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Findings from the Philadelphia Detention Utilization and Planning Study [PDF]
, 2001 Across the country, juvenile detention systems have been experiencing tremendous pressures including population increases, facility crowding, litigation, and a wide range of forces not directly under its control.
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Problematising ‘Vulnerability’ in Women's Prisons
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT ‘Vulnerability’ is a commonly used but little understood term in the field of social policy and beyond. The refocusing of our criminal justice system around notions of ‘vulnerability’ has had wide‐reaching consequences which often escape both academic and political attention.
Sarah Waite, Danica Darley
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Sustaining Homeownership Through Education and Counseling [PDF]
, 2003 This paper addresses a two-fold problem. First, some families are struggling to sustain their home ownership, yet market responses are inadequate.
Mark Wiranowski
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Flexible Contract, Flexible Morale? Microcredit Design and Repayment Discipline
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Flexible repayment benefits borrowers, but practitioners fear increased moral hazard. Investigating their concerns requires disentangling repayment choices from repayment capacity, which is typically infeasible in field studies. We use a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment with 645 microcredit borrowers to cleanly identify the effect of repayment ...
Kristina Czura, Anett John, Lisa Spantig
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Why Texas feels less subprime stress than U.S. [PDF]
Differences in economic factors and mortgage characteristics give the state a lower delinquency rate.Economic conditions - Texas ; Mortgage loans ; Foreclosure ; Subprime mortgage ; Housing ...
Anil Kumar
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Navigating New Terrain: Domestic Geographical Dispersion and IPO Survival in the United States
Journal of Business Finance &Accounting, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a text‐based measure to capture firms’ domestic geographic diversification within the United States, this study finds that newly listed firms with extensive geographic dispersion face an elevated risk of failure. This vulnerability is especially pronounced in industries dominated by soft information environments, where effective ...
Dimitrios Gounopoulos +2 more
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Final Report: Anchorage Disproportionate Minority Contact Study [PDF]
, 2010 This project examined disproportionate minority contact in Anchorage, Alaska. It was designed to provide a more nuanced understanding of disproportionate minority contact at the referral stage (when law enforcement officers refer youth to the Alaska ...
Everett, Ronald S. +2 more
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Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 498-515, April 2025.Worldwide, more than one in 10 children or adolescents is diagnosed with a mental disorder. Cash transfer programs, which aim to reduce poverty and improve life outcomes by providing direct cash assistance to families and incentivizing or enabling spending on education, health service use, dietary diversity and savings, have been shown to improve the ...
Sara R. Jaffee +3 more
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, 2018 The term delinquency or delinquent behavior often refers to acts that are illegal, to differentiate delinquency, as a legal phenomenon, from antisocial behavior, which harms others or society but is not necessarily unlawful. In the present entry, the term delinquent behavior refers to both officially registered and unregistered delinquent behavior, as ...
Asscher, J.J., Deković, M.
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Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.Background Examining resilience to adversity across multiple behavioral domains (e.g., psychological well‐being, social functioning) can better characterize positive development and inform novel prevention and intervention efforts. However, few studies have employed person‐centered methods to examine individual profiles of resilience across multiple ...
Jessica L. Bezek +5 more
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