Journal•ISSN: 0887-4034
Criminal Justice Policy Review
SAGE Publishing
About: Criminal Justice Policy Review is an academic journal published by SAGE Publishing. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Poison control & Criminal justice. It has an ISSN identifier of 0887-4034. Over the lifetime, 974 publications have been published receiving 15943 citations. The journal is also known as: CJPR.
Topics: Poison control, Criminal justice, Prison, Law enforcement, Recidivism
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TL;DR: The authors examined the effects of prison visitation on recidivism among 16,420 offenders released from Minnesota prisons between 2003 and 2007, using multiplicity of visits to the same facility and found that the effect of visitation was significant.
Abstract: Following recent studies in Florida and Canada, we examine the effects of prison visitation on recidivism among 16,420 offenders released from Minnesota prisons between 2003 and 2007. Using multipl...
236 citations
TL;DR: This article found that women face significantly lower odds of incarceration than do men in all three jurisdictions, and that the effect of race is conditioned by gender but the effects of gender, with only one exception, is not conditioned by race.
Abstract: Dramatic increases in the number of women incarcerated in state and federal prisons have led some researchers to conclude that differential sentencing of female offenders is a thing of the past. This study uses data on offenders convicted of felonies in Chicago, Miami, and Kansas City to address this issue. The authors find no evidence to support this “gender neutrality” hypothesis. In all three jurisdictions, women face significantly lower odds of incarceration than do men. The results also reveal that the effect of race is conditioned by gender but the effect of gender, with only one exception, is not conditioned by race; harsher treatment of racial minorities is confined to men but more lenient treatment of women is found for both racial minorities and Whites.
235 citations
TL;DR: For instance, this article found that policy makers had very distinct ideas about the nature of the sex offender problem in terms of who was responsible, who was in need of protection, and the degree to which legislative responses would address the issue.
Abstract: To date, scholars have simply inferred the beliefs underlying sex offender laws from the passage and content of the legislation. Few researchers have directly spoken to legislators to determine their opinions of the sex offender problem. This study seeks to determine the perceptions of sex offenders and sex offending in the 1990s that drove the need for sex offender reform in Illinois and the degree to which these perceptions influenced the content of the laws. The findings suggest that policy makers had very distinct ideas about the nature of the sex offender problem in terms of who was responsible, who was in need of protection, and the degree to which legislative responses would address the issue. There was congruence between these personal perceptions and the content of sex offender laws. The results shed light on the degree to which public officials' personal perceptions influence the passage and content of legislation.
213 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the most common policies passed in recent years have included seperation of women from men in public spaces, as well as sexual violence prevention policies, such as the one proposed in this paper.
Abstract: Sex crimes provoke fear and anger among citizens, leading to the development of social policies designed to prevent sexual violence. The most common policies passed in recent years have included se...
204 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the assumption of homogeneity underlying sex offender laws and review it in light of current empirical evidence and offer a case study of recidivism rates for sex offenders in Illinois.
Abstract: Sex offender registration and community notification requirements are universally applied to all sex offenders irrespective of their type. In this way, these policies treat sex offenders as a homogenous group, assuming that they exhibit similar reoffending patterns regardless of the age of their victims or the nature of their crimes. In this article, the authors highlight the assumption of homogeneity underlying sex offender laws and reviewit in light of current empirical evidence. They also offer a case study of recidivism rates for sex offenders in Illinois. The authors find that sex offenders are not the homogenous group that our policies assume, and they discuss the implication of this finding for the application of sex offender laws.
176 citations