Publications

Many of my publications appear in journals with copyright restrictions, so they can not be distributed here. Some, however, are in the public domain and links to several of these are below. You may also consult The RAND Corp. web site for publications between 1980-1995, and the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) for additional publications of mine.

Corrections and Sentencing Books and Reports:

Understanding California Corrections (2006)
What Works in Prisoner Reentry? Reviewing and Questioning the Evidence	When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry
The prison experience of career criminals	Guideline-Based Justice: The Implications for Racial Minorities
Community Corrections: Probation, Parole and Intermediate Sanctions	Expanding Options for Criminal Sentencing
Crime: Public Policies for Crime Control	Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System
Reforming Probation and Parole in the 21st Century	Granting Felons Probation: Public Risks and Alternatives
Crime	Influence of Criminal Justice Research
Prisons: Crime and Justice	Police Performance and Case Attrition
Smart Sentencing: The Emergence of Intermediate Sanctions	Prison Versus Probation in California: Implications for Crime and Offender Recidivism
Criminal Justice Policy	Intensive supervision for high risk probationers: findings from three California experiments

Corrections and Sentencing Articles:

Survival Conditions for ISP	Dr. Petersilia's 1990 Address to the Am. Society of Criminology
Diverting Nonviolent Prisoners to Intermediate Sanctions: The Impact on California Prison Admissions and Corrections Costs
What Punishes? Inmates Rank the severity of Prison vs. Intermediate Sanctions	Hard Time: Ex-Offenders Returning Home After Prison (2005)
Perceptions of Punishment: Inmates and Staff Rank the Severity of Prisons Versus Intermediate Sanctions	A Dual Experiment in Intensive Community Supervision: Minnesota's Prison Diversion and Enhanced Supervised Release Programs
25 Years of NIJ Research	A Decade of Experimenting With Intermediate Sanctions: What Have We Learned?
Challenges of Prisoner Reentry And Parole in California	Alternative Punishment as a Policy Option for California
Crime Control Rationale for Community Corrections	Prisons Research at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Probation in the United States: Practices and Challenges	When Prisoners Return to Communities: Political, Economic, and Social Consequences
Work Release: Recidivism and Corrections Costs in Washington State	Performance Measures for the Criminal Justice System
Profiling Inmates in the Los Angeles County Jails: Risks, Recidivism, and Release Options	Prisoner Reentry and Criminological Knowledge
Prisoner Reentry: Public Safety and Reintegration Challenges	Race and Imprisonment Decisions in California

Disability Topics:

Justice for all? Offenders with mental retardation and the California corrections system.	Crime Victims with Developmental Disabilities: A Review Essay
Doing Justice? Criminal Offenders with Developmental Disabilities (summary)	Doing Justice? The Criminal Justice System and Offenders With Developmental Disabilities (full report)
Invisible Victims: Violence Against Persons with Developmental Disabilities	Crime Victims with Developmental Disabilities: Report of a Workshop (Full Report)