Selected NIJ Publications and Research Reports on Recidivism

Published by NIJ

Co-Offending and Patterns of Juvenile Crime, by J. McCord and K.P. Conway, December 2005, NCJ 210360.

Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners: Breaking the Drug-Crime Cycle Among Parole Violators,  by M.K. Stohr et al., May 2003, NCJ 199948.

Work Release: Recidivism and Corrections Costs in Washington State, by S. Turner and J. Petersilia, December 1996, NCJ 163706.

Grant Reports

Domestic Violence

Longitudinal Study of a Cohort of Batterers Arraigned in a Massachusetts District Court 1995 to 2004, by D. Wilson and A. Klein, May 2006, NCJ 15346.

Reconsidering Domestic Violence Recidivism: Individual and Contextual Effects of Court Dispositions and Stake in Conformity, by J. Wooldredge and A. Thistlethwaite, October 1999, NCJ 188509.

Juvenile Domestic and Family Violence: The Effects of Court-Based Intervention Programs on Recidivism, by Brenda Uekert et al., July 2006, NCJ 216614.

Drug Courts

The Impact of a Mature Drug Court Over 10 Years of Operation: Recidivism and Costs, by M.W. Finigan et al., April 2007, NCJ 219225. Executive summary (NCJ 219224).

Probationers and Released Prisoners

Outcome Assessment of Correctional Treatment (OACT), by K. Knight et al., January 2003, NCJ 199368.

Recidivism Among Female Prisoners: Secondary Analysis of the 1994 BJS Recidivism Data Set, by E.P. Deschenes et al., October 2006, NCJ 216950.

Reentry

Applying Problem Solving Approaches to Issues of Inmate Re-Entry: The Indianapolis Pilot Project, by E.F. McGarrell et al., February 2003, NCJ 203922.

Profiling Inmates in the Los Angeles County Jails: Risks, Recidivism, and Release Options, by J. Petersilia et al., September 2000, NCJ 189733.

Sex Offenders

Analysis of Risk Factors Contributing to the Recidivism of Sex Offenders on Probation, by J.R. Hepburn and M.L. Griffin, October 2002, NCJ 203905.

Evaluating and Improving Risk Assessment Schemes for Sexual Recidivism: A Long-term Follow-up of Convicted Sexual Offenders, by R.A. Knight and D. Thornton, March 2007, NCJ 217618