Showing papers in "Journal of Criminal Justice in 2011"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on the domains and facets from the Five-Factor Model of personality, and how they are related to antisocial and aggressive behaviors, and found that the higher-order traits of Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Neuroticism demonstrate the most consistent relationships with these outcomes.

TL;DR: The criminal career paradigm is a major research focus in criminology, and the current state-of-the-art review explicates research published between 2000 and 2011 as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ confirmatory factor analysis to examine convergent and discriminant validity and ordinary least squares regression to assess whether revised scales operate similarly to ones used in past research.

TL;DR: The current study is the first nationally representative epidemiological study of criminal careers/externalizing behavior spectrum in the United States and validates the existence of the 5% pathological group demonstrated by prior research.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the process of leaving the gang and the motives for why and methods for how one leaves the gang were analyzed, and a life course framework was introduced as a basis for understanding leaving the gangs in relation to desisting from crime.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that MHCs are an effective intervention but this assertion is not definitive as many of the studies are not as strong as would be ideal thus limiting the conclusions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed the potential links between educational achievement, post-release schooling, and re-arrest for a cohort of 4,147 incarcerated youths drawn from 115 Florida juvenile institutions and followed for two years post release.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether procedurally fair behavior by the police affects two types of citizen behavior during encounters: citizen disrespect toward the police and citizen noncompliance with police requests.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effect of low self-control on individuals' procedural justice judgments and perceptions of police legitimacy in a sample of young adults and estimated a series of OLS regression models.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined significant variations in criminal achievement across sex offenders and proposed a concept of achievement in sexual offending defined as the ability to maximise the payoffs of a crime opportunity while minimizing the costs.

TL;DR: Highly disadvantaged young men and women are not as likely as more advantaged young adults to evidence lower levels of criminal behavior after becoming parents, however wanted pregnancies may reduce female involvement in crime regardless of socioeconomic status.

TL;DR: This paper examined the extent to which components of social learning theory (i.e., definitions, differential reinforcement, and differential association/modeling) predict stalking victimization and perpetration using survey data from a large sample of college students.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data obtained from 909 recently booked juvenile arrestees who were interviewed as part of the Arizona Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed data on over 2,500 US adults, using different ways of measuring gun ownership, and also analyzed future plans (among persons who did not own a gun at the time of the survey) to acquire a gun for self-protection.

TL;DR: A review of the literature reveals that social skills, coping skills, and problem-solving skills are consistently associated with activation in the medial prefrontal cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex.

TL;DR: This paper used hierarchical nonlinear modeling to estimate the effects of concentrated disadvantage, immigrant concentration, and residential stability on recidivism for a sample of offenders released from custody/supervision in 2006 and nested within Iowa counties.

TL;DR: This paper examined the effect of victimization on self-control and found that prior victimization is linked to subsequent victimization, and provided support for general strain theory, which predicts that strains such as victimization will reduce self control.

TL;DR: Interventions that showed the most promise were Multisystemic Therapy, Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care, Teaching Family, and Life Skills Training.

TL;DR: To investigate the importance of immediate spatial neighbors when investigating local crime patterns, a large number of participants in a large-scale trial took part in a supervised trial at the University of California, Los Angeles.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of drug dependence, depression, anxiety, psychopathy, fracture, and child trauma on suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and self-harm without lethal intent in community corrections were examined.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the heterogeneity of sanctioning within juvenile justice and argue that, despite substantial advances in research, the heterogeneity severely delimits the generalizability of evaluations to date.

TL;DR: This paper examined 79 assaults on prison staff requiring more than first aid treatment, perpetrated by 96 inmates, in a large state correctional department during a 14-month period (September 1, 2007 through October 31, 2008).

TL;DR: In this article, a study was conducted to determine whether and the degree to which, inmates committing specific types of violent crimes in the community were prone to commit acts of violence while incarcerated.

TL;DR: Comparing abstainers with non-abstainers across a range of sociodemographic and mental health characteristics in the United States indicates that abstainers are not maladapted and are comparatively more functional than non- abstainers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the interaction between homicide victim and offender criminal lifestyles and the situational characteristics of homicides that occurred in the city of Newark, New Jersey from 1997 through 2007.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed theoretical understandings of pathways through drugs and crime, and suggested that a notable pathway involves a temporary period of intense substance use and offending which often remits without intervention.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conduct an empirical intra-urban examination of community-level connections between street robbery and temperature, and examine whether community socioeconomic status (SES) and crime-relevant land uses strengthen or weaken the temperature impact.

TL;DR: In this article, a hierarchical multiple regression analysis (HMR) was performed on survey data from 501 non-supervisory correctional officers employed in a Southern prison system, and the results suggest that correctional administrators need to focus on the work environment, especially supervisory support, to improve correctional staff job satisfaction.

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework for naturally-occurring social support programs is proposed to support former prisoners with substance use disorders, and a program model is developed to inform the development of naturallyoccurring support interventions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the relationship between physical health and criminal offending among low-income women living in disadvantaged neighborhoods and found that poor health and declines in physical health influence both offending onset and offending escalation directly and indirectly through increases in anxiety and depression.