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Punishment and Welfare: Paternal Incarceration and Families’ Receipt of Public Assistance [PDF]

open access: yes
The US criminal justice and welfare systems together form important government interventions into the lives of the poor. This paper considers how imprisonment is related to welfare receipt for offenders and their families.
Naomi F. Sugie
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Ontogeny of the malleus in Mesocricetus auratus (Mammalia, Rodentia): Systematic and functional implications for the muroid middle ear

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The three mammalian auditory ossicles enhance sound transmission from the tympanic membrane to the inner ear. The anterior anchoring of the malleus is one of the key characters for functional classification of the auditory ossicles. Previous studies revealed a medial outgrowth of the mallear anterior process, the processus internus ...
Franziska Fritzsche   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Children of prisoners: a growing public health problem

open access: yesAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2004
Objectives:To estimate the number and proportion of children in New South Wales affected by parental incarceration, and to describe the health impact of punitive incarceration on the children of prisoners.
Simon Quilty   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Drawn into Violence: Evidence on 'What Makes a Criminal' from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries [PDF]

open access: yes
Draft lottery number assignment during the Vietnam Era provides a natural experiment to examine the effects of military service on crime. Using exact dates of birth for inmates in state and federal prisons in 1979, 1986, and 1991, we find that draft ...
Charles F. Stoecker, Jason M. Lindo
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Fact Sheet: A Blueprint for Reducing Mass Incarceration in America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
America has less than 5 percent of the world's population, but nearly 25 percent of its prisoners. Our criminal justice system drives and reinforces deep-seated racial inequity.
Lauren-Brooke Eisen
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The morphology of the oval window in Paranthropus robustus compared to humans and other modern primates

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The oval window (OW) is an opening connecting the inner and middle ear. Its area has been shown to consistently scale with body mass (BM) in primates, and has been used alongside semi‐circular canal (SCC) size to differentiate Homo sapiens and fossil hominins, including Paranthropus robustus.
Ruy Fernandez, José Braga
wiley   +1 more source

Elevated HIV risk behaviour among recently incarcerated injection drug users in a Canadian setting: a longitudinal analysis

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2009
Background While incarceration has consistently been associated with a higher risk of HIV infection for individuals who use injection drugs (IDU), the effect of incarceration on the post-release risk environment remains poorly described.
Wood Evan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inter‐microscope comparability of dental microwear texture data obtained from different optical profilometers: Part II Deriving instrument‐specific correction equations for meta‐analyses using published data

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) has emerged as a valuable method for investigating the feeding ecology of vertebrates. Over the past decade, three‐dimensional topographic data from microscopic regions of tooth surfaces have been collected, and surface texture parameters have been published for both extant and fossil species.
Mugino O. Kubo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incarceration's lingering health effects on Black men: impacts persist into retirement

open access: yesAIMS Public Health
Background The unique challenges Black men face within the criminal justice system underscore structural and systemic factors driving widespread inequalities.
Shervin Assari
doaj   +1 more source

Incentive and Incarceration Effects in a General Equilibrium Model of Crime [PDF]

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An intertemporal general equilibrium model of criminal behavior is used to analyze the effect on crime of changing policy parameters. The policy parameters are the length of the prison term, the severity of punishment, and the amount of police resources.
Persson, Mats, Siven, Claes-Henric
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