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Article: Silver, Ian A., D’Amato, Christopher, and Wooldredge, John. 2024. Exacerbating Inequality over the Life-Course: Examining Race Differences in the Reciprocal Effects between Incarceration and Income. Social Forces, 102(3), 839–860. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soad113 1. Background (PDF and Article) Racial disparities in income and incarceration are deeply entrenched in American society. Black individuals are more likely to beContinue reading “Research Brief: Exacerbating Inequality over the Life-Course: Examining Race Differences in the Reciprocal Effects between Incarceration and Income”

Article: Silver, Ian A. & Kelsay, James D. (2022). Examining an Indirect Pathway from the Variety of Stressful Life Events to Violent Victimization through Acquired Psychological Symptoms. Justice Quarterly, 39:5, 953-982 https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2021.1916062. 1. Background (PDF and Article) Research has continued to explore the predictors of violent victimization, in an effort to identify the mechanisms andContinue reading “Research Brief: Examining an Indirect Pathway from the Variety of Stressful Life Events to Violent Victimization through Acquired Psychological Symptoms”

Article: Silver, Ian A., Vaidya, Prarthana, and Wooldredge, John. 2025. “The Effects of Youth Incarceration in Adult Institutions on Future Incarceration.” Journal of Criminal Justice, 98, 102426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102426. 1. Background (PDF and Article) Thousands of adolescents are sentenced to serve time in adult jails and prisons each year. While the number of youth incarcerated inContinue reading “Research Brief: The Effects of Youth Incarceration in Adult Institutions on Future Incarceration.”

Full Article: Silver, I. A., D’Amato, C., Newsome, J., Johnson, S., & Rubenstein, B. (2023). Forecasting the potential effects of programming combinations for justice-involved youths. Journal of Criminal Justice, 88, 102093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2023.102093 1. Background (PDF and Publication) Approximately 800,000 youth are processed through the juvenile justice system in the U.S. each year, with many servingContinue reading “Research Brief: Forecasting the Effects of Programming Combinations for Justice-Involved Youths”

Ian A. Silver, Daniel C. Semenza, and Joseph L. Nedelec 1. Background (PDF and Publication) Incarceration is associated with a range of negative outcomes, including diminished physical and mental health, increased exposure to violence, substance use, and elevated mortality risk. While prior research has documented the health impacts of incarceration broadly, there has been relativelyContinue reading “Research Brief: Incarceration of Youths in an Adult Correctional Facility and Risk of Premature Death”

1. Introduction (PDF & R-Script) Across the social sciences (besides psychology), the development of valid measures is often sacrificed in an effort to implement a randomized controlled trial or produce results generalizable to a population of interest. Sacrificing measurement, however, creates problems not only by reducing our ability to accurately capture the variation in aContinue reading “Entry 16: Measurement Creation (Part 1)“

1. Introduction (PDF & R-Script) The prior entries in the current section reviewed the impact of altering the level of measurement of the dependent variable (Entry 13) and independent variable (Entry 14) on the magnitude of the estimated association. These entries demonstrated that the level of measurement reduced the magnitude of the estimated association betweenContinue reading “Entry 15: Level of Measurement Confounders, Colliders, Mediators, and Moderators”