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Human Cattle: Prison Overpopulation and the Political Economy of Mass Incarceration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper examines the costs and impacts of prison overpopulation and mass incarceration on individuals, families, communities, and society as a whole.
Hanna, Peter
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Adverse Childhood Experiences in Autistic and Neurotypical Girls

open access: yesAutism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic, life‐altering events that occur in childhood with long‐term negative physical and/or mental health outcomes. Previous research, while limited and largely focused on males, suggests children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are at higher risk of experiencing ACEs than typically ...
Jon Ebert   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fact Sheet: Girls in Juvenile Justice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Facts about pathways for girls into the juvenile justice system and data suggesting that girls' arrest and incarceration are tied to differential ...
Lawanda Ravoira
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Creating space(s) for learning in prison: Developing an andragogical framework

open access: yesBritish 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parental Incarceration and Child Wellbeing: Implications for Urban Families [PDF]

open access: yes
Using a population-based, longitudinal family survey (N=4,898), we identify a set of economic, residential, and developmental risks particular to the children of incarcerated parents.
Amanda Geller   +3 more
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The Changing Pathways of Hispanic Youths Into Adulthood [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Analyzes 1970-2007 census data for trends in skills acquisition, school enrollment, labor force participation, military enlistment, marriage and parenting, and incarceration among Latino youths.
Richard Fry
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Between soft power and suspicion: Chinese international students as diasporic actors in U.S.‐China geopolitical tensions

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of Incarceration on Employment and Wages An Analysis of the Fragile Families Survey [PDF]

open access: yes
We examine the effects of incarceration on the earnings and employment in a sample of poor fathers, using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study.
Amanda Geller   +2 more
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From the Warehouse to the Deathbed: Challenging the Conditions of Mass Death in Prison [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The purpose of this project is to analyze the crisis of mass incarceration by placing the conditions faced by elderly, terminally ill, and dying prisoners, as its main point of focus.
Chavez, Ernest K
core   +1 more source

Diet of bird‐like troodontid dinosaurs: synthesis of a contentious clade

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Troodontidae is a clade of small‐to medium‐sized maniraptoran theropods that mainly lived in Laurasia (modern Asia, North America and Europe) during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are believed to have had a variety of diets. The uniqueness of troodontid teeth suggests that they diverged from the typical flesh‐based diet of non‐avian ...
Yui Chi Fan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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