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Beyond Absenteeism: Father Incarceration and Child Development
Abstract
High rates of incarceration among American men, coupled with high rates
of fatherhood among men in prison, have motivated recent research on the effects of
parental imprisonment on children’s development. We use data from the Fragile
Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine the relationship between paternal
incarceration and developmental outcomes for approximately 3,000 urban children.
Scaling Criminal Offending
Abstract
Objective: This paper reviews a century of research on creating theoretically meaningful
and empirically useful scales of criminal offending and illustrates their strengths and
weaknesses.
White paper: Core Principles for Reducing Recidivism and Improving Other Outcomes for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System.
This white paper provides juvenile justice systems with core principles and related recommended policies and practices for reducing recidivism and improving other outcomes for youth under their supervision.
The first critical principle of this framework, which sets an evidence-based foundation for everything that follows, is for juvenile justice systems to use validated risk assessments to objectively identify those youth who are least and most likely to reoffend. Policymakers should require juvenile justice systems to use these assessment results to minimize system interventions for youth with a low risk of reoffending and to focus the most restrictive and intensive system interventions on youth most likely to reoffend.
