Objectives To determine whether segregation (restrictive housing/RH) for first-time prison rule violators in Ohio shapes his/her odds of violations thereafter in a manner consistent with specific deterrence or criminogenic effects. Methods Four types of propensity score analyses were conducted to assess placement in and length of RH for 14,880 rule violators: Matching without replacement, matching

Objectives The purpose of this study was to test the impact of a procedural justice letter intervention that was delivered with traffic infringement notices on subsequent speeding offences. Method This study used the Queensland Speeding Engagement Trial (QSET) to experimentally test the impact of using the principles of procedural justice within a police issued letter, on individuals detected speeding

Objectives This study examines how confession (versus eyewitness) evidence and guilt status impacts mock defendants’ plea decisions and perceptions of their probability of conviction (PoC) and the strength of evidence (SoE), key elements of the shadow-of-the-trial model. Methods In a simulated mock-theft scenario, adult participants (n = 239) were randomly assigned to a guilt status (guilty/innocent)

Objectives This study examines the effectiveness of a transitional employment program (TEP)—delivered with cognitive behavioral interventions (CBIs)—at improving employment and recidivism outcomes among residents returning to Palm Beach County, Florida, from incarceration. Methods A randomized controlled trial (N = 175) with an intent-to-treat approach was used to examine the effects of the TEP on

Objectives The study examines the development of offence-related expertise over time and age in a sample of convicted burglars. Methods A quasi-experimental design was used to assess indicators of expertise in younger (n=36) and older (n=32) burglars as they completed a “virtual burglary”. It was predicted that (i) older burglars would use more efficient scoping and searching strategies than younger

Objectives Examine the effect of a 40-h police sexual assault training and individual-level impulsivity on officers’ intention to make an arrest and the importance placed on using procedural justice when interacting with victims. Methods Training courses were randomly assigned to the treatment and control groups. Vignettes depicting sexual assault reports were randomly assigned to participants (N=318)

Objectives We sought to examine differences between videotaped and written trial materials on verdicts, perceptions of trial parties, quality check outcomes, perceived salience of racial issues, and emotional states in a trial involving a Black or White defendant. Hypotheses We predicted that verdicts and ratings of trial parties would be similar for those participants viewing a videotaped trial and

Purpose There is an ongoing debate on the appropriateness of actuarial tools with women. Such tools were developed with data collected mainly from convicted men and were then applied to convicted women. The LS/CMI, the most widely known and used instrument to assess criminogenic needs and evaluate the risk of recidivism, is one such scale. Within this debate, some argue that the LS/CMI works just as

Objective Joan McCord was an experimental criminologist who advocated for evaluating social programs for efficacy, benefits, and potential harms to guide crime prevention policy. This paper argues that criminal justice reform should be guided by evidence for effective social programs that guard against unintended harms. Programs that focus on social control are consistent with basic facts of crime

Purpose Online abuse of and by children is a global concern. Methods to prevent this phenomenon are diverse; however, less is known about police-led initiatives and their effectiveness in reducing the likelihood of becoming a victim or a perpetrator of cyber abuse among children. Specifically, there are no rigorous tests of the ThinkUKnow programme, to which hundreds of thousands of young people were

Objective The objective of this study is to assess whether CALEA-accredited police departments are more (or less) likely than non-CALEA-accredited police departments to conduct crime analysis after matching on factors associated with engaging in accreditation and conducting crime analysis. Methods This study draws upon a quasi-experimental approach, cardinality matching, to estimate the relationship

Objective Test how virtual, vicarious exposure to a procedurally just versus unjust police traffic stop impacts youths’ perceptions of police legitimacy and willingness to cooperate. Methods Adolescents (N = 822) were randomly assigned to watch a video featuring a procedurally just interaction, a procedurally unjust interaction, or no video. Analyses examined the effects of video exposure on youths’

Objectives Drawing on Agnew’s (2006) general strain theory, this study tested the direct effects of police procedural injustice on participants’ emotionality and behavioral coping intentions. The mediating effects of emotionality were also assessed. Methods Data come from factorial vignettes depicting citizen-initiated encounters that were administered to a university-based sample in 2018 (N = 525)