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Exploring dimensions of adult drug treatment courts related to successful completion
Drug court programs were introduced in 1989 to reduce incarceration of people with drug-related offenses by integrating substance use …
Taylor Gonzales
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Ahram Cho
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Comparing meters to yards: A nationally representative evaluation of gender bias in risk assessment
Risk-needs assessments (RNAs) assist correctional staff in assigning supervision and programming. While gender is a well-known …
Zachary Hamilton
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Melissa Kowalski
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Michael Campagna
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Addison Kobie
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Alex Kigerl
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Never going to let you down: Preventing predictive shrinkage via the STRONG-R assessment method
Risk-needs assessments (RNAs) are an evidence-based practice used by practitioners to assign supervision and programming. While …
Zachary Hamilton
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Alex Kigerl
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Baylee Allen-Flores
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John Ursino
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Amber Krushas
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Risk-contamination and dilution: Advancing the RNR model in prison settings
The Risk-Needs-Responsivity (RNR) model posits separating lower from higher-risk individuals to avoid “risk contamination.” In a prison …
Baylee Allen-Flores
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Zachary Hamilton
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John Ursino
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Alex Kigerl
DOI
Advancing pretrial assessments: Development of the Personal Recognizance Interview & Needs Screen (PRINS)
Used to reduce detention, bail/bond, and jail, pretrial risk assessments (PRAs) applications have expanded in the last decade. Yet, …
Zachary Hamilton
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John Ursino
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Alex Kigerl
DOI
Finding an answer in time: Assessing change in needs scores on time to recidivism among justice-involved youth
While risk instruments are consistently used to aid classification and supervision decisions, needs assessments guide intervention …
Amber Krushas
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Zachary Hamilton
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Alex Kigerl
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Xiaohan Mei
DOI
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
DOI
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