SCARLET LETTERS AND RECIDIVISM: DOES AN OLD CRIMINAL RECORD PREDICT FUTURE OFFENDING?*

By M. Kurlychek, Robert W. Brame, S. Bushway. 2006

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Examining the Sources of Variation in Risk for Recidivism (2011, methodology): “Consistent with the work of Kurlychek et al. (2006), criminal history differentiated between early failure, mid failure, and desistance, but the relationship was not significant for the late failure–desistance contrast.”
Does Inmate Behavior Affect Post-Release Offending? Investigating the Misconduct-Recidivism Relationship among Youth and Adults (2014, methodology): “A full three-year window after release is used to ensure that the analyses do not include only those individuals most likely to fail within a year or two of release (Kurlychek et al. 2006; Langan and Levin 2002).”
Prison Visitation and Recidivism (2012, background): “…recidivism (Gendreau et al. 1996) and, along with a wide range of other factors that research has found to be associated with recidivism (see, e.g., Visher and Travis 2003; Kubrin and Stewart 2006; Kurlychek et al. 2006; Mears et al. 2008; Jones et al. 2010), is included in the matching analyses.”
Long-Term Crime Desistance and Recidivism Patterns—Evidence from the Essex County Convicted Felon Study (2012, unknown): “…has been observed in other fields of study ranging from automobile accidents, to insurance claims, to length-of-unemployment spells, to loan defaults, to marriage dissolution, to death rates among cancer patients (Klugman, Panjer, and Wilmot, 2008; Kurlychek, Brame, and Bushway, 2006, 2007).”
Enduring Risk? Old Criminal Records and Predictions of Future Criminal Involvement (2007, methodology): “Taken with our recent analysis of the 1958 Philadelphia birth cohort data ( Kurlychek, Brame, & Bushway, 2006 ), we are skeptical that blanket decision rules based exclusively on whether someone has a criminal record will provide useful information for behavioral predictions.”
A Signaling Perspective on Employment-Based Reentry Programming Training Completion as a Desistance Signal (2012, unknown): “Recent empirical research on long-term recidivism hazards has begun to test the limits of this claim (Blumstein and Nakamura, 2009; Bushway, Nieuwbeerta, and Blokland, 2011; Kurlychek et al., 2006, 2007; Soothhill and Francis, 2009).”
Breaches in the Wall (2014, background): “…recidivism within three years represents a conservative test of visitation effects, ensuring that the analyses do not include only those individuals who would be considered most likely to ‘‘fail’’ within one or two years of release (see, e.g., Kurlychek et al. 2006; Langan and Levin 2002).”