Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice: Volume 3 Issue 4

Identifying potential offenders on the basis of police records: development and validation of the ProKid risk assessment tool

Jacqueline Wientjes, Marc Delsing, Antonius Cillessen, Jan Janssens, Ron Scholte

The purpose of this paper is to describe the development and validation of the ProKid risk assessment tool, which was designed to enable Dutch police officers to identify youths…

Deferring felony prosecution: a process evaluation of an innovative Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office program

Jennifer Cossyleon, John Orwat, Christine George, Don Stemen, Whitney Key

The Cook County State Attorneys’ Deferred Prosecution Program (DPP) is a pre-trial diversionary program that accepts first-time, non-violent defendants charged with a felony…

Why corrections? Motivations for becoming a Canadian provincial or territorial correctional officer

Rose Ricciardelli, Krystle Martin

The growing prison population and challenges related to recruiting and retaining suitable correctional officers (COs) in Canada provided the impetus for the current study…

Compassion focussed working in secure forensic care

Jon Taylor

The purpose of this paper is to describe practices associated with compassion focussed therapy (CFT) in a secure forensic setting for men with a learning disability and…

US public views toward biosocial risk factors for criminality: a brief report

Colleen M. Berryessa

The purpose of this paper is to present preliminary survey data measuring attitudes of members of the US public on the importance, existence, and potential legal use of biological…

The belief in redeemability – version 2 (BiR-2) scale and its relation to desistance

Kevin O’Sullivan, Chana Levin, David Bright, Richard Kemp

The purpose of this paper is to test the relationship between the belief in redeemability – Version 2 (BIR-2) Scale and desistance from crime. It also seeks to explore how…