Publications


Peer-reviewed Journal Articles


Ardent hope for freedom: Escape ideation, learning, and resilience in long-term imprisonment


Joshua T. Ellsworth, Rick R. McCown, Norman Conti

The Prison journal, 2026, pp. 1–20


Are there any histories that are off limits?


Norman Conti, Joshua T. Ellsworth, Deanna Fracul

Metropolitan Universities, vol. 36(3), 2025, pp. 124–146


Convalescent care in the context of homelessness and housing instability: The importance of fostering predictably safe and secure recuperative environments.


Joshua T. Ellsworth, Anita Zuberi, Cathleen J. Appelt, Katie Willis

Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, 2025, pp. 1–14


The minutiae of crime-prone human ecologies


Joshua T. Ellsworth

Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, vol. 19(1), 2023, p. 168


Housing and criminality: the effect of housing placement on arrests among chronically homeless adults


Joshua T. Ellsworth

Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness, vol. 31(2), 2022, pp. 130–141


Street crime victimization among homeless adults: A review of the literature


Joshua T. Ellsworth

Victims & Offenders, vol. 14(1), 2019, pp. 96–118


The natural history of street-level criminality: Self-perceptions of vincibility and a persistent offender’s motive for desistance


Joshua T. Ellsworth

Journal of Theoretical & Philosophical Criminology, vol. 11(3), 2019, pp. 187–204


Entries in Edited Volumes


Domestic violence and homelessness among women


Joshua T. Ellsworth

Todd K. Shackelford, Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence, Springer Nature, 2023 3, pp. 1–10


Felony Murder


Joshua T. Ellsworth

Carla Lewandowski, Jeff Bumgarner, Criminal Justice in America: The Encyclopedia of Crime, Law Enforcement, Courts, and Corrections, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020, pp. 206–207