PSY-5114 V1

Bloom, T., & Bradshaw, G. A. (2021). Inside of a prison: How a culture of punishment prevents rehabilitation. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.
Bloom and Bradshaw (2021) discuss the tension between punitive and rehabilitative approaches to work with offenders. They specifically focus on the negative outcomes that offenders experience during incarceration.

Kopak, A., & Frost, G. (2017). Correlates of program success and recidivism among participants in an adult pre-arrest diversion program. American Journal of Criminal Justice, 42(4), 727–745.
Kopak and Frost (2017) provide an overview of a program designed to divert offenders away from the system and provide necessary interventions in place of traditional criminal sanctions. They review the impact that this program has on offenders and what factors are necessary to consider when seeking to improve the success of these types of efforts.

Ryon, S. B., Early, K. W., & Kosloski, A. E. (2017). Community-based and family-focused alternatives to incarceration: A quasi-experimental evaluation of interventions for delinquent youth. Journal of Criminal Justice, 51, 59–66.
Ryon et al. (2017) review programs that are provided to juvenile offenders in place of incarceration. They conduct a research study to determine the impact that these programs have on juvenile offenders.

Silver, I. A., & Nedelec, J. L. (2018). Ensnarement during imprisonment: Re-conceptualizing theoretically driven policies to address the association between within prison sanctioning and recidivism. Criminology and Public Policy, 17(4), 1005–1036.
Silver and Nedelec (2018) discuss the recidivism rates among individuals who have been incarcerated. They present a theory to explain why incarceration may perpetuate recidivism in some cases. They end with a discussion of some areas in which prison practices may be reformed to reduce recidivism rates.

Wright, R., Sabol, W. J., & Johnson, T. L. (2020). Robbery, recidivism, and the limits of the criminal justice system. Marquette Law Review, 103(3), 1179–1203.
Wright et al. (2020) discuss the limitations of the criminal justice system’s ability to reduce recidivism among offenders who commit robbery. They focus on collateral consequences of criminal justice system involvement, such as unemployment, and discuss the ways in which we may better help offenders reintegrate into society to prevent recidivism.

Klingele, C. (2019). Measuring change: From rates of recidivism to markers of resistance. Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, 109(4), 769–817.
Klingele (2019) discusses the need to move beyond recidivism as the sole marker of success in offender intervention. They present additional markers that can be measured to determine whether interventions are positively impacting offenders.

Lewis, C. (2021). The paradox of recidivism. Emory Law Journal, 70(6), 1209–1271.
Lewis (2021) assesses the current policies of implementing increasingly harsher sentencing for repeat offenders. He presents a controversial argument that the system, should instead, provide less harsh sentencing, proposing that it will reduce recidivism more effectively.