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General health characteristics, psychological stress of inmates and living environment of a main prison in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Journal of Medicine, 2023
Background: Prison inmates, a deprived community are a part of general population. Understanding of their health characteristics, psychological stress and living environment is important to upgrade the existing situation.
C. M. Wickramatilake, B. De Silva, T. Nanayakkara, R. Nanayakkara, K. P. K. Gayashani   +4 more
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Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl, Miri Yemini, Claire Maxwell, Yating Hu, Benjamin Adams, Sarah Bergen   +5 more
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Conceptualizing algorithmic inequality and future agenda. An annual review of information science and technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The issue of inequality caused by algorithms, termed ‘algorithmic inequality’, has recently attracted scholarly attention in many disciplines due to its profound implications for society. While the body of literature on algorithmic inequality has grown, there remains a lack of comprehensive understanding of its nature, drivers, and impact ...
Shiwei Jia, Jia Tina Du, Hui Yan
wiley   +1 more source

College on the Margins: A Comprehensive Case Study of Three College-in-Prison Programs in the Southern United States

Behavioral Sciences
Research has well documented the far-reaching benefits of providing educational opportunities for individuals who are incarcerated, applicable to the students themselves and society. Given the many benefits, it is encouraging that access to U.S.
Haruna Suzuki, John C. Begeny
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Perceptions of vaccine safety and hesitancy among incarcerated adults and correctional staff in the rural midwest

Vaccine: X, 2023
Objectives: This project assessed vaccine hesitancy among staff and incarcerated adults in one rural medium-security prison in the Midwestern United States and identified differences in hesitancy across sociodemographic and work-related variables ...
Kelli E. Canada, Ashley Givens, Beth M. Huebner, Janet Garcia-Hallett, Elizabeth Taylor, Victoria Inzana, Daniel Edwards, Jr., Clark M. Peters, Dana Plunkett Cafourek   +8 more
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Impact of the pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT) shortage on prescribing in England: Analysis of national data

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aim Pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT) is essential for the management of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency. Since June 2023, the United Kingdom has been affected by a global shortage of PERT. We investigated the impact of this shortage on national prescribing trends for Creon, Nutrizym, Pancrex and Pangrol.
Teena S. Varghese, Mary E. Phillips, Louis Fisher, Helen Fitt, Adam Frampton, Christopher Wood, Agnieszka Lemanska   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Creating space(s) for learning in prison: Developing an andragogical framework

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Learning in prison is too often excluded from wider discussions of educational experiences, processes and impact. This paper proposes, for the first time, an iterative andragogical framework to conceptualise learning spaces within prison contexts.
Morwenna Bennallick, Jayne Finlay, Ross Little, Helen Nichols   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can ensuring that people with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) have effective education reduce the risk of incarceration?

Fields, 2023
Either through the media or various reports on the issue, it is widely understood that people with any form of disability are at a higher risk of getting involved with the Criminal Justice System (CJS) as both victims and offenders more often than non ...
Claudia Quintans Costa
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Otherwise engaged? Learning from non‐participation in research with care‐experienced students

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores what can be learned when educational research “fails.” Drawing on a Welland Trust–funded project in the North East of England that aimed to support care‐experienced students transitioning from further to higher education, we reflect on why, despite sustained effort, there was a lack of engagement.
Lynette Harland Shotton, Tom Disney, Andrea Carrick, Laura Thurman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decision Theory and Proof Standards for Future Crimes: Possible Uses and Open Questions

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What should be the proof standard for applying preventive criminal sanctions based on an establishment of risk of reoffending? This is an open question in legal systems around the world. Various authors suggest that we can answer it by using decision theory. This approach conceptualises the proof standard as a probabilistic threshold. A person
Hylke Jellema, Johannes Bijlsma
wiley   +1 more source