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A large body of scholarship has focused on the factors that lead to improved prison social order and prisoner reentry outcomes. Research suggests that one such factor, social ties, are especially salient for helping individuals manage...
A large body of research has identified the importance of the family environment for influencing child development. Nonetheless, variation in the exposure to environmental risk factors is typically characterized as a random phenomenon, ...
The shift from indeterminate to determinate sentencing policies over the past three decades and the ensuing decline in the use of parole for monitoring inmates’ transition back into their communities has led to the development of...
Despite cultural expectations about children providing parents happiness and a sense of purpose, the emotional toll of parenthood may be more substantial and the benefits may be less pronounced than one might assume. Previous research...
Latinx immigrants view college attendance as a vehicle for upward mobility and a primary means for achieving the American Dream. Despite ongoing debates over the rightful place of immigrants in U.S. society and periods of anti-immigrant...
Research to date has primarily focused on investigating help-seeking attitudes and intentions of the general public regarding mental health treatment, while neglecting an investigation of these factors for graduate students in the field...
While there is a substantial body of work examining predictors and consequences of a wide array of childcare characteristics, there is a gap in the literature with respect to the effect of income on the stability of childcare...
Approximately 20% of children in the United States meet criteria for an emotional or behavioral disorder, including internalizing symptoms such as anxiety and depression, and externalizing symptoms such as conduct and oppositional...
ABSTRACT Research suggests that the life satisfaction of gender, racial, and sexual minorities is significantly lower than males, Whites, and individuals who identify as heterosexual, respectively. A disparity in life satisfaction...
India has the greatest maternal and child health burden in the world, having more stunted and wasted children, neonatal deaths, and deaths of children under age five than any other nation (Paul et al. 2011; UNICEF 2013; 2018; Hug, ...
During the past two decades, policy-makers, members of the media and the general public have identified sex offending as a persistent social problem. Indeed, a wealth of get-tough legislation has been enacted to enhance punishment and...
Age is one of the most robust correlates of prison misconduct, with younger inmates more likely to commit disciplinary infractions. There has been, however, little attention to the potential nonlinear effect of age on prison misconduct....
In the past two decades, the older prisoner population in the U.S. has experienced unprecedented growth (Carson & Sabol, 2016; Scaggs & Bales, 2016). In fact, older prisoners represent the fastest growing inmate population (Carson &...
When police stop and question an individual for suspected delinquency or crime, they may either arrest that individual or release them without any formal arrest. Most of the criminological literature relating to police contact...
Governments have long relied on private entities to assist with the implementation of correctional punishments, treatments, and services. In the United States, reports of privatized corrections can be traced back to Colonial America....
The emergence of an unparalleled punitive response to criminal offending in the 1970s fueled a nation-wide prison boom that continued through the first decade of the 21st century (Campbell and Vaughn, 2019; Mears and Cochran, 2015;...
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