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Indirect Effects of a Policy Altering Criminal Behaviour: Evidence from the Italian Prison Experiment [PDF]
We exploit the Collective Clemency Bill passed by the Italian Parliament in July 2006 to evaluate the indirect effects of a policy that randomly commutes actual sentences to expected sentences for 40 percent of the Italian prison population.
Francesco Drago, Roberto Galbiati
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The Effectiveness of Juvenile Correctional Facilities: Public versus Private Management [PDF]
This paper uses data on juvenile offenders released from correctional facilities in Florida to explore the effects of facility management type (private for-profit, private nonprofit, public state-operated, and public county-operated) on recidivism ...
David E. Pozen, Patrick Bayer
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Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Aims This study examined behavioural heterogeneity across three victim–offender relationship categories in a non‐Western context to determine whether specific patterns can accurately predict intimate/family, acquaintance/friend and stranger homicides.
Ruihan Chen
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Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose The present study examines whether incarcerated individuals' meta‐malleability, the belief that others perceive them as capable of change, predicts support for restorative justice (RJ), and which emotional mechanisms moderate this influence.
Inbal Peleg‐Koriat +2 more
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Self‐rated and clinically assessed psychopathy: Same or different thermometers?
Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose To examine whether scores on a self‐report instrument can serve as a valid proxy for clinically assessed psychopathy. Method Using data from the Pathways to Desistance study, we applied a hybrid NEAT (non‐equivalent groups with anchor test)–SG (single group) equating design to link the Psychopathy Checklist–Youth Version (PCL–YV) with ...
Lloyd Balbuena +6 more
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London Review of Education, 2014 This article provides a view of contemporary Australia in terms of patterns of offending and incarceration, the characteristics of its correctional systems, vocational education and training (VET) within correctional settings, and post-release ...
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, 2011 The submitted work, as follows from its title, is concerned with criminal recidivism, in the first part primarily from a criminological perspective, while the second part of the work then deals particularly with the perspective of criminal law.
Vejběrová, Andrea
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Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose This study investigated a possible mechanism of the labelling effect. Method In a longitudinal study with a cohort of N = 836 first‐time incarcerated young men, it was tested whether the perceived label as deviant by others would predict future recidivism and second, whether adaptation of the actual self‐concept to the perceived view ...
Karla Marek +2 more
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Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose Using neural network analysis, we examined how specific dispositional and situational factors influence pathways for the commission of sexual offending against children. Use of non‐linear multifactorial models is still developing in psychological and criminological research, making this a unique contribution to these fields.
Kelly Jackson +5 more
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On Probation. An Experimental Analysis [PDF]
Does probation pay a double dividend? Society saves the cost of incarceration, and convicts preserve their liberty. But does probation also reduce the risk of recidivism? In a meta-study we show that the field evidence is inconclusive.
Bernd Irlenbusch +3 more
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