Criminal Violence and Incapacitation: Wishes and Realities
Date Published
1991
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Incarceration
New Orleans Offender Study, Phase I, Volume II: Estimation of Collective Incapacitation Effects
Date Published
1989
Publication Type
Survey
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Specific Deterrent Effects of Sentences for Robbery: Does Type of Punishment Influence Recidivism?
Date Published
1986
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Measuring the Use of Confinement
Date Published
1983
Publication Type
Statistics
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Community-Based Alternatives to Youth Incarceration
Date Published
September 2024
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
INFLUENCE OF INCOME AND OTHER FACTORS ON WHETHER CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS GO TO PRISON
Date Published
1976
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Child-Friendly Visits in Jail
15PNIJ-24-GG-01570-RESS
Open
Funding First Awarded
2024
$119,999
Redesigning Life in U.S. Prisons
July 2024
Series
The prison system in the U.S. typically places a heavy emphasis on security, control, and punishment, and this foundation can create an adversarial culture within correctional facilities — incarcerated individuals versus correctional staff. But what if that culture could change? What would it look like? How would it impact not only incarcerated individuals but also correctional officers and other staff?
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Supporting Women’s Reentry from Incarceration: Discussing Promising Practices & Future Research
Date Published
2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Issue Overview
Agencies
NIJ
Custodial Parole Sanctions and Earnings After Release From Prison
Date Published
December 2017
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Social Bonds and Change During Incarceration: Testing a Missing Link in the Reentry Research
Date Published
August 2011
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Incarceration and Desistance: Evidence from a Natural Policy Experiment
Date Published
2022
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Grant Sponsored)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
No Escape: Mass Incarceration and the Social Ecology of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women
Date Published
2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Circumventing the Sentencing Grid: Encouraging Downward Departures in Presumptive Prison Cases
Date Published
2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Criminal Justice Involvement and Young Adult Health: The Role of Adolescent Health Risks and Stress
Date Published
June 2019
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Neighborhood matters: the impact of community context on the cumulative case processing of firearm offenses
Date Published
2022
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
California: A Decade of Decarceration
15PNIJ-23-GG-01938-RESS
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2023
$32,203
PRISONERS ON THE MOVE: EXAMINING THE NATURE AND EFFECTS OF PRISON TRANSIENCY ON INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS
15PNIJ-23-GG-01936-RESS
Open
Funding First Awarded
2023
$105,000
The Residue of Imprisonment: Prisoner Reentry and Carceral Gang Spillover
Date Published
2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Coping with Incarceration: Examining the Longitudinal Relationship between Individual Coping Styles and Mental Health Outcomes
Date Published
January 2024
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Longitudinal Study: Alternatives to Incarceration Sentencing Evaluation, Year 3
Date Published
September 1996
Publication Type
Survey
Agencies
NIJ
The Effects of Parental and Sibling Incarceration: Evidence from Ohio
Date Published
2021
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Reducing Institutional Disorder: Using the Inmate Risk Assessment for Segregation Placement to Triage Treatment Services at the Front End of Prison Sentences
Date Published
2019
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Understanding Incarceration and Re-Entry Experiences of Female Inmates and their Children: The Women’s Prison Inmate Networks Study (WO-PINS)
Date Published
October 2021
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Desistance From Crime: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice
November 2021
Most scholars would agree that desistance from crime – the process of ceasing engagement in criminal activities – is normative. However, there is variability in the literature regarding the definition and measurement of desistance, the signals of desistance, the age at which desistance begins, and the underlying mechanisms that lead to desistance. Even with considerable advances in the theoretical understanding of desistance from crime, there remain critical gaps between research and the application of that research to practice.
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