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Prior research has noted the unique interpersonal, affective, lifestyle, and antisocial factors associated with psychopathic personality traits (Hare, 1990; Cooke & Michie, 2001; Hare, 2003; Hare, 2010; Skeem & Cooke, 2010). In line with...
In a study conducted by the Bureau of Justice in 2014, approximately three-quarters (76.6%) of inmates released were re-arrested within five years. Studies have been conducted that examine the impact of inmate characteristics on the...
The assumption that immigrants are overly involved in crime is deeply rooted in American public opinion. Yet, research published in the last two decades refutes this claim and finds that immigrants are less likely than the native-born to...
The incarceration boom of the late 20th century led to a concomitant rise in prison construction. Over two thousand state and federal prisons are currently in operation across the United States, and these prisons are considerably varied...
Until the past few decades, criminological research has almost exclusively focused on examining the link between various environmental risk factors and criminal behavior. Since then, an emerging body of research has developed exploring...
The general purpose of this research is to contribute to the efforts in understanding the effect of maternal incarceration on young adult well-being outcomes, and the factors that may buffer or exacerbate any negative effect. There is a...
In recent years, criminologists have increasingly focused on understanding stability and change in crime over the life-course. Transitions such as marriage, work, and military service are considered to be potential turning points in the...
The shift from indeterminate to determinate sentencing policies over the past three decades and the ensuing decline in the use of parole for monitoring inmates’ transition back into their communities has led to the development of...
The general purpose of this research is to determine if there are case-level, individual, and/or social factors that have a differential impact on the federal criminal sentencing of Hispanic non-citizen offenders, compared to white...
Although slavery was abolished over 150 years ago, research suggests that the effects of slavery are everlasting. Coined the “legacy effect”, scholars argue that the abolishment of slavery did not mark the end of slavery’s deleterious...
In the past two decades, the older prisoner population in the U.S. has experienced unprecedented growth (Carson & Sabol, 2016; Scaggs & Bales, 2016). In fact, older prisoners represent the fastest growing inmate population (Carson &...
A growing body of neighborhood research focuses on external resources, ties to the public level of social control, and their impact on neighborhood crime rates. This work generally finds that stronger ties to the public level and greater...
Visitation has received increasing attention from policy makers and scholars for its ability to help offenders maintain connections with loved ones during confinement. While there has been a great deal of work examining the potentially...
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