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Involvement in the US criminal justice system and cost implications for persons treated for schizophrenia

open access: yesBMC Psychiatry, 2010
Background Individuals with schizophrenia may have a higher risk of encounters with the criminal justice system than the general population, but there are limited data on such encounters and their attendant costs.
Faries Douglas E   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diagnosing the system: Mental health, necropolitical uncare, and the abolition of migration detention

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the psychological effects of migration detention in the European Union's Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC) on Samos through an ecological lens. It explores a double normalization of suffering: the brutalization of necropolitical migration governance and the simultaneous understanding of resulting distress as an ...
Julia Manek
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a more efficient, fair and humane criminal justice system: Developments of criminal policy and criminal sanctions during the last 50 years in Finland

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences, 2017
This article provides an overview of the developments of criminal law and criminal sanctions during the last 50 years in Finland. It reflects the author’s experience as a criminal scientist and an expert in drafting criminal legislation during this ...
Raimo Lahti
doaj   +1 more source

Black–White Disparities in Criminal Justice Referrals to Drug Treatment: Addressing Treatment Need or Expanding the Diagnostic Net?

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2016
Slightly more than half of admissions to U.S. publicly-funded treatment for marijuana use are referred by the criminal justice system; this pattern has remained for at least 20 years. Nationally, Blacks comprise nearly a third of treatment admissions for
Karen McElrath   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Black Women and the Criminal Justice System

open access: yes, 2018
Analytical framework black women and justice in history black women and policing black women and the courts black women in prison summary, implications, and limitations.
B. Agozino
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A rapid systematic review of what we know about alcohol use disorders and brief interventions in the criminal justice system.

open access: yesInternational Journal of Prisoner Health, 2016
PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to review the evidence of alcohol use disorders within the different stages of the criminal justice system in the UK. Furthermore it reviewed the worldwide evidence of alcohol brief interventions in the various stages
D. Newbury-Birch   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Freedom dreaming of migrant justice: Critical reflections on counterspaces and institutional violence in the university

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Firearm carrying practices and motivations: A mixed methods study among adults and youth

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this participatory action, mixed methods research study was to identify motivations related to firearm carrying from a qualitative perspective, and then to use quantitative research to characterize the patterns of motivations around carrying.
Krista R. Mehari   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dominus Litis and Legal Modernization: Towards a Transparent, Accountable, and Just Criminal Justice [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences
The criminal justice system in Indonesia currently faces various difficulties in implementing the Dominus Litis principle, which plays a crucial role in ensuring efficiency, substantial justice, and legal certainty.
Haryoputranto Ardhi
doaj   +1 more source

Becoming resilient: Community‐driven change and the civic capacity index

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract One of the principal features of successful community governance is that it is collaborative and thus dependent on a community's ability to work together. However, there are no valid, comprehensive means to assess a community's capacity to respond to civic challenges in collaborative ways, and that are predictive of community resilience and ...
David MacPhee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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