Jeffrey A Bouffard
Biographic Data
| ID | 4581402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey A Bouffard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey A |
| FAMILY NAME | Bouffard |
| SIGNATURE | BOUFFARD J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sam Houston State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4867-3127 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Examining the role of the social bond in the formation of violent crime intentions among incarcerated men
Individual Differences, Cost Perceptions, and Deterrence of Drunk Driving Among Samples of Incarcerated Individuals
Deterrence theory forms one of the central tenets of the criminal justice system, however few studies have assessed individual differences as they relate to cost perceptions, especially among known offenders. We examined a number of individual factors, including demographics, criminal history, peers’ offending, and indicators from self-control and social bonds theories as potential correlates of cost perceptions. Using a hypothetical drunk drivin…
Exploring the Relationship Between Religiosity and Offending Intentions Among Various Sub-Samples of Incarcerated Individuals
Researchers suggest an inverse relationship between criminal behaviors and a number of social bonds, including religiosity, but few studies have examined religiosity’s impact among adults, especially those known to have committed serious crimes. Utilizing survey data from a large sample of men and women incarcerated for felonies in a southwestern correctional system, we estimated a series of regressions examining the relationship between religios…
Understanding the Decision to Officially Report Sexual Assaults in Prison
Most studies of crime reporting examine decisions to report to the police in community settings. While informative, this focus leaves a gap in identifying the correlates of official reporting behaviors among incarcerated individuals. This is noteworthy considering the passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act mandating states collect and report data on sexual assaults in confinement facilities. To address these concerns, this study provides one …
Mediators of the Link Between Psychopathy and Sexual Coercion
The current study explores the relationship between psychopathy, cognitive distortions that could promote sexual coercion, i.e., rape myth acceptance (RMA) and misperception of sexual intent (MPSI), and one's level of sexual arousal on the intentions to use sexual coercion. Using a sample of 218 college men (aged 18-69) and a hypothetical vignette design, we examine potential direct and indirect effects of psychopathy on coercion intentions. Psyc…
Comparing Perception of Sexual Intent and the Use of Sexual Coercion in Men and Women College Students
Despite research showing that many college men and women have experienced misperception of their friendliness as sexual intent, such research has focused on this type of misperception only as a correlate of men's sexual aggression. In fact, regardless of methodology used many researchers seem to suggest women do not misperceive men's sexual intent, and in some instances may actually under-perceive it. We used a hypothetical scenario to determine …
Still in the shadows
Predictors of Criminal Justice Undergraduates’ Intentions to Pursue Graduate Education in Criminology or Criminal Justice
This study relies on data from 388 junior and senior criminal justice majors to examine predictors of intentions to pursue graduate education in criminology, criminal justice, or a closely related field. Logistic regression results demonstrate that women, students who receive greater encouragement to attend graduate school, students with a lower aversion to reading, writing, and statistics, and students who perceive greater diversity intolerance …
Examining the stability and predictors of deterrability across multiple offense types within a sample of convicted felons
Experimental Designs in the Study of Offender Decision Making
Research on offender decision making has utilized experimental designs and has often coupled these strong designs with the use of hypothetical vignettes that describe specific offending circumstances for the would-be offender to consider. In some cases, these studies have experimentally manipulated situational elements of the imagined setting. In others, researchers have experimentally manipulated the context in which the participants make the de…
Rational Choice Theory
As an explanation of crime, the rational choice perspective in essence argues that would‐be offenders consider the potential costs and benefits before deciding whether to engage in crime. There is not a single, well‐defined rational choice theory but rather a series of models that attempt to explain criminal events and/or criminality. The rational choice perspective in criminology has evolved largely from two previous and complementary explanatio…
Rational choice beyond the classroom
Student Attitudes Toward Concealed Handguns on Campus at 2 Universities
We examined student support for a policy that would allow carrying of concealed handguns on university campuses. Large percentages of students at 2 universities expressed very low levels of comfort with the idea of permitting concealed handgun carrying on campus, suggesting that students may not welcome less restrictive policies. Students held slightly different opinions about concealed handguns on and off campus, suggesting that they view the ca…
Differences Across Majors in the Desire to Obtain a License to Carry a Concealed Handgun on Campus
The current study examines whether students' course of study is related to their desire to carry a concealed handgun on campus. This analysis is motivated by a growing number of studies that have explored differences between criminal justice (CJ) and other majors in the areas of personality, attitudes, values, and career expectations, and also by discussions of the issue of concealed handguns on campuses following recent shootings on college camp…
What works (or doesn't) in a DUI court? An example of expedited case processing
Methodological artifacts in tests of rational choice theory
Drug courts for DWI offenders? The effectiveness of two hybrid drug courts on DWI offenders
Something Old, Something New
Gottfredson and Hirschi’s general theory of crime has generated an impressive array of theoretical and empirical research. One particular area of research has concerned the definition and operationalization of self‐control. Recently, Hirschi has redefined self‐control as the tendency to consider the full range of potential costs of a particular act, and suggests that such inhibiting factors vary in both number and salience in how they relate to c…
An Exploratory Analysis of Victim Precipitation Among Men and Women Arrested for Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a complex social problem that has produced a wide variety of explanations. However, few studies have explored what, if any, role victim precipitation plays in IPV. Victim precipitation is generally defined as behavior by the victim that initiates the subsequent behavior of the victimizer; however, studies using this concept have often been accused of subtle and overt victim blaming. Distinguishing victim precipi…
An Examination of the Outcomes of Various Components of a Coordinated Community Response to Domestic Violence by Male Offenders
The long-term impact of restorative justice programming for juvenile offenders
Investigating the impact of extended bar closing times on police stops for DUI
An Evaluation of Gender Differences in the Implementation and Impact of a Comprehensive Approach to Domestic Violence
The primary goal of society's response to domestic violence is the protection of the victim from further abuse. Recently, the coordinated community response (CCR) has been developed as one example of an approach aimed at reaching this goal. Prior research has generally found support for the model, with male offenders recidivating at lower rates. The current study examines whether a comprehensive, community-based approach is capable of reducing re…
The influence of emotion on rational decision making in sexual aggression
Predicting type of sexual assault case closure from victim, suspect, and case characteristics
Predicting type of sexual assault case closure from victim, suspect, and case characteristics
The influence of emotion on rational decision making in sexual aggression
Student Attitudes Toward Concealed Handguns on Campus at 2 Universities
We examined student support for a policy that would allow carrying of concealed handguns on university campuses. Large percentages of students at 2 universities expressed very low levels of comfort with the idea of permitting concealed handgun carrying on campus, suggesting that students may not welcome less restrictive policies. Students held slightly different opinions about concealed handguns on and off campus, suggesting that they view the ca…
Rational choice beyond the classroom
An Examination of the Outcomes of Various Components of a Coordinated Community Response to Domestic Violence by Male Offenders
The long-term impact of restorative justice programming for juvenile offenders
Methodological artifacts in tests of rational choice theory
An Evaluation of Gender Differences in the Implementation and Impact of a Comprehensive Approach to Domestic Violence
The primary goal of society's response to domestic violence is the protection of the victim from further abuse. Recently, the coordinated community response (CCR) has been developed as one example of an approach aimed at reaching this goal. Prior research has generally found support for the model, with male offenders recidivating at lower rates. The current study examines whether a comprehensive, community-based approach is capable of reducing re…
Drug courts for DWI offenders? The effectiveness of two hybrid drug courts on DWI offenders
Mediators of the Link Between Psychopathy and Sexual Coercion
The current study explores the relationship between psychopathy, cognitive distortions that could promote sexual coercion, i.e., rape myth acceptance (RMA) and misperception of sexual intent (MPSI), and one's level of sexual arousal on the intentions to use sexual coercion. Using a sample of 218 college men (aged 18-69) and a hypothetical vignette design, we examine potential direct and indirect effects of psychopathy on coercion intentions. Psyc…
Examining the stability and predictors of deterrability across multiple offense types within a sample of convicted felons
Investigating the impact of extended bar closing times on police stops for DUI
What works (or doesn't) in a DUI court? An example of expedited case processing
An Exploratory Analysis of Victim Precipitation Among Men and Women Arrested for Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a complex social problem that has produced a wide variety of explanations. However, few studies have explored what, if any, role victim precipitation plays in IPV. Victim precipitation is generally defined as behavior by the victim that initiates the subsequent behavior of the victimizer; however, studies using this concept have often been accused of subtle and overt victim blaming. Distinguishing victim precipi…
Predicting type of sexual assault case closure from victim, suspect, and case characteristics
The influence of emotion on rational decision making in sexual aggression
An Evaluation of Gender Differences in the Implementation and Impact of a Comprehensive Approach to Domestic Violence
The primary goal of society's response to domestic violence is the protection of the victim from further abuse. Recently, the coordinated community response (CCR) has been developed as one example of an approach aimed at reaching this goal. Prior research has generally found support for the model, with male offenders recidivating at lower rates. The current study examines whether a comprehensive, community-based approach is capable of reducing re…
Something Old, Something New
Gottfredson and Hirschi’s general theory of crime has generated an impressive array of theoretical and empirical research. One particular area of research has concerned the definition and operationalization of self‐control. Recently, Hirschi has redefined self‐control as the tendency to consider the full range of potential costs of a particular act, and suggests that such inhibiting factors vary in both number and salience in how they relate to c…
An Exploratory Analysis of Victim Precipitation Among Men and Women Arrested for Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a complex social problem that has produced a wide variety of explanations. However, few studies have explored what, if any, role victim precipitation plays in IPV. Victim precipitation is generally defined as behavior by the victim that initiates the subsequent behavior of the victimizer; however, studies using this concept have often been accused of subtle and overt victim blaming. Distinguishing victim precipi…
An Examination of the Outcomes of Various Components of a Coordinated Community Response to Domestic Violence by Male Offenders
The long-term impact of restorative justice programming for juvenile offenders
Investigating the impact of extended bar closing times on police stops for DUI
Methodological artifacts in tests of rational choice theory
Drug courts for DWI offenders? The effectiveness of two hybrid drug courts on DWI offenders
Differences Across Majors in the Desire to Obtain a License to Carry a Concealed Handgun on Campus
The current study examines whether students' course of study is related to their desire to carry a concealed handgun on campus. This analysis is motivated by a growing number of studies that have explored differences between criminal justice (CJ) and other majors in the areas of personality, attitudes, values, and career expectations, and also by discussions of the issue of concealed handguns on campuses following recent shootings on college camp…
What works (or doesn't) in a DUI court? An example of expedited case processing
Student Attitudes Toward Concealed Handguns on Campus at 2 Universities
We examined student support for a policy that would allow carrying of concealed handguns on university campuses. Large percentages of students at 2 universities expressed very low levels of comfort with the idea of permitting concealed handgun carrying on campus, suggesting that students may not welcome less restrictive policies. Students held slightly different opinions about concealed handguns on and off campus, suggesting that they view the ca…
Rational choice beyond the classroom
Experimental Designs in the Study of Offender Decision Making
Research on offender decision making has utilized experimental designs and has often coupled these strong designs with the use of hypothetical vignettes that describe specific offending circumstances for the would-be offender to consider. In some cases, these studies have experimentally manipulated situational elements of the imagined setting. In others, researchers have experimentally manipulated the context in which the participants make the de…
Rational Choice Theory
As an explanation of crime, the rational choice perspective in essence argues that would‐be offenders consider the potential costs and benefits before deciding whether to engage in crime. There is not a single, well‐defined rational choice theory but rather a series of models that attempt to explain criminal events and/or criminality. The rational choice perspective in criminology has evolved largely from two previous and complementary explanatio…
Predictors of Criminal Justice Undergraduates’ Intentions to Pursue Graduate Education in Criminology or Criminal Justice
This study relies on data from 388 junior and senior criminal justice majors to examine predictors of intentions to pursue graduate education in criminology, criminal justice, or a closely related field. Logistic regression results demonstrate that women, students who receive greater encouragement to attend graduate school, students with a lower aversion to reading, writing, and statistics, and students who perceive greater diversity intolerance …
Examining the stability and predictors of deterrability across multiple offense types within a sample of convicted felons
Still in the shadows
Understanding the Decision to Officially Report Sexual Assaults in Prison
Most studies of crime reporting examine decisions to report to the police in community settings. While informative, this focus leaves a gap in identifying the correlates of official reporting behaviors among incarcerated individuals. This is noteworthy considering the passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act mandating states collect and report data on sexual assaults in confinement facilities. To address these concerns, this study provides one …
Mediators of the Link Between Psychopathy and Sexual Coercion
The current study explores the relationship between psychopathy, cognitive distortions that could promote sexual coercion, i.e., rape myth acceptance (RMA) and misperception of sexual intent (MPSI), and one's level of sexual arousal on the intentions to use sexual coercion. Using a sample of 218 college men (aged 18-69) and a hypothetical vignette design, we examine potential direct and indirect effects of psychopathy on coercion intentions. Psyc…
Comparing Perception of Sexual Intent and the Use of Sexual Coercion in Men and Women College Students
Despite research showing that many college men and women have experienced misperception of their friendliness as sexual intent, such research has focused on this type of misperception only as a correlate of men's sexual aggression. In fact, regardless of methodology used many researchers seem to suggest women do not misperceive men's sexual intent, and in some instances may actually under-perceive it. We used a hypothetical scenario to determine …
Individual Differences, Cost Perceptions, and Deterrence of Drunk Driving Among Samples of Incarcerated Individuals
Deterrence theory forms one of the central tenets of the criminal justice system, however few studies have assessed individual differences as they relate to cost perceptions, especially among known offenders. We examined a number of individual factors, including demographics, criminal history, peers’ offending, and indicators from self-control and social bonds theories as potential correlates of cost perceptions. Using a hypothetical drunk drivin…
Exploring the Relationship Between Religiosity and Offending Intentions Among Various Sub-Samples of Incarcerated Individuals
Researchers suggest an inverse relationship between criminal behaviors and a number of social bonds, including religiosity, but few studies have examined religiosity’s impact among adults, especially those known to have committed serious crimes. Utilizing survey data from a large sample of men and women incarcerated for felonies in a southwestern correctional system, we estimated a series of regressions examining the relationship between religios…
Examining the role of the social bond in the formation of violent crime intentions among incarcerated men
Psychology (24 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Criminology (16 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Poison control (15 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Human Factors and Ergonomics (11 works) · Medical emergency (11 works) · Political science (11 works)