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Downsizing Prisons in an Age of Austerity? Justice Reinvestment and Women’s Imprisonment

Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2016
Justice Reinvestment is being actively promoted as one means of reducing high levels of incarceration through diverting expenditures from prisons to fund services intended to provide support and supervision for offenders within the community and to ...
Julie Stubbs
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Punitivismo judicial y dictado de sentencias por parte de los jueces de menores en Argentina; Punitivismo judicial e sentenciamento de juízes juvenis na Argentina; Judicial punitivism and sentencing by juvenile judges in Argentina

Revista nuestrAmérica, 2020
Resumen: En Argentina rige el decreto ley 22.278/80 en materia de regulación penal juvenil. Dicho decreto es un resabio de la última dictadura que no fue modificado pese a numerosas iniciativas legislativas que proponen sancionar sistemas o regímenes ...
Silvia Teresa Guemureman
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Prison as a Generator of Social Disablement

Encyclopaideia
The paper explores the effects of social disablement caused by imprisonment, analyzing how this institution can exacerbate existing disability conditions or create new ones.
Sergio Grossi, Luca Decembrotto
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Severed Connections: An exploration of the impact of imprisonment on womenʼs familial and social connectedness [PDF]

, 2004
In 2002 Lotterywest made funds available for a joint project between Ruah Women’s Support Service, the Social Justice Commission of the Uniting Church of Australia and the Centre for Social and Community Research, Murdoch University.
Dot Goulding, Goulding, D.
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'They died of a broken heart': connecting women's experiences of trauma and criminalisation to survival and death post-imprisonment

, 2014
In this article we document women's experiences of post-release survival and death in Victoria, Australia. In particular, we map the interrelated impacts of trauma, criminalisation, institutionalisation and imprisonment.
M Segrave (13591648), B Carlton (13591669)   +1 more
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How India can compensate for wrongful imprisonment [PDF]

Wahid Sheikh of Mumbai suffered imprisonment for nine years for a crime he did not commit. A trial court acquitted him in 2015 when it found there was no evidence against him in the deadly 2006 Mumbai serial train blasts, in which 189 people died and ...
Upadhyay, Amit, Mehrotra, Abhinav
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Public Enforcement of Law [PDF]

This entry for the forthcoming The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Second Edition) surveys the economic analysis of public enforcement of law — the use of public agents (inspectors, tax auditors, police, prosecutors) to detect and to sanction ...
A. Mitchell Polinsky, Steven Shavell
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The Imprisonment of Women in Scotland: Restructure, Reform or Abolish? [PDF]

, 2017
The use of imprisonment and non-custodial alternatives for women in Scotland has remained a focus of attention in the 10 years since the publication of the Corston report.
Malloch, Margaret
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Is Life Imprisonment Without Remission a ‘Fourth Category’ of Punishment [PDF]

Life imprisonment without remission is a penal sentence in which the convict remains incarcerated for their entire natural life, without the possibility of release. This form of punishment is problematic for several reasons.
Zaidi, Syed Ahmad Nawaz, Chhapolia, Parth, Kishwar, Sanya Darakhshan   +2 more
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Prevalence of and factors associated with psychoactive substance use among people in prisons: A multi-centre, cross-sectional study in India. [PDF]

Indian J Med Res
Rao R, Kathiresan P, Mishra AK, Ambekar A, Agrawal A, Bhad R, Arya A, Munda SK, Khanra S, Kandasamy A, Sidana A, Molanguri US, Senjam GS, Bhuyan D, Kadam K, Majid A.   +15 more
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