Ecological approaches to explaining juvenile delinquency emphasize the importance of spatial influences on patterns of delinquency. Studies of recidivism among juvenile offenders, on the other hand, have rarely taken neighborhood influences into account. Moreover, conventional statistical approaches adapted for investigating spatial neighborhood effects, such as hierarchical linear modeling (HL...

Psychopathy (Hare, 1980) refers to personality traits that are established early in life. The psychopathy concept described by Cleckley (1976) involves interpersonal, affective, and behavioral aspects. Psychopaths show superficial interpersonal charm. They try to control and manipulate others, and are grandiose, arrogant, and callous. Psychopaths are more concerned with the effects of their act...

This study investigates the human capital accounts for a variation in desistance and its relative impact on at Louisiana State Penitentiary. The used survey research design, binary logistic regression, primary data source to investigate study. A sample size of 144 inmates were surveyed purposes analysis. comes from Penitentiary based self-reported face-to-fact interviews initially taken May 200...