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Candace Kruttschnitt

Candace Kruttschnitt

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
43
Citations
6913
World Ranking
4468
National Ranking
260

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Candace Kruttschnitt is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily spans the field of social sciences, with a focus on sociology and political science. Their work addresses topics within criminal justice and corrections analysis, crime patterns and interventions, homelessness and social issues, psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending, as well as race, history, and American society.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Can Persistent Offenders Help Us Understand Desistance from Crime?, 2022, Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology
  • Out of prison, out of crime? The complex interplay between the process of desistance and severe resource disadvantages in women's post-release lives, 2022, European Journal of Criminology
  • In Memoriam Joan R. Petersilia (1951-2019), 2020, Annual Review of Criminology
  • On the Outside: Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration. By David J. Harding, Jeffrey D. Morenoff, and Jessica J. B. Wyse. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. xi+295. $90.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper)., 2020, American Journal of Sociology
  • Correction to: Can Persistent Offenders Help Us Understand Desistance from Crime?, 2022, Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with this researcher include:

  • Timothy Kang
  • Elanie Rodermond
  • Steve van de Weijer
  • Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard
  • Catrien Bijleveld

Their publications have appeared predominantly in these venues:

  • Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology
  • European Journal of Criminology
  • Annual Review of Criminology
  • American Journal of Sociology

Candace Kruttschnitt's research addresses complex questions related to desistance from crime, prisoner reentry, and reintegration processes, as well as the social challenges faced by individuals post-release, with particular attention to women's experiences and severe resource disadvantages.

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, awarded in 2017 by the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Crime in the Breaking: Gender Differences in Desistance

    Christopher Uggen;Candace Kruttschnitt

  • Patterns of intimate partner violence and their associations with physical health, psychological distress, and substance use.

    Kristin Carbone-López;Candace Kruttschnitt;Ross Macmillan

  • Predictors of desistance among sex offenders: The interaction of formal and informal social controls

    Candace Kruttschnitt;Christopher Uggen;Kelly Shelton

  • Marking Time in the Golden State: Women's Imprisonment in California

    Candace Kruttschnitt;Rosemary Gartner

  • Women's Imprisonment

    Candace Kruttschnitt;Rosemary Gartner

  • Gender and Crime

    Candace Kruttschnitt

  • Does Parenting Explain the Effects of Structural Conditions on Children's Antisocial Behavior? A Comparison of Blacks and Whites

    Jane D. McLeod;Candace Kruttschnitt;Maude Dornfeld

  • Female desistance: A review of the literature:

    Elanie Rodermond;Candace Kruttschnitt;Anne-Marie Slotboom;Catrien Cjh Bijleveld

  • Sex and Criminal Court Dispositions: The Unresolved Controversy:

    Candace Kruttschnitt

  • The Sex-Sanctioning Issue: Is it History?

    Candace Kruttschnitt;Donald E. Green

  • Estimating the Incidence of Rape and Sexual Assault

    Candace Kruttschnitt;William Kalsbeek;Carol House

  • WOMEN, CRIME, AND DEPENDENCY An Application of the Theory of Law

    Candace Kruttschnitt

  • DOING HER OWN TIME? WOMEN'S RESPONSES TO PRISON IN THE CONTEXT OF THE OLD AND THE NEW PENOLOGY*

    Candace Kruttschnitt;Rosemary Gartner;Amy Miller

  • Women's Imprisonment: A Study in Social Control.

    Candace Kruttschnitt;Pat Carlen

  • MOVING BEYOND THE STEREOTYPES: WOMEN'S SUBJECTIVE ACCOUNTS OF THEIR VIOLENT CRIME*

    Candace Kruttschnitt;Kristin Carbone-Lopez

  • Social Status and Sentences of Female Offenders

    Candace Kruttschnitt

  • The paradox of women's imprisonment

    Candace Kruttschnitt

  • Female crime and delinquency

    Candace Kruttschnitt;Coramae Richey Mann

  • Linked lives: stability and change in maternal circumstances and trajectories of antisocial behavior in children.

    Ross Macmillan;Barbara J. McMorris;Candace Kruttschnitt

  • Preventing Antisocial Behavior: Interventions from Birth through Adolescence.

    Candace Kruttschnitt;Joan McCord;Richard E. Tremblay

  • National Crime Victimization Survey

    Candace Kruttschnitt;William D. Kalsbeek;Carol C. House;Panel on Measuring Rape

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Uggen
Christopher Uggen University of Minnesota
Jane D. McLeod
Jane D. McLeod Indiana University
Merry Morash
Merry Morash Michigan State University
Paul Nieuwbeerta
Paul Nieuwbeerta Leiden University
Meda Chesney-Lind
Meda Chesney-Lind University of Hawaii at Manoa
Joan McCord
Joan McCord Temple University
Linda S. Heath
Linda S. Heath US Forest Service
Richard E. Tremblay
Richard E. Tremblay University of Montreal
Barbara J. McMorris
Barbara J. McMorris University of Minnesota
Darrell J. Steffensmeier
Darrell J. Steffensmeier Pennsylvania State University

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