Justice Policy Journal

The CJCJ Justice Policy Journal (JPJ) provides an international forum for researchers and policymakers to examine current justice issues and promote innovative policy solutions in a Web-based format that maintains the standards of an academic publication.

Editors:

Randall Shelden, Ph.D., CJCJ Senior Research Fellow, Professor of Criminal Justice at University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Emily Troshynski, Ph.D., Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Daniel Macallair, M.P.A., CJCJ Executive Director, Practitioner-in-Residence at San Francisco State University
Danielle Shields, Graduate Student, Criminal Justice Department, Rutgers University

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Justice Policy Journal - Volume 19, Number 1 – Fall 2022: Dec 19, 2022; Articles on reducing recidivism through fair chances, the effects of punishment on school fighting, police brutality against people of color, and autism training for judges.
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 18, Number 2 – Fall 2021: Jan 27, 2022; Articles include: The Disproportionality of Drug Laws, Abolishing Consensus Criminology, Public Attitudes of Sex Offense Registration, Visitation Policies in Juvenile Residential Facilities, and…
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 18, Number 1 – Spring 2021: May 25, 2021; Articles on addressing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs); the importance of collaboration between police and mental health professionals; and assessing risk factors in justice-involved youth.
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 17, Number 2 – Fall 2020: Dec 17, 2020; Articles on attitudes towards Ban the Box; the multidimensional struggle of family separation on male migrant workers; the foster-care-to-prison pipeline; extending the school-to-prison pipeline;…
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 17, Number 1 – Spring 2020: Jun 25, 2020; Articles on the criminal justice system in Trinidad and Tobago; Detroit's urban demolition effects on community safety; public perception of sex offender registration; predicting recidivism with…
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 16, Number 2 – Fall 2019: Dec 12, 2019; Articles on topics including the Inside-Out Model, Trauma-Informed Interventions, Extra-Legal Factors on Juvenile Probation Officers’ Sentencing Recommendations, and more.
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 16, Number 1 – Spring 2019: Jun 13, 2019; Articles on arrest histories of men who buy sex; community member perceptions regarding sex offender recidivism; the school-to-prison pipeline, juvenile risk assessments, and more.
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 15, Number 2 – Fall 2018: Jan 9, 2019; Articles on disproportionate minority presence on U.S. Sex Offender Registries, determinants in pretrial detention, gendered effects of intensive juvenile supervision, and more.
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 15, Number 1 - Spring 2018: Jun 6, 2018; Articles on social media responses to false confessions, civil and criminal forfeitures, police use of force on juvenile arrestees, recidivism among older adults, and more.
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 14, Number 2 - Fall 2017: Dec 7, 2017; Articles on arson rates in Chicago, adulthood relationship outcomes for juvenile justice-involved individuals, and migrant workers counteracting wage theft and underpayment.
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 14, Number 1 - Spring 2017: Jun 1, 2017; Articles on educating incarcerated young adults, police involvement with intimate partner violence calls, witness sexual orientation bias, and a book review on Prisoner Reentry in the Era of Mass…
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 13, Number 2 - Fall 2016: Nov 28, 2016; Articles discussing the family impacts of caregiver arrest, how juvenile justice systems-involvement affects earnings, and restorative justice legislation and policy.
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 13, Number 1 - Spring 2016: May 10, 2016; Articles on government distortion of sex-crime stats, veterans serving time, the origins of sex offender legislation, the Jerry Sandusky trial, the relationship between firearm ownership and violent…
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 12, Number 2 - Fall 2015: Dec 7, 2015; Articles about open carry on college campuses, the militarization of law enforcement, the effects of incarceration on drug trafficking earnings, Texan gangs, and Georgia's Transitional Center Program.
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 12, Number 2 - Fall 2015: Dec 7, 2015; Articles about open carry on college campuses, the militarization of law enforcement, the effects of incarceration on drug trafficking earnings, Texan gangs, and Georgia's Transitional Center Program.
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 12, Number 1 - Spring 2015: Jun 8, 2015; The Spring 2015 issue of Justice Policy Journal includes articles on the barriers incarcerated mothers face to regain custody of children, peer support's effect on recidivism, how police make…
Justice Policy Journal — Volume 11, Number 2 — Fall 2014: Dec 5, 2014; The Fall 2014 issue of Justice Policy Journal includes studies on electronic monitoring, sex offender registration laws, prison arts, vets in the system, and gun ownership.
Justice Policy Journal – Volume 11, Number 1 – Spring 2014: Mar 28, 2014; Articles on the nexus between immigration and criminal justice, disproportionate justice-involvement among the American Indian population, and modern developments in prison architecture and design.
Justice Policy Journal – Volume 10, Number 2 – Fall 2013: Nov 7, 2013; Articles on veterans, juvenile diversion program volunteers, court-ordered mentoring for adjudicated youth, pretrial publicity, and punishing racial and ethnic minority student athletes.
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 2013: Jun 17, 2013; Includes articles on residential substance abuse treatment, faith-based halfway houses, youth justice in Nigeria, and gun control laws.
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 9, Number 2 - Fall 2012: Dec 19, 2012; (ISSN 1530-3012) From the editor The Criminal History of So-Called "Hard Core" Drinking Drivers Reintegrative Community Service Teams: Developing Key Practice Dimensions of the Civic Engagement Model…
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 2012: May 30, 2012; (ISSN 1530-3012) From the editor The Use of War to Profit The Post-Release Employment Among Different Types of Offenders with A Different Level of Education: A 5-year Follow-up Study in Indiana The…
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 8, Number 2 - Fall 2011: Dec 16, 2011; (ISSN 1530-3012) From the editor Latina Exposure to Violence at School Incarcerated Sex Offenders' Perceptions of Prison Sex Offender Treatment Programs Fear, Views of Human Nature and the Potential…
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 2011: May 12, 2011; (ISSN 1530-3012) From the editor Warehoused: The Plight of 'Mad' Youths in the Juvenile Justice System Race-Based Decisions: Traffic Citations and Municipal Court Dispositions Mass Shootings in…
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 7, Number 2 - Fall 2010: Dec 13, 2010; (ISSN 1530-3012) From the editor Psychotropic Control of Women Prisoners: The Perpetuation of Abuse of Imprisoned Women Prohibiting Registered Sex Offenders from Being at School: Assessing the…