Showing papers in "Journal of Criminal Justice in 2015"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between adverse childhood experiences for distinguishing offending patterns through late adolescence in a large sample of adjudicated juvenile offenders in the State of Florida, using a semi-parametric group-based method to identify different latent groups of official offending trajectories.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the effect of body-worn cameras (BWCs) on officers' response-to-resistance (R2R) incidents and serious external complaints.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of race/ethnicity and prior prison sentences on employment opportunities was assessed in a large southwestern city (Phoenix AZ) with high rates of imprisonment for blacks and Hispanics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of relative deprivation on neighborhood-level property crime rates and found that the difference in disadvantage between a neighborhood and nearby neighborhoods (or the broader community) explains higher levels of property crime.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of psychopathic personality disturbance (PPD) in the development of persistent violence across the life course was examined, and a situational action theory perspective was used to help illustrate the utility of PPD in explaining persistent violent offending.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors systematically search and review all the relevant studies that have estimated the cost of crime of adult offenders and highlight the need for more up-to-date studies with better reporting standards.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the specific factors that impact police investigators' evaluation of victim credibility and found that extralegal characteristics including victim behavior at the time of victimization and victim moral character were important factors when evaluating victim credibility.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how existing crime schema influence police perceptions of and responses to human trafficking and examine how new human trafficking laws change police perception of previously existing crimes, particularly prostitution.

TL;DR: In this article, a cross-sectional correlational design and a sample of 667 adults aged 50 and older in a northeastern state prison system was used to examine how older adults' use of physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and spiritual coping resources influenced their physical and mental well-being.

TL;DR: In this paper, the ability of psychopathy to predict involvement in chronic offending trajectories above other criminogenic risk factors was examined, and the four and three factor model of the PCL: YV were associated with the most chronic and serious offending trajectory even after controlling for a variety of relevant risk factors.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed 41 English-language studies that tested the hypothesis that higher gun prevalence levels cause higher crime rates, especially higher homicide rates, and found that most studies did not solve any of these problems and that research that did a better job of addressing these problems was less likely to support the more-guns-cause-more crime hypothesis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the results of an evaluation of that training module and discuss the effectiveness of the program in terms of: (1) raising awareness of human trafficking in the officers' jurisdictions, (2) increasing officers' self-reported likelihood of identifying and investigating suspected human...

TL;DR: In this article, a cross-national study of 7th, 8th, and 9th graders in 30 countries was conducted to assess the cultural generality of self-control theory and its predictions linking parenting to self control.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new alliance between psychopathy and developmental and life-course criminology is proposed to understand the development of offending over the life course and improve the ability of current models to predict antisocial and criminal behavior.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether seasonal variation exists temporally across different property crime types and whether these same offences possess micro-spatial patterns that vary substantially over the calendar year.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the sexual offending pathways of non-serial male sexual killers with a focus on whether the pathways for those with a previous conviction for rape or attempted rape differed from those who had no such convictions.

TL;DR: In this article, a review examines both adult and child literatures on the neural basis of psychopathy, together with implications for the criminal justice system, and provides directions for future research that include the incorporation of biological measures into treatment programs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the CAPP model of psychopathy is introduced and the causal mechanisms underlying offending trajectories are proposed, and problems with criminology's incorporation of the psychopathy construct are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used crime survey data from three European countries to examine whether the criminogenic effect of exposure to delinquent peers is dependent on adolescents' capability for self-control.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the dimensions and prevalence of psychopathy using the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL: YV) in a sample of serious and violent incarcerated youth.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether violent crime victimization affects overall offending proclivity as well as the character of criminal behavior and found that greater violent victimization was associated with both higher scores on a latent index of overall offending and with an elevated propensity for violent criminality in particular.

TL;DR: Levenson, Brannon, Fortney, and Baker as mentioned in this paper reported that despite their limited instrumental impact, sex offender laws hold symbolic value to the public, and more research is needed to further understand demographic differences in perceptions of sex offender policies, and perhaps public education must precede an effective attempt at implementing evidence-based sex offender legislation.

TL;DR: In this article, a study was conducted to determine whether difficult temperament is capable of predicting low self-control after controlling for parenting factors (maternal monitoring) and whether low self control precedes reactive criminal thinking in the development of a delinquent lifestyle.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that genes, temperament, and psychopathic personality are the root ingredients of criminality and underscore the importance of a wide range of topics including neurobehavioral disorders, personality disorder, aggression, violence and crime.

TL;DR: Two common measurements of arrest, official records and self-reports, for National Youth Survey Family Study (NYSFS) respondents across four time periods are compared.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of concentrated immigration on reoffending using a large sample of previously referred youth nested within 3,547 neighborhoods from the state of Florida.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed citizen and neighborhood data from Cincinnati, Ohio in the late 1990s and found that perceived unjust policing was the strongest individual level correlate of cynicism of police services, and that aggregate levels of cynicism predicted both homicides and overall violence.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined outcomes at pretrial release and sentencing and investigated for cumulative disadvantage across the criminal court system and found that females were treated more leniently by the court system than males.

TL;DR: The Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality (CAPP) model as discussed by the authors was proposed to understand and explain both the nature and significance of psychopathic personality disorder as it presents in an individual: formulation provides the means to achieve this.

TL;DR: The lack of information sharing among law enforcement agencies leading up to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks has been well documented as mentioned in this paper, and very little is known with respect to which law enforcement agents are collaborating with which public works and private sector organizations to fulfill this critical mission gap.