Results 21 to 30 of about 290,279 (296)
Water Science and Technology, 2022 A number of cost-effective and environmentally friendly flood reduction measures can provide detention of runoff from natural landscapes upstream of urban areas, with multiple added benefits.
J. Kvitsjøen +4 more
doaj +1 more source
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Detained asylum seekers are at increased risk of self-harm, and the type of detention in which they are held may further exacerbate this risk.
Kyli Hedrick +3 more
doaj +1 more source
Clinicians’ perceptions of the health status of formerly detained immigrants
BMC Public Health, 2022 Background In the past decade, the U.S. immigration detention system regularly detained more than 30,000 people per day; in 2019 prior to the pandemic, the daily detention population exceeded 52,000 people.
Kathryn Hampton +5 more
doaj +1 more source
Pretrial detention and alternate methods of securing the presence of the accused during the criminal procedure [PDF]
Temida, 2009 In this paper, the author discusses pretrial detention and alternate methods of securing the presence of the accused during the criminal procedure. Except issues of terminology, in the introduction to this paper, the author deals with the current status ...
Perišić Jelena
doaj +1 more source
Ethnicity and the Mental Health Act 1983 [PDF]
, 2007 Background Black and minority ethnic (BME) patients are disproportionately detained under the Mental Health Act 1983. There has been no systematic exploration of differences within and between ethnic groups, nor of the explanations put forward for this ...
Churchill, Rachel +3 more
core +1 more source
The Insanity Defence: How Do We Handle Doubt?
Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2019 This paper discusses how the legal definition of criminal insanity has been altered several times in the Norwegian criminal law, most recently in June 2019.
Randi Rosenqvist
doaj +1 more source
Resilience effect of decentralized detention system to extreme flooding events
Journal of Hydroinformatics, 2023 The experiences from recent urban flooding events suggest that the conventional centralized detention systems based on detention size expansion with minimum costs need to accommodate the extreme flooding events exceeding their design capacity. This study
Amrit Bhusal, Ajay Kalra, Sangmin Shin
doaj +1 more source
Quality of life among immigrants in Swedish immigration detention centres: a cross-sectional questionnaire study [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2015 Background: Detention of immigrants negatively affects their health and well-being. Quality of life (QOL) is a broad concept incorporating the self-evaluation of one's own health and well-being that can provide an understanding of the health and well ...
Soorej J. Puthoopparambil +2 more
doaj +1 more source
After Guantanamo: War, Crime, and Detention [PDF]
, 2004 Neither the law of war nor the criminal law, alone or in combination, provides an adequate legal structure for responding to the most serious threats posed by Al Qaeda and similar groups.
Eberhard, Frances A. +2 more
core +2 more sources
Mental and physical health problems before and after detention: A matched cohort study
The Lancet Regional Health. Europe, 2021 Background: Individuals with poor health are largely overrepresented in prison populations. However, it remains unclear whether their poor health status already exists prior to their detention or reflects an effect of detention. We examined the health of
Anja J.E. Dirkzwager +3 more
doaj +1 more source