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 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…
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…
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 4, Number 2 - Fall 2007: Sep 12, 2010; (ISSN 1530-3012) From the editor Parolee Day Treatment in California: Action Research with Parolees in an Urban Setting Life After 'Life': Wrongly Convicted But Never Truly Free Juvenile…
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 7, Number 1 - Spring 2010: Jun 22, 2010; (ISSN 1530-3012) From the editor Toward A More Policy-Relevant National Drug Control Strategy Online Harassment and Victimization of College Students My Mother, My Hero: A personal…
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 6, Number 2 - Fall 2009: Dec 23, 2009; (ISSN 1530-3012) From the editor The Limits of Preventive Detention: Habeas Corpus, Boumediene v. Bush (2008) and Comparative Preemption Policy Public but Opaque: The Problems of Tracking…
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 6, Number 1 - Spring 2009: Jun 2, 2009; (ISSN 1530-3012) From the editor The Myth of a Fair Criminal Justice System The Imprisonment Insights of Female Inmates: Identity & Cognitive Shifts for Exiting a Criminal Lifestyle …
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 5, Number 2 - Fall 2008: Dec 18, 2008; (ISSN 1530-3012) From the editor Racial Disproportionality in the American Prison Population: Using the Blumstein Method to Address the Critical Race and Justice Issue of the 21st Century …
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 5, Number 1 - Spring 2008: Jul 17, 2008; (ISSN 1530-3012) From the editor The impact of Australia's 1996 firearms legislation: a research review with emphasis on data selection, methodological issues, and statistical outcomes …
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 1, Number 1 - Summer 2001: Aug 24, 2007; (ISSN 1530-3012 ) From the editor Justice Policy Journal Volume 1, Number 1: August 2001 From the editor By Daniel Macallair, MPA Editorial Statement Manuscripts submitted to the…
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 1, Number 2 - Spring 2003: Aug 24, 2007; (ISSN 1530-3012) From the editor Justice Policy Journal Volume 1, Number 2: Spring 2003 From the editor By Daniel Macallair, MPA Editorial Statement Manuscripts submitted to JPJ …
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 1, Number 3 - Fall 2004: Aug 24, 2007; (ISSN 1530-3012) From the editor When the Past is a Prison: The Hardening Plight of the American Ex-Convict Questioning Appropriations for Juvenile Offenders: A Case Study of Juvenile…
Justice Policy Journal - Volume 2, Number 1 - Summer 2005: Aug 23, 2007; (ISSN 1530-3012) From the editor Waiver of Juveniles to Criminal Court: Judicial Discretion and Racial Disparity The View From the Other Side of the Fence: Incarcerated Women Talk about…