Daniel P Mears
Biographic Data
| ID | 217383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel P Mears |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel P |
| FAMILY NAME | Mears |
| SIGNATURE | MEARS D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8594-5350 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 98 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 508 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 97 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
The New Era of Supermax Confinement: A Review of States’ Extended Restrictive Housing Policies
Supermax housing—long-term segregation of individuals in prison deemed too dangerous to be safely managed any other way—arose as a common practice in the United States and became a point of substantial debate in recent decades based on different views of whether the housing is needed or humane and its potential benefits or harms. This term is not consistently used, however, and now is typically characterized as a form of restrictive housing. The …
A Legal-Structural Theory of Sentencing (In)Consistency
This paper presents a theory of sentencing—legal-structural theory (LST)—centered on how legal content (e.g. statutory language and interpretation) and structures (e.g. the hierarchical arrangement of trial and appellate courts) contribute to predictable variation in sentencing. LST begins with recognition that enacted law lacks sufficient specificity to cover all fact situations, and therefore necessitates interpretation and application by the c…
Testing the Social Bond Theory Explanation for the Family Size and Delinquency Relationship
Scholars have long explored how families influence childhood and adolescent outcomes. A large body of work suggests that children in families with a greater number of siblings are more likely to engage in delinquency. There remains, however, little empirical work testing the mediating mechanisms that might account for any observed relationship between family size and delinquency. To address this gap, we test theoretical explanations of the relati…
Prison Personnel Solutions for Reducing and Improving the Appropriate Use and Effectiveness of Extended Restrictive Housing
Critiques of extended restrictive housing (ERH), used to manage incarcerated persons deemed to pose a threat to prison order and safety, have led to calls for reducing its use. There is a need for guidance about how to achieve this goal. Drawing on a qualitative study of restrictive housing in Florida, we glean insights from personnel about (1) how to reduce the need for and use of ERH and (2) how, when needed, to ensure its appropriate use and e…
A theory evaluation of U.S. firearm laws and their likely effectiveness in reducing gun-related crime
Criminal legal sanctions and the false dichotomy between deterrence and rehabilitation: Implications for sentencing research and policy
Objectives: Criminal justice policy has historically swung between punitive, deterrence-focused and rehabilitation-focused sentencing. Research has reinforced the notion that the two constitute polar ends of a spectrum. This paper seeks to contribute to sentencing scholarship aimed at understanding the nature and effects of legal sanctions. Specifically, we argue that the deterrence-rehabilitation dichotomy is false and that recognizing how the t…
Juvenile Justice in Schools: A Litany of Impediments
The boundary between juvenile justice and school systems has eroded, a shift that is premised on the notion that police, court, and correctional system involvement in schools can be implemented appropriately, is effective in reducing crime, and causes no harm. Extending Klein’s identification of a “litany of impediments” to diversion, we critique the interpenetration of juvenile justice into schools. We argue that a litany of impediments, support…
Prison Personnel Views of the Effects of Solitary Confinement on the Mental Health of Incarcerated Persons
The use of extended solitary confinement (ESC) has received domestic and international condemnation for its potential effects on the mental health of incarcerated persons. Despite the criticism, prison systems continue to rely on the practice. To advance understanding of why the housing is used and how correctional personnel view it, this study develops a theoretical model, based on concepts of human agency, empathy, and punitiveness, to examine …
Gauging the totality of criminal legal sanctions and punishment: Implications for research and policy on retribution and deterrence
Punishment—the pain and suffering associated with particular criminal legal sanctions-is central to criminal justice policy. Yet, there is a paucity of studies on the totality of legal sanctions, including the sum of all court-issued sentences, and the punishment that they produce. The gap is striking given that the totality of sanction-related punishment is central to crime and justice policy goals. These center around how society should respond…
How can restrictive housing be prevented or reduced? Conceptual, methodological, and theoretical issues confronting research and policy
The Oxford Handbook of Evidence-Based Crime and Justice Policy
An evidence-based approach to crime and justice policy can go a long way toward ensuring that the best available research is considered in decisions that bear on the public good. However, the term “evidence-based” is characterized by a great deal of rhetoric. Indeed, there remains a marked disjuncture between calls for evidence-based policy and an understanding of what it means for policy to be evidence-based. The calls for evidence-based policy …
Stressed Out in Lock Down: The Impacts of Work in Extended Restrictive Housing on Prison Personnel
Prior work on extended restrictive housing (ERH) has focused primarily on incarcerated persons rather than on potential impacts of this housing on personnel. Drawing on scholarship on the get-tough era, prison personnel, and ERH, we seek to shed light on contemporary correctional management practices and how doing so can illuminate the broad-ranging impacts of the get-tough era. We hypothesize that operational and organizational stressors differ …
Managing Prisons Through Extended Solitary Confinement: A Necessary Approach or a Signal of Prison System Failure
In contemporary American corrections, extended solitary confinement (ESM) as a management tool has emerged as a strategy for avowedly controlling the most violent individuals and, in so doing, creating a safer prison system. We theorize that the emergence of this unique form of housing may also be viewed as a signal of prison system failure. To advance this argument, we identify how different theoretical perspectives can be used to anticipate the…
A Reconceptualization of Social Bond Theory to Predict Change Sequences in Offending
We argue that reconceptualizing social bond theory (SBT) through incorporation of dual agency and change can identify unique causal change sequences, improve its ability to explain offending, and generate new questions about it. The reconceptualization recognizes that individuals and those with whom they interact play an ongoing role in contributing to the bond. It shows that changes in the bond can contribute to changes in delinquency through th…
A theoretical critique of deterrence-based policy
The use of restrictive housing with incarcerated persons with mental illness: Variation in placement disparities by restrictive housing type
Concerns have been raised about mental illness (MI)-linked disparities in restrictive housing (RH) placements, but research has not compared disparities across multiple types of RH. Differences by MI status in prison adjustment or repeated misconduct could create larger disparities for long-term and highly restrictive types of RH; conversely, more stringent procedures governing their use could lead to smaller disparities for those types. Using da…
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…
Citizenship and Level-Change Threat Effects on Sentencing
Historically, tests of the minority threat theory in criminal punishment have focused on racial/ethnic minority groups, and less on other marginalized groups such as non-citizens. This relative oversight of non-citizens is important because (1) recent decades have been witness to record increases in immigration, and (2) a prominent feature of contemporary American political discourse is the linking of immigrants to crime-in particular, to illegal…
Oxford Handbook of Evidence-Based Crime and Justice Policy
Who Deserves Diversion? A Theoretical Critique of Mitigation, Consequentialism, and the Juvenile Court
The juvenile court was created as a means of diverting youth from the criminal justice system, and, in turn, diversion within the juvenile court has been used for a variety of purposes. This paper argues that an understanding of diversion, and its implications, requires distinguishing deservingness and consequentialism. Analysis of the former goal entails a focus on mitigation and draws attention to a critical gap in scholarship—namely, how do ju…
A Within-Person Test of the Impact of Extended Solitary Confinement on Mental Health Functioning and Service Use
There is conflicting evidence on whether people, particularly those with preexisting mental health problems, have worse mental health during and after extended solitary confinement (SC) stays. Using administrative data on 843 men, we examined within-person changes in mental health functioning and service use surrounding long-term stays in SC in Florida correctional facilities. During these stays, service use increased, psychological functioning i…
Captives of the “Society of Captives”: Working in Solitary Confinement
Solitary confinement may affect incarcerated persons. Yet, what is known about those who work in solitary confinement units? Drawing on Sykes’ classic, The society of captives, on the “pains of imprisonment,” we argue that solitary confinement work may adversely affect correctional personnel. This study extends prior work on deprivation theory, solitary confinement, and research on work in prison by testing this argument through analyses of quali…
The Legacy of Troubled Childhoods: Adverse Childhood Experiences, Sleep, and Delinquency
Scholars have called for greater understanding of the effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on later youth development, including research on sleep as a potential contributor to delinquency. This study seeks to extend that work by situating the focus on ACEs and sleep within a life-course perspective, one that examines life events and turning points, the disruptions that they create, and their longer-term consequences for youth. In part…
Delinquent by the Dozen: Youth From Larger Families Engage in More Delinquency—Fact or Myth
Studies suggest that there is a linear and positive relationship between family size and delinquency. However, questions exist about this assessment. Drawing on prior scholarship and analyses, we revisit and test the family size-delinquency relationship. We also test whether the effect varies by sibling relatedness. Results indicate no consistent or large criminogenic effect of larger families on delinquency and that the relationship is considera…
Successful' Offending: The Salience of Performance Criteria for Understanding and Addressing Crime
Drawing on prior work that views criminal behavior as potentially stemming from factors similar to those that influence conventional behavior, we argue that extant theories may provide a foundation for conceptualizing and explaining different dimensions of offending and that, at the same time, new theories may be needed to do so. In particular, we highlight that criminal behavior may be motivated by a variety of performance criteria similar to th…
No Community Is an Island: The Effects of Resource Deprivation on Urban Violence in Spatially and Socially Proximate Communities
The link between resource deprivation and urban violence has long been explored in criminological research. Studies, however, have largely ignored the potential for resource deprivation in particular communities to affect rates of violence in others. The relative inattention is notable because of the strong theoretical grounds to anticipate influences that extend both to geographically contiguous areas and to those that, though not contiguous, sh…
Social Ecology and Recidivism: Implications for Prisoner Reentry
Despite the marked increase in incarceration over the past 30 years and the fact that roughly two thirds of released offenders are rearrested within 3 years of release, we know little about how the social ecology of the areas to which offenders return may influence their recidivism or whether it disproportionately affects some groups more than others. Drawing on recent scholarship on prisoner reentry and macrolevel predictors of crime, this study…
The Code of the Street and Inmate Violence: Investigating the Salience of Imported Belief Systems
Scholars have long argued that inmate behaviors stem in part from cultural belief systems that they “import” with them into incarcerative settings. Even so, few empirical assessments have tested this argument directly. Drawing on theoretical accounts of one such set of beliefs—the code of the street—and on importation theory, we hypothesize that individuals who adhere more strongly to the street code will be more likely, once incarcerated, to eng…
Vulnerable Victims, Monstrous Offenders, and Unmanageable Risk: Explaining Public Opinion on the Social Control of Sex Crime
With the possible exception of terrorists, sex offenders in the United States experience a greater degree of punishment and restriction than any other offender group, nonviolent or violent. Members of the public overwhelmingly support “get tough” sex crime policies and display an intense hostility toward persons labeled “sex criminals.” The theoretical literature has identified three models potentially explaining public opinion on the social cont…
Social isolation and inmate behavior: A conceptual framework for theorizing prison visitation and guiding and assessing research
Supermax Incarceration and Recidivism
Since the early 1980s, supermax incarceration has emerged as a common feature of the American corrections landscape. This special type of high‐cost housing, which involves extended isolation with little programming or contact with others, remains largely unevaluated and is of interest for three reasons. First, the study of supermax housing offers a unique opportunity to understand the factors related to the successful reentry of offenders back in…
Sentencing and State-Level Racial and Ethnic Contexts
Sentencing studies have incorporated social context in studying sentencing decisions, but to date the bulk of prior work has focused almost exclusively on county context. An unresolved question is whether there also may be state-level effects on sentencing. Drawing from the minority threat perspective, we examine (1) whether state-level racial and ethnic contexts affect sentencing, (2) whether this effect amplifies the effect of county-level raci…
Public Opinion and the Foundation of the Juvenile Court
Over 100 years ago, juvenile courts emerged out of the belief that juveniles are different from adults—less culpable and more rehabilitatable—and can be "saved" from a life of crime and disadvantage. Today, the juvenile justice system is under attack through increasing calls to eliminate it and enactment of statutes designed to place younger offenders in the adult justice system. However, little evidence exists that policy makers have taken the f…
Who Buys New Age Materials? Exploring Sociodemographic, Religious, Network, and Contextual Correlates of New Age Consumption
Journal Article Who Buys New Age Materials? Exploring Sociodemographic, Religious, Network, and Contextual Correlates of New Age Consumption Get access Daniel P. Mears, Daniel P. Mears * University of Texas at Austin * Direct correspondence to Daniel P. Mears, Department of Sociology, Burdine 336, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1088, e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic …
Race‐specific Employment Contexts and Recidivism
Although much literature has examined macrolevel employment contexts and crime rates and, at the individual level, employment and offending, few studies have examined systematically whether macrolevel employment contexts influence individual‐level offending. At the same time, emerging literature on prisoner reentry increasingly underscores the potential importance of the social environment for impeding or facilitating successful transitions back …
The theory and practice of supermax prisons
Over the last two decades, super-maximum custody (or ‘supermax’) prisons have become increasingly common throughout the American correctional landscape. Although these institutions can be justified using a variety of arguments (e.g. retribution), one of the most commonly used rationalizations is that they promote higher levels of prison order throughout the systems in which they are used. Because of the lack of direct empirical evidence to suppor…
Theorizing Sanctioning in a Criminalized Juvenile Court
Recent juvenile justice reforms have produced increasingly complex and criminal‐like approaches to sanctioning youths, yet research to date has not examined the full range of newly available sentencing options nor systematically drawn on theories of adult sentencing. The present study addresses these issues by developing competing hypotheses about the effects of legal, extralegal, and processing factors, as well as sentencing options, in a highly…
Thinking fast, not slow: How cognitive biases may contribute to racial disparities in the use of force in police-citizen encounters
Towards a criminology of crimes against humanity
Criminology has largely ignored the study of crimes against humanity even though the acts involved—genocide, murder, rape, torture, the appropriation or destruction of property and the displacement and enslavement of populations—are criminal under national and international law and more serious than most crimes commonly studied by criminologists. We examine why criminology has neglected these crimes, argue that criminological theorizing will bene…
The Immigration-Crime Nexus: Toward an Analytic Framework for Assessing and Guiding Theory, Research, and Policy
The Sociology of Sentencing: Reconceptualizing Decisionmaking Processes and Outcomes
Research on juvenile and adult sentencing has been characterized by theoretical, methodological, and empirical limitations that preclude adequate description, prediction, or assessment of decisionmaking processes and outcomes. Five limitations are prominent: emphasis on atheoretical, empirical attempts, generally unsuccessful, to increase predictive accuracy; limited conceptualizations of dependent variables (e.g., incarceration versus nonincarce…
Juvenile Court and Contemporary Diversion: Helpful, Harmful, or Both
Research Summary The juvenile court was established to help children through the use of punishment and rehabilitation and, in so doing, “save” them from a life of crime and disadvantage. Diversion programs and policies emerged in the 1970s as one way to achieve this goal. Despite concerns about its potential harm, diversion became increasingly popular in subsequent decades. We examine the logic of a prominent contemporary diversion effort, civil …
Reviving Juvenile Justice in a Get-Tough Era
State and local jurisdictions throughout the United States enacted a wide array of new juvenile justice policies in recent years. Many of these policies were intended to make the juvenile justice system tougher, but others improved prevention, increased rehabilitation, and enhanced the restorative features of the juvenile justice system. This article describes the most prominent new ideas in juvenile justice and addresses a question usually asked…
The “True” Juvenile Offender: Age Effects and Juvenile Court Sanctioning
Age is the only factor used to demarcate the boundary between juvenile and adult justice. However, little research has examined how age guides the juvenile court in determining which youth within the juvenile justice system merit particular dispositions, especially those that reflect the court's emphasis on rehabilitation. Drawing on scholarship on the court's origins, attribution theory, and cognitive heuristics, we hypothesize that the court fo…
To execute or not to execute? Examining public support for capital punishment of sex offenders
Interracial contact and fear of crime
Towards rational and evidence-based crime policy
Faith-based efforts to improve prisoner reentry: Assessing the logic and evidence
Social Exclusion and Parental Incarceration Impacts on Adolescents' Networks and School Engagement
Although prior research links parental incarceration to deleterious outcomes for children during the life course, few studies have examined whether such incarceration affects the social exclusion of children during adolescence. Drawing on several lines of scholarship, the authors examined whether adolescents with incarcerated parents have fewer or lower quality relationships, participate in more antisocial peer networks, and feel less integrated …
Supermax Prisons: The Policy and the Evidence
Research Summary Supermaximum‐security prisons—or “supermaxes”—symbolize the “get tough” criminal justice policies that have developed over the past three decades in the United States and in other countries. Proponents believe that they effectively address critical prison system problems; opponents believe that they do not and that they create substantial harm. This essay examines the available evidence about supermaxes. Policy Implications A ran…
Explaining the Gender Gap in Delinquency: Peer Influence and Moral Evaluations of Behavior
Gender is one of the strongest correlates of delinquent behavior, but gender differences in delinquency have proven difficult to explain. Some analysts have called for gender-specific theories of delinquency, whereas others argue that males and females are differentially exposed to or differentially affected by the same criminogenic conditions. Building on the latter approach, this article draws on Sutherland's theory of differential association …
The Sociology of Sentencing: Reconceptualizing Decisionmaking Processes and Outcomes
Research on juvenile and adult sentencing has been characterized by theoretical, methodological, and empirical limitations that preclude adequate description, prediction, or assessment of decisionmaking processes and outcomes. Five limitations are prominent: emphasis on atheoretical, empirical attempts, generally unsuccessful, to increase predictive accuracy; limited conceptualizations of dependent variables (e.g., incarceration versus nonincarce…
Theorizing Sanctioning in a Criminalized Juvenile Court
Recent juvenile justice reforms have produced increasingly complex and criminal‐like approaches to sanctioning youths, yet research to date has not examined the full range of newly available sentencing options nor systematically drawn on theories of adult sentencing. The present study addresses these issues by developing competing hypotheses about the effects of legal, extralegal, and processing factors, as well as sentencing options, in a highly…
Assessing the Effectiveness of Juvenile Justice Reforms: A Closer Look at the Criteria and the Impacts on Diverse Stakeholders
Research to date has taken a relatively narrow view of the criteria by which the effectiveness of juvenile justice sentencing policies are to be assessed. This narrowness is particularly striking given the comprehensive “get tough” reforms that recently have been enacted in nearly every state. Drawing on previous research and an analysis of the potential effects of a recent juvenile justice sentencing reform in Texas, this paper argues for greate…
Who Buys New Age Materials? Exploring Sociodemographic, Religious, Network, and Contextual Correlates of New Age Consumption
Journal Article Who Buys New Age Materials? Exploring Sociodemographic, Religious, Network, and Contextual Correlates of New Age Consumption Get access Daniel P. Mears, Daniel P. Mears * University of Texas at Austin * Direct correspondence to Daniel P. Mears, Department of Sociology, Burdine 336, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1088, e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic …
The Immigration-Crime Nexus: Toward an Analytic Framework for Assessing and Guiding Theory, Research, and Policy
Reviving Juvenile Justice in a Get-Tough Era
State and local jurisdictions throughout the United States enacted a wide array of new juvenile justice policies in recent years. Many of these policies were intended to make the juvenile justice system tougher, but others improved prevention, increased rehabilitation, and enhanced the restorative features of the juvenile justice system. This article describes the most prominent new ideas in juvenile justice and addresses a question usually asked…
Will Churches Respond to the Call? Religion, Civic Responsibility, and Social Service
Despite national calls for churches to become more involved in social service, many churches may not be willing or able to respond. Drawing on sociological theory, previous research, and interviews with pastors and parish social ministers from Catholic congregations in a large, urban city in Texas, we examine key factors linked to church-based social service efforts. Particulara ttention is given to church leadership,r ace/ethnicity,o rganization…
Central Analytical Issues in the Generation of Cumulative Sociological Knowledge
The growth of theories, methodologies, and substantive/empirical areas in sociology has not led to consensus about what sociology is or how to generate cumulative knowledge. Recourse to general or “grand” theories, conceptual frameworks, and methodological advances has not proven noticeably helpful in resolving this situation. Suggesting an alternative strategy, this paper delineates nine analytical issues central to “doing” sociology. The author…
Research And Interventions To Reduce Domestic Violence Revictimization
Despite decades of research on domestic violence, considerable challenges must be addressed to develop sound, theoretically and empirically based interventions for reducing domestic violence revictimization. Many basic and applied research issues remain unaddressed by existing studies, and evaluations frequently do not sufficiently highlight their limitations or program or policy implications. Nonetheless, progress has been made, and practitioner…
The theory and practice of supermax prisons
Over the last two decades, super-maximum custody (or ‘supermax’) prisons have become increasingly common throughout the American correctional landscape. Although these institutions can be justified using a variety of arguments (e.g. retribution), one of the most commonly used rationalizations is that they promote higher levels of prison order throughout the systems in which they are used. Because of the lack of direct empirical evidence to suppor…
Faith-based efforts to improve prisoner reentry: Assessing the logic and evidence
No Community Is an Island: The Effects of Resource Deprivation on Urban Violence in Spatially and Socially Proximate Communities
The link between resource deprivation and urban violence has long been explored in criminological research. Studies, however, have largely ignored the potential for resource deprivation in particular communities to affect rates of violence in others. The relative inattention is notable because of the strong theoretical grounds to anticipate influences that extend both to geographically contiguous areas and to those that, though not contiguous, sh…
Towards rational and evidence-based crime policy
Public Opinion and the Foundation of the Juvenile Court
Over 100 years ago, juvenile courts emerged out of the belief that juveniles are different from adults—less culpable and more rehabilitatable—and can be "saved" from a life of crime and disadvantage. Today, the juvenile justice system is under attack through increasing calls to eliminate it and enactment of statutes designed to place younger offenders in the adult justice system. However, little evidence exists that policy makers have taken the f…
Opportunity Theory and Agricultural Crime Victimization
A growing body of research lends support to opportunity theory and its variants, but has yet to focus systematically on a number of specific offenses and contexts. Typically, the more crimes and contexts to which a theory applies, the broader its scope and range, respectively, and thus generalizability. In this paper, we focus on agricultural crime victimization- including theft of farm equipment, crops, livestock, and chemicals-an offense that o…
Inmate Social Ties and the Transition to Society: Does Visitation Reduce Recidivism
Despite increased scholarly and policy attention to prisoner reentry, much remains unknown about the factors that contribute to a successful transition from prison to society. The authors focused on a neglected but potentially critical factor, inmate visitation, that may reduce recidivism. The expectation of such an effect stems from prominent crime theories and an increasing body of work that stresses the importance of social ties to the reentry…
Social Ecology and Recidivism: Implications for Prisoner Reentry
Despite the marked increase in incarceration over the past 30 years and the fact that roughly two thirds of released offenders are rearrested within 3 years of release, we know little about how the social ecology of the areas to which offenders return may influence their recidivism or whether it disproportionately affects some groups more than others. Drawing on recent scholarship on prisoner reentry and macrolevel predictors of crime, this study…
Towards a criminology of crimes against humanity
Criminology has largely ignored the study of crimes against humanity even though the acts involved—genocide, murder, rape, torture, the appropriation or destruction of property and the displacement and enslavement of populations—are criminal under national and international law and more serious than most crimes commonly studied by criminologists. We examine why criminology has neglected these crimes, argue that criminological theorizing will bene…
Improving criminal justice through better decision making: Lessons from the medical system
Supermax Incarceration and Recidivism
Since the early 1980s, supermax incarceration has emerged as a common feature of the American corrections landscape. This special type of high‐cost housing, which involves extended isolation with little programming or contact with others, remains largely unevaluated and is of interest for three reasons. First, the study of supermax housing offers a unique opportunity to understand the factors related to the successful reentry of offenders back in…
American Criminal Justice Policy: An Evaluation Approach to Increasing Accountability and Effectiveness
American Criminal Justice Policy examines many of the most prominent criminal justice policies on the American landscape and finds that they fall well short of achieving the accountability and effectiveness that policymakers have advocated and that the public expects. The policies include mass incarceration, sex offender laws, supermax prisons, faith-based prisoner reentry programs, transfer of juveniles to adult court, domestic violence mandator…
A Multilevel Test of Minority Threat Effects on Sentencing
The role of research and researchers in crime and justice policy
Publication Note: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Mears, Daniel P. 2010. “The Role of Research and Researchers in Crime and Justice Policy.” Criminology and Public Policy 9(4):799-805., which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9133.2010.00671.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving: http://olabout.wiley.co…
Sex offender residence restriction laws: Parental perceptions and public policy
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