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William D. Bales
Researcher at Florida State University
Publications - 79
Citations - 3823
William D. Bales is an academic researcher from Florida State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Prison & Recidivism. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 78 publications receiving 3357 citations. Previous affiliations of William D. Bales include Florida Department of Corrections & Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
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Inmate Social Ties and the Transition to Society: Does Visitation Reduce Recidivism?
William D. Bales,Daniel P. Mears +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on a neglected but potentially critical factor, inmate visitation, that may reduce recidivism, using data from the Florida Department of Corrections, and tested hypotheses about the effects of visitation.
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The labeling of convicted felons and its consequences for recidivism
TL;DR: This article found that those formally labeled are significantly more likely to recidivate in 2 years than those who are not. But they did not find that second-level indicators of county characteristics (e.g., crime rates or concentrated disadvantage) had no significant effect on the adjudication/recidivism relationship.
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Prison Visitation and Recidivism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ propensity score matching analyses to examine whether visitation of various types and in varying amounts, or dosage, is negatively associated with recidivism outcomes among a cohort of released prisoners.
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Social ecology and recidivism: implications for prisoner reentry*
TL;DR: This article examined how the social ecology of the areas to which offenders return may influence their recidivism or whether it disproportionately affects some groups more than others, and they found that ecology indeed is consequential for re-entry.
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Race, ethnicity, threat and the labeling of convicted felons*
TL;DR: The authors examined the effects of race and Hispanic ethnicity on the withholding of adjudication for 91,477 males sentenced to probation in Florida between 1999 and 2002 and found that Hispanics and blacks are significantly less likely to have adjudication withheld when other individual and community level factors are controlled.