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Advantages and risks of using alternatives to imprisonment: International legal standards and national law of the Republic of Kazakhstan

open access: yesOñati Socio-Legal Series
This study rests on a critical analysis of the key objectives and significance of alternatives to imprisonment at both the international and Kazakh legal levels.
Raushan Baizakova   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

“You can’t always pick your cellmate but if you can….it is a bit better”: Staff and Prisoner Perceptions of What Factors Matter in Cell Allocation Decision-Making

open access: yesKriminologie - Das Online-Journal, 2020
Sharing a prison cell can be a difficult experience and yet levels of overcrowding mean that staff must often decide which individuals should be placed in a cell together.
Aimée Muirhead   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Schools in Assisting Children and Young People with a Parent in Prison – findings from the COPING Project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Children who experience parental incarceration are vulnerable to facing poor outcomes in terms of their mental health and education. Schools have the potential to provide a point of stability during a parent's prison sentence, thereby assisting children ...
Raikes, Ben
core   +3 more sources

Families, Imprisonment and Legitimacy : The Cost of Custodial Penalties

open access: yes, 2019
This book examines what it means to be a family within the restrictive, disruptive, and often distressing context of imprisonment. Drawing on original qualitative data, it looks beyond traditional models of the family to examine the question of which ...
Jardine, Cara
core   +2 more sources

Considering the Juridical Commands of Debtors of Marriage Portion [PDF]

open access: yesآموزه‌‌های فقه مدني, 2011
M onetary debts in jurisprudence have several commandments that some of them are disputable in view of jurisprudents. For example necessity of paying debt in the case of financial ability and necessity of granting respite to him in the case of ...
Dr. Javad Irvani
doaj  

The ‘Last Resort’: A Moral and/or Legal Principle?

open access: yesOñati Socio-Legal Series, 2013
The paper addresses critically the constitutional status of the so-called ‘last resort’ principle on three different levels: in the jurisprudence of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, in the criminal justice principles at a European
Panu Minkkinen
doaj   +2 more sources

The Optimal Use of Fines and Imprisonment When Wealth is Unobservable [PDF]

open access: yes
This article studies the optimal use of fines and imprisonment when an offender's level of wealth is private information that cannot be observed by the enforcement authority. In a model in which there are two levels of wealth, I derive the optimal mix of
A. Mitchell Polinsky
core  

Historical reasoning about Indigenous imprisonment: a community of fate? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The high rate of Indigenous incarceration is a problem for public policy and therefore for historical and social analysis. This paper compares and contrasts two recent attempts at such analysis: Thalia Anthony’s Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment ...
Rowse, Tim (R14027), Tim Rowse
core  

Crime and imprisonment in South Africa with particular reference to prison labour [PDF]

open access: yes, 1975
In this thesis, which records research into prisoner employment practices in various countries and makes certain recommendations for the development of correctional treatment in South Africa, the author has started from the premise that, justifiably or ...
Corry, Terence Macalaster
core   +1 more source

Children of prisoners: Virtual communities negotiating and managing relationships, isolation and stigma. [PDF]

open access: yes
There is a general consensus amongst the relatively few current researchers that there are negative effects upon children who experience parental imprisonment.
Swallow, Amanda
core   +4 more sources

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