inquiry into strategies to prevent high volume offending and
... In the Report, therefore, we have tried to focus on this group of offenders, namely repeat offenders, and have attempted to develop strategies that will assist these young people, firstly to try to stop them from ever getting into the juvenile justice system, and secondly, if this is unsuccessful, t ...
... In the Report, therefore, we have tried to focus on this group of offenders, namely repeat offenders, and have attempted to develop strategies that will assist these young people, firstly to try to stop them from ever getting into the juvenile justice system, and secondly, if this is unsuccessful, t ...
the review of the - CJFS 6945 Research Methods by John Hazy, YSU
... environmental, and social conditions interact in complex ways to produce human behaviour (see Englander, 2007; Ellis, 2005; Fishbein, 2001; Yaralian and Raine, 2001). Biosocial thinkers ask a basic question: When faced with the same environmental stressors, why do some people engage in violence whil ...
... environmental, and social conditions interact in complex ways to produce human behaviour (see Englander, 2007; Ellis, 2005; Fishbein, 2001; Yaralian and Raine, 2001). Biosocial thinkers ask a basic question: When faced with the same environmental stressors, why do some people engage in violence whil ...
General Strain Theory and Bullying Victimization
... Characteristics of strain most likely to lead to delinquency. After much criticism, Agnew (2001) expanded his theory by identifying four characteristics of strains that are most likely to result in crime. Strains are criminogenic when they are seen as unjust, are perceived high in magnitude, are ass ...
... Characteristics of strain most likely to lead to delinquency. After much criticism, Agnew (2001) expanded his theory by identifying four characteristics of strains that are most likely to result in crime. Strains are criminogenic when they are seen as unjust, are perceived high in magnitude, are ass ...
Preventing Crime - What Works, What Doesn`t
... What's Promising. These are programs for which the level of certainty from available evidence is too low to support generalizable conclusions, but for which there is some empirical basis for predicting that further research could support such conclusions. Programs are coded as "promising" if they fo ...
... What's Promising. These are programs for which the level of certainty from available evidence is too low to support generalizable conclusions, but for which there is some empirical basis for predicting that further research could support such conclusions. Programs are coded as "promising" if they fo ...
Predicting Violence - American Bar Association
... indicate which defendants will commit violent crimes? Should judges consider the prior record of the defendant, or the current charge, in deciding who to release? However, broad public debate on the topic died in the 1980s, and since then there has been little dialogue on how pretrial detention is g ...
... indicate which defendants will commit violent crimes? Should judges consider the prior record of the defendant, or the current charge, in deciding who to release? However, broad public debate on the topic died in the 1980s, and since then there has been little dialogue on how pretrial detention is g ...
Restitution, Rehabilitation, Prevention, and
... discourse to describe today's juvenile offenders. [FN1] Such characterizations foster a perception that youth crime is out of control, and that the best way to rein it in is to "get tough" on juvenile offenders and to treat them as adult criminals. In this regard, punishment, deterrence, and communi ...
... discourse to describe today's juvenile offenders. [FN1] Such characterizations foster a perception that youth crime is out of control, and that the best way to rein it in is to "get tough" on juvenile offenders and to treat them as adult criminals. In this regard, punishment, deterrence, and communi ...
Florida`s Truth in Sentencing Effectiveness on Recidivism
... from the literature are studies that examine the effectiveness of sentencing policies that incarcerate offenders with their effectiveness to reduce recidivism. This study responds to this void in the prior literature on incarceration and recidivism. The purpose of this study is to explore the effect ...
... from the literature are studies that examine the effectiveness of sentencing policies that incarcerate offenders with their effectiveness to reduce recidivism. This study responds to this void in the prior literature on incarceration and recidivism. The purpose of this study is to explore the effect ...
Juvenile Arrest Rates 1980-2009
... Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice using data released in 2010 by the Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI collects annual information on arrests made by law enforcement agencies throughout the United States. Data are coll ...
... Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice using data released in 2010 by the Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI collects annual information on arrests made by law enforcement agencies throughout the United States. Data are coll ...
Juvenile Arrest Rates 1980-2009 - Dr. Jeffrey A. Butts, New York, NY
... Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice using data released in 2010 by the Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI collects annual information on arrests made by law enforcement agencies throughout the United States. Data are coll ...
... Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice using data released in 2010 by the Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI collects annual information on arrests made by law enforcement agencies throughout the United States. Data are coll ...
2014_Borden_Barbara_A_Dissertation
... literature to increase her likelihood of recidivism, compared to alternative punishment models that allow her to foster family relationships (especially with her dependent children) and fulfill responsibilities inherent to the feminist ethic of care (Gilligan 1982, 1995). A woman's sense of relation ...
... literature to increase her likelihood of recidivism, compared to alternative punishment models that allow her to foster family relationships (especially with her dependent children) and fulfill responsibilities inherent to the feminist ethic of care (Gilligan 1982, 1995). A woman's sense of relation ...
Justice policy reform for high-risk juveniles: Using
... more than a unique causal process. They differ from others more in degree than in kind. The time is right to focus on high-risk juveniles, given extraordinary recent changes in justice policy. After a distinctly punitive period, policymakers have moderated their approach over the past decade, becomi ...
... more than a unique causal process. They differ from others more in degree than in kind. The time is right to focus on high-risk juveniles, given extraordinary recent changes in justice policy. After a distinctly punitive period, policymakers have moderated their approach over the past decade, becomi ...
United States Counter Piracy and Maritime Security Action Plan
... have improved over the last few years, but significant improvements are still required. A reduced commitment by naval counter-piracy force providers or diminished self-protection measures by commercial shipping likely will result in a resurgence of successful hijackings. There appears to be a growin ...
... have improved over the last few years, but significant improvements are still required. A reduced commitment by naval counter-piracy force providers or diminished self-protection measures by commercial shipping likely will result in a resurgence of successful hijackings. There appears to be a growin ...
Is Project HOPE Creating,, False Sense of Hope?
... probationers learn the conditions and expectations of probation. The hearing starts with a positive message to probationers. They are told that they have support from the judge, court staff, prosecutor, defense counsel, and their probation officer, and that everyone wants to see them succeed on HOPE ...
... probationers learn the conditions and expectations of probation. The hearing starts with a positive message to probationers. They are told that they have support from the judge, court staff, prosecutor, defense counsel, and their probation officer, and that everyone wants to see them succeed on HOPE ...
Human Decisions and Machine Predictions.
... These comparisons are useful because they illustrate the algorithm’s gains without imposing any preferences on how to trade off crime and jail.9 Of course these calculations rely on a strong ‘selection on observables’ assumption; unobservable variables seen by judges could bias our results. Several ...
... These comparisons are useful because they illustrate the algorithm’s gains without imposing any preferences on how to trade off crime and jail.9 Of course these calculations rely on a strong ‘selection on observables’ assumption; unobservable variables seen by judges could bias our results. Several ...
NCSC Sentencing Survey Report - National Center for State Courts
... when it needs to be to ensure public safety, but more flexible in dealing with offenders deemed less threatening to society or when rehabilitation might be better achieved through means other than incarceration. While people may not agree on all of the details, there is surprising consensus about va ...
... when it needs to be to ensure public safety, but more flexible in dealing with offenders deemed less threatening to society or when rehabilitation might be better achieved through means other than incarceration. While people may not agree on all of the details, there is surprising consensus about va ...
McNeill, Fergus (2014) Punishment as rehabilitation. In
... some penal theorists and historians draw a distinction between twentieth century ‘rehabilitation’, which was concerned with individualistic (psychological) treatment programs to correct one’s personality (or attitudes and behaviors), and ‘reform’ which refers to an earlier preoccupation with offerin ...
... some penal theorists and historians draw a distinction between twentieth century ‘rehabilitation’, which was concerned with individualistic (psychological) treatment programs to correct one’s personality (or attitudes and behaviors), and ‘reform’ which refers to an earlier preoccupation with offerin ...
Regional Programme for the Arab States
... Office has an existing mandate on a number of fronts, including supporting a balanced public healthoriented approach to the drug problem, by working to end discrimination against, and promote interventions for, people who use drugs, and strengthening the access to comprehensive, evidence-based, and ...
... Office has an existing mandate on a number of fronts, including supporting a balanced public healthoriented approach to the drug problem, by working to end discrimination against, and promote interventions for, people who use drugs, and strengthening the access to comprehensive, evidence-based, and ...
The Costs of Crime and Violence - Inter
... The overall estimates reveal that crime costs Latin American and the Caribbean countries 3 percent of GDP, on average, with a lower bound of 2.41 percent and an upper bound of 3.55 percent, and a wide range of variation that illustrates the heterogeneity of the region with respect to crime. The cost ...
... The overall estimates reveal that crime costs Latin American and the Caribbean countries 3 percent of GDP, on average, with a lower bound of 2.41 percent and an upper bound of 3.55 percent, and a wide range of variation that illustrates the heterogeneity of the region with respect to crime. The cost ...
saving the united states from lurching to another
... We inject content into this recommendation. While the main focus of this Article is theoretical in nature, we undertake the ambitious but necessary task of setting out in concrete terms a new sentencing paradigm. This system should replace the sentencing process in all parts of the United States, in ...
... We inject content into this recommendation. While the main focus of this Article is theoretical in nature, we undertake the ambitious but necessary task of setting out in concrete terms a new sentencing paradigm. This system should replace the sentencing process in all parts of the United States, in ...
To Blame or to Forgive? - Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
... proneness to react to them in these kinds of ways’.12 More modestly, to hold another responsible has instead been proposed to consist in believing that such reactions would be appropriate or fitting, even if one does not actually have the relevant feelings oneself.13 But such nuances aside, the idea ...
... proneness to react to them in these kinds of ways’.12 More modestly, to hold another responsible has instead been proposed to consist in believing that such reactions would be appropriate or fitting, even if one does not actually have the relevant feelings oneself.13 But such nuances aside, the idea ...
The Globalization of Juvenile Justice
... expanded to have a broad reach. An estimated 250,000 juveniles are tried, sentenced, and/or incarcerated in the adult criminal justice system each year within the United States (Arya, 2011). Once these teenagers enter the adult system, they no longer receive access to the rehabilitative services the ...
... expanded to have a broad reach. An estimated 250,000 juveniles are tried, sentenced, and/or incarcerated in the adult criminal justice system each year within the United States (Arya, 2011). Once these teenagers enter the adult system, they no longer receive access to the rehabilitative services the ...
Preparing the young offender for return to society
... behavior, proceeded by dialog with and observation of teenagers already adjudicated to be juvenile delinquents. It was premised on those parts of sociological theory that could provide explanation of and suggest treatment for juvenile delinquency. This study tested the tenets of several perspectives ...
... behavior, proceeded by dialog with and observation of teenagers already adjudicated to be juvenile delinquents. It was premised on those parts of sociological theory that could provide explanation of and suggest treatment for juvenile delinquency. This study tested the tenets of several perspectives ...
Personal Violence by Strangers: An Extension
... Family disruption, such as divorce or separation, may also increase victimization risk by decreasing a community's informal social controls. 29 Examples of informal social controls include neighbors taking note of or questioning strangers, watching over each others' property, assuming responsibility ...
... Family disruption, such as divorce or separation, may also increase victimization risk by decreasing a community's informal social controls. 29 Examples of informal social controls include neighbors taking note of or questioning strangers, watching over each others' property, assuming responsibility ...
Punishment: Consequentialism
... Consider also the moral harms created by the criminal law itself – not just cases of wrongful convictions and hence punishment, and of disproportionately harsh punishment, but forms of stigmatisation and ostracising treatment, and consequential material harms and losses (for instance, from discrimin ...
... Consider also the moral harms created by the criminal law itself – not just cases of wrongful convictions and hence punishment, and of disproportionately harsh punishment, but forms of stigmatisation and ostracising treatment, and consequential material harms and losses (for instance, from discrimin ...
THE RISK-NEED-RESPONSIVITY (RNR) MODEL Does Adding the
... 2007), have still not addressed, in our view, our earlier rebuttal. It is our opinion that they have not paid close enough attention to our RNR research since they have underplayed the principles of specific responsivity (Table 1, #7b), the principles of staffing (Table 1, #17) and core practices of ...
... 2007), have still not addressed, in our view, our earlier rebuttal. It is our opinion that they have not paid close enough attention to our RNR research since they have underplayed the principles of specific responsivity (Table 1, #7b), the principles of staffing (Table 1, #17) and core practices of ...