Kimberly M Davidson
Biographic Data
| ID | 84424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kimberly M Davidson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kimberly M |
| FAMILY NAME | Davidson |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIDSON K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1875-6266 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“I’m Not Gonna Let My Daughter Be Ashamed of Who Her Father Is”: Assessing the Complex Relationship Between Fatherhood, Recovery, and Desistance
A growing body of literature assesses the relationship between fatherhood and criminal justice outcomes, including recidivism. Minimal research views this relationship within the context of substance use disorders (SUDs), a common and critical complication to desistance pathways. Using a longitudinal sample, we assess the relationship between fatherhood and desistance both quantitatively ( n = 177) and qualitatively ( n = 60). Finding null result…
A House Full of Felonies: The Experiences of Men With Substance Use Disorders Residing in Halfway Houses Post-release
Housing is a critical reentry domain, with research demonstrating the challenges faced in securing stable housing and the impact housing has on recidivism. In Pennsylvania, the focal state of this research, approximately one-third of state prison releasees are placed in halfway houses, unable to procure a parole-approved homeplan. Halfway houses increase reincarceration risk in Pennsylvania, yet research has not adequately examined resident exper…
Knowing and Caring About the Impact of Crime on Victims: Results From an Intervention for Justice-Involved Youth
Impact of crime (IOC) interventions are delivered to justice-involved populations to increase sensitivity to and awareness of the harm experienced by crime victims. Such programs are common, but empirical evaluations have been rare. This study addressed that gap by evaluating an IOC intervention used with residential youth in Florida. The study focused on two questions. First, did IOC participants experience improvement on key outcomes? Second, w…
A Mixed Method Evaluation of the Role of Religion in Desistance and Reentry
Literature holds that religious engagement can help prisoners cope with prison life and suggests it may affect the likelihood of recidivism. But despite agreement that religion supports identity transformation and generates social control, few studies have examined the utility of these mechanisms during both prison and reentry. The relationship between religion and desistance may be complicated by structural barriers to reentry and high rates of …
Network integration within a prison-based therapeutic community
In the eye of the beholder: Meaning and structure of informal status in women's and men's prisons
Applying an abductive mixed‐methods approach, we investigate the informal status systems in three women's prison units (across two prisons) and one men's prison unit. Qualitative analyses suggest “old head” narratives—where age, time in prison, sociability, and prison wisdom confer unit status—are prevalent across all four contexts. Perceptions of maternal “caregivers” and manipulative “bullies,” however, are found only in the three women's units…
Testing an Interactionist Theory of Treatment Engagement in a Pennsylvania Prison-Based Therapeutic Community
The prison-based Therapeutic Community (TC) is a promising substance use treatment program that emphasizes peer influence. Although program evaluations demonstrate positive results, the cognitive, behavioral, and social processes that define the prison-based TC are largely unknown. The TC model presumes that residents increase their treatment engagement and willingness to change through peer interactions and role modeling, but this process has re…
In the eye of the beholder: Meaning and structure of informal status in women's and men's prisons
Applying an abductive mixed‐methods approach, we investigate the informal status systems in three women's prison units (across two prisons) and one men's prison unit. Qualitative analyses suggest “old head” narratives—where age, time in prison, sociability, and prison wisdom confer unit status—are prevalent across all four contexts. Perceptions of maternal “caregivers” and manipulative “bullies,” however, are found only in the three women's units…
Testing an Interactionist Theory of Treatment Engagement in a Pennsylvania Prison-Based Therapeutic Community
The prison-based Therapeutic Community (TC) is a promising substance use treatment program that emphasizes peer influence. Although program evaluations demonstrate positive results, the cognitive, behavioral, and social processes that define the prison-based TC are largely unknown. The TC model presumes that residents increase their treatment engagement and willingness to change through peer interactions and role modeling, but this process has re…
Network integration within a prison-based therapeutic community
In the eye of the beholder: Meaning and structure of informal status in women's and men's prisons
Applying an abductive mixed‐methods approach, we investigate the informal status systems in three women's prison units (across two prisons) and one men's prison unit. Qualitative analyses suggest “old head” narratives—where age, time in prison, sociability, and prison wisdom confer unit status—are prevalent across all four contexts. Perceptions of maternal “caregivers” and manipulative “bullies,” however, are found only in the three women's units…
A Mixed Method Evaluation of the Role of Religion in Desistance and Reentry
Literature holds that religious engagement can help prisoners cope with prison life and suggests it may affect the likelihood of recidivism. But despite agreement that religion supports identity transformation and generates social control, few studies have examined the utility of these mechanisms during both prison and reentry. The relationship between religion and desistance may be complicated by structural barriers to reentry and high rates of …
Knowing and Caring About the Impact of Crime on Victims: Results From an Intervention for Justice-Involved Youth
Impact of crime (IOC) interventions are delivered to justice-involved populations to increase sensitivity to and awareness of the harm experienced by crime victims. Such programs are common, but empirical evaluations have been rare. This study addressed that gap by evaluating an IOC intervention used with residential youth in Florida. The study focused on two questions. First, did IOC participants experience improvement on key outcomes? Second, w…
“I’m Not Gonna Let My Daughter Be Ashamed of Who Her Father Is”: Assessing the Complex Relationship Between Fatherhood, Recovery, and Desistance
A growing body of literature assesses the relationship between fatherhood and criminal justice outcomes, including recidivism. Minimal research views this relationship within the context of substance use disorders (SUDs), a common and critical complication to desistance pathways. Using a longitudinal sample, we assess the relationship between fatherhood and desistance both quantitatively ( n = 177) and qualitatively ( n = 60). Finding null result…
A House Full of Felonies: The Experiences of Men With Substance Use Disorders Residing in Halfway Houses Post-release
Housing is a critical reentry domain, with research demonstrating the challenges faced in securing stable housing and the impact housing has on recidivism. In Pennsylvania, the focal state of this research, approximately one-third of state prison releasees are placed in halfway houses, unable to procure a parole-approved homeplan. Halfway houses increase reincarceration risk in Pennsylvania, yet research has not adequately examined resident exper…
Psychology (6 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works) · Prison (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Medicine (2 works)