Francis T. Cullen

TL;DR: This article found that having masculine attributes positively affected the commission of different types of delinquent offenses. But, despite the ubiquity with which this "masculinity hypothesis" appears, it has received few empirical assessments, and those that do exist typically are flawed by what amounts to the ecological fallacy.

TL;DR: Despite recent increases in the use of incarceration for white-collar offenders, little is known about the prison experiences of these individuals or how they adjust to imprisonment as mentioned in this paper, although empirically empir...

TL;DR: It was discovered that prison ministers perform a wide range of secular and religious tasks including counseling inmates, coordinating religious programs, paperwork, supervising volunteers, and conducting religious services.

TL;DR: The authors used factorial design methodology to examine whether members of the general public are more supportive of capital punishment when asked to rate a vignette describing a murder involving a white victim and a black offender as opposed to other victim-offender racial combinations.

TL;DR: The authors conducted a meta-analysis of 660 effect size estimates drawn from 47 studies (14,244 individual cases) and concluded that this effect is rather "general" across methodological specifications, contrary to theoretical propositions that specify the importance of exposure to fetal testosterone in predicting criminal and analogous behavior later in life.