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6372
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6218
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2973

Overview

Christopher T. Lowenkamp is affiliated with the University of Missouri-Kansas City in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences and psychology, with a focus on criminal justice and corrections analysis as well as crime patterns and interventions. They have also contributed to studies on psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending, torture, ethics, and law, migration, health and trauma, homelessness and social issues, and sexual assault and victimization studies.

Lowenkamp's work includes publications in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include the SSRN Electronic Journal, Criminology & Public Policy, Behavioral Sciences & the Law, Criminal Justice and Behavior, and UNC Libraries.

They have collaborated with multiple co-authors regularly. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Jennifer L. Skeem
  • Lina Montoya
  • Edward J. Latessa
  • Thomas H. Cohen
  • Kristin Bechtel

Their recent papers include:

  • Using algorithms to address trade-offs inherent in predicting recidivism, 2020, Behavioral Sciences & the Law
  • Using Algorithms to Address Trade-Offs Inherent in Predicting Recidivism, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Risk Assessment Overrides: Shuffling the Risk Deck Without Any Improvements in Prediction, 2020, Criminal Justice and Behavior
  • Understanding racial disparities in pretrial detention recommendations to shape policy reform, 2023, Criminology & Public Policy
  • Understanding Racial Disparities in Pretrial Detention Recommendations to Shape Policy Reform, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal

Lowenkamp has contributed to book publications as well. One such publication is titled What Works in Reducing Recidivism, published in 2020 by the University of St. Thomas - Minnesota.

Their academic focus integrates sociology and political science alongside clinical psychology. This cross-disciplinary approach informs their investigation into criminal justice systems and policy reform, particularly addressing questions around risk assessment, racial disparities, and intervention strategies in corrections.

Best Publications

  • The Risk Principle in Action: What Have We Learned From 13,676 Offenders and 97 Correctional Programs?

    Christopher T. Lowenkamp;Edward J. Latessa;Alexander M. Holsinger

  • DOES CORRECTIONAL PROGRAM QUALITY REALLY MATTER? THE IMPACT OF ADHERING TO THE PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE INTERVENTION*

    Christopher T. Lowenkamp;Edward J. Latessa;Paula Smith

  • INCREASING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CORRECTIONAL PROGRAMMING THROUGH THE RISK PRINCIPLE: IDENTIFYING OFFENDERS FOR RESIDENTIAL PLACEMENT*

    Christopher T. Lowenkamp;Edward J. Latessa

  • RISK, RACE, AND RECIDIVISM: PREDICTIVE BIAS AND DISPARATE IMPACT*

    Jennifer L. Skeem;Christopher T. Lowenkamp

  • Replicating Sampson and Groves's Test of Social Disorganization Theory: Revisiting a Criminological Classic

    Christopher T. Lowenkamp;Francis T. Cullen;Travis C. Pratt

  • False Positives, False Negatives, and False Analyses: A Rejoinder to "Machine Bias: There's Software Used across the Country to Predict Future Criminals. and It's Biased against Blacks"

    Anthony W. Flores;Kristin Bechtel;Christopher T. Lowenkamp

  • Risk/Need Assessment, Offender Classification, and the Role of Childhood Abuse

    Christopher T. Lowenkamp;Alexander M. Holsinger;Edward J. Latessa

  • What Works in Reducing Recidivism

    Edward J. Latessa Ph.D.;Christopher Lowenkamp Ph.D.

  • Predicting outcome with the Level of Service Inventory-Revised: The importance of implementation integrity

    Anthony W. Flores;Christopher T. Lowenkamp;Alexander M. Holsinger;Edward J. Latessa

  • Applying the Risk Principle to Sex Offenders Can Treatment Make Some Sex Offenders Worse

    Brian Lovins;Christopher T. Lowenkamp;Edward J. Latessa

  • Exploring the validity of the Level of Service Inventory-Revised with Native American offenders.

    Alexander M. Holsinger;Christopher T. Lowenkamp;Edward J. Latessa

  • A random study of Staff Training Aimed at Reducing Re-arrest (STARR): using core correctional practices in probation interactions

    Charles R. Robinson;Christopher T. Lowenkamp;Alexander M. Holsinger;Scott VanBenschoten

  • Intensive supervision programs: Does program philosophy and the principles of effective intervention matter?☆

    Christopher T. Lowenkamp;Anthony W. Flores;Alexander M. Holsinger;Matthew D. Makarios

  • Ethnicity, gender, and the Level of Service Inventory-Revised

    Alexander M Holsinger;Christopher T Lowenkamp;Edward J Latessa

  • Assessing the Risk of Re-Offending for Juvenile Offenders Using the Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory

    Kristin Bechtel;Christopher T. Lowenkamp;Edward Latessa

  • Application of the Risk Principle to Female Offenders

    Lori A Brusman Lovins;Christopher T Lowenkamp;Edward J. Latessa;Paula Smith

  • A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Thinking for a Change A “Real-World” Application

    Christopher T. Lowenkamp;Dana Jones Hubbard;Mathew D. Makarios;Edward J. Latessa

  • Adhering to the Risk and Need Principles: Does It Matter for Supervision-Based Programs?

    Christopher T. Lowenkamp;Jennifer Pealer;Paula Smith;Edward J. Latessa

  • Gender, risk assessment, and sanctioning: The cost of treating women like men.

    Jennifer Skeem;John Monahan;Christopher Lowenkamp

  • Using algorithms to address trade‐offs inherent in predicting recidivism

    Jennifer Skeem;Christopher Lowenkamp

  • Gender and the predictive validity of the LSI-R: A study of parolees and probationers.

    Brenda Vose;Christopher T. Lowenkamp;Paula Smith;Francis T. Cullen

  • EVALUATION OF OHIO'S COMMUNITY BASED CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES AND HALFWAY HOUSE PROGRAMS FINAL REPORT

    Christopher T. Lowenkamp;Edward J. Latessa

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward J. Latessa
Edward J. Latessa University of Cincinnati
Jennifer L. Skeem
Jennifer L. Skeem University of California, Berkeley
Francis T. Cullen
Francis T. Cullen University of Cincinnati
Travis C. Pratt
Travis C. Pratt University of Cincinnati
John Monahan
John Monahan University of Virginia
John K. Cochran
John K. Cochran University of South Florida
Mitchell B. Chamlin
Mitchell B. Chamlin Texas State University
James Frank
James Frank University of Cincinnati

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