On the policing side, we have one study looking at self-legitimacy of Slovenian police officers across 3-time periods. The final paper looks at police perceptions of an Internet-Delivered Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Prevention Program in Germany, Portugal, and Sweden.
Check out the June issue of CJB! 💻‼️https://t.co/TEKLin132z
This issue opens with a study assessing the psychometric properties of organizational commitment in a sample of Dutch correctional staff.
Continuing with courts and sentencing is one study that unpacks misdemeanor court decisions in Florida, specifically looking at differences in punishment based on the timing of plea dispositions.
#NewResearch ‼️by Drs. Toman & Brown (TXST), Bryce Kushmerick-McCune & Dr. Rudes (Sam Houston State), & Aaron Flaherty (Texas Prison Transparency Project), entitled “'They Take it Out on All of Us': Collective Punishment in Carceral Spaces" in @CJB_Journal https://t.co/1e6N7uTzNA
This issue also includes a paper unpacking college students perceptions of intimate partner stalking cases during mock jury deliberations. Finally, we include findings from a formative evaluation and evaluability assessment of Seattle's The Domestic Violence Intervention Project.
Check out the latest issue of CJB! 📝🌟We have a wonderful variety of papers this round, including one from Australia examining procedural justice and wellbeing in the prison context. https://t.co/JUhv109RYC
Also included this issue is a study exploring the reliability and validity of the Criminal Sentiments Scale–Modified and the Pride in Delinquency Scale. We also include a study considering empirically unsupported risk factors in assessments for those convicted of sex offenses.
Finally, this issue includes a quasi-experimental study on the effectiveness of community courts in reducing recidivism, using a reconviction data at one, three, and five years following case completion or release from incarceration.
It’s February, and we’re excited to share the second issue of 2026! 🌟 https://t.co/C8PLbFgGJb
To start, we have one study examining the psychometric properties of the ORAC-PCQ, an actuarial risk assessment tool for short-sentence populations in Québec.
We also include a manuscript on on justice-involved youth, which examines behavioral and learning needs and victimization. Another study explores how perceptions of crime threat and confidence in criminal justice institutions shape capital jurors’ sentencing decisions.
The final paper this issue employs hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) to examine what county characteristics are associated with implementation of behavioral health strategies in correctional settings.
It might still be December but we are out with our first issue of 2026! 🌟https://t.co/9IwirJESyD
To start off, we have some wonderful international work. We have one study examining the factor structure of the Spanish version of the DASS-21 across six Spanish prisons.
On the policing side, we have one manuscript exploring procedural justice and bounded authority, using evaluations of video-recorded police encounters as method of gauging legitimacy.