Arthur J Lurigio
Biographic Data
| ID | 72827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur J Lurigio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur J |
| FAMILY NAME | Lurigio |
| SIGNATURE | LURIGIO A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4872-2523 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Golden Anniversary of Mass Incarceration in America
The year 2023 marked the 50th anniversary of mass incarceration in the United States. For six decades, the U.S. incarceration rate has been near the top among all countries worldwide. In five major sections, this article offers a brief retrospective on mass incarceration. The first defines the nature of prison sentences. The second describes the current prison population's characteristics. The third examines the growth of the prison population, h…
Visits with fathers involved in the criminal justice system and behavioral outcomes among children in foster care
Juvenile justice systems of care: Results of a national survey of community supervision agencies and behavioral health providers on services provision and cross-system interactions
BACKGROUND: Youth involved in the juvenile justice (JJ) system have high needs for behavioral health services, especially related to substance use and mental disorders. This study aimed to understand the extent to which elements in the cascade model of behavioral health services for JJ-involved youth are provided to youth by Community Supervision (CS) and/or Behavioral Health (BH) providers. In order to understand interactions across CS and BH sy…
Eugene Cullen Kennedy (1928–2015)
Presents an obituary for Eugene Cullen Kennedy, who died at age 86 on June 3, 2015, from heart and lung failure. Kennedy was trained as a counseling psychologist, but his impact went far beyond psychology, spanning 50 years and satisfying the intellectual tastes of a diversity of enthusiasts. (PsycINFO Database Record
Parenting and Intimate Relationship Effects on Women Offenders' Recidivism and Noncompliance with Probation
This study disentangled the effects of intimate relationships and parenting on women probationers’ noncompliance. Data from a sample of 257 women were analyzed using logistic and negative binomial regression. Women with nonconforming intimate partners missed treatment more frequently, had a higher likelihood of missing a probation appointment, and had a higher chance of a new arrest for substance abuse or misdemeanor crimes during a 3-year follow…
The promise of healthcare reform in transforming services for jail releasees and other criminal justice populations
Chronic behavioral health conditions, such as psychiatric and substance use disorders, affect at least half of all arrestees, with two-thirds suffering from at least one chronic medical disorder. These conditions contribute to their criminal behaviors and propensities to recycle through the criminal justice system (Binswanger et al. Journal of Urban Health 89:183-190, 2012). Despite their limited resources, jails have nonetheless become de facto …
Racial Disproportionality in the Criminal Justice System for Drug Offenses: A State Legislative Response to the Problem
This article describes the work of the Illinois Disproportionate Justice Impact Study Commission, a nonpartisan, multidisciplinary group of policy makers, government leaders, and justice professionals that focused on understanding and alleviating the disproportionate incarceration of African Americans and Latinos in Illinois for drug law violations. The study data were obtained from arrest records statewide and court cases in Cook County (Chicago…
Exploring the dimensions of trust in the police among Chicago juveniles
An analysis of police responses to gangs in Chicago
In response to Chicago’s well‐documented gang problem, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) established its first specialized gang unit in 1967. In the ensuing decades, the CPD reorganized its core gang unit several times and expanded its anti‐gang response through numerous supporting restructuring efforts. The Chicago experience indicates that reorganization can positively and negatively influence the relative effectiveness of the police response…
Traffic Stops in the Pacific Northwest: Competing Hypotheses About Racial Disparity
This study examines the distribution of police traffic warning citations in a large northwestern city. Warning tickets were instituted to document the exercise of police discretion in the disposition of traffic stops. The paper tests three competing hypotheses about how these citations are distributed: law enforcement, traffic enforcement, and group threat. The findings show greater support for the group threat explanation. African Americans were…
The Disproportionate Incarceration of African Americans for Drug Offenses: The National and Illinois Perspective
In 2000, a Human Rights Watch report identified Illinois as having the country's highest African American–White disparity in prison admissions for drug offenses. In response to the report, a disproportionate minority confinement (DMC) working group was formed to investigate further the nature and extent of racial disparities in the incarceration of drug offenders in Illinois. This article summarizes information collected in the DMC project, discu…
Probation Officers' Views on Supervising Women Probationers
At the end of 2002, the number of women probationers was substantially higher than the number of women inmates. However, much less is known about women probationers than women inmates. We surveyed and interviewed probation officers to examine their perceptions about the special needs of women probationers and explored officers' experiences with women probationers. Probation officers believe women and men on probation have different needs and ther…
Detecting Serious Mental Illness Among Substance Abusers: Use of the K6 Screening Scale
Serious mental illnesses (SMIs) commonly co-occur with substance-use disorders and, if undetected and untreated, adversely affect their clinical course. This paper describes the use and scoring of the K6 scale, a brief and valid screening tool for SMI, in a large general population sample derived from the 2001 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA). Analyses examine the demographic characteristics and patterns of substance use disorders …
Termination of Supplemental Security Income Benefits for Drug Addiction and Alcoholism: Results of a Longitudinal Study of the Effects on Former Beneficiaries
This article reviews the results of a multisite cohort study on effects of terminating Supplemental Security Income benefits for drug addiction and alcoholism. Within 2 years of the program’s termination, 35–43 percent of participants requalified for disability benefits for another impairment. Regardless of requalification status, substance abuse treatment participation declined sharply and illegal drug use was prevalent. Although many of those w…
Implementing the Key Components of Specialized Drug Treatment Courts: Practice and Policy Considerations
The perceived need for specialized drug courts emerged from the most recent “war on drugs.” Courts were no longer able to handle such cases effectively because of an overwhelming volume of drug arrests and prosecutions. The increased emphasis on drug enforcement also revealed that many of the most serious criminally involved drug‐using offenders were undeterred by threats of incarceration, but were amenable to substance abuse treatment. Drug cour…
A Comparison of Female and Male Probationers: Characteristics and Case Outcomes
A majority of women convicted of crimes are sentenced to probation. Although proportionately more women than men receive probation, little is known about female probationers. The current study is one of the few to compare the backgrounds and case outcomes of women probationers with those of men. Statewide probation discharge data were used to examine differences between male and female probationers on their individual characteristics, offense and…
Services for Victims: A Market Research Study
Victim services programs have proliferated over the past three decades. However, we know little about the forms of assistance that crime victims seek from these programs, whether the programs are meeting the needs of those who seek help, or whether the victims who receive services are the ones most in need. The current research examined these issues through interviews with 240 crime victims (120 persons who had received help from victim programs …
Sociology
Sociology
Sociology
Sociology
After Deinstitutionalization: The Present and Future of Mental Health Long‐Term Care Policy
Deinstitutionalization is perhaps the most widely recognized term in mental health policy. It has dominated our thinking about policy, especially about mental health long‐term care policy, for nearly 30 years. But it is less clear that it is still the best way to characterize current mental health long‐term care, or the best policy for the future. In this article, we explore some reasons why this is so, and we present a new picture of current men…
Worlds That Fail: A Longitudinal Study of Urban Mental Patients
This longitudinal study of state mental patients in Chicago investigated patient adjustment to everyday living outside state hospitals. Respondents (N = 313) were interviewed in person at the hospital and at two successive waves in the community, and a wide range of variables was measured. Findings showed that mental patients are overwhelmingly poor, unemployed, and on welfare. A substantial number are homeless, and many resort to criminal behavi…
Policies of Inclusion and the Mentally Ill: Long‐Term Care in a New Environment
We propose “policies of inclusion” as a conceptualization of current mental health long‐term care policy. Inclusionary policies refer to the fact that deinstitutionalization, and all the policy changes associated with it, resulted in the forcible inclusion back into society of patients formerly excluded by institutional placement. This compelled both society and the patient to change in profound but often unpredicted ways. This conceptualization …
Sentencing goals, causal attributions, ideology, and personality
Disparity in sentencing of criminals has been related to a variety of individual difference variables. We propose a framework establishing resonances or coherent patterns among sentencing goals, causal attributions, ideology, and personality. Two studies are described, one with law and criminology students, the other with probation officers. Relations among the different types of variables reveal two resonances among both students and officers. O…
Sentencing goals, causal attributions, ideology, and personality
Disparity in sentencing of criminals has been related to a variety of individual difference variables. We propose a framework establishing resonances or coherent patterns among sentencing goals, causal attributions, ideology, and personality. Two studies are described, one with law and criminology students, the other with probation officers. Relations among the different types of variables reveal two resonances among both students and officers. O…
Exploring the dimensions of trust in the police among Chicago juveniles
Probation officers' schemata of offenders: Content, development, and impact on treatment decisions
Services for Victims: A Market Research Study
Victim services programs have proliferated over the past three decades. However, we know little about the forms of assistance that crime victims seek from these programs, whether the programs are meeting the needs of those who seek help, or whether the victims who receive services are the ones most in need. The current research examined these issues through interviews with 240 crime victims (120 persons who had received help from victim programs …
Worlds That Fail: A Longitudinal Study of Urban Mental Patients
This longitudinal study of state mental patients in Chicago investigated patient adjustment to everyday living outside state hospitals. Respondents (N = 313) were interviewed in person at the hospital and at two successive waves in the community, and a wide range of variables was measured. Findings showed that mental patients are overwhelmingly poor, unemployed, and on welfare. A substantial number are homeless, and many resort to criminal behavi…
Implementing the Key Components of Specialized Drug Treatment Courts: Practice and Policy Considerations
The perceived need for specialized drug courts emerged from the most recent “war on drugs.” Courts were no longer able to handle such cases effectively because of an overwhelming volume of drug arrests and prosecutions. The increased emphasis on drug enforcement also revealed that many of the most serious criminally involved drug‐using offenders were undeterred by threats of incarceration, but were amenable to substance abuse treatment. Drug cour…
After Deinstitutionalization: The Present and Future of Mental Health Long‐Term Care Policy
Deinstitutionalization is perhaps the most widely recognized term in mental health policy. It has dominated our thinking about policy, especially about mental health long‐term care policy, for nearly 30 years. But it is less clear that it is still the best way to characterize current mental health long‐term care, or the best policy for the future. In this article, we explore some reasons why this is so, and we present a new picture of current men…
Policies of Inclusion and the Mentally Ill: Long‐Term Care in a New Environment
We propose “policies of inclusion” as a conceptualization of current mental health long‐term care policy. Inclusionary policies refer to the fact that deinstitutionalization, and all the policy changes associated with it, resulted in the forcible inclusion back into society of patients formerly excluded by institutional placement. This compelled both society and the patient to change in profound but often unpredicted ways. This conceptualization …
Visits with fathers involved in the criminal justice system and behavioral outcomes among children in foster care
Racial Disproportionality in the Criminal Justice System for Drug Offenses: A State Legislative Response to the Problem
This article describes the work of the Illinois Disproportionate Justice Impact Study Commission, a nonpartisan, multidisciplinary group of policy makers, government leaders, and justice professionals that focused on understanding and alleviating the disproportionate incarceration of African Americans and Latinos in Illinois for drug law violations. The study data were obtained from arrest records statewide and court cases in Cook County (Chicago…
Termination of Supplemental Security Income Benefits for Drug Addiction and Alcoholism: Results of a Longitudinal Study of the Effects on Former Beneficiaries
This article reviews the results of a multisite cohort study on effects of terminating Supplemental Security Income benefits for drug addiction and alcoholism. Within 2 years of the program’s termination, 35–43 percent of participants requalified for disability benefits for another impairment. Regardless of requalification status, substance abuse treatment participation declined sharply and illegal drug use was prevalent. Although many of those w…
Probation officers' schemata of offenders: Content, development, and impact on treatment decisions
Sentencing goals, causal attributions, ideology, and personality
Disparity in sentencing of criminals has been related to a variety of individual difference variables. We propose a framework establishing resonances or coherent patterns among sentencing goals, causal attributions, ideology, and personality. Two studies are described, one with law and criminology students, the other with probation officers. Relations among the different types of variables reveal two resonances among both students and officers. O…
After Deinstitutionalization: The Present and Future of Mental Health Long‐Term Care Policy
Deinstitutionalization is perhaps the most widely recognized term in mental health policy. It has dominated our thinking about policy, especially about mental health long‐term care policy, for nearly 30 years. But it is less clear that it is still the best way to characterize current mental health long‐term care, or the best policy for the future. In this article, we explore some reasons why this is so, and we present a new picture of current men…
Worlds That Fail: A Longitudinal Study of Urban Mental Patients
This longitudinal study of state mental patients in Chicago investigated patient adjustment to everyday living outside state hospitals. Respondents (N = 313) were interviewed in person at the hospital and at two successive waves in the community, and a wide range of variables was measured. Findings showed that mental patients are overwhelmingly poor, unemployed, and on welfare. A substantial number are homeless, and many resort to criminal behavi…
Policies of Inclusion and the Mentally Ill: Long‐Term Care in a New Environment
We propose “policies of inclusion” as a conceptualization of current mental health long‐term care policy. Inclusionary policies refer to the fact that deinstitutionalization, and all the policy changes associated with it, resulted in the forcible inclusion back into society of patients formerly excluded by institutional placement. This compelled both society and the patient to change in profound but often unpredicted ways. This conceptualization …
Sociology
Sociology
Sociology
Sociology
Services for Victims: A Market Research Study
Victim services programs have proliferated over the past three decades. However, we know little about the forms of assistance that crime victims seek from these programs, whether the programs are meeting the needs of those who seek help, or whether the victims who receive services are the ones most in need. The current research examined these issues through interviews with 240 crime victims (120 persons who had received help from victim programs …
A Comparison of Female and Male Probationers: Characteristics and Case Outcomes
A majority of women convicted of crimes are sentenced to probation. Although proportionately more women than men receive probation, little is known about female probationers. The current study is one of the few to compare the backgrounds and case outcomes of women probationers with those of men. Statewide probation discharge data were used to examine differences between male and female probationers on their individual characteristics, offense and…
Implementing the Key Components of Specialized Drug Treatment Courts: Practice and Policy Considerations
The perceived need for specialized drug courts emerged from the most recent “war on drugs.” Courts were no longer able to handle such cases effectively because of an overwhelming volume of drug arrests and prosecutions. The increased emphasis on drug enforcement also revealed that many of the most serious criminally involved drug‐using offenders were undeterred by threats of incarceration, but were amenable to substance abuse treatment. Drug cour…
Termination of Supplemental Security Income Benefits for Drug Addiction and Alcoholism: Results of a Longitudinal Study of the Effects on Former Beneficiaries
This article reviews the results of a multisite cohort study on effects of terminating Supplemental Security Income benefits for drug addiction and alcoholism. Within 2 years of the program’s termination, 35–43 percent of participants requalified for disability benefits for another impairment. Regardless of requalification status, substance abuse treatment participation declined sharply and illegal drug use was prevalent. Although many of those w…
Probation Officers' Views on Supervising Women Probationers
At the end of 2002, the number of women probationers was substantially higher than the number of women inmates. However, much less is known about women probationers than women inmates. We surveyed and interviewed probation officers to examine their perceptions about the special needs of women probationers and explored officers' experiences with women probationers. Probation officers believe women and men on probation have different needs and ther…
Detecting Serious Mental Illness Among Substance Abusers: Use of the K6 Screening Scale
Serious mental illnesses (SMIs) commonly co-occur with substance-use disorders and, if undetected and untreated, adversely affect their clinical course. This paper describes the use and scoring of the K6 scale, a brief and valid screening tool for SMI, in a large general population sample derived from the 2001 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA). Analyses examine the demographic characteristics and patterns of substance use disorders …
An analysis of police responses to gangs in Chicago
In response to Chicago’s well‐documented gang problem, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) established its first specialized gang unit in 1967. In the ensuing decades, the CPD reorganized its core gang unit several times and expanded its anti‐gang response through numerous supporting restructuring efforts. The Chicago experience indicates that reorganization can positively and negatively influence the relative effectiveness of the police response…
Traffic Stops in the Pacific Northwest: Competing Hypotheses About Racial Disparity
This study examines the distribution of police traffic warning citations in a large northwestern city. Warning tickets were instituted to document the exercise of police discretion in the disposition of traffic stops. The paper tests three competing hypotheses about how these citations are distributed: law enforcement, traffic enforcement, and group threat. The findings show greater support for the group threat explanation. African Americans were…
The Disproportionate Incarceration of African Americans for Drug Offenses: The National and Illinois Perspective
In 2000, a Human Rights Watch report identified Illinois as having the country's highest African American–White disparity in prison admissions for drug offenses. In response to the report, a disproportionate minority confinement (DMC) working group was formed to investigate further the nature and extent of racial disparities in the incarceration of drug offenders in Illinois. This article summarizes information collected in the DMC project, discu…
Exploring the dimensions of trust in the police among Chicago juveniles
Racial Disproportionality in the Criminal Justice System for Drug Offenses: A State Legislative Response to the Problem
This article describes the work of the Illinois Disproportionate Justice Impact Study Commission, a nonpartisan, multidisciplinary group of policy makers, government leaders, and justice professionals that focused on understanding and alleviating the disproportionate incarceration of African Americans and Latinos in Illinois for drug law violations. The study data were obtained from arrest records statewide and court cases in Cook County (Chicago…
The promise of healthcare reform in transforming services for jail releasees and other criminal justice populations
Chronic behavioral health conditions, such as psychiatric and substance use disorders, affect at least half of all arrestees, with two-thirds suffering from at least one chronic medical disorder. These conditions contribute to their criminal behaviors and propensities to recycle through the criminal justice system (Binswanger et al. Journal of Urban Health 89:183-190, 2012). Despite their limited resources, jails have nonetheless become de facto …
Parenting and Intimate Relationship Effects on Women Offenders' Recidivism and Noncompliance with Probation
This study disentangled the effects of intimate relationships and parenting on women probationers’ noncompliance. Data from a sample of 257 women were analyzed using logistic and negative binomial regression. Women with nonconforming intimate partners missed treatment more frequently, had a higher likelihood of missing a probation appointment, and had a higher chance of a new arrest for substance abuse or misdemeanor crimes during a 3-year follow…
Eugene Cullen Kennedy (1928–2015)
Presents an obituary for Eugene Cullen Kennedy, who died at age 86 on June 3, 2015, from heart and lung failure. Kennedy was trained as a counseling psychologist, but his impact went far beyond psychology, spanning 50 years and satisfying the intellectual tastes of a diversity of enthusiasts. (PsycINFO Database Record
Juvenile justice systems of care: Results of a national survey of community supervision agencies and behavioral health providers on services provision and cross-system interactions
BACKGROUND: Youth involved in the juvenile justice (JJ) system have high needs for behavioral health services, especially related to substance use and mental disorders. This study aimed to understand the extent to which elements in the cascade model of behavioral health services for JJ-involved youth are provided to youth by Community Supervision (CS) and/or Behavioral Health (BH) providers. In order to understand interactions across CS and BH sy…
Visits with fathers involved in the criminal justice system and behavioral outcomes among children in foster care
Psychology (21 works) · Political science (16 works) · Criminology (14 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (9 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (7 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (6 works)