Journal of Criminal Justice

1973 - 2025

Current editor(s): Matthew DeLisi

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Volume 92, issue C, 2024

Expanding the ACEs index beyond the household: A gendered assessment of the adversity-delinquency nexus

Mackenzie Kushner and Lindsay Leban

Ambiguous calls: Public preferences for law enforcement responses to people in crisis

Caitlin M. Brady, Gabrielle Dieterich and Amanda Graham

Buy-in for police early intervention systems: An initial exploration of what works

Thomas Christoff and Benjamin Carleton

The influence of spirituality and religious participation on binge drinking: An investigation into subjective and structural mechanisms of desistance

Megan E. Mohler

Advancing pretrial assessments: Development of the Personal Recognizance Interview & Needs Screen (PRINS)

Zachary Hamilton, John Ursino and Alex Kigerl

Callous-unemotional traits and pubertal development: Sex-specific effects on disruptive behavior in children at ages 11 and 12

Natalia Pueyo, José-Blas Navarro, Núria de la Osa, Pedro Pechorro and Lourdes Ezpeleta

How maternal and paternal parenting behaviors predict developmental changes in self-control and deviance during early adolescence

Dan Liu and Alexander T. Vazsonyi

On the Robustness of Black Americans’ Support for the Police: Evidence From a National Experiment

Linda Balcarová, Justin T. Pickett, Amanda Graham, Sean Patrick Roche and Francis T. Cullen

Procedural justice and probation officer legitimacy: Testing the process-based model in community supervision

Lucas M. Alward

Revisiting the sexual recidivism drop in Canada and the United States: A meta-analysis of 468 empirical studies involving 388,994 individuals

Patrick Lussier and Evan McCuish

Criminal justice transitions among adolescents in Australia: A multi-state model

Emaediong I. Akpanekpo, Azar Kariminia, Preeyaporn Srasuebkul, Julian N. Trollor, John Kasinathan, David Greenberg, Peter W. Schofield, Dianna T. Kenny, Claire Gaskin, Melanie Simpson, Jocelyn Jones, Anyiekere M. Ekanem and Tony Butler

An experimental-causal-chain design to explore three mechanisms linking economic inequality and crime

Eran Itskovich and Roni Factor

Is corrections officers' use of illegal force networked? Network structure, brokerage, and key players in the New York City Department of Correction

Nicholas Goldrosen

Bias in prosecutorial decision making: Bridging focal concerns & group threat

Omrit Avni, Joshua Guetzkow and Badi Hasisi

Criminal record and sentencing: A comparative perspective between England and Wales and Hong Kong

Sayaka Ri and Kevin Kwok-yin Cheng

Victims' satisfaction with police communication strategies in discontinued cases: Unveiling the limits through a randomised controlled trial in Israel

Esther Buchnik, Barak Ariel and Eran Itskovich

A theory of change driven approach to evaluating a multi-agency stalking intervention programme

Jyoti Belur, Lisa Tompson and Kritika Jerath

An examination of recidivism outcomes for a novel prosecutor-led gun diversion program

Matthew W. Epperson, Rachel C. Garthe, Hannah Lee and Angela Hawken

An updated evidence synthesis on the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model: Umbrella review and commentary

Seena Fazel, Connie Hurton, Matthias Burghart, Matt DeLisi and Rongqin Yu

Discipling risk: Governing through conditions on bail in the community pre-trial

Nicole M. Myers and Alyssa Leblond

Volume 91, issue C, 2024

Neuropsychological functioning and its association with juvenile arrest and adulthood incarceration: Findings from a longitudinal sample of youth

Halibati Halibiyati, Kuanysh Aratuly, Adilgazy Serikhan, Adlet M. Yergali and Kevin M. Beaver

Offending trajectories from childhood to retirement age: Findings from the Stockholm birth cohort study

Fredrik Sivertsson, Christoffer Carlsson, Ylva B. Almquist and Lars Brännström

Have offender demographics changed since the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from money mules in South Korea

Sunmin Hong, Dohyo Jeong and Pyung Kim

The math of serial murder: Understanding victim numbers and series duration

April Miin Miin Chai, D. Kim Rossmo, Julien Chopin and Enzo Yaksic

The resilience of drug trafficking organizations: Simulating the impact of police arresting key roles

Deborah Manzi and Francesco Calderoni

For law enforcement purposes: The complicated relationship between the 1033 program and the expanding police mandate

John D. Crum, A. Corradi and D.M. Ramey

Criminal court responses to the modern opioid and methamphetamine twindemic

Bryan Holmes, Ben Feldmeyer, Diana Sun and Shayna Arrigo

Provincial and territorial correctional service workers: A Canadian national and jurisdictional assessment of mental health

R. Ricciardelli, R.N. Carleton, T.L. Taillieu, S. Dorniani, M.S. Johnston, M. Carbonell, R. Coulling, E. Andres and T.O. Afifi

Police whistleblowing: A systematic review of the likelihood (and the barriers and facilitators) of the willingness of police officers to report the misconduct of fellow officers

Olivia Elizabeth Vere Taylor, Richard Philpot, Oliver Fitton, Zoë Walkington and Mark Levine

Volume 90, issue C, 2024

Hot spots policing as part of a city-wide violent crime reduction strategy: Initial evidence from Dallas

Michael R. Smith, Rob Tillyer and Brandon Tregle

Privatized jails: Comparing individuals' safety in private and public jails

Kayla Freemon

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the murder of George Floyd on victim and third-party reporting of domestic violence to the police in the US

Yasemin Irvin-Erickson and Auzeen Shariati

Justifiability and culpability in lethal self-defense: Police officers vs. civilians

Christopher J. Marier

The conditioning role of perceptions of collective efficacy in the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and delinquency

Ter'Ricka F. Brundidge and Lindsay Leban

Revenge Effects and Electronic Control Weapons: A Cautionary Tale about the Unintended Consequences of Technology in the American Justice System

Paige E. Vaughn, Claire Greene and David Klinger

Do real-time crime centers improve case clearance? An examination of Chicago's strategic decision support centers

Rachael Arietti

Finding an answer in time: Assessing change in needs scores on time to recidivism among justice-involved youth

Amber Krushas, Zachary Hamilton, Alex Kigerl and Xiaohan Mei

Prosecutors and crime deterrence: Evidence from a difference-in-differences analysis with staggered treatment

Samantha Bielen

Predictors of perceived wrongfulness and harmfulness of crime among residents in Portugal

Mária Lúcia Calmeiro, Pedro Sousa and José Cruz

Public perception of bidirectional intimate partner violence

Simran Ahmed, L. Maaike Helmus and Alexandra Lysova

The impact of plea bargaining on sexual offences in Spain: An analysis of judicial sentences

Pablo Romero Seseña, Laura Arantegui Arráez and Josep Maria Tamarit Sumalla

Assessing public support for expanded police powers in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic: Testing the limits of Sunshine and Tyler's empowerment hypothesis

Richard K. Moule, Silas Patterson, George W. Burruss and Chae M. Jaynes

Revisiting the correlates of youth attitudes toward the police: The role of conservative and liberal crime ideology

Omeed S. Ilchi, Y. Gail Hurst, James Frank, Cheryl Lero Jonson and Gabrielle E. Soe

An archetypal vigilante case study: Mr. M's double homicide

Michael J. Mills and Joshua S. Long

Volume 89, issue C, 2023

Adverse childhood experiences and adolescent handgun carrying

Melissa S. Jones, Cashen M. Boccio, Daniel C. Semenza and Dylan B. Jackson

Public perceptions of, and preferences toward, police vehicle designs: A mixed-method test of a theoretical question

Rylan Simpson, Viktoria Tumilowicz, Madison Charman and Rich Johnston

Public assessments of the criminal justice system in addressing mental health

Christina Mancini and Christi Metcalfe

How prior experience and belief in redeemability impact employers' willingness to hire applicants with a criminal record

Kiera O'Connor, Mateus R. Santos and Chae M. Jaynes

Beyond force and injuries: Examining alternative (and important) outcomes for police De-escalation training

Michael D. White, Carlena Orosco and Seth Watts

Measuring the dark core: A Brazilian adaptation and comparison between the general population and incarcerated men

Bruno Bonfá-Araujo, Leonardo Borges Ferreira, Ana Deyvis Santos Araújo Jesuíno, Nelson Hauck-Filho and Fabio Iglesias