scholarly journals Alexithymia in nonviolent offenders

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cate L. Parry ◽  
David A. Preece ◽  
Maria M. Allan ◽  
Alfred Allan
Keyword(s):  
Nonviolent Offenders

The Model Regime

2019 ◽  
pp. 207-220
Author(s):  
Richard S. Frase ◽  
Julian V. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Racial Disparities ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Nonviolent Offenders ◽  
Prior Record ◽  
Counting Rules ◽  
First Offenders

This chapter outlines a model regime of prior record enhancement (PRE), designed to promote more rational, parsimonious, and humane sentences. It provides general principles and specific rules reflecting what is known about PRE justifications, costs, benefits, and adverse consequences. The principles specify which punishment purposes justify PRE, while also recognizing the overarching importance of maintaining proportionality to conviction offense seriousness, ensuring that PREs are necessary and cost-effective, minimizing racial disparities and imprisonment of aging and nonviolent offenders, avoiding interference with offender efforts at desistance, and striking a reasonable balance between rule and discretion. The model’s PRE counting rules exclude juvenile and misdemeanor priors, convictions more than 10 years old, upweighting of felonies based on their severity or similarity, and custody status points. First offenders receive substantial sentence mitigation, after which PRE magnitude increases modestly and is capped. High-history offenders are punished no more than twice as severely as first offenders.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Richard S. Frase ◽  
Julian V. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Criminal History ◽  
Sentencing Guidelines ◽  
Prison Inmates ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Racial Disproportionality ◽  
Nonviolent Offenders ◽  
Offense Severity ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Prior Record ◽  
Prison Populations

This chapter provides an overview of the book, including the following major topics: why this neglected topic is so important; the ubiquity of prior record enhancement in modern sentencing systems, and their particularly powerful roles in U.S. jurisdictions with sentencing guidelines; the wide variations in the criminal history scoring formulas used in guidelines, with respect to matters such as which prior crimes and other factors are included, the weight each receives, and the degree to which a high score increases recommended sentence severity; the unclear punishment rationales for such enhancements; and the numerous negative consequences of these enhancements— increasing the size and expense of prison populations, undermining the important goal of punishment in proportion to offense severity, increasing the need for prison beds to house property and other nonviolent offenders, generating large numbers of aging prison inmates, contributing to racial disproportionality in prison populations, and undermining offenders’ efforts to reintegrate into society.

Evaluation of New Jersey's Intensive Supervision Program

1988 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank S. Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Community Service ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Evaluation Research ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Nonviolent Offenders ◽  
Intensive Supervision

New Jersey's Intensive Supervision Program (ISP) has an active caseload of approximately 400 nonviolent offenders. ISP requires employment and provides a high frequency of field contacts with participants, including random tests to detect drug use. Because ISP requires that participants first serve a few months in prison, perform community service, and obey curfews, it provides a level of punishment intermediate between probation and ordinary terms of imprisonment. Evaluation research showed that, in comparison to ordinary imprisonment and parole, ISP achieved slight reductions in recidivism, modest saving of prison space, and was substantially more cost-effective.

Offense type and two-point MMPI code profiles: Discriminating between violent and nonviolent offenders

1990 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 774-777 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryann Fraboni ◽  
Douglas Cooper ◽  
Trudy L. Reed ◽  
Robert Saltstone
Keyword(s):  
Nonviolent Offenders ◽  
Offense Type

The Tenacity of the Rehabilitative Ideal Revisited

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 426-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
JODY L. SUNDT ◽  
FRANCIS T. CULLEN ◽  
BRANDON K. APPLEGATE ◽  
MICHAEL G. TURNER
Keyword(s):  
Correctional Treatment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Nonviolent Offenders ◽  
The Past

Previous research has shown that the public endorses rehabilitation as a core goal of corrections. Over the past decade, however, the campaign to get tough on crime has grown in strength. In this context, the question emerges as to whether support for rehabilitation has diminished or maintained its hold on public thinking. The authors address this issue by replicating a 1986 study by Cullen, Skovron, Scott, and Burton that explored attitudes toward correctional treatment. The data reveal that citizens' support for rehabilitation has declined meaningfully. Even so, the public continues to view treatment as a legitimate correctional objective, especially for juvenile and nonviolent offenders.

Juvenile Crime: Predicting Violent From Nonviolent Offenders

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom D. Kennedy ◽  
Kent F. Burnett ◽  
Randall D. Penfield ◽  
Neena M. Malik ◽  
Susan F. Gold
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Crime ◽  
Nonviolent Offenders
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