Showing papers in "Journal of Criminal Justice in 2012"

TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis of 154 independent evaluations of adult drug courts, 34 of juvenile drug courts and 28 of DWI drug courts was carried out to systematically review quasi-experimental and experimental evaluations of the effectiveness of drug courts.

TL;DR: The literature on the number and shape of latent group-based trajectories of violence, aggression, and delinquency has been comprehensively reviewed by as mentioned in this paper, who identified 105 studies that used latent trajectory modeling to describe the number of trajectories and trajectories' shape.

TL;DR: This paper used group-based trajectory model analyses to identify groups of inmates based on their visitation and misconduct patterns and then assessed the extent to which the development of visitation and misuse patterns are interrelated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of neighborhood and community-level factors on people's perceptions of procedural justice or police legitimacy and found that concentrated disadvantage exerted a marginally significant impact on procedural justice, and on police legitimacy while controlling for procedural justice.

TL;DR: This article applied macro-micro General Strain Theory (GST) to predict prisoner misconduct in a large southern state to examine how environmental strain measured at the prison level influenced inmates' violent misconduct.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe significant changes to social relationships in a high security prison, including the prominent role played by faith identities and fears of radicalisation in shaping prisoner social life.

TL;DR: For example, this paper found that family support, having children, and in-prison substance abuse treatment increase optimism, while negative family influences (incarceration or drug use of family members), longer incarceration times, and a history of serious drug use reduce optimism about life after incarceration.

TL;DR: In this article, a multilevel path modeling approach was used to examine whether the physical or the social vulnerability explanation is more powerful in its explanation, or whether a combination of both vulnerabilities explains fear of crime.

TL;DR: The Effective Practices in Community Supervision (EPICS) model as mentioned in this paper was developed to teach community supervision officers how to translate the principles of effective intervention into practice, and more specifically how to use core correctional practices in face-to-face interactions with offenders.

TL;DR: In this article, supervision officers were trained in core correctional skills and the risk-need-responsivity (RNR) model, in conjunction with core correctional practices, and the results showed that trained probation officers demonstrated greater use of the skills taught during training and their clients had lower failure rates.

TL;DR: In this article, a meta-narrative review of the child and adolescent psychopathy construct is presented, taking into account historical and conceptual issues, and evolutionary theories can add a major contribution to the understanding of the origins of psychopathic traits.

TL;DR: In this paper, the behavioral and physical health of probationers and parolees derived from a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States was examined by employing binary logistic regression with adjustments for complex survey sampling and compared to the general population with respect to past-year substance use, risk perception, treatment experiences, and health.

TL;DR: Examining the extent to which changes in peer self- control and peer delinquency within peer networks is related to individual self-control during adolescence finds evidence of stability for most individuals but change for some.

TL;DR: This paper examined whether non-strain variables of social bonding theory, social learning theory, and self-control theory, as well as negative emotions mediate and moderate the effects of strain on crime and drug use.

TL;DR: This paper found a modest association between both gang variables and inmate-on-inmate violence, with gang integration being the most significant of the two, and discussed the implications of this finding for theories of inmate violence.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how prisoners perceive correctional officers' behavior in English and Dutch prisons and conclude that penal policy and increasingly punitive sentiments in society are not necessarily mirrored in the practice of prisons, and concomitantly, in prisoners' perceptions of correctional officers’ behavior.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used hierarchical logistic regression analyses with ample sample sizes at both levels to test the hypothesis with a series of control variables and found that confidence in the police is higher among citizens in nations with more government efficiency and is lower among residents of countries with higher homicide rates.

TL;DR: The authors examined the relation among perceived injustice, anger, and rule-violation in a sample of middle and high school students from 12 schools in Southern New Hampshire, and found strong support for the notions that perceived injustice promotes delinquency and that this relationship is mediated by situational anger.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess differences in victimization risk between African American and white, non-Latino inmates, and to estimate race group differences in the correlates of victimization.

TL;DR: There are a growing number of developmental crime prevention programs that address biological risk factors for delinquency and later criminal offending as mentioned in this paper, with a special focus on biological/physiological risk factors in the early life course.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between five strain measures and violent-and property crime among samples of adolescents in each city using regression techniques, with most of the strains having significant associations with property and violent crime.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between underreporting and age, and how this relationship differs by crime type and investigated whether a variety of characteristics differentially influence reporting across the life course.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of individual strains versus the cumulative impact of strain on daily drug and alcohol use prior to incarceration using data from the 2008 and 2009 Oklahoma Study of Incarcerated Women and Their Children.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the extent to which distinct types of offenders display similar patterns on key criminal career dimensions, focusing on sex offenders using longitudinal data from a cohort of South London males participating in the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of importation and deprivation strains on maternal health while imprisoned was examined, and the intergenerational consequences of maternal strains for child outcomes were found to be significant.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors set out a modest proposal for a new crime policy to help build a safer, more sustainable society and found that early prevention can reduce crime, save money, and reduce the need for costly incarceration.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of various strains on officers' organizational commitment to their agencies was examined using a General Strain Theory (GST) framework, and the mediating effect of negative affect was investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the association between low resting heart rate and perceptions of the costs and benefits of criminal behavior and found that those with low resting rate perceived a lower likelihood of sanction and were less likely to anticipate a sense of guilt/shame should they commit assault during a confrontation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether the recidivism trajectories post-prison release for post-sex offender registration and community notification (SORN) sex offenders are similar to or different from the reci- dri- ciences post-SORN non-sex offenders who are released from prison via parole.

TL;DR: In this paper, the intersectionality of gender, race, and ethnicity in the relationship between school-based activities and youth victimization at school was examined and found that race and ethnic minority male involvement in school sports is associated with an increase in school-related victimization, while white American male involvement was associated with a decrease in victimization.