K. J. Lenihan, 69; Sociologist Studied Cause of Recidivism
By WOLFGANG SAXON
Published: June 01, 1998Sign In to E-Mail
Kenneth Joseph Lenihan, a New York research sociologist who helped refine the scientific methods used in criminology, died May 25 at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 69.
The cause was a heart attack, his family said.
Dr. Lenihan retired in 1995 as an associate professor of sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He had joined the faculty in 1980, after earlier stints as a researcher at Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research, the Vera Institute of Justice in New York and the Bureau of Social Science Research in Washington.
He brought his expertise to the study of recidivism rates among criminal offenders. He conducted a study in Baltimore, called the Life Project, for the United States Department of Labor in the early 1970's.
A large research project, it measured whether and how giving jobs or money to recently released offenders would affect the chances of their becoming repeaters. That project and further studies formed the basis of a standard work in the field, which he wrote with P. Rossi and D. Berk, ''Money, Work and Crime'' (Academic Press, 1980).
K. J. Lenihan, 69; Sociologist Studied Cause of Recidivism
By WOLFGANG SAXON
Published: June 01, 1998Sign In to E-Mail
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Kenneth Joseph Lenihan, a New York research sociologist who helped refine the scientific methods used in criminology, died May 25 at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 69.
The cause was a heart attack, his family said.
Dr. Lenihan retired in 1995 as an associate professor of sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He had joined the faculty in 1980, after earlier stints as a researcher at Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research, the Vera Institute of Justice in New York and the Bureau of Social Science Research in Washington.
He brought his expertise to the study of recidivism rates among criminal offenders. He conducted a study in Baltimore, called the Life Project, for the United States Department of Labor in the early 1970's.
A large research project, it measured whether and how giving jobs or money to recently released offenders would affect the chances of their becoming repeaters. That project and further studies formed the basis of a standard work in the field, which he wrote with P. Rossi and D. Berk, ''Money, Work and Crime'' (Academic Press, 1980).
Mr. Lenihan was born in Queens, and graduated from Columbia's School of General Studies in 1960. He also earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology at Columbia, the latter in 1974.
At John Jay he was regarded as a mentor who gave his time and personal care to students in need of extra coaching. He helped them write stronger papers and prepare research studies or doctoral theses.
Dr. Lenihan is survived by two sons, Andrew of Miami, and William of Manhattan; a daughter, Jean Lenihan of Seattle; four sisters, Eileen McEwan of Houston, Moira Earhart of North Carolina, Jean Dobson of Bay Shore, N.Y., and Sue Adams of Cape May, N.J.; and three grandchildren.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Recidivism in convicted rapists
http://www.jaapl.org/content/26/2/185.short
this baiscally mean that man that have been convicted of rape have been out of jail beofre they time is up. that mean that means that many time they have the arge to do it again.
this baiscally mean that man that have been convicted of rape have been out of jail beofre they time is up. that mean that means that many time they have the arge to do it again.
State Executions Help Teach That Life Is Cheap; Cure for Recidivism
State Executions Help Teach That Life Is Cheap; Cure for Recidivism
Published: June 06, 1989Sign In to E-Mail
To the Editor:
You have repeated your rejection of the death penalty so many times that I forgot your reason for it until you did it again in ''Lunging for Death'' (editorial, May 4). To say that the death penalty ''debases civilization'' is meaningless. What civilization? When? Where? How debased? Because you can't find statistics to support the idea that the death penalty deters doesn't mean that it doesn't, any more than we know that nuclear weapons really deter war. It just makes sense these days to have a nuclear arsenal.
No one says that the death penalty is the only answer to brutal murder. But it is a sure cure for recidivism, and it's far cheaper than keeping a killer in jail 30 or 40 years. While it may not deter a hard-case killer or a psychotic, it probably would deter the Bernhard Goetzes and the kind of youths accused of assaulting the jogger in Central Park.
The technical points you raise against the death penalty are also meaningless. I think the deterrent factor could be measured far more reliably if, for example, there had been 3,000 executions instead of 7 in Texas and Florida in 1987.
Published: June 06, 1989Sign In to E-Mail
To the Editor:
You have repeated your rejection of the death penalty so many times that I forgot your reason for it until you did it again in ''Lunging for Death'' (editorial, May 4). To say that the death penalty ''debases civilization'' is meaningless. What civilization? When? Where? How debased? Because you can't find statistics to support the idea that the death penalty deters doesn't mean that it doesn't, any more than we know that nuclear weapons really deter war. It just makes sense these days to have a nuclear arsenal.
No one says that the death penalty is the only answer to brutal murder. But it is a sure cure for recidivism, and it's far cheaper than keeping a killer in jail 30 or 40 years. While it may not deter a hard-case killer or a psychotic, it probably would deter the Bernhard Goetzes and the kind of youths accused of assaulting the jogger in Central Park.
The technical points you raise against the death penalty are also meaningless. I think the deterrent factor could be measured far more reliably if, for example, there had been 3,000 executions instead of 7 in Texas and Florida in 1987.
http://www.correctionsone.com/re-entry-and-recidivism/articles/4476770-Calif-inmate-mentoring-project-could-keep-offenders-out-of-jail/
The article basically mentions a program that could help rehabilitate prsioners in jail to keep them out.
The article basically mentions a program that could help rehabilitate prsioners in jail to keep them out.
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