Recidivism

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 …
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Comparing meters to yards: A nationally representative evaluation of gender bias in risk assessment
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 …
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Never going to let you down: Preventing predictive shrinkage via the STRONG-R assessment method
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 …
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Finding an answer in time: Assessing change in needs scores on time to recidivism among justice-involved youth
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, …
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Revisiting the relationship between age, employment, and recidivism
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 …
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Gang affilitation and prisoner reentry: Discrete-time variation in recidivism by current, former, and non-gang status