Juvenile Justice (JJ) involvement disproportionately impacts Black youth. While there is
literature on the relationship between both connectedness and the perceived neighborhood …

Gender differences have been found in the experiences and needs of individuals involved in
the criminal legal system, underscoring the importance of interventions tailored to address …

Objective: This preliminary study tested the efficacy of an evidence-based correctional
intervention (Thinking for a Change) with an adapted delivery to incarcerated people with …

Feminist criminological theories emphasize trauma and victimization as pathways to criminal
behavior among women while gender-neutral theories suggest that mental illness has a …

For individuals with mental illnesses, contact with the criminal justice system often begins a
cycle of arrest, incarceration, release, supervision, and rearrest that poses recovery …

Prisons are primarily designed as housing facilities where criminals are punished for
criminal acts and introduced to retribution, rehabilitation, deterrence, and incapacitation …

Offenders with mental illness are at a greater risk of reoffending once introduced to the
detentions system. In addition, offenders with mental illness require a varied type of …

The undeniable overrepresentation of individuals with serious mental illness in the criminal
justice system is a complex matter. Despite persistent assumptions that mental illness is the …

Abstract The Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions
(COMPAS) is a widely used actuarial risk assessment instrument in correctional settings …

Through mass incarceration, the United States has a higher number and rate of people
incarcerated than anywhere else in the world. At their bloated peaks, 4.7 million people …