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Encyclopedia of community corrections
Accessible, jargon-free and available in both print and electronic formats, the one-volume Encyclopedia of Community Corrections explores all aspects of community corrections, from its philosophical foundation to its current inception.
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Pre-offense characteristics of nineteenth-century American parricide offenders: an archival exploration
Purpose - Previous criminological research has examined the causes and correlates of violent juvenile offending, but failed to explore the developmental taxonomies of crime throughout history. Theoretically, developmental trajectories of offending (i.e. life-course persistent and adolescence-limited offenders) should be identifiable irrespective of time and place. This study aims to examine the pre-offense characteristics of nineteenth-century American parricide offenders. Design/methodology/approach - Using archival records of two major newspapers (New York Times, Chicago Tribune), the study examines 220 offenders who committed attempted and completed parricides during the latter half of the nineteenth century (1852-1999). Findings - Results reveal that a small group of adult parricide offenders displayed antisocial tendencies at an early age that persisted into adulthood. These findings are consistent with the developmental literature, thus providing support for identification of pre-offense characteristics of parricide offenders across historical periods. Originality/value - The findings reported in this paper are of value to psychologists, historians, and criminologists, for they illuminate the similarities in predictors related to violent behaviors in a small subsection of adult offenders across two centuries.
Journal Article
Examining the effects of stressors on organizational citizenship behaviors among private correctional staff: A preliminary study
Much of the research on correctional officers over the past two decades has focused on job stress, job satisfaction, the job environment and how demographic variables such as gender, race, health and family conflict have influenced stress and job satisfaction. Little attention, however, has been placed on organizational citizenship and its relationship to correctional staff. Using survey data from a private correctional facility in the Midwest, this article examined how the stressors of role conflict, role ambiguity, role overload and perceived dangerousness of the job affected organizational citizenship behaviors. In multivariate analysis, role ambiguity was found to have a significant negative effect on organizational citizenship behaviors, and perceived dangerous of the job had a significant positive effect.
Journal Article
AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF SCHOOL CRIME AND RURAL TEACHER AND STAFF VICTIMIZATION: A RESEARCH NOTE
Research exploring the impact of social climate on student success and development has failed to gather perceptions of the environment from the rural teachers' perspective. This study expands the current literature by surveying school personnel in a rural Midwestern United States community regarding their on- and off- campus experiences, indicators of social climate characteristics, and perceptions of safety and support from students, teachers, and other staff and their victimization experiences. Findings from this pilot study indicate that school personnel report feeling safe both on- and off-campus and have not experienced any violent or property victimizations. While this study is limited in its analytical power by the sample size, the data from this study establishes a framework for more extensive exploration of the victimization of school personnel both on- and off-campus in both rural and urban school environments.
Journal Article
Does involuntary treatment work? A view from staff and inmates
During the 1970s, the American Friends Service Committee argued that \"state-enforced therapy\" amounted to little more than the victimization of offenders.2 While offender choice should be considered, evidence suggests that even minimal, incremental exposure to treatment can result in institutional pro-social and societal economic benefits.3 Similarly, research suggests that treatment programs appear to be most effective with the highest-risk inmate.4 Unfortunately, this high-risk group is least likely to self-refer to a program. [...]the debate of \"who\" and \"how\" individuals receive treatment continues. Data were collected as part of a larger National Institute of Justice grant. Because of the lengthy sentences of program participants, program success was defined as a reduction in the number of institutional misconducts rather than recidivism.
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