{"title":"Assessing the Ecological Variation in the Police Response to Hate Crime: Evidence From New York City","authors":"Eaven Holder, Logan Ledford","doi":"10.1177/07340168241265104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07340168241265104","url":null,"abstract":"As scholarly attention toward the etiology of hate crime offending and victimization continues to grow, there remain some empirical gaps regarding criminal justice interventions to such crimes. The lion's share of research has been focused on how agencies report bias crimes to official sources like the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program, but less work has been spent studying other aspects of police response like investigation or arrest. However, even less is known in whether an officer's ecological context is influential in this process despite space being vital to policing in general. To address this, we combined incident- and precinct-level data from the New York Police Department with neighborhood census information to understand if community dynamics were associated with the likelihood that a reported hate crime would be cleared through arrest. Using mixed effects models, our findings indicate some degree of clustering in hate crime clearances but that situational factors emerged with greater salience in the prediction of arrest. Supportive more so of the schema and focal concerns perspective of criminal justice processing, we offer pathways for future research and theoretical considerations.","PeriodicalId":505307,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Justice Review","volume":"10 17","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141801340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Feeling Trapped: Social Class and Violence Against Women by Ptacek, James","authors":"Marissa Dean Hayes","doi":"10.1177/07340168241267889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07340168241267889","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":505307,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Justice Review","volume":"36 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141798770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Attitudes Toward Body-Worn Cameras in a Prosecutor's Office: An Application of the Technology Acceptance Model","authors":"M. C. Koen, James J. Willis, Gabirelle Roubanian","doi":"10.1177/07340168241265695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07340168241265695","url":null,"abstract":"In comparison with scholarship on law enforcement, much is unknown about the downstream effects of body-worn camera (BWC) footage on prosecutors, some of the most powerful actors in the criminal justice system. This study applies the technology acceptance model to 35 semistructured qualitative interviews conducted at the Coruscant County Prosecutor's Office (a pseudonym). Its purpose is to understand some of the key factors that contributed to camera footage's ease of use and prosecutors’ perceptions of its usefulness. Collaboration with local police departments on BWC implementation and the creation of convenient storage and sharing options seemed to contribute to positive impressions of its utility. The policy implications of these findings and directions for future research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":505307,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Justice Review","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141818288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rosemary Ricciardelli, Matthew S. Johnston, Brittany Mario
{"title":"The Moral Impacts of Organizational Stress on Correctional Officers","authors":"Rosemary Ricciardelli, Matthew S. Johnston, Brittany Mario","doi":"10.1177/07340168241256348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07340168241256348","url":null,"abstract":"Organizational stress (i.e., structural aspects of the organization such as excessive workload, shiftwork, gossip) has long been found by public safety personnel to be more impactful on their health and wellness than operational stress (i.e., inherent stresses of the job such as altercations, intervention in suicide behaviors). In the current study, which engages semi-structured interviews conducted with 28 correctional officers employed at one provincial prison in Atlantic Canada, we unpack through a lens of moral distress four prevalent sources of organizational stress among correctional officers that emerged in the data without categories precogitated, with a focus on participant experiences and expressed similarities across accounts: (1) management, (2) staff retention, (3) training needs, (4) lack of mental health support. Findings indicate organizational stress has a significant impact on correctional officers and these sources of organizational stress are exacerbated by officers’ moral and ethical vulnerabilities emergent from their conditions of employment. We recommend several practical changes to ease the strains and moral harms felt by correctional officers and better support their mental health and well-being, such as increasing staffing levels, providing more education and training opportunities for frontline officers and senior leaders, and providing more adequate mental health support for correctional officers.","PeriodicalId":505307,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Justice Review","volume":"125 24","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141115340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of the Elected Chief Prosecutor on Punitiveness in Local Courtrooms","authors":"Catherine A. Grodensky","doi":"10.1177/07340168241248617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07340168241248617","url":null,"abstract":"The United States currently leads the world in the number and proportion of individuals held under correctional supervision. Prosecutors are widely considered to be the most influential actors in the courtroom, and some current reform efforts center around prosecutor-driven reductions in punitiveness. However, little is known about the extent to which elected chief prosecutors impact punitiveness in local courtrooms. This study examines how dismissal and active sentence rates in nine mid- to large-sized prosecutorial districts in North Carolina are influenced by the identity of the elected District Attorney (DA) who was in office when the case was disposed. The study sample included four types of criminal cases (marijuana possession and sale, possession of firearm by felon, larceny, and driving while intoxicated) resolved in the nine districts from 2005–2018. A two-way fixed effects regression analyses showed that elected prosecutors significantly influenced dismissal and active sentence rates in their districts, typically to a small degree (by less than 5%) but sometimes by 20–30%. However, prosecutors did not influence punitiveness consistently across all crime types or according to traditional political party. This study suggests that the elected prosecutor matters in local criminal prosecution and enhances the current understanding of the power of the elected prosecutor to shape punitiveness in local courtrooms.","PeriodicalId":505307,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Justice Review","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141002591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender, Race, and Authorship in Criminological and Criminal Justice Journals: A New Look With an Old Result","authors":"Brion Sever, Krystal Canales Crespo, Erica Baer","doi":"10.1177/07340168241239333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07340168241239333","url":null,"abstract":"There is a wealth of research that has tested faculty productivity in criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) journals over the past 30 years, although only a modest proportion of these studies have analyzed the gender of authors publishing in CCJ journals. Moreover, only a couple of studies have assessed the race of the authors in these journals, with their focus placed on either African American productivity or the comparison of non-White and White authors. The present study examines 1,836 journal articles in 14 journals from 2016 to 2018, including the top eight CCJ journals, the top three sociology and psychology journals, and the top three gender-focused journals in the area of crime and justice. We broke author productivity in these journals down by specific demographic categories and found that White men account for the majority of authors publishing in the CCJ journals, followed by White women. We also found that the advances for women authors found in some journals are primarily due to White women authors, as the production of all minority groups in the journals remains low regardless of gender.","PeriodicalId":505307,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Justice Review","volume":" 46","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140385604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jessica G. Finkeldey, Christopher R. Dennison, Nicholas Tucker Reyes, Abigayle DiRusso, Mercedes Brown
{"title":"Contact with and Perceptions of Campus Police Among College Students at a Small-Town University","authors":"Jessica G. Finkeldey, Christopher R. Dennison, Nicholas Tucker Reyes, Abigayle DiRusso, Mercedes Brown","doi":"10.1177/07340168241240450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07340168241240450","url":null,"abstract":"Although research has documented an association between sociodemographic and behavioral factors and contact with local police, it remains unclear whether such relationships exist among college students who experience contact with university police. It is also unknown how such factors relate to students’ perceptions of campus police. Given the contentious nature of law enforcement in the U.S. and the racialized climate in higher education, it is imperative to understand how college students’ interactions with and perceptions of campus police fall in relation to the broader narrative of policing. Analyzing data from a current sample of approximately 400 undergraduate students enrolled at a small, public university in the Northeast United States, this study examines the sociodemographic and behavioral correlates of students’ contact with and perceptions of university police. Results suggest there are minimal differences between students with and without a history of police-initiated contact in terms of sociodemographic background. Nevertheless, despite this distribution of contact with campus police, self-identified sexual minorities, racial and ethnic minorities, as well as politically liberal students were among those to possess more negative views of campus police. We discuss these findings as a potential by-product of the broader rhetoric surrounding police-community relationships and racism in higher education.","PeriodicalId":505307,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Justice Review","volume":"182 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140222761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: The fear of too much justice: Race, poverty, and the persistence of inequality in the criminal courts by Bright, S. B., & Kwak, J.","authors":"Abiodun E. Babalola, Abdulmalik Salman","doi":"10.1177/07340168241233523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07340168241233523","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":505307,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Justice Review","volume":"581 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140417409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}