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

, 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., Seto, M.C., Ó Ciardha, Caoilte   +2 more
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Racial bias in criminal sentencing: Historical evidence from Chinese railway workers in British Columbia

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract Do discriminatory attitudes held in the public influence public institutions? We study this question within the context of the criminal justice system of historical British Columbia (BC). During the late 1870s and early 1880s, an influx of Chinese immigrant workers employed in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was the catalyst
Kris Inwood, Ian Keay, Blair Long
wiley   +1 more source

Alameda County Placement Risk Assessment Validation [PDF]

, 2000
The Alameda County Probation Department was awarded a grant from the National Institute of Justice in 1998 to develop a risk assessment for probation placement cases.

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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery on the Labour Rights of Incarcerated People: A Case Study of England and Wales

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents the 2024 Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, entitled ‘Contemporary Forms of Slavery as Affecting Currently and Formerly Incarcerated People’, and assesses the regime in England and Wales on the basis of the Rapporteur's recommendations.
Virginia Mantouvalou
wiley   +1 more source

How to Diagnose Prisons' Failures: Three Perspectives on Officers' Responsibilities

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prison officers play a vital role in shaping prison conditions. Assessing their responsibility for, and potential role in reforming, the prison's failures is an urgent and important task in corrective justice efforts. This article takes up this task, with a focus on the US prison context, by applying and critically examining two general ...
Candice Delmas
wiley   +1 more source

Annual Research Review: Improving school climate to improve child and adolescent mental health and reduce inequalities

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.
Schools are important settings for intervention to improve mental health. Much school mental health research has focused on schools as an avenue to reach large numbers of young people with new interventions, added on top of what schools currently do. However, research is increasingly focused on changing the school system itself to improve mental health,
Graham Moore
wiley   +1 more source

Unlocking Potential: Results of a National Survey of Postsecondary Education in State Prisons [PDF]

, 2011
Examines enrollment, instruction, eligibility, and funding for postsecondary correctional education as a way to reduce recidivism. Calls for increasing capacity, aligning programs with state education systems and workforce needs, and expanding ...
Brian A. Sponsler, Laura E. Gorgol
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Effects of parent–child interaction therapy dosage on child and parent outcomes: differentiating child‐directed interaction and parent‐directed interaction session impacts in child welfare‐involved families

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.
Background Parent–child interaction therapy (PCIT) improves parenting and child behavior, yet little is known about how dosage of its two phases, warm relationship building focused child‐directed interaction (CDI) sessions and safe, effective discipline skills‐focused parent‐directed interaction (PDI) sessions, contributes to outcomes, particularly in ...
Xiaolan Liao, Julia P. Ruggiero, David E. Bard, Adon F. G. Rosen, Elizabeth A. Skowron   +4 more
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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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Quality Regulation and Unexpected Gaming: Evidence From Mandating Flight Delay Compensation

Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policies that target a single aspect of agents' motivation may lead to their diminished efforts in other areas. This paper examines the effect of the European Union's flight delay compensation policy on flight on‐time performance by exploiting a unique policy variation in a difference‐in‐differences framework.
Jingyi Xing
wiley   +1 more source