Why Has a Progressive Court Failed to Protect the Prison Population against COVID-19? Mass Incarceration and Brazil’s Supreme Court [PDF]
Health and Human Rights, 2023 Despite acknowledging the risks of the COVID-19 pandemic for the prison population, Brazil’s Supreme Court declined to issue structural injunctions during the health crisis ordering lower courts to consider these risks when making incarceration-related ...
Daniel Wei Liang Wang +6 more
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Potential drivers of HIV acquisition in African-American women related to mass incarceration: an agent-based modelling study [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2018 Background The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Incarceration can increase HIV risk behaviors for individuals involved with the criminal justice system and may be a driver of HIV acquisition within the community.
Joëlla W. Adams +7 more
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The Disciplining Effect of Mass Incarceration on Labor Organization. [PDF]
AJS, 2020 Previous research has described the criminal justice system as a “labor market institution.” In recent years, however, research on the relationship between the criminal justice system and the labor market has focused primarily on the negative impact of ...
Reich A, Prins SJ.
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Mass Incarceration and Racial Inequality. [PDF]
Am J Econ Sociol, 2018 AbstractDespite two decades of declining crime rates, the United States continues to incarcerate a historically and comparatively large segment of the population. Moreover, incarceration and other forms of criminal justice contact ranging from police stops to community supervision are disproportionately concentrated among African American and Latino ...
Pettit B, Gutierrez C.
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102 Mass incarceration spillover effects: Exploring neighborhood premature mortality through demographic subgroups and spatial relationships [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Translational ScienceObjectives/Goals: Mass incarceration, i.e., extremely high rates of incarceration concentrated in impoverished racially segregated communities, is associated with poor neighborhood health, but it is unclear if this is due solely to formerly incarcerated ...
Louisa Holaday +5 more
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The Effect of Mass Incarceration on Criminality in Colombia
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2021 This study surveyed the literature on the expected and unexpected effects of incarceration before (deterrence), during (incapacitation), and after (after-effects) prison confinement occurs, through a selective search that favored the analysis of studies ...
José Fernando Flórez
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Analyzing mass incarceration [PDF]
Science, 2021 With almost 2 million people in confinement, the United States locks up more people per capita than any other nation. Understanding the reasons and then forging a path to reduce mass incarceration in America will require better research and analyses of the government policies and spending that sustain the US carceral system.
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Mass incarceration, race inequality, and health: Expanding concepts and assessing impacts on well-being [PDF]
Social Science and Medicine, 2018 Kim M Blankenship +2 more
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Set up to fail: The politics, mechanisms, and effects of mass incarceration
Latin American Law Review, 2021 The rise of the citizen security paradigm has complemented, rather than curtailed, authoritarian legacies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Notably, criminal justice and law enforcement policies continue to feed a wave of mass incarceration, evidenced
Adrian Bergmann, Rafael Gude
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Mass Incarceration and Its Devastating Effects
Canadian Journal for the Academic Mind, 2023 This research paper utilizes various sources from Canadian studies and firsthand accounts to identify the issues within penitentiaries and the Canadian criminal justice system.
Keana Jong
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