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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing on qualitative data among a sample of people leaving prison in Aotearoa New Zealand, this article explores how post‐prison transitional housing impacts desistance from crime and motivation to desist. While transitional housing is designed to support reintegration, our findings reveal that it can also produce unintended impacts—or ...
Alice Mills +2 more
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, 2013 Sexual recidivism is concerned with the reoffending of sexual offenders who have already had contact with the criminal justice system. This entry emphasizes the need to carefully define what is meant by recidivism and discusses some of the pitfalls in ...
Francis, Brian, Soothill, Keith
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Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring [PDF]
We study the re-arrest rates for two groups: individuals formerly in prison and individuals formerly under electronic monitoring (EM). We find that the recidivism rate of former prisoners is 22% while that for those 'treated' with electronic monitoring ...
Rafael Di Tella, Ernesto Schargrodsky
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Does Prison Substance Abuse Treatment Reduce Recidivism?Performance Audit Report Iowa Department of Corrections Licensed Substance Abuse Programs, May 25, 2007 [PDF]
, 2007 The Iowa Department of Corrections faces a growing prison population expected to quickly exceed current capacities. Additionally, nine out of every ten offenders have a history of alcohol or drug problems often both.
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Current legislation and safeguarding principles are bound by narrow and inflexible constructions of childhood and adulthood. The criminal age of responsibility in England and Wales has been criticised for the responsibilisation of children from age 10 years.
Jayne Price
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Probation service recidivism study 2007-2011. [PDF]
, 2012 The Probation Service and Central Statistics Office have established a partnership to conduct research on recidivism and related issues among offenders on supervision in the community.
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Documenting how judges explain child sexual abuse (CSA) perpetration is an important task as sentencing decisions are informed by their explanatory understandings. Despite this, the research into judges’ explanations for CSA perpetration is piecemeal and dated.
Kelly Richards
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The prediction of criminal recidivism using routinely available file information
International Journal of Psychological Research, 2013 Objective. The aim of the present study was to cross-validate the investigation of Buchanan and Leese (2006) into the prediction of criminal recidivism. Method.
Diana Fries +3 more
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Welfare recipiency and welfare recidivism: An analysis of the NLSY data [PDF]
This paper analyzes welfare recipiency and recidivism of first-time AFDC recipients over the 168-month (14-year) period from January 1978 to December 1991 using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) database. Duration of a single AFDC spell is
J. Cao
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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 ...
Seto, Michael C. +4 more
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