Richard Tewksbury's research while affiliated with Louisville Seminary and other places

... The selected method of data collection was the semi-structured interview conducted by the faculty members of the Universities of the public sector. Semi-structured interviews allow interviewers and interviewees to address supplementary questions, statements, and responses throughout the interview (Tewksbury & Mustaine, 2004). "A semi-structured interview is a verbal interchange where one person, the interviewer, attempts to elicit information from another person by asking questions" (Longhurst, 2003, p. 103). ...

... Different studies have demonstrated a high rate of masturbation [38][39][40], and the presence of consensual homosexual behavior as alternative forms of sexual behaviors [41,42]. Such behaviors are sometimes coercive [43][44][45], and can lead to the transmission of sexual diseases such as HIV [46]. Conjugal visitations have been suggested as one possible solution. ...

... Billingsley, 2001;Miller, 2011). Within the United States of America (USA), many informants appear to be negatively motivated, seeking to avoid the undesirable consequences of prosecution (Dabney & Tewksbury, 2016;Dodge, 2006;Miller, 2011). However, in the more legislated environment of the UK, the majority of informants appear to be positively motivated, seeking to gain something (i.e. ...

... Approximately half of the desistance research in our sample used qualitative approaches. Although our research was not limited to leading journals, this finding may be in stark contrast to the findings of Copes et al. (2020), who conducted a content analysis of qualitative research published in top criminology and criminal justice journals between 2010 and 2019 and found that only 11.3% of the studies in these journals employed a qualitative approach. This equal quantitative-qualitative divide in desistance research may be promising, not just because qualitative criminologists frequently lament the 49 (25.0%) ...

... Following this influential report, prisoner wages have been subject to some debate in relation to the level of financial autonomy and responsibility that prisoners gain from payment for their work. As is suggested by Zgoba et al. (2020), the context of the prison environment alters the way that we can think about wages and payment as remuneration for work. Simmonds et al. (2016) in the United Kingdom, and Sawyer (2017) through the Prison Policy Initiative, have commented on the discrepancies in prisoners' wages, and the policies which underlie them. ...

... The few studies that have been conducted under somewhat similar conditions have been particularly focused on specific American 'supermax' prisons that are highly restrictive and designed for the long-term and total isolation of 'the worst of the worst' (Reiter, 2019). In general, people detained in supermax prisons are very different even from those in our Violence Facility, usually being gang members, death-sentenced detainees, detainees with a major escape risk and convicted political criminals (Cloyes et al., 2006;Lovell et al., 2007;O'Keefe, 2008;Pizarro & Narag, 2008;Ross & Tewksbury, 2018). ...

... As a highly "visible and accessible 24-h service" (Keay & Kirby, 2017, p. 428) and as the first point of contact with the criminal justice system, police are often called to assist in addressing emergencies and crises involving autistic individuals. This assistance includes responding to missing person incidents (Copenhaver & Tewksbury, 2019), responding to requests to de-escalate problematic or aggressive behaviour , and investigating incidents of abuse (Smele et al., 2019). Stakeholders (i.e., autistic individuals, caregivers, and frontline officers) have reported concern about the nature of these interactions, including the individual officers' ability to recognise autism and respond in a way that does not elevate the risk of unintentional harm, victimisation, or criminalisation. ...

... On the other hand, 6.2% of Police Officers are found to use Tobacco, a rate that is relatively low as compared to 8.7% in the general population [16]. The prevalence of tobacco use in this study is also lower compared to a study done among Police Officers by Violanti et al. [37] and Copenhaver et al. [38]. The differences could be partly accounted for by the use of WHO-ASSIST tool in the current study as opposed to the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) in the comparative studies. ...

... International research has repeatedly shown that, despite widespread labeling, recidivism rates are low among those convicted of sexual offenses (Hanson & Bussière, 1998;Hanson et al., 2016;Hanson & Morton-Bourgon, 2004Sandbukt et al., 2021). Instead, a modified labeling theory, where people constrain themselves because they fear stigmatization and consequently reduce their own opportunities for reintegration, might be more applicable (Burchfield & Mingus, 2014;Link et al., 1989;Rolfe & Tewksbury, 2018). This perspective suggests that people will presuppose that their sex offense convictions will constitute their "master status" once others learn of it. ...

... In the 1990s, the relationship between stories and police culture became the subject of discussion in criminology journals (Shearing andEricson 1991, Waddington 1999a). Commenting on the writings up until a decade ago, Cockcroft (2007, p. 99) noticed that 'surprisingly little has been written on the specific area of police narrative'. 1 In recent years, however, we have seen increased attention for storytelling in policing ( van Hulst 2013, Smith et al. 2014, Saarikkomäki 2016, Ugelvik 2016, Charman 2017, Kurtz and Upton 2017, 2018, Schaefer and Tewksbury 2017, Terpstra 2017, Turner and Rowe 2017, Rantatalo and Karp 2018, O'Neill 2019. More recent studies cover new ground: they comment on topics such as story tellability, police storytelling among recruits, and the differences across storytelling in different settings. ...