The past several years have seen a surge of interest in using risk assessment in criminal
sentencing, both to reduce recidivism by incapacitating or treating high-risk offenders and to …

We conducted a meta-analysis of corporate crime deterrence strategies by using 80 effect
sizes calculated from 58 studies in four treatment areas—Law, Punitive Sanctions …

The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, Sixth Edition, provides a psychological and evidence-
informed perspective of criminal behavior that sets it apart from many criminological and …

After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the
United States more than quadrupled in the past four decades. The Committee on the …

Ubuntu is the current theme for the Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development
and represents the highest level of global messaging within the social work profession for …

This study analyses the relationship between prison moral and social climate and
reoffending. It relates data from the measuring the quality of prison life (MQPL) survey …

Beginning in the 1970s, the United States began an experiment in mass imprisonment.
Supporters argued that harsh punishments such as imprisonment reduce crime by deterring …

Adolescence is a distinct, yet transient, period of development between childhood and
adulthood characterized by increased experimentation and risk-taking, a tendency to …

" The best organized and most comprehensive theory textbook to use for both graduate and
undergraduate students. It provides historical context to the theories, and the authors make it …

Only in the past decade has prisoner reentry been “discovered” and become a central policy
concern in the United States. This is due in part to the sheer number of released inmates …