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Urban greenspace and neighborhood crime 城市绿地与邻里犯罪

IF 4.6 1区社会学

Criminology Pub Date : 2024-05-16 DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12365

James C. Wo, Ethan M. Rogers

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Degrees of difference: Do college credentials earned behind bars improve labor market outcomes? 差异程度：在狱中获得的大学文凭能改善劳动力市场的结果吗？

IF 5.8 1区社会学

Criminology Pub Date : 2024-03-04 DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12364

Abby Ballou

{"title":"Degrees of difference: Do college credentials earned behind bars improve labor market outcomes?","authors":"Abby Ballou","doi":"10.1111/1745-9125.12364","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1745-9125.12364","url":null,"abstract":"It is widely held that providing postsecondary education programs to incarcerated individuals will improve postrelease labor market outcomes. Little research evidence exists, however, to support this view. To test the effect of postsecondary carceral education credentials on employer perceptions of hireability, the current study uses a factorial design to survey a sample of employers nationwide (N = 2,538). Employers were presented with résumés of fictional applicants applying to a job as a customer service representative at a large call center. The résumés randomized education credentials earned while incarcerated. Results indicate that employers were significantly more willing to interview applicants with postsecondary education credentials relative to applicants with only a General Educational Development (GED) diploma. Although Black applicants who had earned a sub-baccalaureate certificate saw improvements in hireability relative to GED holders, Black applicants who had earned a bachelor's degree did not. In contrast, White applicants benefited both from sub-baccalaureate certificates and bachelor's degrees. Results from a mediation analysis suggest that these credentials signal important information to employers about applicant attributes and that improved perceptions of applicant ability and likelihood to reoffend drive the overall effect. Implications for future research and policy are explored.","PeriodicalId":48385,"journal":{"name":"Criminology","volume":"62 1","pages":"129-155"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-9125.12364","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140266943","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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Homicides involving Black victims are less likely to be cleared in the United States 在美国，涉及黑人受害者的凶杀案不太可能被排除嫌疑

IF 5.8 1区社会学

Criminology Pub Date : 2024-02-21 DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12362

Gian Maria Campedelli

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The problem with criminal records: Discrepancies between state reports and private-sector background checks 犯罪记录的问题：州政府报告与私营部门背景调查之间的差异

IF 5.8 1区社会学

Criminology Pub Date : 2024-02-09 DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12359

Sarah Lageson, Robert Stewart

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Pacifying problem places: How problem property interventions increase guardianship and reduce disorder and crime 安抚问题场所：问题财产干预措施如何加强监护并减少混乱和犯罪

IF 5.8 1区社会学

Criminology Pub Date : 2024-02-09 DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12361

Michael Zoorob, Daniel T. O'Brien

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When police pull back: Neighborhood-level effects of de-policing on violent and property crime, a research note 当警察撤离时：解除警力对暴力犯罪和财产犯罪的街区级影响，研究说明

IF 5.8 1区社会学

Criminology Pub Date : 2024-02-09 DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12363

Justin Nix, Jessica Huff, Scott E. Wolfe, David C. Pyrooz, Scott M. Mourtgos

{"title":"When police pull back: Neighborhood-level effects of de-policing on violent and property crime, a research note","authors":"Justin Nix, Jessica Huff, Scott E. Wolfe, David C. Pyrooz, Scott M. Mourtgos","doi":"10.1111/1745-9125.12363","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1745-9125.12363","url":null,"abstract":"Many U.S. cities witnessed both de-policing and increased crime in 2020, yet whether the former contributed to the latter remains unclear. Indeed, much of what is known about the effects of proactive policing on crime comes from studies that evaluated highly focused interventions atypical of day-to-day policing, used cities as the unit of analysis, or could not rule out endogeneity. This study addresses each of these issues, thereby advancing the evidence base concerning the effects of policing on crime. Leveraging two exogenous shocks presented by the onset of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and social unrest after the murder of George Floyd, we evaluated the effects of sudden and sustained reductions in high-discretion policing on crime at the neighborhood level in Denver, Colorado. Multilevel models accounting for trends in prior police activity, neighborhood structure, seasonality, and population mobility revealed mixed results. On the one hand, large-scale reductions in stops and drug-related arrests were associated with significant increases in violent and property crimes, respectively. On the other hand, fewer disorder arrests did not affect crime. These results were not universal across neighborhoods. We discuss the implications of these findings in light of debates concerning the appropriate role of policing in the 21st century.","PeriodicalId":48385,"journal":{"name":"Criminology","volume":"62 1","pages":"156-171"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-9125.12363","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139850057","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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Officer diversity may reduce Black Americans’ fear of the police 警官多样性可减少美国黑人对警察的恐惧

IF 5.8 1区社会学

Criminology Pub Date : 2023-12-03 DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12360

Justin T. Pickett, Amanda Graham, Justin Nix, Francis T. Cullen

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Correctional officers and the use of force as an organizational behavior 惩教人员与使用武力作为一种组织行为

IF 5.8 1区社会学

Criminology Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12346

William J. Schultz

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System management and compensatory parenting: Educational involvement after maternal incarceration 系统管理与补偿性育儿：母亲监禁后的教育参与

IF 5.8 1区社会学

Criminology Pub Date : 2023-06-27 DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12339

Amelia R. Branigan, Rachel Ellis, Wade C. Jacobsen, Anna R. Haskins

{"title":"System management and compensatory parenting: Educational involvement after maternal incarceration","authors":"Amelia R. Branigan, Rachel Ellis, Wade C. Jacobsen, Anna R. Haskins","doi":"10.1111/1745-9125.12339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12339","url":null,"abstract":"Research has demonstrated that paternal incarceration is associated with lower levels of educational involvement among fathers and primary caregivers, but little is known regarding caregiver educational involvement when mothers have been incarcerated. In this study, we present the first analysis of variation in school- and home-based educational involvement by maternal incarceration history, pairing survey and interview data to connect macro-level group differences with micro-level narratives of mothers’ involvement in their children's education. Our survey data demonstrate that children of ever-incarcerated mothers experience increased school-based educational involvement by their primary caregivers, regardless of whether the caregiver is the mother herself. Our interview data point to compensatory parenting as a key motivating factor in educational involvement, wherein a caregiver endeavors to “make up for” the child's history of maternal incarceration. Findings add to the literature demonstrating maternal incarceration as a distinct experience from both paternal incarceration and material disadvantage alone, and they suggest the need to explore the role of schools as potential points of productive institutional involvement for mothers with an incarceration history.","PeriodicalId":48385,"journal":{"name":"Criminology","volume":"61 3","pages":"482-517"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-9125.12339","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50145695","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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How to overcome the cost of a criminal record for getting hired 如何克服被雇佣的犯罪记录成本

IF 5.8 1区社会学

Criminology Pub Date : 2023-06-27 DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12345

Mateus R. Santos, Chae M. Jaynes, Danielle M. Thomas

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