Criminal Justice Education, Employment Destinations, and Graduate Satisfaction

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Wimshurst ◽  
Troy Allard
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Criminal Justice Education ◽  
Occupational Groups ◽  
Criminal Justice Program ◽  
Perceived Success ◽  
Justice Program ◽  
Components Analysis ◽  
Program Accountability

The article addresses the lack of sound empirical research both overseas and especially in Australia on the outcomes of criminal justice education. The very limited research on graduate outcomes is potentially problematic at a time when governments are increasingly calling for program accountability and evaluation in higher education. The article reports on an empirical study of one criminology/criminal justice program that investigated the employment destinations of graduates. Principal components analysis and regression analyses were used to explore graduate satisfaction with their degree. There was evidence that educational outcomes were important considerations when alumni evaluated their degree. However, findings indicated that satisfaction varied considerably between occupational groups and was influenced by employment experiences and perceived ‘success’ in the workforce. The article addresses various themes emerging from the findings and identifies the need for further research across other programs on the outcomes of criminal justice education and graduate destinations.

The Black One

2019 ◽  
pp. 167-180
Author(s):  
Teresa Francis Divine
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
White Male ◽  
White Men ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Criminal Justice Education ◽  
Criminal Justice Program ◽  
Father Figures ◽  
Predominately White ◽  
White Males ◽  
Justice Program

Some faculty are like father figures to the students. The other younger White males are scholarly and tough but brilliant. Then, there is you, the Black One. Black men are six times as likely to be incarcerated as White men. Hispanic men are 2.3 times as likely. In corrections alone, people of color are overrepresented. This chapter will discuss the disparities in the criminal justice system and why students of color are attracted to the field. Microaggressions in a criminal justice program show up as machismo, as a joke, or even as witty, but never as racist. This chapter will tell the narrative of being a Black woman in a predominately White male department and why Black scholars belong in a criminal justice education.

Correlates of Reasons for Not Reporting Rape to Police

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy M. Cohn ◽  
Heidi M. Zinzow ◽  
Heidi S. Resnick ◽  
Dean G. Kilpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Police Reporting ◽  
Dominant Set ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Components Analysis ◽  
Definition Of

Rape tactics, rape incident characteristics, and mental health problems (lifetime depression, PTSD, and substance abuse) were investigated as correlates of eight different reasons for not reporting a rape to police among women who had experienced but did not report a rape to police ( n = 441) within a national telephone household probability sample. Rape tactics (nonmutually exclusive) included drug or alcohol-facilitated or incapacitated rape (DAFR/IR; n = 119) and forcible rape (FR; n = 376). Principal Components Analysis (PCA) was conducted to extract a dominant set of patterns among the eight reasons for not reporting, and to reduce the set of dependent variables. PCA results indicated three unique factors: Not Wanting Others to Know, Nonacknowledgment of Rape, and Criminal Justice Concerns. Hierarchical regression analyses showed DAFR/IR and FR were both positively and significantly associated with Criminal Justice Concerns, whereas DAFR/IR, but not FR, was associated with Nonacknowledgment as a reason for not reporting to police. Neither DAFR/IR nor FR emerged as significant predictors of Others Knowing after controlling for fear of death or injury at the time of the incident. Correlations among variables showed that the Criminal Justice Concerns factor was positively related to lifetime depression and PTSD and the Nonacknowledgement factor was negatively related to lifetime PTSD. Findings suggest prevention programs should educate women about the definition of rape, which may include incapacitation due to alcohol or drugs, to increase acknowledgement and decrease barriers to police reporting.

Linking the Social Services and Criminal Justice Systems

2020 ◽  
pp. 145-158
Author(s):  
Leon Ginsberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Clinical Services ◽  
Criminal Justice Program ◽  
Criminal Justice Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Justice Program

This chapter covers the criminal justice program structures and services and the ways in which social workers are involved in them. Social work’s involvement in the complex criminal justice system is extensive and varied. Direct or clinical practice with individuals, groups of individuals, and their families, are the primary activities of social workers in criminal justice. Social work, among the human services professions, is broader in its approaches than are most others. The social work profession not only focuses on direct or clinical services to clients and their families, but it also involves itself in larger system concerns, such as public policy and research. These nonclinical functions are included in the National Association of Social Workers’ Social Work Code of Ethics, social work licensing standards, and in programs of education for social workers.

The Impact of Ambiguity-induced Error in Offender Decision-making: Evidence from the Field

2021 ◽  
pp. 002242782110000
Author(s):  
Greg Midgette ◽  
Thomas A. Loughran ◽  
Sarah Tahamont
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Drunk Driving ◽  
Sensitivity Analyses ◽  
Criminal Justice Program ◽  
Program Compliance ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Justice Program ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Weighting Methods

Objectives: To invoke behavioral economics theories of ambiguity in the context of offender decision-making, and to test the impact of ambiguity in punishment certainty on offender decisions. Methods: We leverage a quasi-experimental condition among a sample of drunk driving arrestees that are tested for alcohol use and subject to mandatory brief incarceration for a violation. The treatment condition relaxes a zero-tolerance alcohol rule, thereby introducing design-based ambiguity surrounding the certainty of punishment. We use Mahalanobis matching and propensity score weighting methods to estimate the impact of ambiguity on violations. We then interrogate this finding with complementary sensitivity analyses. Results: When facing the ambiguity condition participants are 27–28 percentage points (84–93 percent) more likely to violate program conditions after 30 days of supervision. We demonstrate that a statistical difference in violations due to ambiguity is still detectible at 90 and 180 days of supervision. These results are robust to alternative specifications and falsification tests. Conclusions: This study is the first to examine the impact of ambiguity on criminal justice program compliance using a quasi-experiment from the field. We further demonstrate the unintended costs to persons under supervision and jurisdictions of laxity in program design, which are applicable across criminal justice domains.

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