Robert D Morgan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4126688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert D Morgan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert D |
| FAMILY NAME | Morgan |
| SIGNATURE | MORGAN R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Tech University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6263-5955 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Psychiatric symptoms and criminogenic risk in people with mental illness
OBJECTIVE: Because approximately 50% of psychiatric patients present with current or past criminal legal involvement, we aimed to compare factors associated with criminal legal involvement across three inpatient psychiatric groups: patients with mental illness with legal involvement, patients with mental illness without legal involvement, and patients found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI). HYPOTHESES: We hypothesized that participants in …
Changing Outcomes in Jail? Evaluating Treatment Completion and Change Among Adults With Serious Mental Illness
Jail offers an important opportunity to treat psychiatric symptoms and criminogenic risk among people with serious mental illness (SMI), although the evidence base for these programs is limited. We implemented a 9-session cognitive behavioral group program for men and women with SMI in one county jail ( n = 75). We tested predictors of treatment completion and evaluated the program’s effectiveness in producing change in mental illness and crimino…
Forging new paths in the development of community mental health interventions for people with mental illness at risk of criminal legal system contact
BACKGROUND: Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) have disproportionately high rates of criminal legal system involvement. For many, this becomes a repeated cycle of arrest and incarceration. Treatments that address symptoms of mental illness are a critical component of the continuum of services for people with SMI in the legal system; yet on their own, psychiatric treatments have not been successful at reducing criminal legal system invo…
Editor-in-Chief of Criminal Justice and Behavior
Serving as Editor-in-Chief and contributing to the 50-year success of Criminal Justice and Behavior was a rewarding experience, and one for which I will always be proud. In this essay, I was asked to reflect on my experience, including research that I believed was most impactful, lessons learned, the future of Criminal Justice and Behavior, and the uniqueness of Criminal Justice and Behavior. As noted in this essay, I am proud of the accomplishme…
A systematic review of therapeutic alternatives to segregation placement
Confirmatory information seeking is robust in psychologists’ diagnostic reasoning
OBJECTIVE: Across two experiments, we examined three cognitive biases (order effects, context effects, confirmatory bias) in licensed psychologists' diagnostic reasoning. HYPOTHESES: Our main prediction was that psychologist-participants would seek confirming versus disconfirming information after forming an initial diagnostic hypothesis, even given multiple opportunities to seek new information in the same case. We also expected that individual …
Reception to and Efficacy of a Serious Video Game for Correctional Intervention
Project Choices ( PC), a newly developed videogame for correctional intervention, consists of realistic decision-making scenarios and cognitive behavioral skills feedback. A pilot study investigated PC engagement and immersion by employing a cross-over design with a sample of 24 men on probation remanded to residential treatment. The study also examined effects of gameplay on criminogenic thinking, self-perceived criminogenic risk, and social pro…
Risk assessment tool floundering? Let's ask the client to self-predict
A comparison of criminogenic risk factors and psychiatric symptomatology between psychiatric inpatients with and without criminal justice involvement
OBJECTIVE: Research suggests distinct criminal risk factors, not mental illness, are more strongly associated with most criminal behaviors. This notion has been supported among inpatient persons with mental illness (PMI) when examining antisocial cognitions; however, other key criminogenic risk factors (the Big Four and Central Eight risk factors) have not been examined among psychiatric inpatient PMI. HYPOTHESES: We hypothesized that criminal ju…
Revisiting the Walpole Prison Solitary Confinement Study (WPSCS)
In the last decade, scholars have expressed growing concerns about the credibility of some studies in the biomedical and social sciences domains that are broadly regarded as classics, that is, studies that are widely cited as the definitive answer on a topic and are in the public interest. In the current investigation, we directed our attention toward one such classic—the Walpole Prison Solitary Confinement Study (WPSCS)—which reported that inmat…
The Sage Encyclopedia of Criminal Psychology
While the terms suicide and self-harm are often used interchangeably, it is important to be clear that they are conceptually different. Suicide is a self-inflicted act with the intention to cause death, whereas an act of self-harm may be the precedent to an act of suicide, but it can also exist as a concept in its own right as an intentional act of harm without suicidal intent. Self-harm is intentional, often repetitive, and often constitutes a c…
Forensic clinicians’ understanding of bias
Bias, or systematic influences that create errors in judgment, can affect psychological evaluations in ways that lead to erroneous diagnoses and opinions. Although these errors can have especially serious consequences in the criminal justice system, little research has addressed forensic psychologists’ awareness of well-known cognitive biases and debiasing strategies. We conducted a national survey with a sample of 120 randomly-selected licensed …
Certainty of Punishment and Criminal Thinking
The purpose of this study was to determine whether criminal thinking interacts with the rational requirements of human decision-making in a group of college students. A convenience sample of 315 undergraduates (114 males, 201 females) completed self-report measures of criminal thinking and estimated their likelihood of cheating on an exam given different levels of certainty of apprehension. A repeated-measures analysis of covariance revealed that…
Do criminal associates impact psychiatric inpatients’ social support and interpersonal needs
Suicide risk is elevated among psychiatric inpatients; however, research has not examined moderators of the associations between perceived social support and thwarted belongingness (TB) and perceived burdensomeness (PB), such as involvement with criminal associates. Adult psychiatric inpatients ( N = 142) completed assessments. Perceived social support was negatively associated with TB and PB; however, associates' criminal involvement did not mod…
Criminal Psychology
The attorney-client working relationship
Quantitative syntheses of the effects of administrative segregation on inmates’ well-being
There is a widely held belief that the use of administrative segregation (AS) produces debilitating psychological effects; however, there are also those who assert that AS is an effective strategy for reducing prison antisocial behavior and prison violence. Given these conflicting opinions it is not surprising that the use of segregation in corrections has become a hotly debated and litigated issue. To clarify the competing perspectives, two inde…
Dynamic risk assessment
Treating criminal behavior
Andrews and colleagues showed that the principles of Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) effectively reduced recidivism. The purpose of this study was to advance Andrews and colleagues’ work by examining whether correctional services that adhered to RNR were more expensive than services that did not adhere to RNR. Articles included in the Andrews et al. (1990) meta-analysis of correctional services were gathered and reevaluated based upon a coding proce…
Ernst-Troeltsch and the Future of Theology
Journal Article Ernst-Troeltsch and the Future of Theology edited by John Powell Clayton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976, 214 pp. $18.95 and Ernst Troeltsch: Writings on Theology and Religion edited by Robert Morgan and Michael Pye. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1977, 252 pp. $17.50 Get access William R. Garrett William R. Garrett St. Michael's College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Reli…
Quantitative syntheses of the effects of administrative segregation on inmates’ well-being
There is a widely held belief that the use of administrative segregation (AS) produces debilitating psychological effects; however, there are also those who assert that AS is an effective strategy for reducing prison antisocial behavior and prison violence. Given these conflicting opinions it is not surprising that the use of segregation in corrections has become a hotly debated and litigated issue. To clarify the competing perspectives, two inde…
Dynamic risk assessment
Forensic clinicians’ understanding of bias
Bias, or systematic influences that create errors in judgment, can affect psychological evaluations in ways that lead to erroneous diagnoses and opinions. Although these errors can have especially serious consequences in the criminal justice system, little research has addressed forensic psychologists’ awareness of well-known cognitive biases and debiasing strategies. We conducted a national survey with a sample of 120 randomly-selected licensed …
Treating criminal behavior
Andrews and colleagues showed that the principles of Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) effectively reduced recidivism. The purpose of this study was to advance Andrews and colleagues’ work by examining whether correctional services that adhered to RNR were more expensive than services that did not adhere to RNR. Articles included in the Andrews et al. (1990) meta-analysis of correctional services were gathered and reevaluated based upon a coding proce…
Ernst-Troeltsch and the Future of Theology
Journal Article Ernst-Troeltsch and the Future of Theology edited by John Powell Clayton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976, 214 pp. $18.95 and Ernst Troeltsch: Writings on Theology and Religion edited by Robert Morgan and Michael Pye. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1977, 252 pp. $17.50 Get access William R. Garrett William R. Garrett St. Michael's College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Reli…
Treating criminal behavior
Andrews and colleagues showed that the principles of Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) effectively reduced recidivism. The purpose of this study was to advance Andrews and colleagues’ work by examining whether correctional services that adhered to RNR were more expensive than services that did not adhere to RNR. Articles included in the Andrews et al. (1990) meta-analysis of correctional services were gathered and reevaluated based upon a coding proce…
Dynamic risk assessment
The attorney-client working relationship
Quantitative syntheses of the effects of administrative segregation on inmates’ well-being
There is a widely held belief that the use of administrative segregation (AS) produces debilitating psychological effects; however, there are also those who assert that AS is an effective strategy for reducing prison antisocial behavior and prison violence. Given these conflicting opinions it is not surprising that the use of segregation in corrections has become a hotly debated and litigated issue. To clarify the competing perspectives, two inde…
Criminal Psychology
Certainty of Punishment and Criminal Thinking
The purpose of this study was to determine whether criminal thinking interacts with the rational requirements of human decision-making in a group of college students. A convenience sample of 315 undergraduates (114 males, 201 females) completed self-report measures of criminal thinking and estimated their likelihood of cheating on an exam given different levels of certainty of apprehension. A repeated-measures analysis of covariance revealed that…
Do criminal associates impact psychiatric inpatients’ social support and interpersonal needs
Suicide risk is elevated among psychiatric inpatients; however, research has not examined moderators of the associations between perceived social support and thwarted belongingness (TB) and perceived burdensomeness (PB), such as involvement with criminal associates. Adult psychiatric inpatients ( N = 142) completed assessments. Perceived social support was negatively associated with TB and PB; however, associates' criminal involvement did not mod…
The Sage Encyclopedia of Criminal Psychology
While the terms suicide and self-harm are often used interchangeably, it is important to be clear that they are conceptually different. Suicide is a self-inflicted act with the intention to cause death, whereas an act of self-harm may be the precedent to an act of suicide, but it can also exist as a concept in its own right as an intentional act of harm without suicidal intent. Self-harm is intentional, often repetitive, and often constitutes a c…
Forensic clinicians’ understanding of bias
Bias, or systematic influences that create errors in judgment, can affect psychological evaluations in ways that lead to erroneous diagnoses and opinions. Although these errors can have especially serious consequences in the criminal justice system, little research has addressed forensic psychologists’ awareness of well-known cognitive biases and debiasing strategies. We conducted a national survey with a sample of 120 randomly-selected licensed …
Risk assessment tool floundering? Let's ask the client to self-predict
A comparison of criminogenic risk factors and psychiatric symptomatology between psychiatric inpatients with and without criminal justice involvement
OBJECTIVE: Research suggests distinct criminal risk factors, not mental illness, are more strongly associated with most criminal behaviors. This notion has been supported among inpatient persons with mental illness (PMI) when examining antisocial cognitions; however, other key criminogenic risk factors (the Big Four and Central Eight risk factors) have not been examined among psychiatric inpatient PMI. HYPOTHESES: We hypothesized that criminal ju…
Revisiting the Walpole Prison Solitary Confinement Study (WPSCS)
In the last decade, scholars have expressed growing concerns about the credibility of some studies in the biomedical and social sciences domains that are broadly regarded as classics, that is, studies that are widely cited as the definitive answer on a topic and are in the public interest. In the current investigation, we directed our attention toward one such classic—the Walpole Prison Solitary Confinement Study (WPSCS)—which reported that inmat…
Confirmatory information seeking is robust in psychologists’ diagnostic reasoning
OBJECTIVE: Across two experiments, we examined three cognitive biases (order effects, context effects, confirmatory bias) in licensed psychologists' diagnostic reasoning. HYPOTHESES: Our main prediction was that psychologist-participants would seek confirming versus disconfirming information after forming an initial diagnostic hypothesis, even given multiple opportunities to seek new information in the same case. We also expected that individual …
Reception to and Efficacy of a Serious Video Game for Correctional Intervention
Project Choices ( PC), a newly developed videogame for correctional intervention, consists of realistic decision-making scenarios and cognitive behavioral skills feedback. A pilot study investigated PC engagement and immersion by employing a cross-over design with a sample of 24 men on probation remanded to residential treatment. The study also examined effects of gameplay on criminogenic thinking, self-perceived criminogenic risk, and social pro…
Forging new paths in the development of community mental health interventions for people with mental illness at risk of criminal legal system contact
BACKGROUND: Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) have disproportionately high rates of criminal legal system involvement. For many, this becomes a repeated cycle of arrest and incarceration. Treatments that address symptoms of mental illness are a critical component of the continuum of services for people with SMI in the legal system; yet on their own, psychiatric treatments have not been successful at reducing criminal legal system invo…
Editor-in-Chief of Criminal Justice and Behavior
Serving as Editor-in-Chief and contributing to the 50-year success of Criminal Justice and Behavior was a rewarding experience, and one for which I will always be proud. In this essay, I was asked to reflect on my experience, including research that I believed was most impactful, lessons learned, the future of Criminal Justice and Behavior, and the uniqueness of Criminal Justice and Behavior. As noted in this essay, I am proud of the accomplishme…
A systematic review of therapeutic alternatives to segregation placement
Psychiatric symptoms and criminogenic risk in people with mental illness
OBJECTIVE: Because approximately 50% of psychiatric patients present with current or past criminal legal involvement, we aimed to compare factors associated with criminal legal involvement across three inpatient psychiatric groups: patients with mental illness with legal involvement, patients with mental illness without legal involvement, and patients found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI). HYPOTHESES: We hypothesized that participants in …
Changing Outcomes in Jail? Evaluating Treatment Completion and Change Among Adults With Serious Mental Illness
Jail offers an important opportunity to treat psychiatric symptoms and criminogenic risk among people with serious mental illness (SMI), although the evidence base for these programs is limited. We implemented a 9-session cognitive behavioral group program for men and women with SMI in one county jail ( n = 75). We tested predictors of treatment completion and evaluated the program’s effectiveness in producing change in mental illness and crimino…
Psychology (15 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Mental health (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 works)