Amirault, J., & Bouchard, M. (2017). Timing is everything: The role of contextual and terrorism-specific factors in the sentencing outcomes of terrorist offenders. European journal of criminology, 14(3), 269-289.

The punishment of terrorist offenders remains a relatively unexplored topic. Research is especially needed in the United Kingdom in light of the continued criminalization of terrorism specific offences and the July 2005 bombings. Using a sample of terrorist offenders convicted in the United Kingdom (n = 156), the current study examines the impact of legislative…

Read More »

Amirault, J., & Bouchard, M. (2017). Timing is everything: The role of contextual and terrorism-specific factors in the sentencing outcomes of terrorist offenders. European Journal of Criminology, 14(3), 269-289.

The punishment of terrorist offenders remains a relatively unexplored topic. Research is especially needed in the United Kingdom in light of the continued criminalization of terrorism-specific offences and the July 2005 bombings. Using a sample of terrorist offenders convicted in the United Kingdom (n = 156), the current study examines the impact of legislative and incident-based…

Read More »

Wong, J. S., Bouchard, J., Gravel, J., Bouchard, M., & Morselli, C. (2016). Can At-Risk Youth Be Diverted From Crime?: A Meta-Analysis of Restorative Diversion Programs. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 43(10), 1310-1329.

Existing reviews of the impact of restorative justice programs on juvenile recidivism have reached mixed conclusions. The present meta-analysis identified relevant studies through a systematic search of 20 databases over a 25-year period as well as the ancestry method. Application of inclusion criteria resulted in a set of 21 studies contributing 21 independent effect sizes….

Read More »

Ducol, B., Bouchard, M., Davies, G., Ouellet, M., & Neudecker, C. (2016). Assessment of the state of knowledge: Connections between research on the social psychology of the Internet and violent extremism (16-05). TSAS Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society.

This paper seeks to answer the question: How does social psychology contribute to our understanding of the link between the Internet and violent extremism? Link to full text on Research Gate

Read More »

Gallupe, O., Nguyen, H., Bouchard, M., Schulenberg, J. L., Chenier, A., & Cook, K. D. (2016). An experimental test of deviant modeling. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 53(4), 482-505.

Objectives: Test the effect of deviant peer modeling on theft as conditioned by verbal support for theft and number of deviant models. Methods: Two related randomized experiments in which participants were given a chance to steal a gift card (ostensibly worth CAN$15) from the table in front of them. Each experiment had a control group, a verbal…

Read More »

Amirault, J., Bouchard, M., Farrell, G., & Andresen, M. A. (2016). Criminalizing terrorism in Canada: Investigating the sentencing outcomes of terrorist offenders from 1963 to 2010. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 106(4), 769-809.

Despite having endured significant terrorist incidents over the past 50 years, terrorism-specific offenses were not criminalized in Canada until the implementation of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) in 2001. One of the primary goals of this legislation was to provide law enforcement with the tools necessary to proactively prevent terrorist incidents; however, the effectiveness of these…

Read More »

Kreager, D. A., Schaefer, D. R., Bouchard, M., Haynie, D. L., Wakefield, S., Young, J., & Zajac, G. (2016). Toward a criminology of inmate networks. Justice Quarterly, 33(6), 1000-1028.

The mid-twentieth century witnessed a surge of American prison ethnographies focused on inmate society and the social structures that guide inmate life. Ironically, this literature virtually froze in the 1980s just as the country entered a period of unprecedented prison expansion, and has only recently begun to thaw. In this manuscript, we develop a rationale…

Read More »

Gallupe, O., Bouchard, M., & Davies, G. (2015). Delinquent displays and social status among adolescents. Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 57(4), 439-474.

Adolescents with high social status are more important than others in determining the delinquent involvement of the peer group. Yet relatively little is known about how delinquency and analogous acts and traits affect social status. We examine whether adolescents who display a capacity for delinquency enjoy greater social status (popularity/centrality). Two models of delinquency display…

Read More »

Bouchard, M., & Lussier, P. (2015). Estimating the size of the sexual aggressor population. In A. A. Blokland and P. Lussier (Eds.), Sex Offenders: A Criminal Career Approach (pp. 351-372). Chichester, UK: John Wiley and Sons.

Several key parameters were introduced by criminal career researchers to better understand the longitudinal sequence of offenses committed by individuals. Two of the four key parameters defined and described by criminal career researchers are: participation and frequency. Criminal career researchers posited that participation and frequency are two distinct phenomena that may be driven by different…

Read More »