A5103247397- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Elder Abuse and Neglect
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
Sam Houston State University
2020-2025
The University of Texas at Dallas
2019
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the lives of persons around world and social scientists are just beginning to understand its consequences human behavior. One policy that public health officials put in place help stop spread virus were stay-at-home/shelter-in-place lockdown-style orders. While designed protect people from coronavirus, one potential unintended consequence such orders could be an increase domestic violence - including abuse partners, elders or children. Stay-at-home result...
Low empathy has been implicated in antisocial, aggressive, and criminal behavior, especially among adolescents. Less understood is the extent to which amenable treatment, whether an improvement can mitigate deleterious effects of known risk factors, such as childhood maltreatment. A sample 11,000 serious juvenile offenders long-term residential placement leveraged examine over cumulative traumatic exposure, measured by adverse experience (ACE) score, associated with initial level at...
The incarcerated elderly population has been steadily increasing in the past few decades. Placed a prison system not designed to attend their needs, face myriad of challenges and struggle adjust rules expectations correctional system. Our study builds on previous works assess heterogeneity within this assessing predictors institutional misconduct among two theoretically distinct group elderly: those imprisoned young(er) for crime they committed while elderly. Results highlight importance...
ABSTRACT Background The criminal career paradigm represented a fundamental shift within criminology as it drew attention to the longitudinal patterning of offending, with research findings leading important new insights on matters related theory, methods and policy. Aims This study examines crime mix among sex non‐sex offenders. Materials Methods Administrative data over 43,000 individuals released from incarceration in State Texas through age 70 are used examine mixture patterns. Results...
Objectives: Social scientists have devoted much theoretical and empirical attention to studying the correlates of bullying perpetration victimization. Much less has been race differences in behaviors despite importance these when designing effective focused prevention intervention programs.Methods: Utilizing data from 2009 2010 Health Behavior School-Aged Children (HBSC) study United States, this applies Bronfenbrenner's ecological model order examine how various interrelated systems are...
Much research exists on the role of correctional staff carceral experience, but less work examines how influence post-release behavior among those previously incarcerated and personal characteristics might be related to attitudes actions. This includes, for example, individuals' perceptions success upon release. The current study uses a sample 427 detained juvenile males derived from Australian Institute Criminology's Drug Use Careers Offenders (DUCO) assess relationship between about...