Wayne N Welsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1493521 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wayne N Welsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wayne N |
| FAMILY NAME | Welsh |
| SIGNATURE | WELSH W N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9976-8081 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A model for rigorously applying the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainment (Epis) framework in the design and measurement of a large scale collaborative multi-site study
BACKGROUND: This paper describes the means by which a United States National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded cooperative, Juvenile Justice-Translational Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal System (JJ-TRIALS), utilized an established implementation science framework in conducting a multi-site, multi-research center implementation intervention initiative. The initiative aimed to bolster the ability of juvenile justice agenc…
Criminal Justice Policy and Planning
Unlike other textbooks on the subject, Criminal Justice Policy and Planning: Planned Change, Fifth Edition, presents a comprehensive and structured account of the process of administering planned change in the criminal justice system. Welsh and Harris detail a simple yet sophisticated seven-stage model, which offers students and practitioners a full account of program and policy development from beginning to end. The authors thoughtfully discuss …
A cluster randomized trial of an organizational process improvement intervention for improving the assessment and case planning of offenders
BACKGROUND: The Organizational Process Improvement Intervention (OPII), conducted by the NIDA-funded Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies consortium of nine research centers, examined an organizational intervention to improve the processes used in correctional settings to assess substance abusing offenders, develop case plans, transfer this information to community-based treatment agencies, and monitor the services provided by these comm…
Criminal Justice Policy and Planning
Unlike other textbooks on the subject, Criminal Justice Policy and Planning presents a comprehensive and structured account of the process of administering planned change in the criminal justice system. Welsh and Harris detail a simple yet sophisticated seven-stage model, which offers students and practitioners a full account of program and policy development from beginning to end. The authors thoughtfully discuss the steps: analyzing a problem; …
A cluster randomized trial of an organizational linkage intervention for offenders with substance use disorders
BACKGROUND: Substance use disorders are highly prevalent in community correctional populations, yet these settings frequently are ill-equipped to identify and refer offenders to community-based treatment services. In particular, community corrections staff are often opposed to the use of medication in addiction treatment because of inadequate knowledge, resources, and organizational structures to facilitate client linkages to evidence-based servi…
Understanding the Impact of Drug Treatment in Correctional Settings
This article discusses drug treatment in state prisons, focusing on inmates in state correctional facilities. It analyzes drug and alcohol use patterns and drug treatment involvement of state prison inmates using data from the Survey of Inmates of State Correctional Facilities that was conducted between October 2003 and May 2004. It then considers the effectiveness of prison treatment, as well as the economic benefits of such treatments. Finally,…
The Need for a Comprehensive Approach to Program Planning, Development, and Evaluation
Neighborhood-Based Prevention/Intervention
The Effects of School Climate on School Disorder
Explanations of school disorder have suffered from at least two deficits: (1) institutional explanations of disorder (that is, school climate) have been largely ignored, and (2) insufficient attention to appropriate measures of disorder has guided research and policy. Like people, schools have their own characteristic personalities, or climates. Using survey responses from students in middle schools in Philadelphia, the author discusses the effec…
Challenges for Multilevel Models of School Disorder
School Disorder
Drawing upon control theory, school climate theory, and social disorganization theory, this study examined the relative influence of individual, institutional, and community factors on misconduct in Philadelphia middle schools. Using U.S. census data, school district data, police department data, and school climate survey data obtained from the administration of the Effective School Battery to 7, 583 students in 11 middle schools, we examined the…
Counties in Court
Figures and Tables Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Trigger Stage 3. The Liability Stage 4. The Remedy Stage 5. The Postdecree Stage 6. The Impact Stage 7. Conclusions and Implications Appendix: Methodology Notes References Cases and Statutes Index
Court Orders and County Correctional Expenditures
Despite much speculation that court orders against correctional facilities have adversely impacted government finances, little empirical investigation has been conducted. Counties, already experiencing severe fiscal crisis, may increasingly allocate more of their budget toward local jails to comply with court‐ordered improvements. This hypothesis was tested by examining time series data, case histories, and interviews with government, corrections…
The Dynamics of Jail Reform Litigation
Theory linking litigation onset, process, and outcome in jail reform lawsuits has been scarce. The author proposes a four-stage, comparative model: (1) conditions of surrounding legal and political environments, in concert with contextual factors (e.g., type of legal representation), set the stage for litigation in the trigger stage; (2) specific legal claims, defendants named, and litigation strategies shape litigation process at the liability s…
Counties in Court
Criminal justice systems have been described as fragmented and decentralized "nonsystems," but sudden changes in the environments of criminal justice organizations may affect the loose coupling that normally characterizes such agencies. Court orders against county jails create pressures to tighten the loose coupling among local organizational subsystems: the jail, law enforcement, courts, probation, and county government. Using interviews with ke…
School Disorder
Drawing upon control theory, school climate theory, and social disorganization theory, this study examined the relative influence of individual, institutional, and community factors on misconduct in Philadelphia middle schools. Using U.S. census data, school district data, police department data, and school climate survey data obtained from the administration of the Effective School Battery to 7, 583 students in 11 middle schools, we examined the…
The Effects of School Climate on School Disorder
Explanations of school disorder have suffered from at least two deficits: (1) institutional explanations of disorder (that is, school climate) have been largely ignored, and (2) insufficient attention to appropriate measures of disorder has guided research and policy. Like people, schools have their own characteristic personalities, or climates. Using survey responses from students in middle schools in Philadelphia, the author discusses the effec…
Challenges for Multilevel Models of School Disorder
Counties in Court
Criminal justice systems have been described as fragmented and decentralized "nonsystems," but sudden changes in the environments of criminal justice organizations may affect the loose coupling that normally characterizes such agencies. Court orders against county jails create pressures to tighten the loose coupling among local organizational subsystems: the jail, law enforcement, courts, probation, and county government. Using interviews with ke…
The Need for a Comprehensive Approach to Program Planning, Development, and Evaluation
The Dynamics of Jail Reform Litigation
Theory linking litigation onset, process, and outcome in jail reform lawsuits has been scarce. The author proposes a four-stage, comparative model: (1) conditions of surrounding legal and political environments, in concert with contextual factors (e.g., type of legal representation), set the stage for litigation in the trigger stage; (2) specific legal claims, defendants named, and litigation strategies shape litigation process at the liability s…
Counties in Court
Criminal justice systems have been described as fragmented and decentralized "nonsystems," but sudden changes in the environments of criminal justice organizations may affect the loose coupling that normally characterizes such agencies. Court orders against county jails create pressures to tighten the loose coupling among local organizational subsystems: the jail, law enforcement, courts, probation, and county government. Using interviews with ke…
Court Orders and County Correctional Expenditures
Despite much speculation that court orders against correctional facilities have adversely impacted government finances, little empirical investigation has been conducted. Counties, already experiencing severe fiscal crisis, may increasingly allocate more of their budget toward local jails to comply with court‐ordered improvements. This hypothesis was tested by examining time series data, case histories, and interviews with government, corrections…
The Dynamics of Jail Reform Litigation
Theory linking litigation onset, process, and outcome in jail reform lawsuits has been scarce. The author proposes a four-stage, comparative model: (1) conditions of surrounding legal and political environments, in concert with contextual factors (e.g., type of legal representation), set the stage for litigation in the trigger stage; (2) specific legal claims, defendants named, and litigation strategies shape litigation process at the liability s…
Counties in Court
Figures and Tables Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Trigger Stage 3. The Liability Stage 4. The Remedy Stage 5. The Postdecree Stage 6. The Impact Stage 7. Conclusions and Implications Appendix: Methodology Notes References Cases and Statutes Index
School Disorder
Drawing upon control theory, school climate theory, and social disorganization theory, this study examined the relative influence of individual, institutional, and community factors on misconduct in Philadelphia middle schools. Using U.S. census data, school district data, police department data, and school climate survey data obtained from the administration of the Effective School Battery to 7, 583 students in 11 middle schools, we examined the…
The Effects of School Climate on School Disorder
Explanations of school disorder have suffered from at least two deficits: (1) institutional explanations of disorder (that is, school climate) have been largely ignored, and (2) insufficient attention to appropriate measures of disorder has guided research and policy. Like people, schools have their own characteristic personalities, or climates. Using survey responses from students in middle schools in Philadelphia, the author discusses the effec…
Challenges for Multilevel Models of School Disorder
Neighborhood-Based Prevention/Intervention
The Need for a Comprehensive Approach to Program Planning, Development, and Evaluation
Understanding the Impact of Drug Treatment in Correctional Settings
This article discusses drug treatment in state prisons, focusing on inmates in state correctional facilities. It analyzes drug and alcohol use patterns and drug treatment involvement of state prison inmates using data from the Survey of Inmates of State Correctional Facilities that was conducted between October 2003 and May 2004. It then considers the effectiveness of prison treatment, as well as the economic benefits of such treatments. Finally,…
A cluster randomized trial of an organizational linkage intervention for offenders with substance use disorders
BACKGROUND: Substance use disorders are highly prevalent in community correctional populations, yet these settings frequently are ill-equipped to identify and refer offenders to community-based treatment services. In particular, community corrections staff are often opposed to the use of medication in addiction treatment because of inadequate knowledge, resources, and organizational structures to facilitate client linkages to evidence-based servi…
A cluster randomized trial of an organizational process improvement intervention for improving the assessment and case planning of offenders
BACKGROUND: The Organizational Process Improvement Intervention (OPII), conducted by the NIDA-funded Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies consortium of nine research centers, examined an organizational intervention to improve the processes used in correctional settings to assess substance abusing offenders, develop case plans, transfer this information to community-based treatment agencies, and monitor the services provided by these comm…
Criminal Justice Policy and Planning
Unlike other textbooks on the subject, Criminal Justice Policy and Planning presents a comprehensive and structured account of the process of administering planned change in the criminal justice system. Welsh and Harris detail a simple yet sophisticated seven-stage model, which offers students and practitioners a full account of program and policy development from beginning to end. The authors thoughtfully discuss the steps: analyzing a problem; …
Criminal Justice Policy and Planning
Unlike other textbooks on the subject, Criminal Justice Policy and Planning: Planned Change, Fifth Edition, presents a comprehensive and structured account of the process of administering planned change in the criminal justice system. Welsh and Harris detail a simple yet sophisticated seven-stage model, which offers students and practitioners a full account of program and policy development from beginning to end. The authors thoughtfully discuss …
A model for rigorously applying the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainment (Epis) framework in the design and measurement of a large scale collaborative multi-site study
BACKGROUND: This paper describes the means by which a United States National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded cooperative, Juvenile Justice-Translational Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal System (JJ-TRIALS), utilized an established implementation science framework in conducting a multi-site, multi-research center implementation intervention initiative. The initiative aimed to bolster the ability of juvenile justice agenc…
Political science (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (9 works) · Criminology (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Criminal justice (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 works) · Economic Justice (4 works)