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Prosecutorial Language, Moral Disengagement, and Sentencing Outcomes in Real Capital Murder Cases
Language reflecting moral disengagement has been shown to influence juries in mock juror studies; however, little to no research has examined this in...
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Sentenced Arizona Juvenile Lifers: A Case Study of the Intersectionality of Sentencing, Race, and Prison-Misconduct Profiles
This study examined whether there were statistical associations between life sentence types, race, and profiles of persistent criminality among...
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Gender Disparities in Sentencing: A Theoretical Approach
According to the US census, women make up roughly half of the population of the USA, yet they represent only a modest percentage of the country’s...
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Brief Report: Sentencing Outcomes for Offenders on the Autism Spectrum
Although people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are not more likely to commit crimes, they are overrepresented in the criminal justice...
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Assessing attitudes about hate: Further validation of the hate crime beliefs scale
The Hate Crime Beliefs Scale (HCBS) is an assessment of attitudes about hate crime laws, offenders, and victims. The original HCBS includes four...
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Exposing Narratives and Gender Disparities in Female Offending: Challenging Stereotypes and Advancing Equity
Perceptions of female offenders are often shaped by stereotypes utilized by the media. While stereotypes provide easy heuristics for society to use...
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Policy Reform: Rethinking Criminal Justice
The criminal justice system plays a crucial role in society, as it ensures public safety, administers justice, and maintains order. However, mounting...
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Public Perceptions of Child Pornography and Child Pornography Consumers
Understanding the public’s perceptions of child pornography helps identify gaps in awareness and knowledge, impacts legislative decision making,...
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Crime Stereotypicality and Severity Database (CriSSD): Subjective norms for 63 crimes
The existence of crime-related racial stereotypes has been well documented. People tend to associate certain groups with specific crimes, which, in...
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Perceptions of Female Offenders, Vol. 2 How Stereotypes and Social Norms Affect Criminal Justice Responses
This new edition is a nuanced exploration of female involvement in various crimes—from delinquency, domestic violence, sexual assault and...
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Mitigation and Advocacy
Over the past several decades, the limited availability of services supporting rehabilitation and education for incarcerated individuals is one of...
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Remand Prisoners’ Specific Needs: A Systematic Review
Remand prisoners (RP) are non-sentenced individuals who must be held in prison awaiting sentencing. The international data reported that up to a...
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Law Enforcement and the Courts and Sexual Grooming
Instances of sexual abuse often go unreported, but there are some cases of child sexual abuse that are formally reported to law enforcement and...
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Views from the Bench: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in the Courtroom
In this chapter, three judges from the United States, Canada, and New Zealand share their views on a number of challenges fetal alcohol spectrum...
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Mental Health and Behavioral Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Incarcerated Parents: A Systematic Review
Parental incarceration is a traumatic experience that affects millions of children and adolescents worldwide. This population is at an increased risk...
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Felons Need Not Apply: The Tough-on-crime Era’s Felony Welfare Benefits Ban and its Impact on Families with a Formerly Incarcerated Parent
Although incarceration rates have begun to decline, the collateral consequences of mass incarceration persist, especially for families and...
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Roper and Race: the Nature and Effects of Death Penalty Exclusions for Juveniles and the “Late Adolescent Class”
In Roper v. Simmons (2005), the US Supreme Court raised the minimum age at which someone could be subjected to capital punishment, ruling that no one...
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Lateral attitude change: displacement effects as a reaction to blatant social influence
According to the lateral attitude change (LAC) model, lateral (i.e., indirect) attitude change may occur in the absence of focal (i.e., direct)...
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Investigating the Influence of Perpetrator Gender on Public Perceptions and Media Portrayals of Teacher-Student Sexual Relationships
Concerns about sexual relationships between teachers and students have recently grown, with research limited about the perpetration of these crimes...
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How Endogenous System Bias Can Distort Decision-Making in Criminal Justice Systems
Most judicial, regulatory, and administrative systems, at least formally, are concerned with the fairness and transparency of their decisions...
