Research – Page 3 – Professor Beth M. Huebner

Understanding Victim cooperation in cases of nonfatal gun assaults

Victims play a central role in criminal case processing, but research suggests many victims do not report crimes to police or cooperate in a police investigation. This study extends the literature on victim cooperation by examining the effect of inci- dent-level variables and neighborhood characteristics on victim cooperation in nonfatal shooting incidents. The sample includes 1,054 nonfatal shooting victims from two Midwestern cities. Results using binary logistic regression suggest that incident and victim characteristics are significantly associated with cooperation, but…

Comparing the effects of maternal and paternal incarceration on adult daughters’ and sons’ criminal justice system involvement

Urban Gun Violence

As mass incarceration has proliferated in recent decades, there has been a corresponding increase in research examining outcomes among children of incarcerated parents (e.g., see Hagan & Foster, 2014; Uggen & McElrath, 2014). Despite the gains in knowledge this schol- arship has produced, the gendered effects of parental incarceration for offspring into adult- hood remain poorly understood. Most of the quantitative parental incarceration research to date has examined fathers’ incarceration only; the body of research on mothers’ incarceration is smaller…

The Missouri Model: A Critical State of Knowledge

Corrections & Sentencing

Over the past two decades, the juvenile incarceration rate has increased steadily. On any given day, more than 368 of every 100,000 juveniles are serving time in correctional facilities, and nearly all of them will be released back into the communities from which they came (Snyder and Sickmund, 1999). A continuum of programming services is needed to aid the incarcerated juvenile population in preparing for release, leaving prison, and returning to the community so that the likelihood of successful community…

The Case for Studying Criminal Nonfatal Shootings: Evidence from Four Midwest Cities

Corrections & Sentencing

Gun violence in the United States is a pervasive and costly public health issue (Wintemute, 2015) so much that the American Medical Association declared gun violence a public health crisis (Friedman, 2016). Exposure to gunfire is among a set of indicators that have been linked with negative health outcomes, particularly among youth (Bieler & La Vigne, 2014). Read more here:

Understanding victim cooperation in cases of nonfatal gun assaults

Corrections & Sentencing

African American and White perceptions of police services: Within- and between-group variation

Criminal Justice Data & Public Policy

Existing research on attitudes toward the police identified demographic variables predicting citizen satisfaction with police services and performance. Common themes in this literature were the disparate rates of satisfaction reported by African American and Caucasian citizens. While it is generally understood that African American citizens express lower levels of satisfaction, the degree to which this reduced satisfaction is consistent among African Americans and the factors causing such variation are unclear. In addition, variation in levels of citizen satisfaction across diverse…

Police Organizations and Problem-Solving Strategies for Juvenile Intervention: Identifying Crucial Elements

Uncategorized

The implementation of community policing and problem-solving strat- egies at the start of the 21st century has permeated the institution of policing in the United States such that there is near universal desire for police managers to be associated with these ideas (Skogan and Hartnett, 1997). Part of the ethos of community policing, by some measures (Bayley, 1994), is that the agency no longer operates alone but builds partnerships to confront problems within the community. Read more here:

The Effect of Drug Use, Drug Treatment Participation, and Treatment Completion on Probationer Recidivism

Corrections & Sentencing

The prevalence of drug use among probationers, and the entire offender population, has been well documented. Numerous drug treatment modalities have been shown to reduce recidivism among this population; however, analyses of programmatic success are often based on a subset of offenders who complete treatment. Less is known about individuals who fail to complete treatment. The goal of the current study is to consider the interaction of drug use, drug treatment provision, and treatment completion on recidivism using data from…

Juvenile Female Arrests: A Holistic Explanation of Organization Functioning

Criminal Justice Data & Public Policy

In the study of crime and delinquency, various contributions have been made by the feminist tradition. Approaches to studying female crime are based upon the recognition that traditional theories capture the experience of males and do not readily apply to females (Chesney- Lind, 2001). In its development, feminist criminology has focused on the etiology of female offending and on the treatment of females in the criminal justice system (Haney, 2000). This paper is concerned with the latter; that is, we seek to utilize findings…

The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Parole Decisions

Corrections & Sentencing

The parole board plays an integral part in the reentry of offenders into the community from prison in most states; yet, little is known about the decision-making practices of this group. In particular, few studies have used quantitative data to examine parole among a large group of offenders, and less is known about the direct and joint effects of race and ethnicity on this decision point. We extend previous work by con- sidering variation in parole timing among a sample…