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When is violence honorable? Honor attitudes and aggression

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Journal of Criminal Justice Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102383

Andrew T. Krajewski , Richard B. Felson , Mark T. Berg

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Mental illness, race, gender and sentencing in state homicide cases

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Journal of Criminal Justice Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102376

Tracy Sohoni , Sylwia J. Piatkowska

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To report or not to report: Exploring the motivations and factors associated with reporting of ransomware victimisation among entrepreneurs

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Journal of Criminal Justice Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102378

Sifra R. Matthijsse , M. Susanne van’t Hoff-de Goede , E. Rutger Leukfeldt

{"title":"To report or not to report: Exploring the motivations and factors associated with reporting of ransomware victimisation among entrepreneurs","authors":"Sifra R. Matthijsse , M. Susanne van’t Hoff-de Goede , E. Rutger Leukfeldt","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102378","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102378","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although ransomware attacks are considered to be a prominent cyberthreat for organisations, little is known about reporting by entrepreneurs after ransomware victimisation. The current study uses two surveys to explore reporting behaviour among freelancers and small and medium-sized enterprises in the Netherlands. One survey was conducted among entrepreneurs who were victimised by ransomware (n=189). Another survey was conducted among entrepreneurs who were not victimised by ransomware (n=2,496) and included a vignette experiment. While about 92% of the entrepreneurs in the vignette experiment indicated that they would contact the police, only about 18% of the victims did, citing reasons such as solving it themselves or with the help of another party and the belief that the police will not do anything about it. Reporting to the police and to other organisations was related to the emotional and financial impact, with the exception of reporting to the police by victims. There was no association between a negative affective response and situational factors such as having a back-up and reporting among victims and non-victims.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 102378"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143487853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Effect of early prison release with electronic monitoring

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Journal of Criminal Justice Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102379

Enes Al Weswasi

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Organizational culture and context in progressive prosecutorial reform: Lessons from Philadelphia

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Journal of Criminal Justice Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102374

E. Rely Vîlcică, Megan E. Mohler, Jesse Brey, Jeffrey T. Ward

{"title":"Organizational culture and context in progressive prosecutorial reform: Lessons from Philadelphia","authors":"E. Rely Vîlcică, Megan E. Mohler, Jesse Brey, Jeffrey T. Ward","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102374","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102374","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Across the country, many District Attorneys have been elected based on progressive platforms. While guidelines exist that center four core pillars around organizational context as essential to reform success—communication, education and training, leadership and staffing, and transparency and accountability—there is limited empirical research documenting organizational processes when implementing reform. This research explores the organizational context of policy implementation in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office (DAO), as rolled out under a prominent figure of the progressive prosecution movement. The study draws on in-depth, semi-structured interviews (<em>n</em> = 63) with DAO employees conducted during 2021–2022 and relies on rigorous qualitative data analysis, including both deductive and inductive coding. Findings document staff perceptions in the four different domains under investigation. Specifically, the role of policy rollout and opportunities for input emerged as important sub-themes under communication while the nature of training and the role of reassignments were important sub-themes under training and education. Findings related to staffing and leadership underscored the role of firing, hiring and recruitment strategy, as well as organizational structure and leadership style. Lastly, several sub-themes emerged under transparency and accountability, pointing to the divergence between internal and external transparency efforts, inconsistency in metrics, and the important role of the office's research lab. The findings hold implications for understanding how progressive prosecutors can implement policies successfully and promote sustainable change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 102374"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143487854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Predicting parole for emerging adult lifers: Do age, culpability, and rehabilitation matter?

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Journal of Criminal Justice Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102380

Victoria Rivera Laugalis , Stuti S. Kokkalera

{"title":"Predicting parole for emerging adult lifers: Do age, culpability, and rehabilitation matter?","authors":"Victoria Rivera Laugalis , Stuti S. Kokkalera","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102380","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102380","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Emerging adults (aged between 18 and 25) are disproportionately arrested, incarcerated, and sentenced to life. Those serving parole eligible life sentences have the opportunity for reentry at the discretion of parole boards. The Supreme Court and several state appellate courts have recognized the lesser culpability and greater potential for rehabilitation of adolescents as a consideration in sentencing, which may extend to parole decisions. However, the consideration of lesser culpability and rehabilitation factors could vary depending on the parole candidate's age at the time of the crime. This study analyzes data coded from written parole board decisions of one state to examine how these factors predict parole outcomes across parole candidates incarcerated for crimes committed during youth, specifically focusing on those considered emerging adults at the time. Regression analyses found factors related to an emerging adult's reduced culpability, such as a history of parental abuse, decreased the likelihood of release, but rehabilitation factors increased the odds of release, suggesting age at the time of the crime may play a role in parole decision-making. How parole boards consider reduced culpability and rehabilitative factors for candidates who were emerging adults at the time of the crime has implications for policy and practice as they impact parole candidates' case for discretionary release.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 102380"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143478654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Searching for a big score: Analyzing drug yield from search warrant executions

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Journal of Criminal Justice Pub Date : 2025-02-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102377

Elizabeth Griffiths , Walter Campbell , Kay L. Levine , Joshua C. Hinkle

{"title":"Searching for a big score: Analyzing drug yield from search warrant executions","authors":"Elizabeth Griffiths , Walter Campbell , Kay L. Levine , Joshua C. Hinkle","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102377","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102377","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study, we investigated the extent to which law enforcement efforts predicted drug and other kinds of illicit yield in search warrant executions. The data are drawn from one major metropolitan police department during 2005, 2009, and 2012. Using multilevel random intercept logistic regression models and multilevel random intercept multinomial logistic regression models, we regress high yields of various kinds of drugs and other illicit items seized during searches on the investigative activities that led to search warrant applications and the enlistment of teams of officers or other agencies in executing the search. Investments in high-effort search warrant work <em>should</em> generate higher yields than would be possible using less intensive law enforcement endeavors; yet our findings show that neither high-effort investigative activities, such as surveillance or controlled buys, nor the mobilization of specialized teams or agencies actually predict drug yield, even when search warrants lead to at least one felony drug arrest. This pattern raises questions about the efficacy of high-effort law enforcement activities and the costs, both financial and symbolic, of drug-related search warrant applications and executions. We discuss these findings in the context of police resources and inefficiencies associated with search warrant activity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 102377"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143465013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Greener the safer? Effects of urban green space on community safety and perception of safety using satellite and street view imagery data

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Journal of Criminal Justice Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102372

Qian He , Ling Wu , Claire Seungeun Lee , Chunwu Zhu , Weishan Bai , Weichen Guo , Xinyue Ye

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Willingness to report hate crimes: How attitudes, police perceptions, and sexual orientation shape bystander response

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Journal of Criminal Justice Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102375

Chenghui Zhang , Bo Zhang

{"title":"Willingness to report hate crimes: How attitudes, police perceptions, and sexual orientation shape bystander response","authors":"Chenghui Zhang , Bo Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102375","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102375","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>While hate crime underreporting is associated with perceptions of police and attitudes toward minorities, less is known about factors that shape bystanders' willingness to report hate crimes. This study focuses on sexual orientation-motivated hate crimes in the US context. Utilizing a social identity theory framework, we examined the interactions of bystanders' sexual orientation, pre-existing attitudes toward sexual minorities, and perceptions of police on their reporting willingness.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We used a factorial survey experiment with random assignments (<em>n</em> = 2094) to estimate a set of binary logistic regressions with robust standard errors. We compared models with and without two-way and three-way interaction terms and further estimated predicted margins.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Although we do not detect the effect of sexual orientation on willingness to report hate crimes, the three-way interaction reveals that attitudes toward sexual minorities and perceptions of police influence bystander reporting willingness across sexual orientation groups differently. Specifically, heterosexual respondents show a decreased reporting willingness as police perceptions become more positive, while non-heterosexual respondents demonstrate a more complex pattern where reporting willingness is contingent on the interaction between their attitudes and perceptions of police.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>More positive perceptions of the police can affect the willingness to report sexual orientation-motivated hate crimes differently across groups and may help reduce existing biases toward sexual minorities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 102375"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143428133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Automation and artificial intelligence in police body-worn cameras: Experimental evidence of impact on perceptions of fairness among officers

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Journal of Criminal Justice Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102373

Ian T. Adams

{"title":"Automation and artificial intelligence in police body-worn cameras: Experimental evidence of impact on perceptions of fairness among officers","authors":"Ian T. Adams","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102373","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102373","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>Explore officers' perceptions of the fairness of monitoring with systematic variations in activation (manual/automatic) and auditing (on-demand/supervisor random/artificial intelligence) policy regimes for body-worn cameras (BWCs).</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>This study uses a 2 × 3 survey experiment in a sample of officers wearing BWCs (<em>n</em> = 258) to assess the perceived fairness of BWC monitoring under varying activation and audit policies. Participants were randomly assigned one of six vignettes, each incorporating one of two BWC activation policies (manual vs. automatic) and one of three BWC footage review policies (complaint-based, random supervisor, random AI).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Automatic BWC activation and artificial intelligence auditing of footage cause declines in perceived fairness of monitoring. Further, officers perceive the most unfairness in monitoring when they lack control over the initiation of recording and when the resultant footage is outside of their supervisors' immediate control.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The findings underscore potential adverse effects on officers' perceptions of monitoring fairness under varying BWC policy conditions. As artificial intelligence technology gains traction in policing, the potential impact of officers' concerns on program implementation and fidelity should be considered.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 102373"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143428132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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