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The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports [PDF]
We estimate the effect of high school graduation on participation in criminal activity accounting for endogeneity of schooling. We begin by analyzing the effect of high school graduation on incarceration using Census data. Instrumental variable estimates
Enrico Moretti, Lance Lochner
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We're in it for the Long Haul: Alternatives to Incarceration for Youth in Conflict with the Law [PDF]
This paper specifically addresses five programs in Chicago that provide alternatives to incarceration for young people charged with or convicted of crimes.
Mariame Kaba, Michelle VanNatta
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Ursolic Acid Alleviates Orchitis via Modulating Ferroptosis in Peritubular Myoid Cells of Testis
Ursolic acid modulates key ferroptosis‐related pathways in the peritubular myoid cells of the testis in forest musk deer. ABSTRACT Chronic stress adversely affects reproductive health, increasing susceptibility to pathologies such as orchitis. Additionally, the maintenance of iron homeostasis is essential for preserving the function of the testicles ...
Yang Wang +11 more
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian +3 more
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Attitudes of US Voters toward Nonserious Offenders and Alternatives to Incarceration [PDF]
In April, 2009, NCCD commissioned Zogby International to conduct a national public opinion poll about American voter attitudes toward our nation's response to nonviolent, nonserious crime.
Christopher Hartney, Susan Marchionna
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Abstract A lack of minimum legal standards for body donation programs undermines recent strides by anatomy professionals to promote ethical best practices in the United States (US). In particular, the commercialization of the dead by nontransplant tissue banks poses a risk to the public trust in academic body donation programs.
Laura E. Johnson
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The perfect storm - a moment for decarceration
The metaphorical use of the term ‘perfect storm’ has been applied to the conditions that led to a decrease in the level of incarceration for children in England and Wales in the 1980s.
Hester, Richard
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Parents Behind Bars: What Happens to Their Children? [PDF]
Children do not often figure in discussions of incarceration, but new research finds more than five million U.S. children have had at least one parent in prison at one time or another -- about three times higher than earlier estimates that included only ...
David Murphey, P. Mae Cooper
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The spread of non‐native species
ABSTRACT The global redistribution of species through human agency is one of the defining ecological signatures of the Anthropocene, with biological invasions reshaping biodiversity patterns, ecosystem processes and services, and species interactions globally.
Phillip J. Haubrock +16 more
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Reform the Nation's Juvenile Justice System [PDF]
Calls for restoring the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's budget and leadership to reduce overreliance on incarceration and detention, protect incarcerated youth, limit the number tried as adults, and address racial ...
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