Criminal Justice & Behavior (CJB)

Official journal of the International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology | a Sage publication | IF = 2.801

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Here's what you'll find in the pages of CJB:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Check out one of our new Online First articles! ⬇️
https://t.co/3xlYdtVb8q

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#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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.