Journal of Criminal Justice

1973 - 2025

Current editor(s): Matthew DeLisi

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Volume 94, issue C, 2024

Pipe dreams: Cannabis legalization and the persistence of racial disparities in jail incarceration

Guangzhen Wu, Katherine A. Durante and Heather C. Melton

The dynamic emotional experience of online fraud victims during the process of being defrauded: A text-based analysis

Jie Wang, Lei Zhang, Liang Xu and Xiuying Qian

Convicted women's trajectories of community and financial adversity and race

Thomas Wojciechowski and Merry Morash

The impact of the Detroit crime gun intelligence center on fatal and nonfatal shooting clearance rates

Alaina De Biasi

Does pretrial detention influence time until re-involvement with the criminal legal system?

Ian A. Silver, Jason Walker, Matthew DeMichele, Jenna L. Dole and Ryan M. Labrecque

National Identification and Public Cooperation with the Police in Ghana

Dennis Sarpong

Formalizing and expanding school resource officer presence: Examining the influence on student arrests

Melanie F.P. Soderstrom

Public support for safe-storage laws: White nationalism and politics as barriers to evidence-based gun policy

Murat Haner, Melissa M. Sloan, Justin T. Pickett, Francis T. Cullen and Cheryl Lero Jonson

Perceptual saturation in deterrence: Examining the nonlinear relationships between arrest rate signal and perceptions of risk and reward

Sultan Altikriti, Damon M. Petrich and Claudia N. Anderson

Timing, frequency, and duration of incarceration and their impact on mental illness: Evidence from an Australian birth cohort

Diksha Sapkota, James Ogilvie, Carleen M. Thompson, Aydan Kuluk and Susan Dennison

Estimating the prevalence and frequency of adolescent substance use using zero-inflated models and variables associated with social learning, social bond, and opportunity

Natasha Pusch

Patrol officer activity by single- versus double-crewed status: The call-related output of one-officer and two-officer patrol units

Rylan Simpson and Leigh Grossman

Beyond a binary: Introducing the role of timing in understanding the link between child maltreatment and intimate partner violence victimization in the Global South

Brittany E. Hayes, Francesco P. DiRienzo and Dana L. Radatz

Testing racial and ethnic differences in the correlates of court legitimacy

Chae M. Jaynes, Jacqueline G. Lee and Richard K. Moule

Racial/ethnic disparities in police recovery of stolen property: A previously unexplored facet of police/victim interaction

Alexander J. Vanhee

An early social support network analysis of men facing reentry

Raven Simonds

From mobility to crime: Collective patterns of human mobility and gun violence in Baltimore City

Xinyi Situ

Individual and neighborhood factors in residence-to-crime distances for property, drug, and violent offenses

John Wooldredge, Amanda Graham and James Frank

Evidence for intergenerational transmission of biological risk for antisocial behavior: Low resting heart rate in fathers predicts elevated criminality in sons

Bridget M. Bertoldi, Sofi Oskarsson, Anneli Andersson, Joseph A. Schwartz, Antti Latvala, Henrik Larsson, Adrian Raine, Catherine Tuvblad and Christopher J. Patrick

The impact of violent behavior on co-offender selection: Evidence of behavioral homophily

Joke Geeraert, Luis Rocha and Christophe Vandeviver

Are police as “guardian-oriented” as they should be? Expectation-reality discrepancies are related to perceptions of legitimacy

Allison R. Cross and Adam D. Fine

Homicidality risk prediction based on ecological systems theory in an early adolescent cohort using machine learning

Min Li, Ting Tang, Yuheng He, Yingying Tong, Mengyuan Yuan, Yonghan Li, Xueying Zhang, Gengfu Wang and Puyu Su

Assessing the feasibility and performance of risk assessment instruments for early intervention and prevention services in Juvenile Justice

Keller G. Sheppard, Alyssa R. Talaugon and Jorge L. Hernandez

The effect of police reform on overall police misconduct and misconduct that involves the use of force

Peter P. Cassino and Mustafa Demir

Does the public support anti-gang policies and practices and can opinions be swayed? Experimental evidence from a National Survey of Americans

David C. Pyrooz, James A. Densley and Jose Antonio Sanchez

Machine learning analysis of a national sample of U.S. case law involving mental health evidence

Mia A. Thomaidou, Alisha Patel, Sandy S. Xie and Colleen M. Berryessa

Drug treatment courts and community-level crime

Patrick F. Hibbard and Jason E. Chapman

Anger, fear, and frozenness: Exploring the emotive aspect of anti-police sentiment

Katelyn Davenport-Klunder, Kelly Hine and Nadine McKillop

A comparison of first-time offenders, repeat offenders, and frequent utilizers of the criminal justice system

Lisa Stolzenberg, Stewart J. D'Alessio, Besiki L. Kutateladze and Victoria Z. Lawson

The association between depression and crime outcomes: A Swedish population-based study

Nilo Tayebi, Anneli Andersson, Shichun Ling, Brittany Evans, Henrik Larsson and Catherine Tuvblad

“Get rich quick,” scheme or script? The effect of cryptoculture on the susceptibility of fraud victimization among cryptocurrency purchasers

Brandon Christopher Dulisse, Nathan Connealy and Matthew William Logan

Volume 93, issue C, 2024

In the wake of Miller and Montgomery: A national view of people sentenced to juvenile life without parole

J.Z. Bennett, Daphne M. Brydon, Jeffrey T. Ward, Dylan B. Jackson, Leah Ouellet, Rebecca Turner and Laura S. Abrams

Reform, defund or do not touch? Exploring factors affecting the demand for organizational change in law enforcement

Ahmet Guler and Ismail Onat

Consistently inconsistent: Examining variability in police decision-making in mental health calls using a novel noise audit approach

Sean Wire, Renée J. Mitchell and Jason Schiess

Public preferences for opioid reform in a post-COVID era: Consensus and divides

Christina Mancini and Hunter M. Boehme

Healthcare utilization and type of criminal-legal system contact: The importance of employment and health insurance

Alexander H. Lewis and Jason A. Ford

The accumulated impact of direct and indirect workplace violence exposure on mental health and physiological activity among correctional officers

Joseph A. Schwartz and Samantha L. Allen

Normative, expressive, and personal factors associated with cooperation with police: Findings from a longitudinal cohort study

Amy Nivette, Idris Güçlü, Denis Ribeaud and Manuel Eisner

Holding anti-feminist gender role beliefs mediate the relationship between family-related adverse childhood experiences and different forms of intimate partner violence perpetration in adulthood

Marc Wenigmann, Julia Weiß and Rahel Heidelberg

An experimental test of the contagious fire thesis in policing

John DeCarlo, Eric Dlugolenski and David Myers

Taking the long view: A temporal assessment of minority threat theory in 21st century sentencing

Bryan Holmes and Ben Feldmeyer

An exploration of use of force among law enforcement officers with military service

Allison Escobedo and Quinn Gordon

The threat of gun violence and mass shootings: The extent of avoidance and protective behaviors among the American public11Data from the current study come from a 2023 Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) poll entitled, “Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Poll: March 2023 Health Tracking Poll /COVID19 Vaccine Monitor. The data are housed in the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research https://doi.org/10.25940/ROPER-31120192). The authors would be happy to share their coding file with interested parties. The opinions or points of view expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) or the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. The current study did not receive funding from any agency or organization. We thank the Editor and three anonymous reviewers for their comments on an earlier draft of the study

Christina Mancini and Nick Devlin

Characteristics and risk of reimprisonment among children and young adults in Norwegian prisons. A 20-year cohort study

Ingeborg Skjærvø, Marianne Riksheim Stavseth, Christine Friestad, Torbjørn Skardhamar, Torill Tverborgvik and Anne Bukten

In-hand handgun retention: A crossover RCE comparing two techniques

J. Eleuterio, F.D. Freire and B.A. Strapasson

Sensitivity for thee, but not for me: The role of social status as a conduit for white-collar prison adjustment

Matthew W. Logan, Mark A. Morgan, Joshua S. Long and Hei Lam Chio

Ending the stigma of male domestic violence and abuse victims: A mixed-methods study

Paige Ambrozewicz, Courtney Hammond and Dean Fido

Mediation of the ‘Big Five’ on antisocial behaviour: A life history perspective

Caitlin Ellis and Michael Rowlands

Attachment to parents and adolescents' marijuana use, attitudes, and perceptions: Assessing the role of county-level dispensaries

Kelsi Moscrop-Blake, Wanda E. Leal and Peter S. Lehmann

A retrospective study of the role of probation revocation in future criminal justice involvement

Carmen L. Diaz, Evan Marie Lowder, Miriam Northcutt Bohmert, Michelle Ying and Troy Hatfield

Correlates of “white-collar” offending

Andrew T. Krajewski and Richard B. Felson

Mental illness, focal concerns, and intersectionality: The relationship between types of mental illness, types of crime, and race and gender in sentencing in state courts

Sylwia J. Piatkowska, Tracy Sohoni and Briana Paige

Examining procedural justice spill-over effects on in-prison misconduct

Thomas Baker, Matthias van Hall, Paul Nieuwbeerta and Anja J.E. Dirkzwager

Quantifying the impact: From prevalence to harm in evaluating police misconduct

Lisa M. Dario, Gabriel T Cesar, Kristina Jalbert and Frank de la Torre