Jeffrey T Ward
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 285052 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jeffrey T Ward |
| PRENOMES | Jeffrey T |
| SOBRENOME | Ward |
| ASSINATURA | WARD J T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Temple University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1607-5392 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 114 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Understanding variation in juvenile life without parole legislation following Miller
Research Summary Miller v. Alabama and Montgomery v. Louisiana restricted states’ ability to impose life without parole for youth under age 18 (henceforth JLWOP). Since Miller , 46 pieces of legislation across 34 states and the District of Columbia have altered JLWOP sentencing policies. The current study provides the first comprehensive and scientific review of this legislation. Using policy surveillance as a methodological guide, we found that …
Organizational culture and context in progressive prosecutorial reform
In the wake of Miller and Montgomery
The movement to end mass incarceration has largely concentrated on people serving shorter sentences for non-violent offenses. There has been less consideration for the 1 in 7 people in prison serving life sentences, overwhelmingly for violent offenses, including those serving juvenile life without parole (JLWOP). Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions result in a pressing need for data on second chance considerations for JLWOP. This study tracks out…
Legitimacy of parole as a consequence of policy shock
This study examines the consequences of a policy shock to the criminal legal system through the prisms of the lived experiences of incarcerated persons. The study draws on a qualitative analysis of 159 unsolicited letters from incarcerated individuals in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections written during the 2008–2009 Moratorium on prison releases. The results indicate that the moratorium eroded their trust and exacerbated an already exist…
Assessing Public Support for Collateral and Other Consequences of Criminal Convictions
Amid the growing recognition of the limits of excessive criminal punishment, scholars have begun to assess public support for restrictive and punitive laws and other collateral consequences of a criminal conviction. Building on this work, we analyze data from an original survey of U.S. residents (N = 1,002) to assess support for 23 specific social, legal, and health consequences across 11 life domains, many of which hold important implications fo…
Tracing the effects of reducing penalties on crime and prosecution
Unpacking within- and between-person effects of unstructured socializing and differential association on solo- and co-offending
Consequences of mental and physical health for reentry and recidivism
During the last few decades, criminologists have identified several adult roles and statuses, including employment, positive family relations, and economic stability, as critical for promoting successful reintegration and desistance. Very few researchers, however, have investigated the conditions that serve to bring about these transitions and successes crucial for behavior change. As a complement to a burgeoning amount of literature on the impac…
Exploring differences in self-control across sex, race, age, education, and language
New windows into a broken construct
Unpacking gender and racial/ethnic biases in the federal sentencing of drug offenders
Social Learning Theory and Crime
Exploring the sanction–crime relationship through a lens of procedural justice
Gender, Low Self-Control, and Violent Victimization
Prior research demonstrates that men generally experience higher levels of violent victimization relative to women. Using a high-risk sample of jail inmates, the present study draws on the core ideas from the self-control and societal norms toward the treatment of women literatures to examine the main and interactive effects of gender and self-control on violent victimization. Results indicate that gender and self-control both exhibit main effect…
Theories of Juvenile Delinquency
Leading theoretical explanations of juvenile delinquency are briefly reviewed. Specifically, control theories of delinquency are first explored, followed by discussions of social learning and general strain theories. The dual taxonomy explanation of offending is next explained, followed by a discussion of social disorganization theory. Finally, secondary causes of delinquency are discussed, including specific deterrence and labeling theory.
Beyond Projection
The perceptual inaccuracy in peer delinquency perceptions has been attributed to projection, a hypothesis stating that individuals impute their own delinquency into perceptions of peer delinquency. While logical, projection can truthfully only explain peer delinquency misperception in one specific situation. Moving beyond projection, we propose there are actually four types of misperception. Using dyadic data, misperceptions are assessed at both …
Selection for Some, Facilitation for Others? Self-Control Theory and the Gang-Violence Relationship
Although self-control theory has been thought to be entirely consistent with the gang selection model, key theoretical predictions of the general theory imply gang selection effects for those with lower self-control and gang facilitation effects for those with higher self-control. This new hypothesis is tested among a large sample of jail inmates. Results indicate that self-control did not render the gang–violence relationship spurious for the sa…
The stability of risk-seeking from adolescence to emerging adulthood
Can a perceptual peer deviance measure accurately measure a peer's self-reported deviance
The Cascading Effects of Adolescent Gang Involvement Across the Life Course
The short-run deleterious effects of gang involvement during adolescence have been well researched. However, surprisingly little empirical attention has been devoted to understanding how gang involvement in adolescence influences life chances and criminal behavior in adulthood. Drawing on the life-course perspective, this study argues that gang involvement will lead to precocious transitions that, in turn, will have adverse consequences on the fu…
A Gene X Environment Interaction Between DRD2 and Religiosity in the Prediction of Adolescent Delinquent Involvement in a Sample of Males
Human behavioral phenotypes are the result of complex interactions between genotype and the environment. Still, much remains unknown about the gene X environmental basis to adolescent delinquent involvement. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we examine whether a polymorphism in the dopamine D2 receptor (DRD2) gene interacts with religiosity to predict variation in adolescent delinquent involvement. The results …
Which Group Are You In?”
This study employs Nagin and Land's (1993 Nagin, D. S. and Land, K. C. 1993. Age, criminal careers, and population heterogeneity: Specification and estimation of a nonparametric, mixed poisson model. Criminology, 31: 327–362. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]; Criminology, 31, 327–362) group‐based trajectory modeling procedure to examine the scholarly productivity of 204 criminology and criminal justice scholars currently employed…
The Cascading Effects of Adolescent Gang Involvement Across the Life Course
The short-run deleterious effects of gang involvement during adolescence have been well researched. However, surprisingly little empirical attention has been devoted to understanding how gang involvement in adolescence influences life chances and criminal behavior in adulthood. Drawing on the life-course perspective, this study argues that gang involvement will lead to precocious transitions that, in turn, will have adverse consequences on the fu…
Consequences of mental and physical health for reentry and recidivism
During the last few decades, criminologists have identified several adult roles and statuses, including employment, positive family relations, and economic stability, as critical for promoting successful reintegration and desistance. Very few researchers, however, have investigated the conditions that serve to bring about these transitions and successes crucial for behavior change. As a complement to a burgeoning amount of literature on the impac…
Beyond Projection
The perceptual inaccuracy in peer delinquency perceptions has been attributed to projection, a hypothesis stating that individuals impute their own delinquency into perceptions of peer delinquency. While logical, projection can truthfully only explain peer delinquency misperception in one specific situation. Moving beyond projection, we propose there are actually four types of misperception. Using dyadic data, misperceptions are assessed at both …
The stability of risk-seeking from adolescence to emerging adulthood
Exploring the sanction–crime relationship through a lens of procedural justice
Can a perceptual peer deviance measure accurately measure a peer's self-reported deviance
A Gene X Environment Interaction Between DRD2 and Religiosity in the Prediction of Adolescent Delinquent Involvement in a Sample of Males
Human behavioral phenotypes are the result of complex interactions between genotype and the environment. Still, much remains unknown about the gene X environmental basis to adolescent delinquent involvement. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we examine whether a polymorphism in the dopamine D2 receptor (DRD2) gene interacts with religiosity to predict variation in adolescent delinquent involvement. The results …
New windows into a broken construct
Exploring differences in self-control across sex, race, age, education, and language
Unpacking gender and racial/ethnic biases in the federal sentencing of drug offenders
Gender, Low Self-Control, and Violent Victimization
Prior research demonstrates that men generally experience higher levels of violent victimization relative to women. Using a high-risk sample of jail inmates, the present study draws on the core ideas from the self-control and societal norms toward the treatment of women literatures to examine the main and interactive effects of gender and self-control on violent victimization. Results indicate that gender and self-control both exhibit main effect…
Selection for Some, Facilitation for Others? Self-Control Theory and the Gang-Violence Relationship
Although self-control theory has been thought to be entirely consistent with the gang selection model, key theoretical predictions of the general theory imply gang selection effects for those with lower self-control and gang facilitation effects for those with higher self-control. This new hypothesis is tested among a large sample of jail inmates. Results indicate that self-control did not render the gang–violence relationship spurious for the sa…
In the wake of Miller and Montgomery
The movement to end mass incarceration has largely concentrated on people serving shorter sentences for non-violent offenses. There has been less consideration for the 1 in 7 people in prison serving life sentences, overwhelmingly for violent offenses, including those serving juvenile life without parole (JLWOP). Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions result in a pressing need for data on second chance considerations for JLWOP. This study tracks out…
Legitimacy of parole as a consequence of policy shock
This study examines the consequences of a policy shock to the criminal legal system through the prisms of the lived experiences of incarcerated persons. The study draws on a qualitative analysis of 159 unsolicited letters from incarcerated individuals in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections written during the 2008–2009 Moratorium on prison releases. The results indicate that the moratorium eroded their trust and exacerbated an already exist…
Unpacking within- and between-person effects of unstructured socializing and differential association on solo- and co-offending
Which Group Are You In?”
This study employs Nagin and Land's (1993 Nagin, D. S. and Land, K. C. 1993. Age, criminal careers, and population heterogeneity: Specification and estimation of a nonparametric, mixed poisson model. Criminology, 31: 327–362. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]; Criminology, 31, 327–362) group‐based trajectory modeling procedure to examine the scholarly productivity of 204 criminology and criminal justice scholars currently employed…
A Gene X Environment Interaction Between DRD2 and Religiosity in the Prediction of Adolescent Delinquent Involvement in a Sample of Males
Human behavioral phenotypes are the result of complex interactions between genotype and the environment. Still, much remains unknown about the gene X environmental basis to adolescent delinquent involvement. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we examine whether a polymorphism in the dopamine D2 receptor (DRD2) gene interacts with religiosity to predict variation in adolescent delinquent involvement. The results …
The Cascading Effects of Adolescent Gang Involvement Across the Life Course
The short-run deleterious effects of gang involvement during adolescence have been well researched. However, surprisingly little empirical attention has been devoted to understanding how gang involvement in adolescence influences life chances and criminal behavior in adulthood. Drawing on the life-course perspective, this study argues that gang involvement will lead to precocious transitions that, in turn, will have adverse consequences on the fu…
The stability of risk-seeking from adolescence to emerging adulthood
Can a perceptual peer deviance measure accurately measure a peer's self-reported deviance
Selection for Some, Facilitation for Others? Self-Control Theory and the Gang-Violence Relationship
Although self-control theory has been thought to be entirely consistent with the gang selection model, key theoretical predictions of the general theory imply gang selection effects for those with lower self-control and gang facilitation effects for those with higher self-control. This new hypothesis is tested among a large sample of jail inmates. Results indicate that self-control did not render the gang–violence relationship spurious for the sa…
Theories of Juvenile Delinquency
Leading theoretical explanations of juvenile delinquency are briefly reviewed. Specifically, control theories of delinquency are first explored, followed by discussions of social learning and general strain theories. The dual taxonomy explanation of offending is next explained, followed by a discussion of social disorganization theory. Finally, secondary causes of delinquency are discussed, including specific deterrence and labeling theory.
Beyond Projection
The perceptual inaccuracy in peer delinquency perceptions has been attributed to projection, a hypothesis stating that individuals impute their own delinquency into perceptions of peer delinquency. While logical, projection can truthfully only explain peer delinquency misperception in one specific situation. Moving beyond projection, we propose there are actually four types of misperception. Using dyadic data, misperceptions are assessed at both …
Social Learning Theory and Crime
Exploring the sanction–crime relationship through a lens of procedural justice
Gender, Low Self-Control, and Violent Victimization
Prior research demonstrates that men generally experience higher levels of violent victimization relative to women. Using a high-risk sample of jail inmates, the present study draws on the core ideas from the self-control and societal norms toward the treatment of women literatures to examine the main and interactive effects of gender and self-control on violent victimization. Results indicate that gender and self-control both exhibit main effect…
Unpacking gender and racial/ethnic biases in the federal sentencing of drug offenders
New windows into a broken construct
Exploring differences in self-control across sex, race, age, education, and language
Consequences of mental and physical health for reentry and recidivism
During the last few decades, criminologists have identified several adult roles and statuses, including employment, positive family relations, and economic stability, as critical for promoting successful reintegration and desistance. Very few researchers, however, have investigated the conditions that serve to bring about these transitions and successes crucial for behavior change. As a complement to a burgeoning amount of literature on the impac…
Unpacking within- and between-person effects of unstructured socializing and differential association on solo- and co-offending
Tracing the effects of reducing penalties on crime and prosecution
Assessing Public Support for Collateral and Other Consequences of Criminal Convictions
Amid the growing recognition of the limits of excessive criminal punishment, scholars have begun to assess public support for restrictive and punitive laws and other collateral consequences of a criminal conviction. Building on this work, we analyze data from an original survey of U.S. residents (N = 1,002) to assess support for 23 specific social, legal, and health consequences across 11 life domains, many of which hold important implications fo…
In the wake of Miller and Montgomery
The movement to end mass incarceration has largely concentrated on people serving shorter sentences for non-violent offenses. There has been less consideration for the 1 in 7 people in prison serving life sentences, overwhelmingly for violent offenses, including those serving juvenile life without parole (JLWOP). Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions result in a pressing need for data on second chance considerations for JLWOP. This study tracks out…
Legitimacy of parole as a consequence of policy shock
This study examines the consequences of a policy shock to the criminal legal system through the prisms of the lived experiences of incarcerated persons. The study draws on a qualitative analysis of 159 unsolicited letters from incarcerated individuals in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections written during the 2008–2009 Moratorium on prison releases. The results indicate that the moratorium eroded their trust and exacerbated an already exist…
Organizational culture and context in progressive prosecutorial reform
Understanding variation in juvenile life without parole legislation following Miller
Research Summary Miller v. Alabama and Montgomery v. Louisiana restricted states’ ability to impose life without parole for youth under age 18 (henceforth JLWOP). Since Miller , 46 pieces of legislation across 34 states and the District of Columbia have altered JLWOP sentencing policies. The current study provides the first comprehensive and scientific review of this legislation. Using policy surveillance as a methodological guide, we found that …
Psychology (21 obras) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (17 obras) · Criminology (13 obras) · Social Psychology (13 obras) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (12 obras) · Social Psychology (10 obras) · Developmental psychology (9 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras)