Background: It is a universal finding that there is huge heterogeneity in people's responses
to all kinds of stress and adversity. Resilience is an interactive phenomenon that is inferred …

The concept of resilience has as its starting point the recognition that there is huge
heterogeneity in people's responses to all manner of environmental adversities. Resilience …

Incarceration is definitively linked to poor health, and upon release from prison, many
individuals experience difficulty in maintaining good health. Given the complexity of the …

How do children and adolescents “make it” when their development is threatened by
poverty, neglect, maltreatment, war, violence, or exposure to oppression, racism, and …

The risk-need-responsivity (RNR) model has been widely regarded as the premier model for
guiding offender assessment and treatment. The RNR model underlies some of the most …

Research has rarely considered criminal offenders' psychological responses to stigma, but
these responses may significantly influence behavior after release from jail/prison. Jail …

Around 1970, a pioneering group of developmental scientists turned their attention to the
observable phenomenon of children at risk for problems and psychopathology who …

This article analyzes data derived from the first detailed long-term follow-up of a sample of
serious adolescent female delinquents and similarly situated males. Neither marital …

Over the last thirty years, the prison population in the United States has increased more than
seven-fold to over two million people, including vastly disproportionate numbers of …

The study of desistance from crime is hampered by definitional, measurement, and
theoretical incoherence. A unifying framework can distinguish termination of offending from …