Criminological Theory

Selection and facilitation: Is the gang membership-psychopathic traits link a product of individual differences, social influences, or both?
The issue of psychopathology among gang populations is controversial.
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Selection and facilitation: Is the gang membership-psychopathic traits link a product of individual differences, social influences, or both?
Operational challenges and impacts during the COVID-19 pandemic: A focus group study of U.S. community corrections agencies
This study examines how the COVID-19 pandemic shaped the daily work of frontline community corrections staff from pretrial, probation, parole board, and parole agencies.
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Operational challenges and impacts during the COVID-19 pandemic: A focus group study of U.S. community corrections agencies
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 prison staff.
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The COVID-19 pandemic and operational challenges, impacts, and lessons learned: A multi-methods study of U.S. prison systems
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, 1993).
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Revisiting the relationship between age, employment, and recidivism
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 objective, warranting bespoke policies and practices.
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Procedural justice, legal orientations, and gang membership: Testing an alternative explanation to understand the gang-misconduct link
Gang affilitation and prisoner reentry: Discrete-time variation in recidivism by current, former, and non-gang status
Reentry experiences for the 600,000 people released annually from federal and state prisons differ vastly. We contend that gangs, which rose to prominence alongside mass incarceration, are an overlooked source of variation in reentry experiences.
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Gang affilitation and prisoner reentry: Discrete-time variation in recidivism by current, former, and non-gang status