correctional Boot Camps Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 William J. Schultz, Sandra M. Bucerius, Kevin D. Haggerty
Drawing on qualitative interviews with 51 incarcerated adult men and nine correctional officers in a Western Canadian prison system, we ask why some incarcerated people find it appealing to be placed on correctional boot camp units and what such appeals tell us about broader conditions of incarceration. Participants on three boot camp units drew on narratives relating to (a) extrinsic benefits, (b)
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A Comparative Thematic Analysis of Institutional Betrayal in the National Women’s Soccer League and the Catholic Church Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Mia Kelly
Sexual abuse oftentimes occurs in institutional settings involving a power imbalance, including churches, sports, schools, and workplaces. Abuse in the Catholic Church was a reoccurring media fixture beginning in 2002 but continues to be a prominent feature even today. On September 30, 2021, The Athletic published an article documenting a coach’s sexual coercion, emotional and verbal abuse, and retaliation
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Age and Chronic and Temporary Criminality: Associations With Implicit and Explicit Criminal Identities Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Bonita M. Veysey, Luis M. Rivera
This cross-disciplinary study investigates how and why age may be related to explicit and implicit criminal identity (ICI). The current study replicates previous research and investigates the effect of an experimental manipulation of making criminality temporarily salient on implicit and explicit identity, and whether this effect is moderated by the age of the participant. Study 1 replicated the results
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Juror Perceptions of Bystander and Victim Intoxication by Different Substances Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Natali Dilevski, Hayley J. Cullen, Celine van Golde, Heather D. Flowe, Helen M. Paterson, Melanie K. T. Takarangi, Lauren A. Monds
This study examined the effects of bystander or victim intoxication during a crime on juror perceptions and decision-making. Mock jurors ( N = 261) read testimony from a bystander or victim to an assault, who mentioned that they had consumed alcohol, cannabis, amphetamines, or no substances prior to the crime. Participants delivered a verdict, rated the defendant’s guilt, and rated the bystander/victim
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The Predictive Validity of the Risk Screener Violence (RS-V) for Adults in Prison Regarding Postrelease Violent Recidivism: A File-Based Study Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Marjam V. Smeekens, Michiel De Vries Robbé, Arne Popma, Maaike M. Kempes
Within the prison system, it is often not feasible to administer comprehensive risk assessment for all incarcerated persons because of limited time and resources. To enhance prison safety and facilitate the structured evaluation of concerns about violence risk for all individuals, the Risk Screener Violence (RS-V) was developed. The goal of this study was to evaluate whether the RS-V ( N = 571) is
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Predicting Future Recidivism From Changes in School Grades and Moral Agency Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Glenn D. Walters
The purpose of this study was to determine whether a change in school grades could serve as a turning point for delinquency, and whether it did so by forming a reciprocal relationship with a change in moral agency. Separate samples of 3,558 (2,829 males, 729 females) and 3,559 (2,811 males, 748 females) low-to-moderate risk justice-involved youth from the same data set served as participants in this
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What Factors Contribute to Differential Perceptions Toward Evidence-Based Practices? An Examination of Officer Role Orientation, Job Satisfaction, Confidence, and Skill Proficiency Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Tamara Kang Balzarini, Jennifer Eno Louden
Training probation officers on evidence-based practices (EBPs) is vital to ensuring that community supervision is maximally effective at reducing recidivism. However, after training, probation officers often have differential perceptions regarding EBPs. Thus, this study surveyed 90 adult probation officers after they participated in a training based on the Risk-Need-Responsivity model and Core Correctional
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Executive Functioning and Offending Behavior: An Updated Meta-Analysis Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Rebecca L. Griffith, Sarah Nowalis, Amalia Monroe-Gulick
Executive (dys)functioning is a known risk factor for offending behavior. A meta-analysis was conducted to understand differences in executive functioning across justice-involved and non-justice-involved groups. Across 37 studies, justice-involved groups performed significantly worse on measures of executive functioning compared with controls, with a random-effects grand mean effect size of Cohen’s
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“I Done Been Through a Lot of Stuff and I Done Seen a Lot of Things”: A Qualitative Analysis of Chronic Stress and Violence Among Justice-Involved Black Men Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Cherrell Green
In the United States, low-income Black men endure substantial stressors shaped by their social ecology (e.g., impoverished neighborhoods) and societal systems (e.g., criminal legal system) that produce racialized harm over the course of their lives. Although the stress literature has demonstrated a strong relationship between stressors and adverse health consequences, much remains unknown as to how
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A Test of Job Demands-Resources Theory: Organizational Citizenship Behavior in a Carceral Setting Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Katherine E. Rankin, Kassandra Cordero Treston
Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), or behavior that goes above and beyond the call of duty, is believed to lead to a better functioning organization. The goal of this article was to examine workplace factors that may be associated with OCB among correctional officers using existing scholarship and the job demands-resources theory as a framework. Understanding how to foster OCB in correctional
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The Association of Geographic Congruence With Postrelease Substance Use and Reincarceration Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Amanda M. Bunting, Martha Tillson, Michele Staton
This research examined consistency in living in the same geographical area pre- and post-incarceration as a predictor of postrelease substance use and recidivism. Data from a 2018–2020 cohort of the Criminal Justice Kentucky Treatment Outcome Study ( n = 935) were analyzed. Rural–urban congruence compared the county an individual reported living in prior to incarceration to the county they reported
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Emotional Wellbeing and Cognitive Appraisals Among Law Enforcement Exposed to Child Sexually Explicit Materials Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Jennifer E. O’Brien, Ateret Gewirtz-Meydan, Kimberly J. Mitchell
The cognitive appraisals of police investigators and forensic examiners working with child sexually explicit material (CSEM) may impact the level of distress they experience and its impact on holistic wellbeing. In the current study, we use an exploratory sequential mixed method design integrating quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Survey data were collected from 500 police investigators,
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Nonfinancial Consequences of Identity Theft Revisited: Examining the Association of Out-of-Pocket Losses With Physical or Emotional Distress and Behavioral Health Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Cooper A. Maher, Brittany E. Hayes
The study investigates whether nuanced measures of financial loss are associated with physical and/or emotional distress relating to one’s identity theft victimization. A subsample of victims of identity theft from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Identity Theft Supplement ( n = 1,557) was examined. Financial loss was considered as the total amount lost, whether victims suffered any financial
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Coping With Incarceration: How Women Adjust to Being Separated From Their Children Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Barbara Koons-Witt, Courtney Crittenden, Skylar Crick
The current study considers how women experience the pain of loss of liberty and separation from their children and families during the initial phases of incarceration and identifies factors that help them adapt and move beyond any early difficulties. It uses data from semi-structured interviews with a purposive sample of incarcerated mothers to qualitatively explore their experiences, including any
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The Prevalence of Trauma Among Participants in a Juvenile Mental Health Court Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Haley R. Zettler, Jessica M. Craig
There is evidence that youth in the justice system are more likely to experience trauma and mental health problems than the general population. Trauma histories may exacerbate mental health problems, and mental health problems may increase the likelihood of continued offending. While prior research has examined the effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on recidivism, it has yet to consider
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Treatment Court Staffs’ Perceptions in Support of the Use of Virtual Services in Court Post-Pandemic Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Meghan M. O’Neil, Barbara Andraka-Christou, Tara Kunkel, Kristina Bryant, Phil Huynh, Bradley Ray
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted traditional courthouse operations, resulting in the abrupt and extensive adoption of virtual court proceedings. To date, limited empirical research has evaluated virtual treatment courts. Utilizing a novel national survey administered to 358 treatment court team members, we examine support for and barriers to virtual courts. Tested barriers include (a) access to technology
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Sources of stress among Federal Correctional Officers in Canada. Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Marcella Siqueira Cassiano,Rosemary Ricciardelli
Most correctional officers describe their jobs as stressful. The current study advances the scholarship on correctional stress by offering a rare qualitative analysis that identifies, provides meaning, and contextualizes sources of stress in correctional services. This study complements the correctional stress literature, which, until now, has relied primarily on quantitative methodologies to identify
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“Reject the Offer”: The Asymmetric Impact of Defense Attorneys’ Plea Recommendations Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Kelsey S. Henderson, Kelly T. Sutherland, Miko M. Wilford
In two studies, we examined the impact of defense attorney recommendation on defendant plea decision-making. Community members and college students participated in a 2 (guilt status: innocent or gu...
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Age-Graded Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between Hours of Work and Crime Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Chae M. Jaynes, Mateus R. Santos, Kelly E. Kortright, Deanna N. Devlin
Criminal justice researchers have focused on theoretical thresholds of work and their association with offending—such as “full-time” work among adults or “intense” work among adolescents. Despite t...
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Assessing Risk of Family Violence by Young People: Identifying Recidivism Base Rates and the Validity of the VP-SAFvR for Youth Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 A. Sheed, T. Mcewan, N. Papalia, B. Spivak, M. Simmons
Police-reported incidents of youth family violence have been increasing in frequency yet limited research exists about how best to risk assess this cohort. The present study examined the validity o...
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Effective Probation Strategies to Respond to Signals of Poor Progress on Community Supervision Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Alex J. Breno, Avinash Bhati, Tonya VanDeinse, Amy Murphy, Gary S. Cuddeback, Faye S. Taxman
With over 4 million adults under community supervision and an average of 30% that do not fare well, an unanswered question is which strategies reduce the likelihood of technical, absconding, and ne...
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Pathways to Offense Charging: Examining Defense Decision-Making During Case Processing Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Tri Keah S. Henry, Howard Henderson
Prosecutors are afforded significant discretionary power in the current justice system. While much attention has been given to the factors that influence charging decisions, little is known about d...
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Mental Illness as a Sentencing Determinant: A Comparative Case Law Analysis Based on a Machine Learning Approach Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Mia A. Thomaidou, Colleen M. Berryessa
This study identifies factors that contribute to sentencing outcomes for criminally sentenced individuals experiencing mental disorders, in two U.S. states with divergent sociopolitical ideologies....
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Social Support During Reentry: Family, Mentor, Religious, Parole Officer, and Social Service Roles Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Lin Liu, Patricia Becker, Thomas J. Mowen
Existing research on social support and reentry primarily focuses on a single dimension of support, such as family or community support. Informed by the social support perspective, this study asses...
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Differential Use of Mental Health Services by Race and Ethnicity in Prison Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Katlyn C. Fritz, Adam D. Vaughan
Research in community settings indicates that Black persons are less likely to receive mental health treatment than White persons. Research on whether these disparities persist in prisons is limite...
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A Comparison of Hospice Care Utilization Between Rural and Urban Children in Appalachia: A Geographic Information Systems Analysis Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Radion Svynarenko, Guoping Huang, Jessica Keim-Malpass, Melanie J. Cozad, Kerri A. Qualls, Whitney Stone Sharp, Deb A. Kirkland, Lisa C. Lindley
Long driving times from hospice providers to patients lead to poor quality of care, which may exacerbate in rural and highly isolated areas of Appalachia. This study aimed to investigate geographic...
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Identifying Radiographic and Clinical Indicators to Reduce the Occurrence of Nontherapeutic Laparotomy for Blunt Bowel and Mesenteric Injury Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Shem K. Blackley, William C. Smith, Yann-Leei Lee, Christopher Kinnard, Ashley Y. Williams, Charles C. Butts, Maryann I. Mbaka, Andrew Haiflich, Andrew Bright, Jon D. Simmons, Nathan M. Polite
BackgroundRoughly 5% of patients with blunt abdominal trauma (BAT) have a blunt bowel and/or mesenteric injury (BBMI). Determining the need for operative management in these patients can be challen...
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National Analysis of Motor Vehicle Collision-Associated Mortality Among Opioid Users From 2010 to 2020: The Need for Effective Prevention Policies Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Emelia Watts, Heli Patel, Maveric Abella, Jason Kim, Adel Elkbuli
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the trends in the incidence of opioid-associated motor vehicle fatalities in the United States (US) over the past decade and identify geographic or demograp...
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Toxicology Certification: The Need, the Value, and an Evolving Landscape Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Douglas A. Donahue, Leigh Ann Burns-Naas
Certification in toxicology remains a subject of interest to those in the field, as evidenced by the number of presentations at major meetings and publications in the past decade. In 2009, Brock an...
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Chimeric Antigen Receptor-T Cell Mediated Bilateral Facial Nerve Palsy: A Case Report Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Natalya Patrick, Nizar Bahlis, Steven Peters
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) cell therapy is highly effective against hematological cancers but is associated with immune mediated side effects, including neurotoxicity. The most commonly desc...
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Current Treatment of Potentially Resectable Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: A Medical Oncologist’s Perspective Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Victor Hugo Fonseca de Jesus, Rachel P. Riechelmann
Pancreatic cancer has traditionally been associated with a dismal prognosis, even in early stages of the disease. In recent years, the introduction of newer generation chemotherapy regimens in the ...
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An Assessment of the Knowledge, Support, and Behavior Surrounding the Implementation of the Prison Rape Elimination Act Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Hayden P. Smith, Frank Ferdik, Creaig Dunton, Qassim Bolaji
The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) was designed to eliminate from corrections systems all acts of sexual violence. PREA’s success will be determined by whether corrections staff and incarcerate...
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Violence and Suicidal/Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Among Adolescents Undergoing Residential Treatment: An Examination of the Predictive Validity of the SAVRY, START:AV, and VRS-YV Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Andrew L. Gray, Jodi L. Viljoen
Using a retrospective study design, predictive validity of the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth, Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability: Adolescent Version (START: AV), and t...
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“The People Who Leave Here Are Not the People Who Arrived.”: A Qualitative Analysis of the Therapeutic Process and Identity Transition in the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Nicholas Blagden, Jacquie Evans, Lloyd Gould, Naomi Murphy, Laura Hamilton, Chloe Tolley, Kyra Wardle
Individuals with personality disorder are often construed as difficult to treat, and sometimes even “untreatable.” In this study, 24 men who had completed treatment on the offender personality diso...
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Assessment of Strengths in Criminal Justice System-Impacted Youth: A Retrospective Validation Study of the SAPROF-YV Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Sonia Finseth, Michele Peterson-badali, Shelley L. Brown, Tracey A. Skilling
The Structured Assessment of Protective Factors for Violence Risk-Youth Version (SAPROF-YV; de Vries Robbé et al., 2015) was designed specifically to assess strengths as a complement to risk assess...
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Does Criminal Thinking Predict Prison Misconduct? An Evaluation of TCU’s Criminal Thinking Scales Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Grant Duwe, Valerie Clark, Susan Mcneeley
To date, only one published study has tested the predictive validity of the Texas Christian University–Criminal Thinking Scales (TCU-CTS), and no studies have tested whether these scales are predic...
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Implementation and Effectiveness of In-Prison Programs for Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrators: Evidence From Spain Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Jorge Rodríguez-Menés
The article describes the supply and demand of programs for imprisoned perpetrators of intimate partner violence and their consequences on recidivism in a Spanish penal system with multiple interve...
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Reclaiming Parenthood After Incarceration: The Nexus of Determination to Desist, Fulfillment of Parental Responsibilities, and Recidivism Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Lin Liu, Susan L. Miller
Prior research indicates that reclaiming family roles, such as parent or spouse, can facilitate re-entry and reintegration for justice-involved individuals. However, few studies have examined wheth...
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A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of Interventions to Address Substance Use Disorders and Other Mental Health Disorders in Prison Settings With a Focus on Low- and Middle-Income Countries Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Ashly E. Jordan, Wataru Kashino, Sanita Suhartono, Giovanna Campello, Anja Busse
Interventions to treat substance use disorders (SUDs) and other mental health disorders (MHDs) in prison settings vary in both availability and effectiveness across contexts. Furthermore, incomplet...
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Target Selection and Crime Characteristics: A Comparison of Sexually Motivated Abduction Cases to Nonsexual Abduction Cases and Nonabduction Sexual Cases Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Eric Beauregard, Julien Chopin
Abduction has been related to a more extensive violent criminal record, suggesting that it represents a risk for escalation in violence. As most research has investigated child abductions, the curr...
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Understanding the Decision to Officially Report Sexual Assaults in Prison Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 H. Daniel Butler, Jeffrey A. Bouffard, Jennifer K. Beatty, Leana A. Bouffard
Most studies of crime reporting examine decisions to report to the police in community settings. While informative, this focus leaves a gap in identifying the correlates of official reporting behav...
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Escalation of Suicidal Spectrum Behaviors During Incarceration Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Sajida Yasmeen, Jeffrey B. Stuewig, John S. Wilson, June P. Tangney, Shannon W. Schrader, Jennifer M. Loya, Sharen E. Barboza, Diane Berry, Abigail Wiser
Rates of multiple episodes of suicide spectrum behaviors are higher among incarcerated individuals than community members. Understanding the trajectory of multiple episodes of suicide spectrum beha...
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The Impact of Legal-Financial Obligations on Relationships With Family, Friends, and Acquaintances: A Qualitative Study of Community Supervised Men With Sexual and Nonsexual Offense Convictions Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Andrea Giuffre
System-impacted individuals often rely on others to provide financial support, which aids in the payment of legal-financial obligations (LFOs). LFOs comprise the fines, fees, restitution, surcharge...
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Survivors’ Paths Toward Forgiveness in Restorative Justice Following Sexual Violence Criminal Justice and Behavior (IF 2.562) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Natalie Hadar, Tali Gal
Sexual violence (SV) yields complex justice and therapeutic needs among its survivors. Restorative justice (RJ), conducted in addition to or instead of the criminal justice process following SV, pr...