Victor St. John

TL;DR: In this paper, the extent to which education is accessible for individuals who have felonious non-violent records in the United States (US) was examined, and a stratified random sample of 85 institutions of higher education in the northeastern US and analyzed emails from admission departments in response to inquiries about how a felony record would affect admissions decisions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of a facility on the effectiveness of rehabilitation treatment is analyzed from the point of view of the service provider, and the direct perspectives of service providers are analyzed.

TL;DR: The ways in which criminology and criminal justice have adopted and reinforced a professional culture that may be incongruent with that of most Black academics are explored and the need for field-wide self-assessment and proactive measures to increase receptiveness to and inclusion of scholars who bring broader methodological and cultural lenses to both the academic discipline and the practical administration of justice is argued.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a survey experiment to investigate the impact that welcoming and hostile police station designs have on public affect and behaviorally relevant perceptions, finding that building design becomes a significant predictor of perceptions depending on an individual's self-identified racial or ethnic group, where Black and Latino respondents report greater positive emotional responses when presented with hostile as compared to welcoming building designs.

TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between race and community corrections during the 1980s, filling a historical void in the documentation, statistical rigor, and understanding of disproportionate probation outcomes, concluding that racial and ethnic disparities in community corrections existed almost four decades ago and the crafting of policies that foster a fair community corrections system should look to the past as well as the present when tailoring and implementing community alternatives to incarceration.