Guided by the Job Demands-Resources model, this study examined how job demands and job resources were associated with turnover intention among South Korean probation officers through work-to-family conflict, depressive symptoms, and job satisfaction. This secondary analysis used probation-officer data from a broader 2024 national occupational survey covering probation and related juvenile-justice services; the analytic sample comprised 345 officers with a spouse or cohabiting partner. Structural equation modeling showed that workload burden, professional burden, and perceived physical threat were associated with greater work-to-family conflict, whereas training and development resources and safety and protection resources were associated with less conflict. Work-to-family conflict was positively associated with depressive symptoms, while relational and communication resources were negatively associated with depressive symptoms. Depressive symptoms and perceived physical threat were associated with lower job satisfaction; training and development resources and organizational resource adequacy were associated with higher job satisfaction. Job satisfaction was negatively associated with turnover intention. Bootstrap analyses indicated that job demands and resources were linked to turnover intention through distinct indirect pathways involving work-to-family conflict, depressive symptoms, and job satisfaction. Safety-related victimization was not significantly associated with depressive symptoms or job satisfaction and showed no significant indirect association with turnover intention. These findings suggest that turnover intention reflects both demanding occupational conditions and the organizational resources available to manage them. Improving workload management, safety protection, professional development, organizational capacity, and workplace relationships may contribute to a more sustainable probation workforce.
Prior studies often used a Latin American dummy variable as a proxy for violent culture. To overcome this limitation, the current research used two direct measures of attitudes toward justifying violence in general and wife-beating in particular from the World Values Survey (2017-2022) and the United Nations' homicide rate (2020-2023) across 52 countries. OLS regression analyses found no clear evidence that violent cultural attitudes predicted homicide rates. Instead, income inequality had a Latin American-specific effect, while affluence and government effectiveness maintained a global effect on the homicide rate. The Latin American dummy variable was consistently and strongly related to a high-level of homicide rate.
This study examines Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT) as a mandated narrative intervention focusing on how women on probation and MRT facilitators make sense of its emphasis on responsibility, honesty, and trust. Drawing on interviews with eight women on probation and two MRT facilitators at a Women Reentry Project, we conduct a dialogical narrative analysis. This approach examines how multiple, sometimes competing, voices emerge within the clients' accounts and those of the facilitators. Women frequently draw on institutional narratives of responsibility to account for compliance and credibility, while disclosures of trauma and addiction tend to surface later or remain only partially articulated. Facilitator narratives complicate dominant critiques of MRT by revealing how responsibility discourse is both enforced through authority and softened through care, community ties, and trauma-informed awareness. Rather than treating narrative contradictions as evidence of dishonesty or resistance, this analysis interprets them as dialogical tensions produced within a correctional storytelling regime. By centering collective storytelling, narrative competence, and power, this study moves beyond recidivism as the sole metric of effectiveness and offers a more nuanced account of MRT's impacts as multiple, contested, and relationally produced.
This paper approaches narrative criminology through the visual art produced by Carey Grayson prior to his execution by nitrogen gas in the state of Alabama in 2024. The art satirically represents Dr. Joseph Antognini, an anesthesiologist who testifies as an expert witness in favor of the safety of nitrogen gas as a method of execution. When studied through the lens of narrative sequencing and restorying, the satirical portraits by Grayson raise important ethical questions about the increasing involvement of medical professionals in executions, which undermines the Hippocratic oath these professionals take to "do no harm." Grayson's satire uses his own imminent execution as a window for exploring the absurdity of states' experimentations with new methods as they attempt to establish compliance with the Eighth Amendment in the wake of botched executions related to lethal injection. We triangulate this art with transcripts of Antognini's expert witness testimony in Grayson's legal challenge to highlight the "medicalization" of executions in the U.S.
Research into the profiles of serial killers has largely relied on generalisations derived from studies conducted in the United States and parts of Europe, limiting the applicability of such findings to culturally diverse contexts. The present study addresses this gap by examining the profiles of serial killers in India, the most populous country in the world. Adopting an exploratory descriptive research design, the study analyses 132 serial killers reported between 1997 and 2025 using a database constructed from both primary and secondary sources. Employing quantitative methods, the study examines key variables including spatial analysis, socio-economic characteristics, prior criminal history, and victim counts. The findings of the study largely aligned with existing literature while also identifying certain patterns that are unique to the Indian context.
