After decades of relative obscurity, research on desistance from offending has experienced
an exponential, and much warranted, escalation in attention. This precipitous growth is …

There has been a growing concern about violence against women by intimate partners due
to its incidence and severity. This type of violence is a severe problem that has taken the …

In the era of mass incarceration, over 600,000 people are released from federal or state
prison each year, with many returning to chaotic living environments rife with violence. In …

The historic increase in US incarceration rates made the transition from prison to community
common for poor, prime-age men and women. Leaving prison presents the challenge of …

America's high incarceration rates are a well-known facet of contemporary political
conversations. Mentioned far less often is what happens to the nearly 700,000 former …

Incarceration has a multitude of effects on prisoners' finances, health, education,
employment, and family relationships. Incarceration complicates the maintenance of …

From home, to school, to juvenile detention center, and back again. Follow the lives of fifty
Latina girls living forty miles outside of Los Angeles, California, as they are inadvertently …

We employ an ABC-X model of family stress theory lens to examine the association between
several communication skills and patterns and relationship quality within heterosexual …

The impacts of incarceration extend to the entire family system. The relational impact of
incarceration is compounded by the increasing stressors romantic partners experience …

Movement between sequentially-held roles—role transition—has long attracted scholars'
attention for its ubiquity and importance in people's work-and non-work lives. In our …