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Reshaping a Fractured System: Arlen Specter’s Footprint on the Criminal Justice System in the U.S. [PDF]
, 2018 The criminal justice system in the United States of America has been in peril since the beginning of the 1960’s, spiraling downward as the rates of crime shot upward across the country.
Brown, Kaitlyn
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Despite the heightened mental health challenges amid rising Anti‐Asian sentiment, Asian Americans have significantly underutilized mental health services, a trend that persisted even before the COVID‐19 pandemic. Although considerable efforts have been made to understand how various factors are related to mental health service use in this ...
Michael Park +6 more
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Social Sciences, 2021 Economic threat arguments within the broader racial/ethnic threat theory suggest that economic competition between minorities and Whites encourages the majority group to apply formal social controls on minorities to maintain their advantaged positions ...
Christopher D’Amato +2 more
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Has Revenge Become a Justification to Legitimize the Death Penalty? [PDF]
, 2020 Revenge has played a role in criminal justice systems for thousands of years. From the Code of Hammurabi, to the Bible, to modern Supreme Court jurisprudence, revenge, or “getting even,” has been a consideration in how wrongdoers are punished, especially
Ryan, Jordan
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the last three decades, overseas researchers have utilised administrative data to identify distinct patterns in shelter use. In Australia, the use of administrative data to understand service utilisation patterns among people ‘at risk’ of homelessness and experiencing homelessness is limited.
Godwin Kavaarpuo +2 more
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Crime Science, 2017 Background That crime is concentrated at a few places is well established by over 44 studies. This is true whether one examines addresses or street segments. Additionally, crime is concentrated among offenders and victims.
John E. Eck +3 more
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Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Jails: Recommendations for Local Practice [PDF]
, 2015 People of color are overrepresented in our criminal justice system. One in three African American men born today will be incarcerated in his lifetime. In some cities, African Americans are ten times more likely to be arrested when stopped by police. With
Jessica Eaglin
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Systems and structures designed to protect and support young people, specifically (in this paper) young women, are ironically the same systems that maintain gender disparity. Consequently, this has influenced the embodied identities of young women who experience and use violence. Such systemic and structural intersectionality has impacted upon
Louise Rak +3 more
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What It Takes: Implementation and Expansion of a Quick Response Team
Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Human Rights and ScienceEN | Abstract: Quick Response Teams (QRTs) have proliferated across the United States in response to the opioid overdose crisis. One of the first county-wide QRTs in the nation, the Hamilton County, Ohio QRT (HC-QRT), has been heralded as a model QRT ...
Sarah M. Manchak +5 more
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Street‐Level Drug Law Enforcement: A Meta‐Analytic Review
Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2007 The fight against street‐level drug crime cannot be won by spending more resources on traditional, reactive style police work. Rather, partnerships between the police and other “third parties” should be applied, such that police work cooperatively with ...
Lorraine Mazerolle +2 more
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