Yingwei Yang , Julia Fleckman , Xifan Yang , Taylor Zingg
{"title":"Youth gun carriage: The interplay of community violence, family adversity, interpersonal violence, and substance use","authors":"Yingwei Yang , Julia Fleckman , Xifan Yang , Taylor Zingg","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102455","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102455","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>Youth who carry guns are at higher risk of violence-related injuries (e.g., nonfatal gun assaults) and deaths (e.g., homicide). This study examined the direct, indirect, and total effects of multi-level factors contributing to gun carriage among female and male adolescents.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>This study utilized data from the 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, drawn from a nationally representative sample (<em>N</em> = 11,251, 47.4 % female). Multigroup structural equation modeling was used to assess the complex interplay of community violence, family adversity, interpersonal violence, and substance use on youth gun carriage.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Exposure to community violence had the strongest overall effect on gun carriage in both females and males, with gender-specific patterns. In females, community violence showed a significant direct influence on gun carriage, whereas only indirect effects were observed in males. Moreover, the association between interpersonal violence and gun carriage was significantly stronger in females, while substance use had a stronger correlation with community violence and gun carriage in males.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>To prevent youth gun carriage, it is essential to reduce community violence and promote community safety. Prevention efforts should be tailored to both female and male adolescents, and comprehensive strategies that address the interconnected, multi-level factors are urgently needed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102455"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144271387","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}
Zachary Hamilton , Xiaohan Mei , Jennifer J. Tostlebe , Baylee Allen-Flores , John Ursino , Alex Kigerl
{"title":"A methodological template for the next generation: Redesigning the STRONG-R needs assessment","authors":"Zachary Hamilton , Xiaohan Mei , Jennifer J. Tostlebe , Baylee Allen-Flores , John Ursino , Alex Kigerl","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102454","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102454","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Andrews and colleagues (1999) development of the Risk-Need-Responsivity model was a watershed moment for the field. As a result, Risk-Needs Assessments (RNAs) were shaped to identify needs domains, in which sub-scale scores are used to guide program-matching. Yet, despite ubiquitous use, needs assessments are an afterthought in RNA development, failing to demonstrate evidence and support for widespread application. Using 111,731 reentrants assessed via the Static Risk Offender Needs Guide–Revised (STRONG-R), we redesigned the needs assessment and establish construct validity via exploratory, confirmatory, multi-group confirmatory factor analysis, correlation, receiver operating characteristics, and regression techniques. Five multi-dimensional dynamic domains and a Global Needs Factor are established, demonstrating gender and race/ethnicity measurement invariance, moderate recidivism prediction accuracy, and relative gender and race/ethnicity parity. In addition to strong findings, we provide step-by-step instructions for the (re)development and validation of correctional needs assessments. Policy implications discus the importance of evaluating and updating current RNAs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102454"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144261452","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}
{"title":"Delinquency among children of incarcerated parents: The role of pre-incarceration parental attachment","authors":"Noy Assaraf, Roni Factor","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102456","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102456","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>While many studies have examined the impact of parental incarceration on children's delinquency, these have yielded mixed results. Currently, it remains unclear whether parental incarceration has positive, negative, or null effects on their children's future delinquency. The current study aims to clarify these mixed findings by examining the role of attachment in the relationship between parental incarceration and children's delinquency. Specifically, we examine whether this relationship is conditioned on attachment between the parent and child pre-incarceration.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, this quasi-experimental study employed propensity score matching to compare children of incarcerated fathers with a matched comparison group whose parents were never incarcerated (<em>n</em> = 318).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The impact of paternal incarceration on children's involvement in property crimes, drug-related offenses, and violent behavior was found to differ significantly according to the level of pre-incarceration attachment. However, the specific effect of attachment within each group (paternal incarceration vs. no parental incarceration) could not be determined.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Our findings complement longstanding theories and underscore the importance of considering pre-incarceration parent–child relationships when evaluating the impact of parental incarceration on delinquent behavior. These insights point to the need for tailored interventions that address specific family dynamics to better support children of incarcerated parents.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102456"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144243075","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}
{"title":"Group-individual probability confusion: Implications for suspect prioritization in criminal investigations","authors":"D. Kim Rossmo, Angela M. Jones","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102452","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102452","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>Suspect prioritization is a critical function in criminal investigations suffering from information overload. As this effort involves probability ranking, it is important to avoid confusing group and individual selection probabilities, an ecological fallacy related to Kahneman and Tversky's hit-and-run taxicab color exercise.</div></div><div><h3>Design</h3><div>We studied this tendency using an experimental survey administered to 1017 university students. The survey involved both individual- and group-level probability questions, presented in randomized order. Participants completed the Subjective Numeracy Scale to assess whether accuracy correlated with SNS self-assessment.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>Subjects averaged 39 % correct responses across scenarios on the individual-level probability question, only half their accuracy on the group-level probability questions (74 %). Interestingly, subjects who did not select the correct response to individual-level questions almost always chose the corresponding group-level answer.</div></div><div><h3><em>Practical implications</em></h3><div>Probability confusion can distort suspect prioritization, an important task in criminal investigations involving information overload. It may also contribute to algorithmic discrimination in the criminal justice system. Our analysis suggests why some people answer incorrectly to the Kahneman and Tversky taxicab exercise.</div></div><div><h3><em>Originality</em></h3><div>This is a novel study. While previous research has explored ecological fallacies, cognitive biases, and common probability errors, this is the first analysis to directly examine group-individual probability confusion.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102452"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144221179","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}
{"title":"Out of sight: Contextualizing risk avoidant routine activity","authors":"Andrea Hazelwood M.S., Pamela Wilcox PhD","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102449","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102449","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Individuals often attempt to mitigate crime risk through avoidance behaviors, thus shaping their routine activities. Several theoretical approaches help understand such avoidance behavior, including (1) a framework that views avoidance as a rational choice based on crime risk interpretation, and (2) a framework that views avoidance as rooted in perceptions of weakened collective security and police illegitimacy. The current study examines these perspectives simultaneously, using both fear of victimization and perception of police illegitimacy as key variables underlying avoidance behavior. Further, we examine the extent to which these two variables differentially serve as mechanisms underlying avoidance across demographic positionality (gender and race/ethnicity), place (urbanicity), and the intersection thereof. Using a representative sample of U.S. residents (<em>N</em> = 1500), we estimate structural equation models to observe the direct and indirect pathways linking positionality, perceived risk of victimization, attitudes towards police, and avoidance behaviors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102449"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144230536","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}
{"title":"Is rehabilitative approach to criminal justice better for young adults? Evidence from Santa Clara County, CA","authors":"Eduardo Aceves, Saroj Dhital, Kimberly D'zatko","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102441","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102441","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Behavioral and psychoneurological research indicates that young adults 18 to 24 years old are likely to benefit more from rehabilitative over punitive criminal justice approaches. To test the hypothesis empirically, the paper studies the impact of a rehabilitative Young Adult Deferred Entry of Judgement (YADEJ) program in Santa Clara County, CA. By focusing on education, employment, housing, and life skills, YADEJ aims to reduce reoffending rates among young adults in Santa Clara County. The paper uses matching models as the baseline methodologies. The paper employed Difference-in-Differences and Regression Discontinuity Design to test the robustness of the baseline findings. The paper provides evidence of lower recidivism rates, in the magnitude of about 20 percentage points, among young adults who participated in the YADEJ program relative to those subject to the adult correction approach in Santa Clara County, CA. The finding is statistically significant, robust, and quantitatively meaningful.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102441"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144213044","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}
Meghan Weissflog , Elke Ham , Sandy Jung , Soyeon Kim , Angela Wyatt Eke , Mary Ann Campbell , N. Zoe Hilton
{"title":"Measuring coercive control from police reports of intimate partner violence","authors":"Meghan Weissflog , Elke Ham , Sandy Jung , Soyeon Kim , Angela Wyatt Eke , Mary Ann Campbell , N. Zoe Hilton","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102442","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102442","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Coercive control is a pattern of behavior that often co-occurs with physical intimate partner violence (IPV) and some jurisdictions have criminalized this behavior. Research suggests that police can identify acts of coercive control but highlights disagreement on how to define and measure coercive control, which poses challenges to researchers gauging its influence on risk of physical IPV and to criminal justice practitioners responding to the offense. We tested inter-rater reliability in measures adapted from existing self-report coercive control assessments for documenting coercive control in police reports. In Study 1, two coders read three simulated police investigation reports and identified similar types of coercive control (67 %–100 % agreement) except for an “other” category (0 %). In Study 2, two coders demonstrated moderate agreement on the presence of coercive control categories (ICC = 0.56–0.59, 60 %–100 % agreement) in 20 brief fictional police reports, but disagreed on categorizing tactics that did not match the examples given. In Study 3, coders showed good agreement on the total number of coercive control items present in 20 real police reports (ICC = 0.78), and category-level agreement 60 %–100 %, using a 130-item checklist. Third-party identification of coercive control is possible; operationalizing coercive control through explicit behavioral examples improves coding reliability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102442"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144194974","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}
{"title":"Reading the mind in the dark: Theory of mind and dark personality as predictors of criminal behavior and recidivism","authors":"Laura Opriș , Liliana Hurezan , Laura Visu-Petra","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102451","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102451","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Are inherently self-focused individuals with pronounced dark personality traits (in)capable of understanding other minds? How does this predict their criminal behavior and reoffending risk? Both aversive personality traits and mentalization deficits have been documented to predict criminal behavior, although their joint contribution has not yet been explored. We evaluated the core of dark personality with the Dark Factor of Personality (Moshagen et al., 2018), extracting its Dark themes (Callousness, Sadism, Vindictiveness, Deceitfulness, and Narcissistic Entitlement) as reported by a sample of convicted offenders (<em>N</em> = 173) and a matched community sample (<em>N</em> = 88). Participants were tested with a set of four performance-based theory of mind tasks (ToM: first, second-order, and advanced). While basic ToM abilities were similar across groups, recidivists showed impairments in advanced ToM, particularly in decoding intentionality, a deficit which did not differ according to offense type. A predictive model revealed that a combination of elevated levels of Sadism, lower ability to decode Intentionality, alongside reduced social desirability, were the most significant predictors of recidivism. Implications of these findings for developing rehabilitation programs which take into account both (dark) personality propensities and mentalization deficits to prevent reoffending are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102451"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144204468","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}
Frederike Oberheim , Jon Davies , Celine Giese , Marieke Kluin , Nicholas Lord
{"title":"Exploring corporate violations through public data: A comparative analysis of financial offending in the UK and US","authors":"Frederike Oberheim , Jon Davies , Celine Giese , Marieke Kluin , Nicholas Lord","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102431","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102431","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines the value of using publicly available data to analyse financial violations and regulatory enforcement actions in the UK and the US, drawing on a first-of-its-kind open-source dataset – the Violation Tracker. Through descriptive analyses, the study explores longitudinal patterns of corporate offending, focusing on corporate characteristics and sectoral enforcement dynamics. The findings highlight jurisdictional differences: in the UK, anti-money laundering (AML) deficiencies and tax violations dominate, with a notable increase in AML deficiencies since 2020, particularly in real estate and business services. In contrast, the US landscape is characterized by widespread investor protection violations, particularly in the financial industry, and exhibit stable trends over time. In both countries, the financial industry receives high penalties compared to other industries. These patterns underscore the role of regulatory frameworks and enforcement priorities in shaping observable corporate compliance. This study illustrates what insights can and cannot be generated from open-source data for the analysis of financial violations. It also engages with theoretical frameworks such as life-course criminology, advancing the understanding of corporate crime trajectories over time. The research contributes to current debates on regulatory transparency, corporate accountability, and the methodological challenges of conducting robust empirical research using publicly available regulatory data.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102431"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144204469","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}
{"title":"How can restrictive housing be prevented or reduced? Conceptual, methodological, and theoretical issues confronting research and policy","authors":"Daniel P. Mears, Ryan M. Labrecque","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102438","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102438","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper identifies conceptual, methodological, and theoretical limitations in research on restrictive housing (RH) that confound efforts to understand the use and impacts of this widely debated form of housing and to create and evaluate efforts for preventing or reducing its use and for developing effective alternatives. The limitations include confusion about what RH entails, the problems it seeks to address, and relevant evaluation outcomes. This confusion extends, in turn, to efforts to understand how to prevent or reduce the housing or to create alternatives. Successful advances require understanding the problems that RH is intended to address, causes and theoretical mechanisms that contribute to the problems, which causes have the greatest effect and can be influenced, and how they can be targeted successfully while minimizing potential harms. Creating effective alternatives requires identifying strategies that can achieve the same or greater benefits, have comparable or fewer harms, and do not contribute to use of RH through net-widening. We conclude that clarity about these types of conceptual, methodological, and theoretical issues is necessary for advancing research and for limiting the use of RH while enabling prison systems to achieve their broader organizational goals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102438"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144166996","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}