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Post-release tuberculosis risk among formerly incarcerated populations in Lima Peru

Nature Communications
People who experience incarceration face a markedly elevated risk of tuberculosis (TB), yet the extent to which this vulnerability persists after release remains incompletely characterized.
Chuan-Chin Huang, Meredith B. Brooks, Mercedes C. Becerra, Roger I. Calderon, Carmen C. Contreras, Judith Jimenez, Leonid Lecca, Alicia E. Madden, Rosa M. Yataco, Zibiao Zhang, Megan B. Murray   +10 more
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Incarceration history and opioid use among adults living with HIV and chronic pain: a secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study

Health & Justice
Background Adults living with HIV have disproportionately high chronic pain, prescription opioid use, history of substance use, and incarceration. While incarceration can have long-lasting health impacts, prior studies have not examined whether distant (>
Anna B. Lichtiger, Yuting Deng, Chenshu Zhang, Justina Groeger, Hector R. Perez, Gayatri Nangia, Melanie Prinz, Emma Richard, Matthew Glenn, Ana Alicia De La Cruz, Ariana Pazmino, Chinazo O. Cunningham, K Rivet Amico, Aaron Fox, Joanna L. Starrels   +14 more
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National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow, Tanya A. Serry, Jennifer Buckingham, Lorraine S. Hammond, Stephen Dinham, Eamon Charles, Tessa A. Weadman, Nathanial R. Swain, Susan Hiland, Tessa Daffern   +9 more
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Risk of Overdose-Related Death for People with A History of Incarceration

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2020
Introduction Epidemiologic studies have shown that people released from correctional facilities are at substantially increased risk of overdose-related death compared with the general population.
Wenqi Gan, Stuart Kinner, Chloé Xavier, Bin Zhao, Amanda Slaunwhite   +4 more
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
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Clusters of Jail Incarcerations in U.S. Counties: 2010–2018

Statistics and Public Policy
This study investigates the spatiotemporal variations in jail incarcerations in addition to associations with several risk factors and jail incarceration counts at the county level for the period 2010–2018 in the contiguous USA.
Raid Amin, Alexis Angstadt, Vladimir Dragomirov, Maria Drury, Kyra Farinas, Michael Mezzano, Amy Muller, Paul Waterhouse   +7 more
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Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop, Alysoun Boyle, Tania Sourdin, Bin Li   +3 more
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Visualizing Jail Incarceration across the Rural-Urban Continuum, 1978 to 2018

Socius
In this data visualization, the author depicts four measures of jail incarceration, drawing attention to the growth, variation, and disparities in jail incarceration across the rural-urban continuum in recent decades.
Timothy Ittner
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