MENU TITLE: Justice in the Journals, NCJRS Catalog #34 . MENU TITLE: Justice in the Journals Series: NCJRS Catalog #34 Published: May/June 1997 4 pages 7,342 bytes This section is designed to acquaint NCJRS users with research information in recent criminal justice periodicals. Many of the projects funded by Office of Justice Programs agencies and the Office of National Drug Control Policy are discussed in scholarly and professional journals. This section also highlights such articles. American Journal of Police Volume 15, Number 4, 1996 Not Available from NCJRS. Order from MCB University Press, P.O. Box 10812, Birmingham, AL 35201-0812 (800-633-4931). Annual subscription $199. "To Pursue or Not To Pursue? That is the Question: Modeling Police Vehicular Pursuits" by Jeffrey D. Senese and Thomas Lucadamo (pp. 55-77). Reports the findings of a study on vehicular pursuit, a common police use-of-force practice. Given the relative frequency of pursuits as a use-of-force technique, it is not surprising that a portion of them end unsuccessfully. In terms of the general characteristics of the pursuits in the data set of the study, 36.7 percent resulted in an accident. "Contributory Factors Affecting Arrest in Domestic and Non-Domestic Assaults" by Helen M. Eigenberg, Kathryn Scarborough, and Victor E. Kappeler (pp. 27-54). Presents a study that compares police officers' responses in domestic assaults to other types of assaults to determine whether domestic cases are treated more leniently. This study offers the first empirical evidence to suggest that police officers are less apt to arrest in domestic violence cases when directly comparing officers' responses in domestic and nondomestic assaults. Corrections Today Volume 58, Number 4, June 1996 Not available from NCJRS. Order from American Correctional Association, Inc., Publication Department, 4380 Forbes Boulevard, Lanham, MD 20706-4322 (301-918-1800). Single copies $4.50. "California Electrified Fences: A New Concept in Prison Security" by Brian Hoffmann, Gary Straughn, Jack Richardson, and Allen Randall (pp. 66-68). Explores how the use of electrified fences by the California Department of Corrections has greatly reduced the need for guard tower staff. Electrified fences have been installed at adult facilities for men and women throughout California's agricultural, coastal, foothill, desert, and urban areas. The State will save an average of $1.5 million a year per facility with electrified fences. "National Trends in Juvenile Violence" by Karen Leah Chinn (pp. 70-73). Examines the increase in youth violence that is being felt by criminal and juvenile justice systems around the country. Responses to this growing trend of violence include growth in the number of juvenile arrests, an increase in court caseloads and transfers to adult courts, a rise in admissions in juvenile detention and corrections facilities, and the placement of juveniles in crowded adult prisons. Among youth ages 14 to 17, the group of juveniles at the focus of this article, the homicide rate has more than doubled in the past 8 years. Criminal Justice and Behavior Volume 23, Number 4, December 1996 Not Available from NCJRS. Order from Sage Publications, Inc., 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320 (805-499-0871). Single copies $16. "No Hope for Parole: Disciplinary Infractions Among Death-Sentenced and Life-Without-Parole Inmates" by Jon Sorensen and Robert D. Wrinkle (pp. 542-552). Presents a study that compared disciplinary records of 93 death-sentenced and 323 life-without-parole inmates with those of 232 life-with-parole inmates. The findings indicate that disciplinary infraction levels across the groups were similar-- death-sentenced and life-without-parole inmates were not more likely to commit acts of violence, such as murders and assaults, than life-with-parole inmates. "Evaluating the Drug-Abusing Probationer: Clinical Interview Versus Self-Administered Assessment" by Kirk M. Broome, Kevin Knight, George W. Joe, and D. Dwayne Simpson (pp. 593-606). Analyzes the clinical benefits of counselor-client interviews and self-administered instruments for practitioners working in drug treatment programs within the criminal justice system. The results of this study suggest that self-administered intake assessments provide information similar to that gathered by interview-based intake assessments. Journal of Crime and Justice Volume 19, Number 2, 1996 Not Available from NCJRS. Order from Anderson Publishing Company, P.O. Box 1576, Cincinnati, OH 45201-1576. Annual subscription $35. "Citizen Involvement in the Coproduction of Police Outputs" by James Frank, Steven G. Brandl, Robert E. Worden, and Timothy S. Bynum (pp. 1-30). Examines the casual role of citizen attitudes toward the police in citizen willingness to engage in coproductive behaviors with the police. The study findings indicate that in most cases, citizen attitudes were not statistically significant determinants of citizen behaviors that assisted police. However, citizen perception of community problems played a substantial role in explaining copro-ductive behaviors. "Specialized Juvenile Courts: Do They Make a Difference in Judicial Decision Making?" by Phillip E. Secret and James B. Johnson (pp. 159-180). Explores differences in adjudication and disposition between specialized juvenile courts and courts of mixed jurisdiction that hear cases involving juvenile defendants. During this study, statistically significant differences were observed in adjudication decisions of the two court types. For example, mixed-jurisdiction courts were found to be more likely to adjudicate delinquent than juvenile courts. Journal of Quantitative Criminology Volume 12, Number 2, June 1996 Not Available from NCJRS. Order from Plenum Publishing Corporation, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013-1578 (212-620-8495). Annual subscription $48 for individuals certifying that the journal is for personal use. "Are Repeatedly Victimized Households Different?" by Denise R. Osborn, Dan Ellingworth, Tim Hope, and Alan Trickett (pp. 223-245). Examines research that focuses on the prediction of repeat victimization. When applied to property crime information from the 1984 British Crime Survey, the authors found little evidence that repeat victims have distinctive characteristics when compared with single victims. Nevertheless, households with characteristics that protect from victimization have this protection reduced in the case of subsequent events. "Contributions of Quantitative Methods to the Study of Gender and Crime, or Bootstrapping Our Way into the Theoretical Thicket" by Candace Kruttschnitt (pp. 135-161). Examines the actual and potential contributions of quantitative methods for analyzing the nature of the gender-crime relationship. This paper explores three bodies of literature pertaining to the gender-crime relationship: offending, victimization, and criminal justice processing. The findings of this study indicate that while much knowledge about gender-crime relationships has been uncovered with quantitative data, a commensurate amount of theoretical knowledge does not exist.