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Safety Assessment in Child Protection—A Survey Study With Dutch Child Protection Workers

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Safety assessment is a crucial part of child protective services to estimate acute and chronic danger in families that are at risk for child abuse in order to determine whether and which steps need to be taken to protect the child's safety. This study aimed to gain insight into the usefulness of the safety assessment procedure at Dutch child ...
B. Erens, H. Gerger, E. Simon
wiley   +1 more source

LEAD Program Evaluation: Recidivism Report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The LEAD program was established in 2011 as a means of diverting those suspected of low-level drug and prostitution criminal activity to case management and other supportive services instead of jail and prosecution. The primary aim of the LEAD program is
Heather S. Lonczak   +2 more
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Understanding Pathways to Recidivism Among Children in Türkiye: Insights From Social Workers on Needs, Neglect and Systemic Gaps

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Türkiye has experienced a notable increase in juvenile delinquency in recent years, raising serious concerns about child welfare and juvenile justice systems. This qualitative study examines the socio‐economic and structural dimensions of recidivism based on the field experiences of 20 social workers working with children drawn into crime ...
Hüseyin Batman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crime and the Labour Market: Evidence from a Survey of Inmates [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper data from a survey of 1,771 inmates conducted in 31 German prisons provide microeconometric evidence on the relationship between individual anticipated labour market opportunities and the perceived probability of future recidivism.
Entorf, Horst
core   +3 more sources

Sentence Reductions and Recidivism: Lessons from the Bastille Day Quasi Experiment [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper exploits the collective pardon granted to individuals incarcerated in French prisons on the 14th of July, 1996 (Bastille Day) to identify the effect of collective sentence reductions on recidivism.
Maurin, Eric, Ouss, Aurelie
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Introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Crime-preventing neurointerventions (CPNs) are increasingly being used or advocated for crime prevention. There is increasing use of testosterone-lowering agents to prevent recidivism in sexual offenders, and strong political and scientific interest in ...
Birks, David, Douglas, Thomas
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Amplifying Marginalised Voices: A Rapid Evidence Review of Participatory Methods Engaging Justice‐Involved Youth

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores participative approaches for amplifying the voices of justice‐involved youth, a marginalised group in criminological research. Using the SPIDER framework, this rapid evidence review examines engagement methods, such as photovoice and lyric writing.
Kelly Razey, Colm Walsh
wiley   +1 more source

Do Community-Based Corrections Have an Effect on Recidivism Rates? A Review of Community Supervision, Supportive Reintegration, Electronic Monitoring Programs and Their Impacts on Reducing Reoffending [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper will examine the impact and effect community-based corrections have on the reduction of recidivism for adult offenders. More specifically, I will focus on three commonly used types of such corrections in the United States: community ...
Schmidt, Bethany
core   +1 more source

A practical, adaptive compliance management framework for improving marine protected area effectiveness

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Noncompliance regularly undermines the effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPAs) worldwide. The reasons for and drivers of noncompliance depend on the context (e.g., insufficient funding, capacity, neocolonialism, historical conflict), but the prevalent solution offered to curtail noncompliance tends to be more or better enforcement.
B. Bergseth   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Screening Scale for Pedophilic Interests (SSPI): Construct, Predictive, and Incremental Validity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This study of 410 adult male sex offenders against children, using data from the Dynamic Supervision Project (Hanson, Harris, Scott, & Helmus, 2007), examined the construct, predictive, and incremental validity of the Screening Scale for Pedophilic ...
Helmus, L.   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

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