Publications

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Morgan J. Steele, Tamara J. Lynn, Abigail Hayes, Laurelle Augustine (2025). Enhancing law enforcement skills: A two-year report on Level 3 de-escalation training from the National De-escalation Training Center. Criminal Justice and Behavior.

Jennifer Tostlebe, David Pyrooz, Ryan Labrecque, Bert Useem (2025). Experimental effects of a restrictive housing step-down program on violent and non-violent misconduct. Journal of Criminal Justice (Special Issue on Policy Reforms to Segregation Practices in U.S. Prisons).

Zachary Hamilton, Xiaohan Mei, Jennifer Tostlebe, Baylee Allen-Flores, John Ursino, Alex Kigerl (2025). A methodological template for the next generation: Redesigning the STRONG-R needs assessment. Journal of Criminal Justice.

Addison Kobie, Eunsuhk Choi, Lisa Sample, Zachary Hamilton (2025). Special considerations: Problem sexual behavior and offending patterns by adolescents. Best Practices in Sexual Offender Assessment and Management.

Nicholas Vietto, Todd Armstrong, Dakota Schroll, Sarah Al Falatah (2025). Differences in associations between autonomic nervous system activity and psychopathic traits across stress paradigms and measures. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment.

Taylor Gonzales, Ahram Cho (2025). Exploring dimensions of adult drug treatment courts related to successful completion. Criminal Justice and Behavior.

Jennifer Tostlebe, Selena Munoz-Jones (2025). Public accessibility of healthcare information in prison: An overview of U.S. state Department of Corrections websites. Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Health, Crime, and Punishment.

Zachary Hamilton, Melissa Kowalski, Michael Campagna, Addison Kobie, Alex Kigerl (2024). Comparing meters to yards: A nationally representative evaluation of gender bias in risk assessment. Justice Quarterly.

Baylee Allen-Flores, Zachary Hamilton, John Ursino, Alex Kigerl (2024). Risk-contamination and dilution: Advancing the RNR model in prison settings. Crime & Delinquency.

Zachary Hamilton, Alex Kigerl, Baylee Allen-Flores, John Ursino, Amber Krushas (2024). Never going to let you down: Preventing predictive shrinkage via the STRONG-R assessment method. Justice Quarterly.

Zachary Hamilton, John Ursino, Alex Kigerl (2024). Advancing pretrial assessments: Development of the Personal Recognizance Interview & Needs Screen (PRINS). Journal of Criminal Justice.

Zachary Hamilton, Alex Kigerl, Baylee Allen-Flores, Addison Kobie, John Ursino (2024). Nebraska Department of Correctional Services classification and crowding project report.

Amber Krushas, Zachary Hamilton, Alex Kigerl, Xiaohan Mei (2024). Finding an answer in time: Assessing change in needs scores on time to recidivism among justice-involved youth. Journal of Criminal Justice.

Jennifer Tostlebe, Jose Antonio Sanchez (2024). Birds of a feather? Individual differences and gang membership. The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society.

Meghan Novisky, Jennifer Tostlebe, David Pyrooz, Jose Antonio Sanchez (2023). The COVID-19 pandemic and operational challenges, impacts, and lessons learned: A multi-methods study of U.S. prison systems. Health & Justice.

Gaylene Armstrong, Taylor Gonzales, Michael Visenio, Ashley Farrens, Hannah Nelson, Charity Evans, Jennifer Burt, Zachary Bauman, Mark Foxall, Ashley Raposo-Hadley (2023). Assessing risk factors for victims of violence in a hospital-based violence intervention program. Trauma Care.

Holly Nguyen, Kyle Thomas, Jennifer Tostlebe (2023). Revisiting the relationship between age, employment, and recidivism. Criminology.

Morgan Steele, Tamara Lynn, Abigail Hayes (2023). A survey of issues in the recruitment, hiring, and retention of law enforcement officers: Investigating the rural-urban divide. International Journal of Rural Criminology.

Xiaohan Mei, Zachary Hamilton, Alex Kigerl, Amber Krushas, Faye Taxman (2023). Best practices for neglected assumptions: Multi-site confirmation of the MPACT-6. Crime & Delinquency.

Melissa Kowalski, Zachary Hamilton, Alex Kigerl, Michael Baglivio, Kevin Wolff (2023). Protecting against adversity: The role of positive childhood experiences in youth recidivism. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice.

Alex Kigerl, Zachary Hamilton, Melissa Kowalski, Xiaohan Mei (2022). The great methods bake-off: Comparing performance of machine learning algorithms. Journal of Criminal Justice.

Zachary Hamilton, Grant Duwe, Alex Kigerl, Jason Gwinn, Neal Langan, Christopher Dollar (2022). Tailoring to a mandate: The development and validation of the Prisoner Assessment Tool Targeting Estimated Risk and Needs (PATTERN). Justice Quarterly.

Jennifer Tostlebe, David Pyrooz (2022). Procedural justice, legal orientations, and gang membership: Testing an alternative explanation to understand the gang-misconduct link. Criminology.

Alex Kigerl (2022). Behind the scenes of the underworld: Hierarchical clustering of two leaked carding forum databases. Social Science Computer Review.

Ryan Labrecque, Jennifer Tostlebe, Bert Useem, David Pyrooz (2021). Reforming solitary confinement: The development, implementation, and processes of a restrictive housing step down reentry program in Oregon. Health & Justice (Special Issue on Enhancing the Prison Environment).

Xiaohan Mei, Zachary Hamilton, Melissa Kowalski, Alex Kigerl (2021). Redesigning the central eight: Introducing the M-PACT Six. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice.

Jennifer Tostlebe, David Pyrooz, Richard Rogers, Ryan Masters (2021). The National Death Index as a source of homicide data: A methodological exposition of promises and pitfalls for criminologists. Homicide Studies.

David Pyrooz, Kendra Clark, Jennifer Tostlebe, Scott Decker, Erin Orrick (2021). Gang affilitation and prisoner reentry: Discrete-time variation in recidivism by current, former, and non-gang status. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.