Papers by Jeffrey Bouffard
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Journal of Drug Issues, 2000
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Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Dec 31, 2004
Of Crime & Criminality: The Use of Theory in Everyday Life Of crime & criminality: The use of theory in everyday life, 2000
Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 2014
Hirschi recently revised the measurement of self-control to include the number and salience of co... more Hirschi recently revised the measurement of self-control to include the number and salience of costs an individual considers in an offending situation. Evidence is mixed on its predictive utility relative to other self-control measures but suffers from different studies operationalising the measure in different ways and mostly examining it with non-offenders. This study aimed to investigate Hirschi's reconceptualisation of self-control. Our research question was whether the number and salience of Hirschi's 'costs' are independently related to offending. Data on self-perceptions of likelihood of driving while drunk and various self-control and social control measures were collected by researchers during an orientation class for convicted offenders newly received into correctional facilities - one for men and one for women - during January to May 2011. Eight hundred and nineteen men and 194 women completed the ratings. Both attitudinal and situational self-control measures were independently associated with self-rated likelihood of driving while drunk. These findings were confined to the male offenders. Findings revealed mixed support for Hirschi's conceptualisation of self-control and its relevance. Situational and attitudinal measures of self-control share some common ground but relate differently to offending according to gender. Further research is needed to find out if these results are generalisable to other crime types and whether race/ethnicity could modify the findings. Even among convicted offenders whose crimes are serious and/or frequent enough to result in imprisonment, high self-control may inhibit offending. This has implications for intervention programmes. This is the first study to compare attitudinal and self-control measures in relation to offending among a sample of incarcerated offenders and across gender. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Journal of interpersonal violence, Jan 25, 2015
Research in the last few years has begun to examine the prevalence of female sexual offending as ... more Research in the last few years has begun to examine the prevalence of female sexual offending as well as attempting to understand the predictors of sexually coercive behavior among women. Although women engage in sexual coercion significantly less often than men, more research on female sexual coercion is warranted. The current study provides an exploratory examination of the relationship between several attitudinal, experiential, and situational factors, and the use of various sexual coercion tactics among a sample of 582 sexually active, female undergraduate students, as well as proposing an explanatory model of female sexual coercion. Results indicate that several variables that are significant predictors of sexual aggression for men are also predictive for women. However, these variables seem to work differently in predicting sexually coercive behavior for women. Implications for theory and further study are discussed.
Handbook of Quantitative Criminology, 2009
To study criminal decision making, researchers often present participants with a written vignette... more To study criminal decision making, researchers often present participants with a written vignette describing a hypothetical offense.Participants are then asked to self-report their likelihood of engaging in the offense, as well as their perceptions of the certainty and severity of various consequences. In this chapter, we examine two criticisms of the hypothetical scenario methodology. First, we consider whether self-reported intentions
Substance Use & Misuse, 2002
Drug treatment courts provide a new strategy for providing treatment services to offenders within... more Drug treatment courts provide a new strategy for providing treatment services to offenders within the criminal justice system. With over 400 drug treatment courts in the United States, the courts have evolved to provide treatment services under different models. This article will review the different typologies for delivery of treatment services to drug user offenders in the drug treatment court setting, and it will raise questions about some of the difficult issues underscoring an integrated service delivery model. The paper then identifies some research questions for the future.
Justice Research and Policy, 2000
... Faye S. Taxman Jeffrey A. Bouffard ... evaluation was conducted during the first 14 months of... more ... Faye S. Taxman Jeffrey A. Bouffard ... evaluation was conducted during the first 14 months of the RSAT programs' implementation; however, in four of the six jurisdictions studied, the local public health agency had been offering services in the facilities for many years prior to the ...
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 2003
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2000
Abstract: The analysis focused on evaluation research in vocational education/job training, commu... more Abstract: The analysis focused on evaluation research in vocational education/job training, community employment, and correctional industries. The analysis used the Maryland Scale for Scientific Rigor developed by researchers at the University of Maryland as the set of ...
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2005
Drug treatment is one of the critical components of drug court programming, yet it has not been t... more Drug treatment is one of the critical components of drug court programming, yet it has not been thoroughly studied in the drug court literature. Very little is understood about the nature of drug treatment services provided in the drug court setting. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of selected treatment variables on drug court outcomes. In
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2014
Sexual coercion is a significant problem on college campuses despite numerous attempts to better ... more Sexual coercion is a significant problem on college campuses despite numerous attempts to better understand and prevent it. Some criminological research has examined the role of sexual arousal in decisions to use coercion and force, while psychologists have studied how overperception of sexual interest relates to coercive behaviors. The current study combines these two lines of research to examine whether sexual arousal increases the perception of sexual interest in a hypothetical coercion scenario. A sample of 387 college males were randomly placed into arousal and control conditions and asked to watch either erotic material or a lecture and complete questions regarding a common social dating scenario. Bivariate and multivariate results indicated significant relationships between sexual arousal and overperception of sexual intent with the decision to engage in sexually coercive behaviors, as well as a mediation effect. The implications for theory and sexual assault prevention are discussed.
Journal of Drug Issues, 2004
Journal of Criminal Justice, 2010
Criminal decision making is an inherently natural and highly individualized process; however, rat... more Criminal decision making is an inherently natural and highly individualized process; however, rather than allowing participants to self-identify the costs and benefits that impact their own decisions to offend, rational choice researchers have typically provided participants with a uniform list of consequences to consider. Indirect evidence suggests this technique may alter the participants' perceptions of consequences, yet no study to date has examined this supposition directly. In the current study, participants were randomly assigned to experimental conditions in which they either received a list of traditional costs and benefits to assess or were asked to self-generate their own list to assess. As in past research, when participants were allowed to self-generated consequences they identified several "novel" costs/benefits that have certainty/ severity rating comparable to many of the traditionally examined consequences. Results also showed that consequences are more likely to be perceived as possible outcomes (i.e., receive a non-zero probability) when they are presented by researchers than when they are self-generated. Finally, the average certainty and severity of negative consequences do not differ across condition, while ratings of the certainty and value of benefits from crime are relatively lower when they are presented by researchers. Implications for rational choice theory and survey research in criminology more broadly are discussed.
Journal of Crime and Justice, 2003
Previous research has examined individual trait-level characteristics, as well as situational fac... more Previous research has examined individual trait-level characteristics, as well as situational factors related to the self-reported likelihood of males engaging in sexually aggressive behaviors. This study integrates both of these lines of research, proposing a model where individual attitudinal characteristics (sexually coercive attitudes, sexually coercive fantasy use) predict intermediate situational outcomes (current arousal, perceptions of the victim's experience), and subsequent
Journal of Crime and Justice, 2004
Brandon Applegate Gregg Barak Stephen Baron Candice Batton Jeffrey Bouffard Bobby Brame Chester B... more Brandon Applegate Gregg Barak Stephen Baron Candice Batton Jeffrey Bouffard Bobby Brame Chester Britt Frances Burden Melissa Burek Dawn Cecil Mitchell Chamlin Todd Clear Nicolas Cosario Ed Day Christina DeJong David N. Falcone Bonnie S. Fisher David Forde Elaine Gunnison Carter Hay Karen Hayslett-McCall Jefferson Holcomb Tad Hughes Michelle Inderbitzen Lonn Lama-Kaduce Michael Leiber Kimberly Kempf-Leonard Sesha Kethineni William King John MacDonald Stacy Mallicoat Karen Mason ... J. Mitchell Miller Brian Payne Dan Phillips Nicole ...
Criminal Justice Policy Review, 2007
Page 1. http://cjp.sagepub.com Criminal Justice Policy Review DOI: 10.1177/ 0887403406298621 2007... more Page 1. http://cjp.sagepub.com Criminal Justice Policy Review DOI: 10.1177/ 0887403406298621 2007; 18; 274 Criminal Justice Policy Review Jeffrey A. Bouffard and Katie A. Richardson Drug-Involved Offenders Offenders ...
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