The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, Seventh Edition, provides a psychological and
evidence-informed perspective of criminal behavior that sets it apart from many …

The objective of this Campbell Systematic Review was to assess the relative effects of
custodial sanctions (imprisonment) and non‐custodial (“alternative” or “community”) …

This Campbell systematic review compares effects of custodial and non‐custodial sentences
on re‐offending. The authors found 14 high‐quality studies, including three randomised …

The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, Fifth Edition, discusses the psychology of criminal
behavior, drawing upon general personality, as well as cognitive-behavioral and cognitive …

Imprisonment is the most severe punishment in democratic societies except for capital
punishment, which is used only in the United States. Crime prevention is its primary …

Like its predecessors, this Fifth Edition of The Practice of Research in Criminology and
Criminal Justice (by Ronet Bachman and Russell K. Schutt) provides complete coverage of …

Over the past 20 years, an increased understanding has been developed of what
interventions do and do not work with offenders. Treatment programs that attend to offender …

Public policy responses to child sexual abuse are dominated by interventions designed to
take effect only after offenders have already begun offending, and after children have …

Three decades ago, it was widely believed by criminologists and policymakers that “nothing
works” to reform offenders and that “rehabilitation is dead” as a guiding correctional …

How are sentences for federal, state, and local crimes determined? Is this process fairly and
justly applied to all concerned? How have reforms affected the process over the last 25 …