Pennsylvania
How Much Difference Does the Lawyer Make? The Effect of Defense Counsel on Murder Case Outcomes
Self-exciting Point Processes With Spatial Covariates: Modelling the Dynamics of Crime
Violence in Rural, Suburban, and Urban Schools in Pennsylvania
Can Restorative Practices Improve School Climate and Curb Suspensions? An Evaluation of the Impact of Restorative Practices in a Mid-Sized Urban School District
Assessing Drug Abuse Programs: Benefits From Partnering With Researchers
Keeping the Prison Clean: An Update on Pennsylvania's Drug Control Strategy
Shifting perceptions of a risk/need assessment tool: exploring practitioners' adjustments to reform
Social Media and the Variable Impact of Violence Reduction Interventions: Re-Examining Focused Deterrence in Philadelphia
Evaluating Impacts of the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program: An Alternative to Arrest Policing Strategy
Drug Markets, Travel Distance, and Violence: Testing a Typology
Booker and Beyond Analyzing Sentencing Reform and Exploring New Research Directions
This webinar features a discussion of previously published research on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2005 Booker decision - which effectively transformed the United States Sentencing Guidelines from a mandatory, to an advisory, system. The presentation will address selected research findings from the last 15 years. Individual participants will briefly review their previous research findings with particular attention paid to the analytic methods used.
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Understanding Incarceration and Re-Entry Experiences of Female Inmates and their Children: The Women’s Prison Inmate Networks Study (WO-PINS)
Desistance From Crime: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice
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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