Youth Justice & Delinquency

Select Publications & Reports (2019 - Present):

Updated August 1, 2025

2024

• Morgan, L., & Giuffre, A. (2024). "Families and the legal socialization process: The impact of symbiotic harms." Journal of Crime and Justice. doi:10.1080/0735648X.2024.2379403 

2023

• Paik, L., Giuffre, A., Harris, A., & Shannon, S. (2023). "The long reach of juvenile and criminal legal debt: How monetary sanctions shape legal cynicism and adultification." Children and Youth Services Review, 154, 107121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107121

2022

• Collier, Nicole L., & Daniel P. Mears. (2022). "Delinquent by the Dozen: Youth from Larger Families Engage in More Delinquency—Fact or Myth?" Crime and Delinquency, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287221088036

2021

• Young, B.C., Collier, N.L., & Brown, S.J. (2021). Visitation Policies in Juvenile Residential Facilities in all 50 States. Justice Policy Journal, 18(2), 1-24. 

2020

• Anderson, A.Y., Weiss, D.B., & Oselin, S.S. (2020). When I grow up: Exploring the link between future expectations and criminal trajectories. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 6, 43-66.

• Brown, Samantha J., Daniel P. Mears, Nicole L. Collier, George B. Pesta, Andrea N. Montes, & Sonja E. Siennick. (2020). "Education vs. Punishment? Silo Effects and the School-to-Prison Pipeline." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 57(4):403-443.

• Montes, Andrea N., Daniel P. Mears, Nicole L. Collier, George B. Pesta, Sonja E. Siennick., & Samantha J. Brown. (2020). "Blurred and Confused: The Paradox of Police in Schools." Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice (doi: 10.1093/police/paaa045). 

• Young, Brae Campion, Nicole L. Collier, Sonja E. Siennick, & Daniel P. Mears. (2020). "Incarceration and the Life Course: Age-Graded Effects of the First Parental Incarceration Experience." Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology (doi.org/10.1007/s40865-020-00143-7). 

2019

• Powell, Zachary A., Jessica M. Craig, Alex R. Piquero, Michael T. Baglivio, and Nathan Epps. (2019). "Delinquent Youth Concentration and Juvenile Recidivism." Deviant Behavior. 42(7): 821-836  

• Siennick, Sonja E., Samantha J. Brown, Daniel P. Mears, George B. Pesta, Andrea N. Montes, & Nicole L. Collier. (2019). "School-Based Services for Youth with Prior Police Contact: A Randomized Controlled Trial." Journal of Experimental Criminology 16:207-226.