Bio

Michael Ostermann is an Associate Professor at the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University-Newark.  His research interests primarily lie within the fields of prisoner reentry and corrections, and how they intersect with public policy.  His recent work investigates the impact of post-release reentry services upon recidivism, whether effects vary across different levels of programmatic quality, and how measurement strategies translate into different policy prescriptions within evaluation research.  Ostermann has served as Principal Investigator on several federally funded grants that investigate research questions about evidence-based crime policy, and include partnerships with practitioners and other criminal justice stakeholders.  His work has been published in Justice Quarterly, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Law and Human Behavior, Crime and Delinquency, Criminology and Public Policy, and other scholarly outlets.

Publications

Matejkowski, J. & Ostermann, M. (in press). The Waiving of Parole Consideration by Inmates with Mental Illness and Recidivism Outcomes. Online first in Criminal Justice and Behavior:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0093854820972162.

Gunn, J. F. III, Boxer, P., Andrews, T., Ostermann, M., Bonne, S., Gusmano, M., SloanPower, E., & Hohl, B. (in press). The impact of firearm legislation on firearm deaths, 1991-2017. Journal of Public Health.

Ostermann, M., Hyatt, J.M., & DeWitt, S. (2020). The Influence of Technical Violation Revocations on Parole Efficacy: Employing Competing Risks Survival Analyses to Address Methodological Challenges. Journal of Crime and Justice, 43(3), 323- 341.

Bonne, S., Tufariello, A., Coles, Z., Hohl, B., Ostermann, M., Boxer, P., Sloan-Power, E., Gusmano, M., Glass, N., Kunac, A., & Livingston, D. (2020). Identifying Participants for Inclusion in Hospital Based Violence Intervention: An Analysis of 18 years of Urban Firearm Recidivism. The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 89(1), 68-73.

Drawve, G., Caplan, J. &, Ostermann, M. (2019). Utilizing a Risk of Crime Measure for Recidivism Research: Moving Environmental Corrections Forward. Crime & Delinquency, 65(5), 606-629.

Hyatt, J.M. & Ostermann, M. (2019). Better to Stay Home: Evaluating the Impact of Day Reporting Centers on Offending. Crime & Delinquency, 65(1), 94-121.

Ostermann, M. & Hyatt, J.M. (2018). When Frontloading Backfires: Exploring the Impact of Outsourcing Correctional Interventions on Mechanisms of Social Control. Law and Social Inquiry, 43(4), 1308-1339.

Boxer, P., Docherty, M.*, Ostermann, M., Kubik, J.*, & Vesey, B.M. (2017). Effectiveness of Multisystemic Therapy for Gang-Involved Youth Offenders: One Year Follow-Up Analysis of Recidivism and Outcomes. Children and Youth Services Review, 73: 107-112.

Matejkowski, J., Conrad, A.A.*, & Ostermann, M. (2017). Does Early Onset of Criminal Behavior Differentiate for whom Serious Mental Illness has a Direct or Indirect Effect on Recidivism? Law and Human Behavior,41(1), 68-79.

Ostermann, M. & Hyatt, J.M. (2016). Is Something Better than Nothing? The Effect of Short Terms of Mandatory Parole Supervision. Justice Quarterly, 33(5), 785-810.

Docherty, M.*, Boxer, P., Veysey, B.M., & Ostermann, M. (2016). Gender Differences in Prevalence of Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms in a Justice-Referred Sample of Youth.  Journal of Juvenile Justice, 5(2), 104-120.

Ostermann, M. & Ragusa, L.M.* (2016). The Predictive Utility of the Level of Service Inventory-Revised at the Intersection of Race and Gender. The Prison Journal, 96(4), 554-575.

Miller, J., Caplan, J., & Ostermann, M. (2016). Assessing the Influence of Crime Hotspots on Parolee Failure. The Prison Journal, 96(3), 437-461.

Ostermann, M. & Caplan, J.M. (2016). How Much do Crimes Committed by Released Inmates Cost? Crime and Delinquency, 62(5), 563-591.

Miller, J., Caplan, J., & Ostermann, M. (2016). Home Nodes, Criminogenic Place, and Parolee Failure: Testing an Environmental Model of Offender Risk. Crime and Delinquency,62(2), 169-199.

Kubik, J.*, Docherty, M.*, Boxer, P., Veysey, B.M. & Ostermann, M. (2016). Examining the Moderating Role of Gang Involvement on the Context and Impact of Victimization. Journal of Criminological Research, Policy, and Practice, 2(2), 107-121.