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The COVID-19 pandemic and operational challenges, impacts, and lessons learned: A multi-methods study of U.S. prison systems
The purpose of this study was to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic changed U.S. prison operations and influenced the daily work of …
Meghan Novisky
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Jennifer Tostlebe
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David Pyrooz
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Jose Antonio Sanchez
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Assessing risk factors for victims of violence in a hospital-based violence intervention program
Personal, behavioral, and environmental risk factors are correlated to varying degrees with each other and with the overall likelihood …
Gaylene Armstrong
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Taylor Gonzales
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Michael Visenio
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Ashley Farrens
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Hannah Nelson
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Charity Evans
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Jennifer Burt
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Zachary Bauman
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Mark Foxall
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Ashley Raposo-Hadley
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Revisiting the relationship between age, employment, and recidivism
Employment theoretically serves as a source of informal social control that can promote desistance from crime (Sampson & Laub, …
Holly Nguyen
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Kyle Thomas
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Jennifer Tostlebe
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A survey of issues in the recruitment, hiring, and retention of law enforcement officers: Investigating the rural-urban divide
The continuing crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and issues surrounding disparate policing practices have illuminated an underlying issue …
Morgan Steele
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Tamara Lynn
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Abigail Hayes
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Best practices for neglected assumptions: Multi-site confirmation of the MPACT-6
In the assessment world, risk determines “who” to treat and needs determine “what” (Bonta & Andrews, 2016). Yet, for youth, greater …
Xiaohan Mei
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Zachary Hamilton
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Alex Kigerl
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Amber Krushas
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Faye Taxman
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Protecting against adversity: The role of positive childhood experiences in youth recidivism
An abundance of research has established Adverse Childhood Experiences’ (ACEs’) contributions to deviant behavior. Recently, studies …
Melissa Kowalski
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Zachary Hamilton
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Alex Kigerl
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Michael Baglivio
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Kevin Wolff
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The great methods bake-off: Comparing performance of machine learning algorithms
Risk assessments have been constructed using a variety of algorithms, from bivariate associations, to regression, to advanced machine …
Alex Kigerl
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Zachary Hamilton
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Melissa Kowalski
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Xiaohan Mei
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Procedural justice, legal orientations, and gang membership: Testing an alternative explanation to understand the gang-misconduct link
A top priority of prison authorities is maintaining a safe and orderly institutional environment. Gangs are believed to impede this …
Jennifer Tostlebe
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David Pyrooz
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Tailoring to a mandate: The development and validation of the Prisoner Assessment Tool Targeting Estimated Risk and Needs (PATTERN)
In December 2018, the First Step Act of 2018 was signed into law, which required the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to begin using …
Zachary Hamilton
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Grant Duwe
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Alex Kigerl
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Jason Gwinn
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Neal Langan
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Christopher Dollar
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Behind the scenes of the underworld: Hierarchical clustering of two leaked carding forum databases
Cybercriminals operate in obscurity to avoid detection of their illegal deeds. This fact makes studying them more difficult. Many …
Alex Kigerl
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