Janet A Schwartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 169237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet A Schwartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet A |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwartz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARTZ J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5777-0573 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Implications of Stress Among Correctional Officers: A Summary of the Risks and Promising Intervention Strategies
This paper provides a detailed summary and discussion of the concept of stress and how it relates to the health, wellbeing, and performance of corrections officers. In line with these objectives, we focus on three areas: (1) providing a more detailed definition of the concept of stress; (2) a discussion of the ways that increased exposure to stress may impact corrections officers’ physical and mental health; and (3) a summary of prevention and in…
Are Most Published Criminological Research Findings Wrong? Taking Stock of Criminological Research Using a Bayesian Simulation Approach
This study uses Bayesian simulations to estimate the probability that published criminological research findings are wrong. Toward this end, we employ two equations originally popularized in John P.A. Ioannidis’ (in)famous article, “Why Most Published Research Findings are False.” Values for relevant parameters were determined using recent estimates for the field’s average level of statistical power, level of research bias, level of factionalizat…
Correctional Officers With More Service Time Are More Likely to Experience Persistent Mental Health Problems
Correctional officers (COs) are known to have differentially high prevalence rates of mental health problems, but little is known about persistent mental health problems among COs. Using a longitudinal sample of COs from the Minnesota Department of Corrections (MnDOC) ( n = 343), the current study examines the probability of persistent clinically severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety across levels of service time. …
The accumulated impact of direct and indirect workplace violence exposure on mental health and physiological activity among correctional officers
Evidence for intergenerational transmission of biological risk for antisocial behavior: Low resting heart rate in fathers predicts elevated criminality in sons
The accumulated impact of critical incident exposure on correctional officers’ mental health
Despite compelling arguments that prison work influences officer mental health, little attention has been devoted to directly and rigorously assessing this relationship. Even less attention has been attributed to the potential impact of critical incident exposure on mental health outcomes among officers. Drawing from a longitudinal sample of correctional officers from three prisons in Minnesota, the current study develops and then tests a resilie…
Adolescent Violent Delinquency Associated With Increased Emergency Department Usage in Young Adulthood
Limited research has examined the extent to which adolescent delinquency predicts healthcare usage in young adulthood, including emergency department (ED) visits. This study used data from 3,310 adolescents (52.05% female; mean age at Wave I = 16.04 years) from the sibling subsample of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). We examined whether adolescent delinquency at Wave I predicted ED visits at Wave III us…
Racial and ethnic differences in the availability of community medical services after leaving prison
INTRODUCTION: Incarcerated individuals experience increased health problems, presenting additional challenges as they leave prison and re-enter the community. These challenges are disproportionally experienced by racial and ethnic minorities. Despite these trends, little is known regarding the availability of medical services within the communities to which incarcerated individuals return. METHODS: We examined all prison returns in the state of F…
Changes in Jail Admissions Before and After Traumatic Brain Injury
An Examination of the Components of Toxic Stress in Childhood and Biological Markers of Physical Health in Emerging Adulthood
Within-Individual Changes in Impulsivity and Sensation Seeking from Childhood to Early Adulthood and Educational Attainment
The role of poor sleep on the development of self-control and antisocial behavior from adolescence to adulthood
Relationship between resting heart rate and law enforcement involvement: The moderating role of socioeconomic status in a sample of urban youth
Is Crime Bad for Your Health? The Link Between Delinquent Offending and Cardiometabolic Risk
Specific sources of psychophysiological dysfunction have been identified as a primary mechanism of the association between stress and health, wherein chronic and prolonged exposure to stressors results in downstream negative consequences of stress-linked dysregulation that increase the likelihood of chronic health problems. Factors pertinent to criminological inquiry have been previously identified as sources of physiological dysfunction, but the…
The Influence of Alcohol Intoxication on Adolescent Sexual Intercourse and Contraception Use
We use the method of situational decomposition in an attempt to identify the causal effect of alcohol intoxication on adolescent sexual intercourse and contraception use. This approach assumes that the relationship between frequency of alcohol intoxication and behavior while sober is entirely spurious. With this in mind, the total association between drinking and behavior can be decomposed into spurious and 'non-spurious' (i.e., causal) component…
A longitudinal examination of the association between intelligence and rearrest using a latent trait–state–occasion modeling approach in a sample of previously adjudicated youth
Recidivism remains a serious issue in the modern criminal justice system, with over 80% of those previously incarcerated being rearrested within 9 years of release (Alper, Durose, & Markman, 2018). Although previous studies have identified risk factors that increase the probability of rearrest, much remains unknown regarding the full constellation of risk factors. One potential risk factor that has received limited attention is intelligence, as i…
An evaluation of the directional relationship between head injuries and subsequent changes in impulse control and delinquency in a sample of previously adjudicated males
How far does the apple fall from the tree? Maternal delinquency and sex-specific patterns of offspring delinquent behavior
Long-term physical health consequences of perceived inequality: Results from a twin comparison design
Biosocial Prevention Science: Synthesis of Two Interrelated Perspectives
Internalizing and externalizing problems and parenting: Results from a S audi A rabian sample
Relatively few studies have attempted to identify factors that contribute to variation in parental behavior. The literature has revealed associations between both internal and external factors in the variation in parenting behaviors. In addition, the vast majority of the existing literature has focused almost exclusively on Western cultures (e.g., the USA). The current study addresses these limitations by examining direct and indirect pathways in…
Intelligence and early life mortality: Findings from a longitudinal sample of youth
The current study examined whether adolescent IQ predicted risk for mortality by the age of 32. Analyses of data from the Add Health revealed that IQ was related to mortality risk, such that respondents with relatively lower IQs were significantly more likely to experience early life mortality when compared to respondents with relatively higher IQs. This association remained statistically significant even after controlling for a host of covariate…
Sexual Orientation and Involvement in Nonviolent and Violent Delinquent Behaviors: Findings From the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health
Different Slopes for Different Folks: Genetic Influences on Growth in Delinquent Peer Association and Delinquency During Adolescence
Making (Up) the Grade? Estimating the Genetic and Environmental Influences of Discrepancies Between Self-reported Grades and Official GPA Scores
Demonstrating the Validity of Twin Research in Criminology
In a recent article published in Criminology , Burt and Simons () claimed that the statistical violations of the classical twin design render heritability studies useless. Claiming quantitative genetics is “fatally flawed” and describing the results generated from these models as “preposterous,” Burt and Simons took the unprecedented step to call for abandoning heritability studies and their constituent findings. We show that their call for an “e…
Genetic and environmental contributions to stability and change in levels of self-control
Mathematical Proof Is Not Minutiae and Irreducible Complexity Is Not a Theory: A Final Response to Burt and Simons and a Call to Criminologists
Different Slopes for Different Folks: Genetic Influences on Growth in Delinquent Peer Association and Delinquency During Adolescence
Long-term physical health consequences of perceived inequality: Results from a twin comparison design
From the Commercial to the Communal: Reframing Taboo Trade-offs in Religious and Pharmaceutical Marketing
Although consumers typically expect organizations to profit from marketing goods and services, they also believe that certain organizations, like those that focus on religion and health, should prioritize communal obligations. Indeed, consumers may find it morally distressing when communally focused organizations use overtly commercial marketing strategies like rebranding or value-based pricing. We demonstrate how moral distress and consumer back…
Sexual Orientation and Involvement in Nonviolent and Violent Delinquent Behaviors: Findings From the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health
An evaluation of the directional relationship between head injuries and subsequent changes in impulse control and delinquency in a sample of previously adjudicated males
The genetic origins of psychopathic personality traits in adult males and females: Results from an adoption-based study
Evidence of a gene × environment interaction between perceived prejudice and Maoa genotype in the prediction of criminal arrests
Price Inferences for Sacred versus Secular Goods: Changing the Price of Medicine Influences Perceived Health Risk
The current research examines how the price of a medication influences consumers’ beliefs about their own disease risk—a critical question with new laws mandating greater price transparency for health care goods and services. Four studies reveal that consumers believe that lifesaving health goods are priced according to perceived need (i.e., communal-sharing principles) and that price consequently influences risk perceptions and intentions to con…
The role of poor sleep on the development of self-control and antisocial behavior from adolescence to adulthood
How far does the apple fall from the tree? Maternal delinquency and sex-specific patterns of offspring delinquent behavior
The role of parenting in the prediction of criminal involvement: Findings from a nationally representative sample of youth and a sample of adopted youth
The role of parenting in the development of criminal behavior has been the source of a vast amount of research, with the majority of studies detecting statistically significant associations between dimensions of parenting and measures of criminal involvement. An emerging group of scholars, however, has drawn attention to the methodological limitations-mainly genetic confounding-of the parental socialization literature. The current study addressed…
A biosocial analysis of the sources of missing data in criminological research
Within-Individual Changes in Impulsivity and Sensation Seeking from Childhood to Early Adulthood and Educational Attainment
Making (Up) the Grade? Estimating the Genetic and Environmental Influences of Discrepancies Between Self-reported Grades and Official GPA Scores
Take the car keys away: Metropolitan structure and the long road to delinquency
The accumulated impact of critical incident exposure on correctional officers’ mental health
Despite compelling arguments that prison work influences officer mental health, little attention has been devoted to directly and rigorously assessing this relationship. Even less attention has been attributed to the potential impact of critical incident exposure on mental health outcomes among officers. Drawing from a longitudinal sample of correctional officers from three prisons in Minnesota, the current study develops and then tests a resilie…
Racial and ethnic differences in the availability of community medical services after leaving prison
INTRODUCTION: Incarcerated individuals experience increased health problems, presenting additional challenges as they leave prison and re-enter the community. These challenges are disproportionally experienced by racial and ethnic minorities. Despite these trends, little is known regarding the availability of medical services within the communities to which incarcerated individuals return. METHODS: We examined all prison returns in the state of F…
Relationship between resting heart rate and law enforcement involvement: The moderating role of socioeconomic status in a sample of urban youth
Enlisting in the Military: The Influential Role of Genetic Factors
Given that enlistment in the U.S. military is completely voluntary, there has been a great deal of interest in identifying the various factors that might explain why some people join the military, whereas others do not. The current study expanded on this line of literature by estimating the extent to which genetic and environmental factors explained variance in the liability for lifetime participation in the military. Analysis of twin pairs drawn…
Genetic Risks and ADHD Symptomatology: Exploring the Effects of Parental Antisocial Behaviors in an Adoption-Based Study
The genetic origins of psychopathic personality traits in adult males and females: Results from an adoption-based study
Evidence of a gene × environment interaction between perceived prejudice and Maoa genotype in the prediction of criminal arrests
Take the car keys away: Metropolitan structure and the long road to delinquency
From the Commercial to the Communal: Reframing Taboo Trade-offs in Religious and Pharmaceutical Marketing
Although consumers typically expect organizations to profit from marketing goods and services, they also believe that certain organizations, like those that focus on religion and health, should prioritize communal obligations. Indeed, consumers may find it morally distressing when communally focused organizations use overtly commercial marketing strategies like rebranding or value-based pricing. We demonstrate how moral distress and consumer back…
Genetic and environmental contributions to stability and change in levels of self-control
Price Inferences for Sacred versus Secular Goods: Changing the Price of Medicine Influences Perceived Health Risk
The current research examines how the price of a medication influences consumers’ beliefs about their own disease risk—a critical question with new laws mandating greater price transparency for health care goods and services. Four studies reveal that consumers believe that lifesaving health goods are priced according to perceived need (i.e., communal-sharing principles) and that price consequently influences risk perceptions and intentions to con…
A biosocial analysis of the sources of missing data in criminological research
Demonstrating the Validity of Twin Research in Criminology
In a recent article published in Criminology , Burt and Simons () claimed that the statistical violations of the classical twin design render heritability studies useless. Claiming quantitative genetics is “fatally flawed” and describing the results generated from these models as “preposterous,” Burt and Simons took the unprecedented step to call for abandoning heritability studies and their constituent findings. We show that their call for an “e…
Different Slopes for Different Folks: Genetic Influences on Growth in Delinquent Peer Association and Delinquency During Adolescence
Making (Up) the Grade? Estimating the Genetic and Environmental Influences of Discrepancies Between Self-reported Grades and Official GPA Scores
The role of parenting in the prediction of criminal involvement: Findings from a nationally representative sample of youth and a sample of adopted youth
The role of parenting in the development of criminal behavior has been the source of a vast amount of research, with the majority of studies detecting statistically significant associations between dimensions of parenting and measures of criminal involvement. An emerging group of scholars, however, has drawn attention to the methodological limitations-mainly genetic confounding-of the parental socialization literature. The current study addressed…
Mathematical Proof Is Not Minutiae and Irreducible Complexity Is Not a Theory: A Final Response to Burt and Simons and a Call to Criminologists
Enlisting in the Military: The Influential Role of Genetic Factors
Given that enlistment in the U.S. military is completely voluntary, there has been a great deal of interest in identifying the various factors that might explain why some people join the military, whereas others do not. The current study expanded on this line of literature by estimating the extent to which genetic and environmental factors explained variance in the liability for lifetime participation in the military. Analysis of twin pairs drawn…
Biosocial Prevention Science: Synthesis of Two Interrelated Perspectives
Internalizing and externalizing problems and parenting: Results from a S audi A rabian sample
Relatively few studies have attempted to identify factors that contribute to variation in parental behavior. The literature has revealed associations between both internal and external factors in the variation in parenting behaviors. In addition, the vast majority of the existing literature has focused almost exclusively on Western cultures (e.g., the USA). The current study addresses these limitations by examining direct and indirect pathways in…
Intelligence and early life mortality: Findings from a longitudinal sample of youth
The current study examined whether adolescent IQ predicted risk for mortality by the age of 32. Analyses of data from the Add Health revealed that IQ was related to mortality risk, such that respondents with relatively lower IQs were significantly more likely to experience early life mortality when compared to respondents with relatively higher IQs. This association remained statistically significant even after controlling for a host of covariate…
Sexual Orientation and Involvement in Nonviolent and Violent Delinquent Behaviors: Findings From the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health
Long-term physical health consequences of perceived inequality: Results from a twin comparison design
An evaluation of the directional relationship between head injuries and subsequent changes in impulse control and delinquency in a sample of previously adjudicated males
How far does the apple fall from the tree? Maternal delinquency and sex-specific patterns of offspring delinquent behavior
A longitudinal examination of the association between intelligence and rearrest using a latent trait–state–occasion modeling approach in a sample of previously adjudicated youth
Recidivism remains a serious issue in the modern criminal justice system, with over 80% of those previously incarcerated being rearrested within 9 years of release (Alper, Durose, & Markman, 2018). Although previous studies have identified risk factors that increase the probability of rearrest, much remains unknown regarding the full constellation of risk factors. One potential risk factor that has received limited attention is intelligence, as i…
Is Crime Bad for Your Health? The Link Between Delinquent Offending and Cardiometabolic Risk
Specific sources of psychophysiological dysfunction have been identified as a primary mechanism of the association between stress and health, wherein chronic and prolonged exposure to stressors results in downstream negative consequences of stress-linked dysregulation that increase the likelihood of chronic health problems. Factors pertinent to criminological inquiry have been previously identified as sources of physiological dysfunction, but the…
The Influence of Alcohol Intoxication on Adolescent Sexual Intercourse and Contraception Use
We use the method of situational decomposition in an attempt to identify the causal effect of alcohol intoxication on adolescent sexual intercourse and contraception use. This approach assumes that the relationship between frequency of alcohol intoxication and behavior while sober is entirely spurious. With this in mind, the total association between drinking and behavior can be decomposed into spurious and 'non-spurious' (i.e., causal) component…
Changes in Jail Admissions Before and After Traumatic Brain Injury
Psychology (36 works) · Developmental psychology (23 works) · Medicine (22 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (14 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Clinical Psychology (12 works) · Psychiatry (11 works) · Poison control (10 works) · Juvenile delinquency (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works)