Criminal justice success stories — for example, the sustained reduction in crime in major U.S. cities during the past fifteen years — are poured over by officials from around the world in an effort to distill the lessons and replicate the accomplishments . Best practice manuals, providing protocols intended to guarantee success, are in abundant supply . At the same time, in the criminal justice...

Introduction In recent years as concerns over youth violence and youth crime has increased, policy makers have devoted more resources to delinquency prevention programs. These prevention programs are generally based on the premise that early intervention reduces the likelihood that youths will later end up in the juvenile or criminal justice system. However, as prevention programs expand, polic...

CONTEXT Previous research has focused on suicide among male prisoners and ex-prisoners, but little is known about risk in the wider offender population. OBJECTIVE To examine suicide risk over 3 decades among all people processed by a national criminal justice system. DESIGN Nested case-control study. SETTING The whole Danish population. PARTICIPANTS Interlinked national registers identi...

This Article focuses on the Situational Crime Prevention (SCP) approach in criminology, which expands the crime reduction role well beyond the justice system. SCP sees criminal law in a more restrictive sense, as only part of the anticrime effort in governance. We examine the " general " and " specific " responses to crime problems in the SCP approach. Our review demonstrates that the most seri...

Methods A comparison study of 174 jail detainees with co-occurring serious mental and addictive disorders assessed on psychosocial, mental health, substance abuse, criminal justice, and satisfaction domains at baseline, 3 and 12months through self-report standardized instruments and services data, and collateral criminal justice data one-year prior and one-year following division. Matched parti...

Young transgender women, especially those of color, are negatively impacted by suicidality, HIV, residential instability, survival sex work, and other challenges. This study used an oral narrative approach to collect life histories of 10 young black transwomen between 18 and 24 years of age residing in Detroit, Michigan. This study used grounded theory analysis to explore institutional violence...

Background: A number of studies reveal a strong linkage between SC use and avoiding positiveurine creens. Despite this work and given the high rates of criminal justice supervision among Black men in the U.S., little is known about SC usage among Black men under criminal justice supervision. Methods: In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 11 Black men under criminal justicesupervis...

The two goals of this study were to describe the criminal trajectories of the Toronto sample on the dimensions of rate, type, versatility, and severity and to estimate distinct (latent) trajectory groups using current techniques of group-based trajectory analysis. The sample comprised 378 Canadian male offenders whose criminal trajectories was tracked for an average of 12.1 years (SD = 3.0), fr...