External Publications by JohnJayREC Staff, Students, and Faculty Affiliates
2025
Vital City — Better Evidence, Better Policy
Jeffrey A. Butts
2024
Evidence-oriented Youth Justice, in the Oxford Handbook of Evidence-Based Crime and Justice Policy
Jeffrey A. Butts, John K. Roman and Katheryne Pugliese
2023
Vital City — Our Crime Debate Remains Tragically Shortsighted
Jeffrey A. Butts
2022
Vital City — Balancing Deterrence and Prevention: The Role of Research
John K. Roman and Jeffrey A. Butts
2021
The Juvenile Justice Response to Violence, in the Handbook of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan
Jeffrey A. Butts and Jason Szkola
2019
Risk Terrain Modeling: Seasonality and Predictive Validity
Jason Szkola, Eric L. Piza and Grant Drawve
It’s About Quality: Private Confinement Facilities in Juvenile Justice
Jeffrey A. Butts and John Pfaff
Going Back to College? Criminal Stigma in Higher Education Admissions in Northeastern U.S.
Douglas N. Evans, Jason Szkola and Victor St. John
Full Disclosure: Experimental Analysis of Female Online Dating on Parole
Douglas N. Evans
2018
Good Questions: Building Evaluation Evidence in a Competitive Policy Environment
Jeffrey A. Butts and John K. Roman
It’s Not About the Art; It’s About the Artist
Jeffrey A. Butts
Examining Housing Discrimination Across Race, Gender and Felony History
Douglas N. Evans, Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill and Michelle Cubellis
Associations Between Mass Incarceration and Community Health in New York City
Rindcy E. Davis and Douglas N. Evans
Recidivism Reconsidered: Preserving the Community Justice Mission of Community Corrections
Jeffrey A. Butts and Vincent Schiraldi
Sex Offender Stigma: An Exploration of Vigilantism against Sex Offenders
Michelle Cubellis, Douglas N. Evans and Adam G. Fera
Education in Prison and the Self-Stigma:Empowerment Continuum
Douglas N. Evans, Emily Pelletier and Jason Szkola
2017
Legitimacy in Decision Making: Increasing Voter Approval of Municipal Bonds
Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill
Multiple Research Methods for Evidence Generation
Mike Maxfield, Yuchen Hou, Jeffrey A. Butts, Jennifer M. Pipitone, Latifa T. Fletcher and Bryce Peterson
Psychology of Space: Enhancing Legitimacy through Open, Transparent, and Inclusive Facilities for Police and the Public
Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill, Victor St. John and Erik Ryan
Stop, Question, and Frisk in New York City: A Study of Public Opinions
Douglas N. Evans and Cynthia-Lee Williams
2016
The U.S. Juvenile Justice Policy Landscape
Janeen Buck Willison, Daniel P. Mears and Jeffrey A. Butts
Renting Apartments to Felons: Variations in Real Estate Agent Decisions due to Stigma
Terry Furst and Douglas N. Evans
Critical Diversion — Policy Essay
Jeffrey A. Butts
Jailhouse Blues: Nicaragua’s Take on Prison Reform
Jennifer Peirce
2015
Situational Crime Prevention and Worldwide Piracy: A Cross-continent Analysis
Jon M. Shane, Eric L. Piza and Marissa Mandala
Surveillance Without Protection: Policing Undocumented Migrant Workers in an American Suburb
Hung-En Sung, Sheyla Delgado, D. Peña and A. Paladino
Cure Violence: A Public Health Model to Reduce Gun Violence
Jeffrey A. Butts, Caterina Gouvis Roman, Lindsay Bostwick and Jeremy Porter
2014
Criminal History and Landlord Rental Decisions: A New York Quasi-experimental Study
Douglas N. Evans and Jeremy R. Porter
An Exploration of Stigma in the Lives of Sex Offenders and Heroin Abusers
R. Terry Furst and Douglas N. Evans
The Second American Crime Drop: Trends in Juvenile and Youth Violence
Jeffrey A. Butts and Douglas N. Evans
What do we Know About NYC’s Stop and Frisk Program? A Spatial and Statistical Analysis
Douglas N. Evans, Cynthia-Lee Maragh and Jeremy R. Porter
2013
Current Practice in the Juvenile Justice System
Jeffrey A. Butts and Simon Singer
Perceptions of the Victimization of Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
Douglas N. Evans
2012
Reducing the Risks and Consequences of Crime Victimization in Schools
Jeffrey A. Butts, Douglas N. Evans and Jocelyn Fontaine
Heroin Abuse and Collective Identity: Correlates and Consequences of Geographical Place
R. Terry Furst and Rebecca Balletto
2011
Better Research for Better Policies
Jeffrey A. Butts and John K. Roman
Varieties of Juvenile Court: Nonspecialized Courts, Teen Courts, Drug Courts, and Mental Health Courts
Jeffrey A. Butts, John K. Roman and Jennifer Lynn-Whaley
Evaluating Systems Change in a Juvenile Justice Reform Initiative
John K. Roman, Jeffrey A. Butts and Caterina Roman
The Bond Market and Public Safety
John Roman and Jeffrey A. Butts
Teen Courts — Do They Work and Why?
Jeffrey A. Butts and Jennifer Ortiz
The Transformation of Drug Markets and its Impact on HIV Outreach to Injection Drug Users in New York City, 1987-2008
R. Terry Furst, Ric Curtis and Rebecca Balletto
2010
Positive Youth Justice: Framing Justice Interventions Using the Concepts of Positive Youth Development
Jeffrey A. Butts, Gordon Bazemore and Aundra Saa Meroe
The U.S. Juvenile Justice Policy Landscape
Janeen B. Willison, Daniel P. Mears and Jeffrey A. Butts
Trends in American Youth Crime
Jeffrey A. Buttts and Daniel P. Mears
A Community Youth Development Approach to Gang Control Programs
Jeffrey A. Butts and Caterina Gouvis Roman