Edward J Latessa
Biographic Data
| ID | 4494897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward J Latessa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward J |
| FAMILY NAME | Latessa |
| SIGNATURE | LATESSA E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Progressing policy toward a risk/need informed sanctioning model
Research Summary This study examined whether risk/need assessment results coincided with the placement of defendants into six types of sanctions among convicted adults from 11 counties in one state. Crosstabulations highlighted that individuals’ risk/need levels corresponded to the placement of low‐risk/need individuals to probation and high‐risk/need individuals to prison; however, intermediate sanctions were rarely used for any risk/need level …
What Works (and Doesn't) in Reducing Recidivism
Does Treatment Quality Matter
Treatment Integrity and Recidivism among Sex Offenders
Although a large body of research suggests that adherence to RNR model is correlated with program outcome, only a small body of research examines how it applies to programs that serve sex offenders. The current study uses the Correctional Program Checklist (CPC) to measure how well eight community correctional facilities that serve sex offenders adhere to the Risk Need and Responsivity (RNR) model. Outcome evaluations are then used to see whether…
The Evolution of Correctional Program Assessment in the Age of Evidence-Based Practices
As evidence-based practices becomes an increasingly popular term, it is crucial that correctional programs are assessed to ensure that research is being translated and implemented with fidelity. Too often the corrections field is quick to treat different interventions as a panacea, without truly understanding how the program does or does not meet the literature on effective practices. Data is provided based on decades of assessment using the Corr…
Validating the Ohio Risk Assessment System Community Supervision Tool with a Diverse Sample from Texas
The use of risk assessment to assist in determine the criminogenic needs of an offender has become accepted practice in the field of corrections. While many agencies continue to use off-the-shelf assessments and forgo local validation and norming of the instrument, a body of literature has begun to emerge suggesting that fourth generation tools, while robust in nature, are susceptible to threats to validity when applied to new populations. The re…
Reducing Inmate Misconduct and Prison Returns with Facility Education Programs
Research Summary Participants and nonparticipants in Ohio prison education programs were compared in rates of misconduct during incarceration and prison returns after release. Propensity score matching was used to compare male nonparticipants with males who completed or started but did not complete GEDs, vocational training/apprenticeship programs, and college classes (each education group examined separately). More than 92,000 males were eligibl…
Does Change in Risk Matter
Taking Risk Assessment to the Next Step
What Works (and Doesn't) in Reducing Recidivism
This book offers criminologists and students an evidence-based discussion of the latest trends in corrections. Over the last several decades, research has clearly shown that rehabilitation efforts can be effective at reducing recidivism among criminal offenders. However, researchers also recognize that treatment is not a "one size fits all" approach. Offenders vary by gender, age, crime type, and/or addictions, to name but a few, and these indivi…
Why Work Is Important, and How to Improve the Effectiveness of Correctional Reentry Programs that Target Employment
Assessing the Extent and Sources of NCAA Rule Infractions
Overview of
Research Summary Although the popular and academic media often proclaim that rule violations are widespread in college athletics, research assessing the true prevalence and causes of such infractions is in short supply. To address this knowledge gap, we conducted a national survey that asked a random sample of male student‐athletes at Division I basketball and football programs about such infractions (n = 648). The results revealed that although …
Why the risk and needs principles are relevant to correctional programs (even to employment programs)
Intensive supervision programs
Can 14,737 women be wrong? A meta‐analysis of the LSI‐R and recidivism for female offenders
Research Summary Over the past two decades, researchers have been increasingly interested in measuring the risk of offender recidivism as a means of advancing public safety and of directing treatment interventions. In this context, one instrument widely used in assessing offenders is the Level of Service Inventory‐Revised (LSI‐R). Recently, however, the LSI‐R has been criticized for being a male‐specific assessment instrument that is a weak predi…
Cracks in the Penal Harm Movement
Research Summary For more than three decades, the penal harm movement, which involves “get tough” ideology and policies, has held sway over U.S. corrections. Scholars have justifiably detailed and decried this movement, but in so doing, they have also inadvertently contributed to the view that a punitive worldview is hegemonic. In contrast, we detail four major “cracks” in the penal harm movement's dominance: the persistence of rehabilitative pub…
The Risk Principle in Action
Over the recent past there have been several meta-analyses and primary studies that support the importance of the risk principle. Oftentimes these studies, particularly the meta-analyses, are limited in their ability to assess how the actual implementation of the risk principle by correctional agencies affects effectiveness in reducing recidivism. Furthermore, primary studies are typically limited to the assessment of one or two programs, which a…
Does Correctional Program Quality Really Matter? The Impact of Adhering to the Principles of Effective Intervention
Research Summary: This study analyzed data on 3,237 offenders placed in 1 of 38 community‐based residential programs as part of their parole or other post‐release control. Offenders terminated from these programs were matched to, and compared with, a group of offenders (N = 3,237) under parole or other post‐release control who were not placed in residential programming. Data on program characteristics and treatment integrity were obtained through…
Exploring the validity of the Level of Service Inventory-Revised with Native American offenders
Predicting outcome with the Level of Service Inventory-Revised
Increasing the Effectiveness of Correctional Programming Through the Risk Principle
Research Summary: This study analyzed data on 7,306 offenders placed in 1 of 53 community-based residential programs as part of their parole, post-release control, or probation. Offenders who successfully completed residential programming were compared with a group of offenders (n = 5801) under parole/post-release control who were not placed in residential programming. Analyses of program effectiveness were conducted, controlling for risk and a r…
The Challenge of Change
Homelessness and Reincarceration
Ethnicity, gender, and the Level of Service Inventory-Revised
Can 14,737 women be wrong? A meta‐analysis of the LSI‐R and recidivism for female offenders
Research Summary Over the past two decades, researchers have been increasingly interested in measuring the risk of offender recidivism as a means of advancing public safety and of directing treatment interventions. In this context, one instrument widely used in assessing offenders is the Level of Service Inventory‐Revised (LSI‐R). Recently, however, the LSI‐R has been criticized for being a male‐specific assessment instrument that is a weak predi…
Does Correctional Program Quality Really Matter? The Impact of Adhering to the Principles of Effective Intervention
Research Summary: This study analyzed data on 3,237 offenders placed in 1 of 38 community‐based residential programs as part of their parole or other post‐release control. Offenders terminated from these programs were matched to, and compared with, a group of offenders (N = 3,237) under parole or other post‐release control who were not placed in residential programming. Data on program characteristics and treatment integrity were obtained through…
The Correctional Orientation of Prison Wardens
Over the past two decades, the ideology ostensibly governing correctional policy has been transformed, it is claimed, from liberal‐rehabilitative to conservative‐punitive. Little empirical in formation is available, however, on whether those who manage correctional institutions—prison wardens—manifest a punitive or reformative orientation to their work Data from a national survey indicate that, while placing a prime emphasis on maintaining custod…
Reducing Inmate Misconduct and Prison Returns with Facility Education Programs
Research Summary Participants and nonparticipants in Ohio prison education programs were compared in rates of misconduct during incarceration and prison returns after release. Propensity score matching was used to compare male nonparticipants with males who completed or started but did not complete GEDs, vocational training/apprenticeship programs, and college classes (each education group examined separately). More than 92,000 males were eligibl…
Increasing the Effectiveness of Correctional Programming Through the Risk Principle
Research Summary: This study analyzed data on 7,306 offenders placed in 1 of 53 community-based residential programs as part of their parole, post-release control, or probation. Offenders who successfully completed residential programming were compared with a group of offenders (n = 5801) under parole/post-release control who were not placed in residential programming. Analyses of program effectiveness were conducted, controlling for risk and a r…
Cracks in the Penal Harm Movement
Research Summary For more than three decades, the penal harm movement, which involves “get tough” ideology and policies, has held sway over U.S. corrections. Scholars have justifiably detailed and decried this movement, but in so doing, they have also inadvertently contributed to the view that a punitive worldview is hegemonic. In contrast, we detail four major “cracks” in the penal harm movement's dominance: the persistence of rehabilitative pub…
The Challenge of Change
Why Work Is Important, and How to Improve the Effectiveness of Correctional Reentry Programs that Target Employment
Exploring the validity of the Level of Service Inventory-Revised with Native American offenders
Ethnicity, gender, and the Level of Service Inventory-Revised
Treating the chronic DUI offender “Turning Point” ten years later
Scandal and Reform in Collegiate Athletics
Francis T. Cullen, Edward J. Latessa, Joseph P. Byrne, Scandal and Reform in Collegiate Athletics: Implications from a National Survey of Head Football Coaches, The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 61, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 1990), pp. 50-64
The Evolution of Correctional Program Assessment in the Age of Evidence-Based Practices
As evidence-based practices becomes an increasingly popular term, it is crucial that correctional programs are assessed to ensure that research is being translated and implemented with fidelity. Too often the corrections field is quick to treat different interventions as a panacea, without truly understanding how the program does or does not meet the literature on effective practices. Data is provided based on decades of assessment using the Corr…
Validating the Ohio Risk Assessment System Community Supervision Tool with a Diverse Sample from Texas
The use of risk assessment to assist in determine the criminogenic needs of an offender has become accepted practice in the field of corrections. While many agencies continue to use off-the-shelf assessments and forgo local validation and norming of the instrument, a body of literature has begun to emerge suggesting that fourth generation tools, while robust in nature, are susceptible to threats to validity when applied to new populations. The re…
Does Change in Risk Matter
Intensive supervision programs
An empirical evaluation of a sanction continuum
Treatment of chronic drunk drivers
Halfway houses and parole
Does Treatment Quality Matter
Overview of
Research Summary Although the popular and academic media often proclaim that rule violations are widespread in college athletics, research assessing the true prevalence and causes of such infractions is in short supply. To address this knowledge gap, we conducted a national survey that asked a random sample of male student‐athletes at Division I basketball and football programs about such infractions (n = 648). The results revealed that although …
Why the risk and needs principles are relevant to correctional programs (even to employment programs)
Predicting outcome with the Level of Service Inventory-Revised
A summary of parole rules—Thirteen years later”
Assessing the Extent and Sources of NCAA Rule Infractions
Halfway houses and parole
The Paradox of Control
A summary of parole rules—Thirteen years later”
The effects of intensive supervision on shock probationers
The academy of criminal justice sciences and JCJE
(1990). The academy of criminal justice sciences and JCJE: Origins and aspirations. Journal of Criminal Justice Education: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. v-vi
Scandal and Reform in Collegiate Athletics
Francis T. Cullen, Edward J. Latessa, Joseph P. Byrne, Scandal and Reform in Collegiate Athletics: Implications from a National Survey of Head Football Coaches, The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 61, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 1990), pp. 50-64
Treatment of chronic drunk drivers
The Correctional Orientation of Prison Wardens
Over the past two decades, the ideology ostensibly governing correctional policy has been transformed, it is claimed, from liberal‐rehabilitative to conservative‐punitive. Little empirical in formation is available, however, on whether those who manage correctional institutions—prison wardens—manifest a punitive or reformative orientation to their work Data from a national survey indicate that, while placing a prime emphasis on maintaining custod…
Treatment of chronic drunk drivers
An empirical evaluation of a sanction continuum
Treating the chronic DUI offender “Turning Point” ten years later
Ethnicity, gender, and the Level of Service Inventory-Revised
The Challenge of Change
Homelessness and Reincarceration
Increasing the Effectiveness of Correctional Programming Through the Risk Principle
Research Summary: This study analyzed data on 7,306 offenders placed in 1 of 53 community-based residential programs as part of their parole, post-release control, or probation. Offenders who successfully completed residential programming were compared with a group of offenders (n = 5801) under parole/post-release control who were not placed in residential programming. Analyses of program effectiveness were conducted, controlling for risk and a r…
The Risk Principle in Action
Over the recent past there have been several meta-analyses and primary studies that support the importance of the risk principle. Oftentimes these studies, particularly the meta-analyses, are limited in their ability to assess how the actual implementation of the risk principle by correctional agencies affects effectiveness in reducing recidivism. Furthermore, primary studies are typically limited to the assessment of one or two programs, which a…
Does Correctional Program Quality Really Matter? The Impact of Adhering to the Principles of Effective Intervention
Research Summary: This study analyzed data on 3,237 offenders placed in 1 of 38 community‐based residential programs as part of their parole or other post‐release control. Offenders terminated from these programs were matched to, and compared with, a group of offenders (N = 3,237) under parole or other post‐release control who were not placed in residential programming. Data on program characteristics and treatment integrity were obtained through…
Exploring the validity of the Level of Service Inventory-Revised with Native American offenders
Predicting outcome with the Level of Service Inventory-Revised
Cracks in the Penal Harm Movement
Research Summary For more than three decades, the penal harm movement, which involves “get tough” ideology and policies, has held sway over U.S. corrections. Scholars have justifiably detailed and decried this movement, but in so doing, they have also inadvertently contributed to the view that a punitive worldview is hegemonic. In contrast, we detail four major “cracks” in the penal harm movement's dominance: the persistence of rehabilitative pub…
Can 14,737 women be wrong? A meta‐analysis of the LSI‐R and recidivism for female offenders
Research Summary Over the past two decades, researchers have been increasingly interested in measuring the risk of offender recidivism as a means of advancing public safety and of directing treatment interventions. In this context, one instrument widely used in assessing offenders is the Level of Service Inventory‐Revised (LSI‐R). Recently, however, the LSI‐R has been criticized for being a male‐specific assessment instrument that is a weak predi…
Intensive supervision programs
Why the risk and needs principles are relevant to correctional programs (even to employment programs)
Why Work Is Important, and How to Improve the Effectiveness of Correctional Reentry Programs that Target Employment
Assessing the Extent and Sources of NCAA Rule Infractions
Psychology (31 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (23 works) · Political science (23 works) · Criminology (22 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (21 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Medicine (13 works)