{"title":"Does New York State bail reform moderate the impact of pretrial detention on conviction rates?","authors":"Jingyi Hauck, Eunbyeor Sophie Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102418","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102418","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>As New York State (NYS) bail reform continues to instigate debates over its social impact, this study aims to examine 1) whether bail reform moderates the impact of pretrial detention on probability of conviction, and 2) whether such moderating effect differs by region between New York City (NYC) and non-New York City (non-NYC).</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Using 2019 and 2022 arraignment data from New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, we employ the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method with moderation analysis to control for imbalances between released and detained groups within region and within arraignment charge severity. Weighted logistic regression is used to estimate average marginal effect for measuring moderating effect.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>We find significant moderating effect of bail reform in NYC where bail reform weakens the adverse effect of pretrial detention through a 15% reduction in probability of conviction. Our results also show that the moderating effect of bail reform does differ by region where NYC defendants benefit significantly more than non-NYC defendants.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>This study suggests that although NYS bail reform is a state-level legislative change, its impact varies by regions. Our results also demonstrate that bail reform seems to be beneficial for defendants through a lowered probability of conviction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102418"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143923661","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":"Support for burglary victims: An analysis of victim service provider practices","authors":"Ko-Hsin Hsu","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102420","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102420","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Residential burglary is common in the U.S. Despite its financial, safety, and emotional impacts on victims, support services for burglary victims are scarce, and relevant literature is limited. Using data from the 2019 National Survey of Victim Service Providers (<em>n</em> = 1386), this study investigates the relationship between victim service providers' service delivery and their likelihood of serving burglary victims. Logistic regression results indicate that providers offering financial assistance and safety planning are more likely to serve burglary victims, while those offering emotional support are less likely to do so. Additionally, providers that are government agencies, have extensive partnerships and stronger police collaborations are more likely to serve burglary victims, while those whose primary function is victim service and offering 24-h hotlines are less likely. Victim service policies should raise public awareness of financial assistance, expand emotional support, and promote police collaboration in service delivery to burglary victims.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102420"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143901912","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":"“Left-behind children” and their pathways into criminality: A mixed-method study of delinquent adolescents in China","authors":"Kai Lin , Jia Qu","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102432","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102432","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Over the past several decades, China's internal migration has led to a large number of “left-behind children” (LBC) growing up with substantial parental neglect in rural areas. LBC have been found to suffer from multiple social vulnerabilities, including a heightened risk of offending behavior. Utilizing both quantitative survey and qualitative interview data from 383 delinquent adolescents in two correctional settings in an underdeveloped region of China, this study explores key factors affecting the onset, severity, and persistence of delinquent behaviors, with a particular focus on the impact of parental migration. This research contributes to developmental and life course criminology by revealing the unique challenges (such as insufficient parental bonding and authoritarian parenting by grandparents) faced by LBC, a group at the forefront of some of the adverse consequences of China's rapid economic growth with significant inequalities. It also sheds light on the complex interactions between economic migration, familial disruption, and juvenile delinquency in a non-Western context of the Global South.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102432"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144099599","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":"Beyond the joystick: Exploring the relationship between game addiction trajectories and aggression dimensions","authors":"Yeungjeom Lee , Kerrie Ann Hull , Jihoon Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102425","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102425","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present study investigates how varying developmental paths of game addiction relate to different forms of aggressive behavior, including physical and verbal aggression, anger, and hostility. Group-based trajectory modeling, using five waves of a Korean adolescent sample (<em>n</em> = 801), identified six distinct trajectories of game addiction. Furthermore, we investigated the specific associations between aggression and the developmental pathways of game addiction. The findings generally revealed a significant link between levels of aggression and the severity of game addiction. This study advances our understanding of the developmental relationship between game addiction trajectories and various aggression dimensions through an individual-level approach. Suggestions for future research and practical implications are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102425"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143903521","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":"Was it a washout? Analyzing the influence of a high intensity, countywide gang crackdown on the formation of new co-offending relationships","authors":"Thomas Bryan Smith","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102423","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102423","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>In 2021, the US Marshals Service (USMS) partnered with law enforcement agencies across Galveston County, TX to conduct Operation Washout (OW), a 10-day operation intended to reduce violent crime through the execution of arrest warrants targeting gang members, firearm, and drug law violators. This study examines the impact of OW on the co-offending of OW arrestees.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Arrest data for all of Galveston County are scraped from Police2Citizen Bulletins and used to construct pre- and post-OW co-offending networks. Networks consist of individuals arrested during the intervention, as well as all co-offenders in distance one or two. Stochastic actor-oriented models are estimated to model the formation of new co-offending relationships.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Arrest during the operation was generally associated with a reduced likelihood of forming new co-offending ties. The probability of forming new co-offending ties following OW was greater among operational targets than non-target fugitives and non-fugitive arrestees apprehended during the intervention. The estimated effect of OW on targets' co-offending was insignificant.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Consistent with research on Operation Triple Beam, USMS-led fugitive operations effectively target higher priority fugitives. Despite the selection of appropriate operational targets, fugitives' ability to forge new co-offending relationships appears unimpeded by arrest – barring the requisite period of incapacitation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102423"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143903522","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}
Kevin T. Wolff , Joshua A. Lang , Lindsay Lerner , Michael T. Baglivio
{"title":"Sex differences in temperament and career Juvenile offending among justice-involved youth","authors":"Kevin T. Wolff , Joshua A. Lang , Lindsay Lerner , Michael T. Baglivio","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102434","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102434","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examine the role of temperament in predicting the severity and chronicity of career juvenile delinquency up to age 18, focusing on effortful control, negative emotionality, and potential sex differences. Using administrative data from 120,971 justice-involved youth assessed with the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (FDJJ) Full Community Positive Achievement Change Tool (C-PACT), negative binomial regression models reveal that difficult temperament—marked by high impulsivity, poor frustration tolerance, and emotional dysregulation—is significantly associated with increased rates of misdemeanor and violent felony adjudications. In contrast, the association with non-violent and sex-related felonies is non-significant. Males exhibit higher overall offending rates, but temperament's predictive strength is more pronounced for females when it comes to misdemeanor and violent offending, suggesting sex differences in the pathways linking self-regulation deficits to juvenile delinquency. These findings support a temperament-based model of antisocial behavior and underscore the importance of considering emotional reactivity and self-regulation in juvenile justice interventions. Insights from this study contribute to criminological research and policy by highlighting temperament as a key factor in youth offending and the need for sex-specific prevention strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102434"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144099600","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":"Understanding violence in juvenile correctional facilities: A National study of victim-offender overlap in the United States","authors":"Tzu-Ying Lo , Yu-Hsuan Liu , Amy Adamczyk","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102424","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102424","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The phenomenon of victim-offender overlap within juvenile correctional facilities is an underexplored area in criminological research. This study examines the prevalence and correlates of victim-offender overlap using data from two collections of the National Survey of Youth in Custody conducted in 2008–2009 and 2012. Our findings reveal that the victim-offender overlap group constitutes a significant proportion of incarcerated youth. Multinomial logistic regression analysis indicates that institutional factors, such as correctional officer legitimacy, in-facility gang membership, fear of inmate assault, experience of filing complaints against staff, and time served, significantly differentiate victim-offenders from the three other groups: victims-only, offenders-only, and those not involved. The results lend support to the relevance of the deprivation model in understanding institutional violence, particularly when viewed through the lens of victim-offender overlap. They also suggest that correctional environments may contribute to the perpetuation of violence, highlighting the need for a reevaluation of incarceration policies, particularly for non-violent juvenile offenders. These implications align with ongoing juvenile justice reform efforts aimed at providing smaller, therapeutic facilities and expanding community-based alternatives to incarceration. Finally, significant racial differences were identified, with Black youth more likely than White youth to be offenders-only and less likely to be victims-only or neither-victims-nor-offenders when compared to being victim-offenders. These patterns raise concerns about systemic inequities within juvenile correctional facilities that require future investigation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102424"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143932030","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}
Rachel E. Lovell , Noah Lorincz-Comi , Jacqueline Curtis , Andrew Curtis , Jayakrishnan Ajayakumar , Lacey Caparole
{"title":"Neighborhood level predictors of rape: A novel spatial regression approach","authors":"Rachel E. Lovell , Noah Lorincz-Comi , Jacqueline Curtis , Andrew Curtis , Jayakrishnan Ajayakumar , Lacey Caparole","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102419","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102419","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite decades of research examining the relationship between space and crime, there is a paucity investigating space and rape specifically. This study fills this gap by exploring the spatial clustering and neighborhood-level predictors of rape measured at the census tract level via geographically weighted regression (GWR) in Cleveland, Ohio (U.S.) over two years. In a novel application of bias-corrected GWR, results reveal two high-risk areas: the downtown business district and the economically and racially marginalized east side. By exploring spatial predictors of rape in two ways (overall frequency and per 500 women), we examine how the space is primarily used—to work, visit, or reside. Key predictors include: percent White, median household income, total population, and percent vacant buildings. However, these predictors are not uniform across the city, with some having larger, inverse, or non-significant effects depending on the neighborhood. Study's methodological advances include applying bias corrections to estimates from popular spatial data and allowing predictors to vary by tract (GWR), highlighting that rape predictors function differently in different areas. Findings provide insights into high-risk areas, spatial predictors of rape, and how these vary by tract, offering guidance on modifying the built environment to help reduce or prevent rape.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102419"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143937730","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":"Life courses, crime and global south migrants: Intercolonial transportation in the australian historical context","authors":"Victoria M. Nagy , Alana Piper , Kristyn Harman","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102429","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102429","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Australia's settlement history is mired in the British tradition of deporting unwanted individuals for the purposes of punishment. Although initially convicts were transported to New South Wales (NSW), soon other colonies were established to accept the over 162,000 people transported from Britain and other parts of the British Empire. Overcrowded prisons meant that deportation from the British Isles was the best perceived option for crime control at the time. While abundant scholarship exists on those deported from Britain to the colonies, there has been limited research on those free migrants or colonial-born who were sentenced from the British colonies to inter-colonial transportation.</div><div>This article utilises the CON16 Indents of Convicts Locally Convicted or Transported from Other Colonies archival records as a starting point to undertake a longitudinal life course analysis of some free migrants to Australia from the Global South who were transported to Van Diemen's Land (VDL) between 1830 and 1850. We examine their lives post-transportation to VDL, the basis on which they were transported to VDL and how life course criminology questions can be answered with historical data.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102429"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144105427","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 sentencing of emerging adult offenders: The impact of youthfulness on sentence departures","authors":"Yu Du , Megan Kurlychek","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102435","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102435","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>This paper explores whether or not offenders in the stage of “emerging adulthood”, defined by brain science as the period between 18 and 25 are sentenced differently than older adults. While brain science suggests these individuals have reduced cognitive capacity and may benefit from leniency, sentencing theory suggests that because of this reduced decision-making capacity they may be seen as more dangerous by judges and therefor receive more severe sentences.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We use data from the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing from 2015 through 2019 to assess whether judges' sentence these offenders within the recommended guideline range that is age blind or provided either mitigated or aggravated sentencing.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Our findings show that this time of life is impactful for sentencing but perhaps not in the way brain science would suggest. Rather than these emerging adults receiving mitigated sentences, they are more likely to receive harsher sentences than older adults.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>We conclude that in the absence of policy to acknowledge this stage of life and its particular potential for rehabilitation, young offenders will continue to be sentences in disparate ways.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102435"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144068631","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}