The U.S. prison population has grown to a level that has become concerning for policymakers due to the growing financial burden on taxpayers. If recidivism rates are lowered, the ever-increasing strain on the criminal justice system and the American taxpayer would be reduced. On…
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High levels of imprisonment in the United States have surpassed historical records, with the United States having the highest per capita incarceration levels in the world. Criminal desistance research has been conducted to create reentry programs and to reduce recidivism. To con…
The education field has long wrestled with how to best handle students who behave badly. Specifically, students who behave in an unsafe manner towards other students present a special conundrum and the traditional response has been to suspend them (Adams, 2000; Black, 2016; Cerr…
This dissertation contains four essays in housing and immigration economics. The first two chapters are essays on homelessness and homeless housing, and the last two chapters are essays on immigration policy and its impact on the receiving country. In the first chapter I estimat…
Recidivism is costly for both individuals and society as a whole. While there are multiple causes for recidivism, one area that has not been adequately explored is felon disenfranchisement. To expand the scope of this study, recidivism will be measured by using rearrest, reconvi…
The purpose of this systemic review of the literature is to explore the effectiveness of family-focused community-based interventions in reducing recidivism in juvenile offenders. This review examined 16 quantitative studies from the United States, Netherlands, and the United Ki…
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine and address risk factors and/or reasons why probationer-offenders engaged in recidivism acts post imprisonment. This study included a total population sample of 78 AB109 probationers (archival data), who were assessed with certain …
Family functioning is predictive of youth recidivism in Singapore. However, there is a lack of family based interventions for youth offenders on community probation. Evidence-based family interventions developed in Western populations, such as Functional Family Therapy (FFT), ha…
Research has long documented racial and economic disparities in imprisonment and the recidivism rate. Despite studies that suggest these disparities cannot be fully explained by differential involvement in crime, scholars have not paid enough attention to how individual characte…
Previous work has found that although mental illness is positively related to offending behavior, it is a fairly poor predictor of aggression, violence, offending, and recidivism after controlling for sociodemographic and historical risk factors (i.e., criminal history, age, rac…
Throughout history and in every culture and country, animals and humans have formed special bonds often as pets. Well trained pets have often been used in Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) programs in hospitals and nursing homes to help patients cope with illnesses and recovery whil…
The Affordable Care Act expanded access to Medicaid programs and required them to provide essential health benefits, which can include prevention services. This study assesses the costs and benefits to using Medicaid funding to implement a well-known evidence-based program, Func…
Criminal conduct has been discussed and in existence since the earliest times of civilization. Due to this longstanding history of deviousness, there is a significant number of varying definitions as to what actually constitutes ‘Criminal Behavior’ (Andrews & Bonta, 2010). Today…
Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects millions of people in the United States, causing negative generational consequences to the victim and the community. The criminal justice system has increased its preventative strategies to combat this issue through mandatory arrest laws a…
Risk prediction for youths’ sexual recidivism has concentrated on juveniles with a history of sex offense (JHS). This predetermined target population spawned the practical convention that risk assessment instruments are developed with, and applied to, JHS. While JHS are not the …
Little is known regarding predictive factors that contribute to adults successfully completing felony probation—particularly those who are granted early release. The current study attempts to fill this gap by analyzing data from a large, urban, community supervision and correcti…
Recidivism rates are high in the United States. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, within 5 years of being released, 77% of ex-prisoners are arrested, with 37% arrested within the first 6 months and 57% arrested within the first year. Past research has indicated that…
Over 200,000 women were incarcerated in 2015, constituting approximately 9% of the U.S. prison population (Kaeble & Glaze, 2016). Best practices call for individualized services upon release in hopes of successful reentry into society (Freudenberg, 2006). Much funding and effort…
Researchers have found that seventy-seven percent of the persons released from prison will be rearrested within five years of their release. Most recently, the national recidivism rate among offenders released from prison is sixty percent, and most offenders released from prison…