{"title":"Self-reported offending and drug use after prison release: The pernicious role of stress during reentry","authors":"Chantal Fahmy","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102437","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102437","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>Diverse research demonstrates that unmanageable stressors are relentless on the body and brain, especially among individuals reentering society post-incarceration. Research has begun to examine how non-criminological factors are implicated in pathways leading to crime and deviance. However, the existing body of knowledge lacks specificity regarding the biopsychosocial constructs related to offending and drug use during reentry. The study evaluates the confounding nature of perceived stress on offending and drug use during the months after prison release, in light of extant literature's established effects of mental health on crime.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Using a sample of men released from Texas prisons (<em>n</em> = 499) across two waves of LoneStar Project data, the study explores the degree to which mental health is associated with self-reported offending and drug use. Logistic regression and Karlson-Holm-Breen.</div><div>mediation analysis are utilized with an explicit focus on how stress is fundamentally implicated within these relationships.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Results indicate that while mental health issues are problematic for drug use and offending post-release, analyses reveal that stress confounds associations between mental health, offending, and drug use.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Practical implications include utilizing family support during the decisive months post-incarceration as well as an emphasis on strategies for stress management among returning individuals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102437"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144166995","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}
Megan Comfort , Elizabeth Tibaduiza , Venita Embry , Matthew DeMichele
{"title":"“There is a common thread”: Shifting court culture through collaborative processes as a core component of pretrial reform","authors":"Megan Comfort , Elizabeth Tibaduiza , Venita Embry , Matthew DeMichele","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102440","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102440","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Efforts to make criminal legal systems in the United States more equitable often focus on implementing and evaluating a specific policy change. Despite a proliferation of such efforts in recent years, the overall climate of reform is shaky and lacking strong evidence of promising approaches to sustainable progress. We studied six jurisdictions participating in an initiative to implement a pretrial release assessment (PRA) as a means of reducing pretrial incarceration. Longitudinal qualitative data were collected during 205 meetings and 36 site visits over 55 months. At the end of data collection, half of the jurisdictions had implemented the PRA and half had not. Analyses indicate that independent of PRA implementation, bringing system actors into collaborative conversations shifted court culture by strengthening partnerships, increasing understanding of system operations, and clarifying how data can inform intervention approaches. These findings highlight the beneficial shifts in court culture that may result from a process structured to promote dialogue, learning, and idea generation. This study underscores that focusing on a discrete policy to effect criminal legal system reform may be too narrow a lens and miss the potentially transformative effects of processes that strengthen partnerships, improve communication, and develop a shared commitment to common goals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102440"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144148043","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":"When life domains become problematic: A criminological exploration of academic dishonesty in Iran using Agnew's general theory of crime and delinquency","authors":"Saeed Kabiri , Fawn T. Ngo","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102439","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102439","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Academic dishonesty remains a widespread and complex challenge across educational institutions globally. This study applied <span><span>Agnew's (2005)</span></span> General Theory of Crime and Delinquency to examine the relationship between problematic life domains and students' engagement in academic dishonesty using a sample of 424 students from the University of Tehran. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed to analyze the data, revealing significant associations between all four problematic life domains - self, family, academic, and peer and academic dishonesty. The results further demonstrated that motivations for and constraints against academic dishonesty mediate the relationship between problematic life domains and dishonest behaviors. Additionally, interactions between troubling life domains influenced academic dishonesty, and these domains also moderated the relationship between motivations, constraints, and academic dishonesty. Findings from multigroup analyses highlighted partial gender differences in these pathways, suggesting that the factors influencing academic dishonesty may operate differently across male and female students.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102439"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144134074","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":"Domestic violence perpetrated against men in Kigamboni Municipality, Tanzania: Evidence from social ecological framework","authors":"Jacqueline Moses Rugalabam , John Nshimba Jeckoniah , Angela Mcharo Jesse","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102412","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102412","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Domestic violence against men (DVAM) is an underexplored issue globally, especially in patriarchal societies. While most existing studies focus on individual-level factors such as income, age, and education, they often overlook the broader social, cultural, and relational contexts that influence male victimization. This study addresses this gap by examining DVAM through the Social Ecological Model (SEM), which analyses the interplay of individual, relational, and community-level dynamics. A mixed-methods approach combined quantitative data from 133 male victims with qualitative data from focus group discussions and key informant interviews. Multivariate logistic regression analysis identified significant associations between age disparities, income differences, and power dynamics with psychological, sexual, and financial violence (<em>p</em> < 0.05). Men significantly older than their partners were more likely to experience sexual violence, while men who earned more than their partners faced increased risks of sexual and psychological abuse. The SEM analysis revealed how patriarchal norms and community-level stigma discourage male victims from seeking help, perpetuating cycles of abuse. The study concludes that DVAM in Kigamboni Municipality is driven by entrenched cultural norms and relational conflicts stemming from financial and power imbalances. It recommends gender-neutral legal reforms by the Parliament and Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, community awareness campaigns to reduce stigma led by NGOs and community leaders. These interventions aim to challenge harmful norms, empower male victims, and provide practical solutions for recovery and prevention.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102412"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143918114","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}
Ian A. Silver , Prarthana Vaidya , John Wooldredge
{"title":"The effects of youth incarceration in adult institutions on future incarceration","authors":"Ian A. Silver , Prarthana Vaidya , John Wooldredge","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102426","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102426","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Several thousand juveniles are incarcerated in adult facilities each year across the U.S., exposing them to a unique Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE). Exposure to this unique ACE can potentially increase an individual's involvement in the criminal justice system (CJS) as an adult. The current study served to assess if juvenile incarceration contributes to decreased time until CJS involvement during adulthood. The current study employed the NLSY-97 – a nationally representative sample – and survival models to assess if incarcerating juveniles in adult facilities is associated with time until CJS involvement during adulthood—a proxy for a criminogenic effect. The statistical models control for criminal risk factors that could contribute to a heightened likelihood of recidivism. The findings suggested that juvenile incarceration in an adult facility resulted in a 89% decrease in months until first incarceration after the age of 18 when compared to juveniles not involved in the juvenile justice system as well as juveniles arrested before the age of 18 but not bound over to adult court. The results highlight that a juvenile's incarceration in an adult facility could be criminogenic. Policy recommendations are provided to limit the criminogenic effects of juvenile incarceration in adult facilities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102426"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143941087","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":"Neighborhoods, violence, and guns: Unraveling the drivers of youth gun carrying in adjudicated populations","authors":"Samantha Kopf , Mitchell Gresham","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102417","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102417","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study addresses a critical gap in the literature by exploring the dynamic interplay between neighborhood conditions and victimization experiences on gun carrying among adjudicated youth, an underexplored topic in longitudinal research. The goal of this study is to examine the independent and interdependent effects of neighborhood conditions and victimization experiences on gun carrying across time. Through the lens of social disorganization theory, analysis of 11 waves of data from the Pathways to Desistance project shows that while neighborhood physical and social disorder alone do not significantly predict gun carrying, the combination of these factors with exposure to violence does have a significant impact. Specifically, witnessing violence amplifies the likelihood of gun carrying, particularly in unsafe neighborhoods. These results highlight the importance of addressing both environmental and social factors in efforts to reduce gun carrying among youth.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102417"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143890647","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":"Skepticism in science and punitive attitudes","authors":"Jason Rydberg, Luke DeZago","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102422","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102422","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines whether there is an association between skepticism in science and punitive attitudes, including temporal dynamics and potential for unobserved confounding. Drawing on data from the General Social Survey (GSS) repeated cross-sections (1972–2018) (<em>N</em> = 26,652) and 2006–2010 3-wave panels (<em>N</em> = 5807), study objectives were addressed using Bayesian hierarchical age-period-cohort characteristics (HAPC) and hybrid parameterized mixed effect panel logit regression models. Findings suggest that respondents who express skepticism in science are more likely to endorse harsher punishments from courts and a reduction in funding for drug rehabilitation, after controlling for relevant theoretical and empirical controls. This association increases in magnitude across respondent ages, and has been relatively stable over time. Though respondents more likely to be skeptical in science are also more punitive, the association may be partially spurious, potentially reflecting common underlying factors, rather than through a direct causal pathway. The findings underline the challenges in developing consensus on criminal justice policy reform through appeals to evidence-based practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102422"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143906280","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":"Dynamic developmental risk factors and juvenile risk-need assessments in Japan","authors":"Akihiro Nasu , Eiji Saito , Kyoko Harada , Ayako Sasaki , Masato Hattori , Takemi Mori","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102433","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102433","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study aims to identify the risk-need of juveniles referred to the Juvenile Training School (JTS) in Japan (<em>n</em> = 924; research 1), to examine changes in dynamic risk factors through rehabilitation in JTS (research 2), to clarify relationship between reassessment and recidivism after release (research 3), by analyzing longitudinal data collected by an assessment tool called Ministry-of-Justice-Case-Assessment-tool (MJCA) in Japan.</div><div>Research 1 showed the risk-need of juveniles in JTS were higher than the control group. Research 2 revealed the dynamic risk factors had reduced through institutional treatment at JTS. Research 3 suggested juveniles reducing dynamic risk factors were less likely to reoffend. Moreover, the predictive validity of MJCA was maintained from the initial assessment through reassessment.</div><div>Based on the classical developmental model of delinquency, most juveniles in JTS are supposed to be at high-risk for developing a criminal career. However, recent surveys in Japan and the results mentioned above suggest they would not necessarily repeat offenses throughout their lives.</div><div>Hence, it is crucial to properly assess risk and needs of juveniles using MJCA, and provide high-risk juveniles at peak-age of offending with opportunity for an intensive treatment towards reentry. This would help to prevent these high-risk juveniles from becoming Life-Course-Persistent offenders.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102433"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144123739","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":"Outside in: The role of visitation on within-prison and post-release behavior","authors":"Alexandra V. Nur, Amber E. Krushas","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102427","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102427","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While research generally documents that prison visitation constrains antisocial behavior in custody and after release, recent work documents the importance of the frequency and timing of these visits. Nevertheless, there remains a limited understanding regarding how visitation characteristics affect behavior inside <em>and</em> outside of custody. The current study improves our understanding of visitation for incarcerated persons by assessing visitation patterns in the year preceding release to predict misconduct and post-release legal contact. Data come from agency records from a large Northeastern state correctional system and include approximately 4000 incarcerated men. Group-based trajectory modeling is used to assess groups of incarcerated persons based on visitation patterns in the year preceding release. Relationships between (a) group membership and in-custody infractions and (b) group membership and parole violations (new offense and technical violations) are explored via bivariate and multivariate logistic regression. Equality of coefficients tests examine whether visit patterns pose congruent effects across contexts. Findings demonstrate negative relationships between high-rate visit patterns and misconduct and parole violations. Patterns display a non-linear relationship. Importantly, visit patterns pose general congruency across custodial and post-release contexts and behaviors. Correctional policies should continue to expand and encourage visitation to aid custodial compliance and post-release success.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102427"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144071554","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":"The enduring lessons of war: Connecting culture, masculinities & violence across the life course","authors":"Stephanie M. DiPietro","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102430","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102430","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the ascendancy of the life course paradigm, life course criminology remains heavily centered on Western peacetime contexts, often overlooking how large-scale structural ruptures such as war and political violence shape life trajectories. This research extends the purview of life course criminology by linking the cultural context of war to individual pathways of development over time. Drawing from life history data gathered from 18 Bosnian men who experienced the Bosnian war (1992–1995) as children, and engaged in chronic violent and aggressive behavior in adolescence and adulthood, this work examines the discourses, rationalizations and motivations espoused by men, with particular focus on how they are shaped by the conflation of war and militarism with violent masculinity. Analyses suggest that their internalization of hegemonic discourses of masculinity and militarism rooted in war helped legitimize and sustain their violent behavior in its aftermath. Violence was commonly portrayed as thrilling, empowering, and cathartic; as a means of retribution for historical and personal harms; and as a way to restore honor and assert masculine status in the face of perceived disrespect. This work calls attention to the enduring implications of war upon the life course, and bridges theorizing on culture, masculinities and life course criminology.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102430"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144089051","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}