Yu-Heng (Steven) Chen, doctoral student in the Department of Criminal Justice, recently had 3 articles published.

His first paper, published in Deviant Behavior, employs fixed-effects analyses to assess whether within-individual changes in moral disengagement, legal cynicism, and exposure to violence are associated with changes in adolescent polydrug use. He found that within-individual changes in these risk factors affect changes in adolescent polydrug use.

The next paper, a systematic review published in the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, examines the evolution of institutional corrections over the past decade, with a focus on trends in general and special prison populations, release mechanisms, and key institutional provisions. He also explored the utility of agency documents in advancing evidence-based practices and facilitating cross-societal comparative studies.

Steven’s third paper, published in Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, is a meta-umbrella systematic review that consolidates findings from 26 umbrella reviews published over the past decade to identify prevailing research trends, assess intervention effectiveness, and inform practice and policy across diverse contexts in approaches to substance abuse.