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Justice Reform: Who\u27s Got the Power [PDF]
, 2015 As the US prison population continues to rise despite the significant decrease in crime rates, scholars and social activists are demanding comprehensive reforms to the penal system that disproportionately affects minorities and the poor and has become a ...
Mayba, Yevgeniy
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Crack-cocaine dependence and aging: effects on working memory
Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria, 2016 Objective: To compare the working memory (WM) performance of young adult crack-cocaine dependent users, healthy older adults, and a control group of healthy young adults.
B. Sanvicente-Vieira +4 more
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Making Accurate Judgements in Child Welfare: Comparing ChatGPT With Qualified Social Workers
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study compares the judgemental accuracy of child and family social workers (n = 581) with ChatGPT, a generative AI model. Using 12 anonymized referrals, participants were asked predictive questions to evaluate accuracy through Brier scores. ChatGPT outperformed the average social worker on 11 of the 12 referrals, though the difference was
David Wilkins, Verity Benett
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on inequalities in children's services in the UK highlights a lack of systematic data on parental demographics, obstructing analysis of structural factors influencing children's outcomes. Using Growing Up in Scotland, a nationally representative longitudinal child cohort study of children born in 2004–2005, we investigate social ...
Valeria Skafida +2 more
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, 2016 The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (FSA) affected the U.S. federal mandatory minimum sentencing laws for to crack cocaine offenders, and represented the first Congressional reform of sentencing laws in over 20 years.
Bjerk, David J.
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The Crisis of the Young African American Male and the Criminal Justice System [PDF]
, 1999 African Americans are more likely to be victimized by crime and also to be under criminal justice supervision. This paper explores the current status of African-American males within the criminal justice system, assesses the factors that have created ...
Marc Mauer
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Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, 2016 Introduction: Brazil's Northeast region has the highest crack-cocaine consumption in the country. Crack-cocaine has more intense effects than cocaine powder and can cause greater chemical dependence.
Antonio Gomes de Castro +2 more
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Downward Mobility From the Middle Class: Waking Up From the American Dream [PDF]
, 2011 Examines trends in Americans falling out of the middle class, ranking 20 or more percentiles below their parents, or earning 20 percent or more below their parents' real income, and contributing factors across race/ethnicity and ...
Gregory Acs
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Excessive Daytime Sleepiness and Its Associated Factors Among Male Road Transport Workers in Brazil
Journal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study aimed to estimate the occurrence of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) and its associated factors among male road transport workers. A cross‐sectional study was conducted with a non‐probabilistic sample of 414 drivers recruited at gas stations and parking lots in Formosa and Rio Verde, Goiás, Brazil, in 2024. The presence of EDS was
Renato Canevari Dutra da Silva +6 more
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Bad Trip: Drug Prohibition and the Weakness of Public Policy [PDF]
, 1994 The case against prohibition is overwhelming precisely because so many different types of considerations all point to a single solution: the legalization of illicit drugs.
Barnett, Randy E
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