Last updated: Jan 2013

The following is a list of key peer-reviewed publications by RSCJ faculty:

Forthcoming

• Moreto, W.*, Piza, E., and Caplan, J. (Forthcoming). A Plague on Both Your Houses? Risks, Repeats, and Reconsiderations of Urban Residential Burglary. Justice Quarterly.
• Caplan, J., Kennedy, L., and Piza, E. (Forthcoming). Violent Crime Forecasting with Event Dependent and Contextual Crime Analysis Techniques. Crime & Delinquency.
• Piza, E., Caplan, C., and Kennedy, L. (Forthcoming). Is the Punishment More Certain? An Analysis of CCTV Detections and Enforcement. Justice Quarterly.
• Rockett, I., Regier, M., Kapusta, N., Coben, Miller, T., Hanzlick, R., Todd, K., Kleinig, J., Kennedy, L., Sattin, R., Smith, G. (Forthcoming). Patterns and Trends in the Leading Causes of Injury Mortality: United States, 2000-2009. American Journal of Public Health.
• Panuccio, E. A. (*), Christian, J., Martinez, D.J. and Sullivan, M.L. (Forthcoming). Toward Ddsistance: the initiation of change processes among returning juvenile offenders. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation.
• Apel, R,, Dugan, L., & R. Powers. (Forthcoming). Gender and injury risk in incidents of assaultive violence. Justice Quarterly.
• R. K. Brunson, & J. M. Gau. (Forthcoming). Officer race versus macro-level context: A test of competing hypotheses about Black citizens’ experiences with and perceptions of Black police officers. Crime & Delinquency
• Corsaro, N., Brunson, R. K., & E. F. McGarrell. (Forthcoming). Problem-oriented policing and open-air drug markets: Examining the Rockford pulling levers deterrence strategy. Crime & Delinquency
• Pires, S., & R. V. Clarke. (Forthcoming). Are parrots CRAVED? An analysis of parrot poaching in Mexico. Forthcoming in Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
• Clear, T., & D. Schrantz. (Forthcoming). Evidence regarding controlling prison costs. The Prison Journal
• Ostermann, M. (Forthcoming). How do former inmates perform in the community? A survival analysis of rearrests, reconvictions and technical parole violations. Crime & Delinquency
• Ostermann, M. (Forthcoming). Recidivism and the propensity to forgo parole release. Justice Quarterly
• Rengifo, A. F., & D. Stemen. (Forthcoming). The unintended effects of penal reform: African American presence, incarceration, and the abolition of discretionary parole in the United States. Crime & Delinquenc
• Bushway, Shawn & Robert Apel. A signaling perspective on employment-based reentry programming: Training completion as a desistance signal. Criminology and Public Policy
• Carbone-Lopez, Kristin & Jody Miller. Precocious role entry as a mediating Factor in women‘s drug use: Implications for life-course and pathways research. Criminology
• Miller, Jody & Andrea Nichols. Identity, sexuality, and commercial sex among Sri Lankan Nachchi. Sexualities
• Stemen, Don & Andres F. Rengifo. Charting the evolution of structure and determinacy in state sentencing and corrections policies 1970-2010. Justice Research & Policy
• Rengifo, Andres F. & Amanda Bolton. Routine activities and fear of crime: Specifying individual-level mechanisms. European Journal of Criminology
• Heimer, Karen, Kecia R. Johnson, Joseph B. Lang, Andres F. Rengifo & Don Stemen. Race and Women’s imprisonment: Poverty, African American presence, and social welfare. Journal of Quantitative Criminology
• Slocum, Lee Ann, Andres F. Rengifo & Kristin Carbone-Lopez. Specifying the strain-violence link: The role of emotions in women’s descriptions of violent incidents. Victims & Offenders
• Rengifo, Andres F. & Don Stemen. The impact of drug treatment on recidivism: Do mandatory programs make a difference? Evidence from Kansas’ Senate Bill 123. Crime & Delinquency.
• Braga, A.A., & D. L. Weisburd. (Forthcoming). The effects of focused deterrence strategies on crime: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the empirical evidence. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.
• Braga, A. A. (Forthcoming). Getting deterrence right? Evaluation evidence and complementary crime control mechanisms. Criminology & Public Policy.
• Braga, A. A., D. M. Hureau, & A. V. Papachristos. (Forthcoming). An ex-post-facto evaluation framework for place-based police interventions. Evaluation Review.
• Braga, A. A., G. J. Wintemute, G. L. Pierce, P. J. Cook, & G. Ridgeway. (Forthcoming). Interpreting the empirical evidence on illegal gun market dynamics. Journal of Urban Health.
• Braga, A. A., & G. L. Pierce. (Forthcoming). Reconsidering the ballistic imaging of crime bullets in gun law enforcement operations. Forensic Science Policy and Management.

2011

• Chin, Ko -Lin & James Finckenauer. (2011). Chickenheads, agents, mommies, and jockeys: The social organization of transnational commercial sex. Crime, Law and Social Change.
• Christian, J. & Kennedy, L.W. (2011). Secondary Narratives in the Aftermath of Crime: Family Members’ Relationships with Prisoners. Punishment and Society, 13(4): 379-402.
• Brunson, R. K., & R. Witzer. 2011. Negotiating unwelcome Police encounters. The intergenerational transmission of conduct norms. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 40
• Caplan, J. 2011. Mapping the spatial influence of crime correlates: A comparison of operationalization schemes and implications for crime and criminal justice practice. Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research 13
• Caplan, J. M., L. W. Kennedy, & J. Miller. 2011. Risk terrain modeling: Brokering criminological theory and GIS methods for crime forecasting. Justice Quarterly 28.
• Caplan, J. M., L. W. Kennedy, & G. Petrossian. 2011. Police-monitored CCTV cameras in Newark, NJ: A quasi experimental test of crime deterrence. Journal of Experimental Criminology 7
• Kennedy, L. W., J. M. Caplan & E. Piza. 2011. Risk clusters, hotspots, and spatial intelligence. Risk terrain modeling as an algorithm for police resource allocation strategies. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 27
• Pires, S., & R. V. Clarke. 2011. Sequential foraging, itinerant fences and parrot poaching in Bolivia. British Journal of Criminology 51
• Clear, T. 2011. A private-sector, incentives-based model for justice reinvestment. Criminology & Public Policy 10
• Griffiths, E., C. Yule, & R. Gartner. 2011. Fighting over trivial things: Explaining the issue of contention in violent altercations. Criminology 49
• Miller, Jody. 2011. Beach boys or sexually exploited children? Competing narratives of sex tourism and their impact on young men in Sri Lanka’s sex industry.” Crime, Law and Social Change 56.
• Apel, Robert & John D. Burrow. 2011. Adolescent victimization and violent self-help. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice 9.
• Stemen, Don & Andres F. Rengifo. 2011. Policies and imprisonment: The impact of structured sentencing and determinate sentencing on State incarceration rates, 1978-2004. Justice Quarterly 28.
• Ostermann, Michael. 2011. Parole? Nope, not for me: Voluntarily maxing out of prison. Crime & Delinquency 57.
• Wintemute, G.  J., & A A. Braga. 2011. Opportunities for State-level action to reduce firearm violence: Proceeding from the evidence. American Journal of Public Health 101.
• Welsh, B. C., M.  E. Peel, D. P. Farrington, H,. Elffers, & A. A. Braga. 2011. Research design influence on study outcomes in crime and justice: A partial replication with public area surveillance. Journal of Experimental Criminology 7.
• Braga, A. A., D. M. Hureau, & A. V. Papachristos. 2011. The relevance of micro places to citywide robbery trends: A longitudinal analysis of robbery incidents at street corners and block faces in Boston. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 48.
• Ridgeway, G., A.A. Braga, G. Tita, & G. L. Pierce. 2011. Intervening in gun markets: An experiment to assess the impact of targeted gun law messaging. Journal of Experimental Criminology 7.

2010

• Apel, R., & G. Sweeten. 2010. The impact of incarceration on employment during the transition to adulthood. Social Problems 57
• Apel, R., Blokland, A., Nieuwbeerta, P., & M. van Schellen 2010. The impact of imprisonment on marriage and divorce: A risk set matching approach. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 26
• Gau, J. M., & R. K. Brunson. 2010. Procedural justice and order maintenance policing: A study of inner-city young men’s perceptions of police legitimacy. Justice Quarterly 27
• Matejkowski, J., Caplan, J. & S. Wiesel Cullen. 2010. The impact of severe mental illness on parole decisions. Social integration within a prison setting. Criminal Justice & Behavior 37
• Caplan, J. 2010. Parole release decision: Impact of positive and negative victim and non-victim input on a representative sample of parole-eligible inmates. Violence & Victims 25.
• Caplan, J. M., & S. C. Kinnevy. 2010. National surveys of state paroling authorities: Models of service delivery. Federal probation 74.
• Caplan, J. M. 2010. Parole release decisions: Impact of victim input on a representative sample of inmates. Journal of Criminal Justice 38
• Griffiths. E. 2010. Clearing the misty landscape: Teaching students whet they didn’t know then, but know now. College Teaching 58
• Miller, J. 2010. Stop and search in England. A reformed tactic or business as usual? British Journal of Criminology 50
• Rengifo, A. F., D. Stemen, B. Dooley, E. Amidon, & A. Gendon. 2010. Cents and sensibility. A case study of corrections reform in Kansas and Michigan. Journal of Criminal Justice 38
• Brady, L, L. Najavits, D. Toussaint, D. Bonavota, & B. Veysey. 2010. Does criminal involvement matter? A study of women with co-occurring disorders in a multisite national trial. Mental Health and Substance Use 3
• Veysey, B., J. Grasmere & R. Andersen. 2010. Supporting peer recovery in rural New England: The RECOVER project, Franklin County, MA. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly 28
• Harris, A., W. Fisher, B. Veysey, L. Ragusa, & A. L. Lurigio. 2010. Sex offending and serious mental illness. Directions for policy and research. Criminal Justice & Behavior 37
• Veysey, B., & K. M. Zgoba. 2010. Sex offenses and offenders reconsidered. An investigation of characteristics and correlates over time. Criminal Justice & Behavior 37
• Cobbina, Jennifer, Toya Z. Like-Haislip, and Jody Miller. 2010. Gang fights versus cat fights: Urban young men’s gendered narratives of violence. Deviant Behavior 31.
• Braga, A. A. 2010. The empirical evidence for hot spots policing. Police Studies 17.
• Wintemute, G. J., D. Hemenway, D. Webster, G. L. Pierce, & A. A. Braga. 2010. Gun shows and gun violence: Fatally flawed study yields misleading results. American Journal of Public Health 100.
• Wintemute, G.  J., A.  A. Braga, & D. M. Kennedy. 2010. Private-party gun sales, regulation, and public safety. The New England Journal of Medicine 363.
• Braga, A. A., A. V. Papachristos, & D. M. Hureau. 2010. “The concentration and stability of gun violence at micro places in Boston, 1980 – 2008. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 26
• Braga, A. A. 2010. Setting a higher standard for the evaluation of problem-oriented policing initiatives. Criminology & Public Policy 9.
• Clarke, R. V.. S. Contre & G. Petrossian . 2010. Deterrence and fare evasion: results of a natural experiment. Security Journal 23.