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Peer-Reviewed Articles

Helfgott, J.B., Bledsoe, B. N., & Christensen, S. (2025). Improving Public Safety through Precinct and Neighborhood-Based Virtual Restorative Community-Police Dialogues. Police Practice and Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2024.2429096

Gunnison, E. & Helfgott, J.B. (2024). Criminology and Criminal Justice Researchers’ Experiences and Challenges with Institutional Review Boards. Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology. https://doi.org/10.21428/88de04a1.b80c2536

Helfgott, J.B. & Gunnison, E. (2023). Trauma, Psychopathic Traits, and Resilience in Female Post-Prison Reentry Outcomes. Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.54555/ccjls.7115.74096

Helfgott, J.B., Hickman, M.J., Strah, B.M., Atherley, L.T., Kosson, D.S., & Dorsher, E. (2022). The Relationship between Personality Traits and the Effectiveness of Guardian Law Enforcement Training, Journal of Forensic Psychology Research and Practice. 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/24732850.2022.2028392

Atherley, L.T., Hickman, M.J., Parkin, W.S., & Helfgott, J.B. (2022). Measurement of Potential Over- and Under-policing in Communities. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paac025

Surette, R., Helfgott, J.B., Parkin, W., & O’Toole, M.E. (2021). The Social Construction of Copycat Crime in Open Access Media. Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, 21(1), 104-217.

Gunnison, E., & Helfgott, Jacqueline B. (2021). Process, Power, and Impact of the Institutional Review Boards in Criminology and Criminal Justice Research. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 16(1), 1-17.

Helfgott, J.B., Strah, B., Atherley, L, & Neidhart, E. (2021). Evaluation of CIT components of guardian law enforcement training. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 36(1), 403-422.

Helfgott, J.B. & Gunnison, E. (2020). Gender-Responsive Reentry Services for Women Leaving Prison: The IF Project’s Seattle Women’s Reentry Initiative. Corrections: Policy, Practice and Research, 5(2), 65-88.

Helfgott, J.B., Parkin, W.S., Fisher, C., & Diaz, A. (2020). Misdemeanor arrests and community perceptions of fear of crime in Seattle. Journal of Criminal Justice, 69, 1-19.

Helfgott, J.B., Gunnison, E., Sumner, J., Collins, P., & Rice, S.K. (2019). “If Someone Would Have Showed Me”: Identifying Pivotal Points in Pathways to Crime and Incarceration through Prisoner Self-Narratives. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 1-26.

Helfgott, J.B., Parkin, W.S., & Fisher, C. (2019). Crisis-flagged Misdemeanors in Seattle: Arrests, Referrals, Charges, and Case Dispositions. Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society, 20(2), 59-85.

Helfgott, J.B., Gunnison, E., Murtagh, A.; Navejar, B. (2018). BADASSES: The Rise of Women in Criminal Justice. Women & Criminal Justice, 28(4), 1-27.

Helfgott, J.B., Strah, B.M., Pollock, J., Atherley, L.T., & Vinson, J. (2018). A qualitative approach to understanding guardian models of policing. Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology, 6(1), 93-120.

Helfgott, J.B., Gunnison, E., Collins, P., & Rice, S.K. (2018). The power of personal narratives in crime prevention and reentry: Process evaluation of the Seattle Police Department’s IF Project. Corrections Policy, Practice and Research, 3 (2), 1-24.

Gunnison, E. & Helfgott, J.B. (2017). Critical Keys to Successful Offender Reentry: Getting a Handle on Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues.” The Qualitative Report, 22(8).

Helfgott, J.B. (2016). Prison-based cognitive behavioral treatment programs – A Mechanism of panoptic control. Commentary on Jennifer A. Schlosser’s (2015) Narratives and Discursive Discipline in Prison: Rewriting Personal Histories through Cognitive-Behavioral Programs. Journal of Theoretical & Philosophical Criminology, 8(2), 148-159.

Gunnison, E. & Helfgott, J.B. (2016). A day in the life of a day reporting center: Needs and challenges of clients entering and exiting. Journal of Community Corrections, 25(4), 5-14.

Helfgott, J.B., Hickman, M.J., & Labossiere, A. (2016) A descriptive evaluation of the Seattle Police Department’s Crisis response team officer/mental health professional partnership pilot program. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 44, 109-122.

Helfgott, J.B. (2015) Criminal behavior and the copycat effect: Review of the literature and theoretical framework for empirical investigation.  Aggression and Violent Behavior, 22, 46-64.

O’Toole, M.E. (Moderator); Beresin, E.V., Berman, A., Gorelick, S.M., Helfgott, J.B., & Tobin, C. (Participants) (2014). Celebrities through violence: The copycat effect and the influence of violence in social media on mass killers. Violence and Gender, 1(3), 107-116. (Published roundtable discussion)

Gunnison, E., Helfgott, J.B., & Wilhelm, C. (2015).  Correctional Practitioners on Offender Reentry: A Missed Perspective, Journal of Prison Education and Reentry, 2(1), 51-73.

Gunnison, E. & Helfgott, J.B. (2011). Factors that hinder reentry success: A view from community corrections officers.  International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 55(2), 1-18.

Helfgott, J.B. & Gunnison, E. (2008). The influence of social distance on community corrections officer perceptions of offender reentry needs. Federal Probation, 72 (1), 2-12.

Cohan, M., Lovell, M.L., & Helfgott, J.B. (2008). Narratives of transformation: Violent crime victim’s experiences of help and helping. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 3(8), 13-22.

Gunnison, E. & Helfgott, J.B.  (2007). Community corrections officer perceptions of ex-offender reentry needs and challenges. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 22(1).

Helfgott, J.B. (2004). Primitive defenses in the language of the psychopath: Considerations for forensic practice. Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, 4(3), 1-29.

Kinney, W.J. & Helfgott, J.B. (2004). Life satisfaction and late-life liberal activism: Activity, continuity, and the role of identity politics. Politics of Change: Sexuality, Gender, & Aging Research in Political Sociology, 13, 113-138.

Lawrence, C.F., Lovell, M.L., & Helfgott, J.B. (2004). The Moral Discourse of Healing: Victims and Offenders for Restorative Justice. Journal of Societal and Social Policy, 3(2), 49-64.

Helfgott, J.B. (2003). The prison tour as a pedagogical tool in undergraduate criminal justice courses. Corrections Compendium, 28(8), 1-2+.

Lovell, M.L., Helfgott, J.B., & Lawrence, C.F. (2002).  Narrative accounts from the Citizens, Victims, and Offenders Restoring Justice program at the Washington State Reformatory.  Contemporary Justice Review, 5, 261-272.

Helfgott, J.B., Lovell, M.L., Lawrence, C.F. (2002). Citizens, Victims, and Offenders Restoring Justice: Accountability, healing, and hope through storytelling and dialogue.  Crime Victims Report, 6, 3-4+.

Helfgott, J.B., Lovell, M.L., Lawrence, C.F., & Parsonage, W.H. (2000).  Development of the Citizens, Victims, and Offenders Restoring Justice Program at the Washington State Reformatory.  Criminal Justice Policy Review, 10, 363-399.

Helfgott, J.B., Lovell, M.L., Lawrence, C.F., & Parsonage, W.H. (2000).  Results from the pilot study of the Citizens, Victims, and Offenders Restoring Justice Program at the Washington State Reformatory.  Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 16, 5-31.

Kinney, W. & Helfgott, J.B. (2000).  Political activism over 60: Social stigma and the late-life liberal.  Sociological Imagination, 37, 5-28.

Helfgott, J.B.  (1997). Exoffender needs versus community opportunity in Seattle, Washington.  Federal Probation, 61, 12-24.

Helfgott, J. B. (1997).  The unconscious defensive process/conscious cognitive style relationship in psychopaths. Criminal Justice & Behavior, 24, 278-293.

Bernat, F. P., Parsonage, W. H., & Helfgott, J.B. (1994).  Victim impact laws and the parole process in the United States: Balancing victim and inmates rights and interests.  International Review of Victimology, 3, 121-140.

Parsonage, W. H., Bernat, F. P., & Helfgott, J. B. (1992).  Victim impact testimony and mPennsylvania’s parole decision-making process: A pilot study.  Criminal Justice Policy Review, 6, 187- 206.

Book Chapters/Other Publications

Helfgott, J.B. & Wallenborn, J. (2022). History of Forensic Psychology. In Garafolo, C. & Sijttsema, J.J. (Eds.). Clinical Forensic Psychology: Introductory Perspectives on Offending. Palgrove MacMillan.

Healing, C.M. & Helfgott, J.B. (2019). Victims of virtual violence. In Parkin, W. & Collins, P. (Eds.). Victims of Violence. San Diego: Cognella Academic Publishing.

Helfgott, J.B. (2018). Searching for Glimmers of Ethnography in Jailhouse Criminology. In Rice, S.K & Maltz, M. (Eds.) Using Ethnography in Criminology: Discovery through Fieldwork. New York: Springer.

Helfgott, J.B. & Poore, Jane (2014). Violence Risk Assessment. In Arrigo, B. Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Ethics. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Gunnison, E. & Helfgott, J.B. (2014). Seattle Crime Places. In Jeffrey Ian Ross (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Helfgott, J. B. (2013).  Criminal psychology and criminal behavior. In J.B. Helfgott (Ed.).Criminal Psychology, Volume 1. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013, 3-34.

Helfgott, J. B. (2013). Criminal Typologies . In J.B. Helfgott (Ed.). Criminal Psychology, Volume 2. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013, 3-38.

Helfgott, J. B. (2013). The popular conception of the psychopath: Implications for Criminal Justice Practice. In J.B. Helfgott (Ed.).Criminal Psychology, Volume 2. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013, 515-546.

Helfgott, J. B. (2013). Actuarial prediction in determinate-plus sex offender release decisions. In J.B. Helfgott (Ed.).Criminal Psychology, Volume 3. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013, 113-135.

Helfgott, J. B. (2013). Sexually violent predators and state appellate courts’ use of actuarial tests in civil commitments. In J.B. Helfgott (Ed.).Criminal Psychology, Volume 3. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013, 113-135, 87-112.

Helfgott, J.B. (2005). Three Strikes. In M. Bosworth (ed.), Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Helfgott, J.B. (2005). Restorative Justice. In M. Bosworth (ed.), Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Helfgott, J.B. (2005). Art Programs. In M. Bosworth (ed.), Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Lovell, M.L., Helfgott, J.B., & Lawrence, C.F. (2002).  Citizens, Victims, and Offenders Restoring Justice:  Social group work bridging the divide. In Social Work with Groups by S. Henry, J. East, & C. Schmitz (Eds.) NY: Haworth Press.   

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