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Do Overcrowding and Turnover Cause Violence in Prison? [PDF]

, 2019
Violence is common in prison and its individual risk factors are well documented. However, there is a mixed evidence on the relationship between prison violence and institutional factors, such as overcrowding and turnover, and recent research suggested ...
Gétaz, Laurent, Heller, Patrick, Wolff, Hans, Peigné, Nicolas, Liebrenz, Michael, Baggio, Stéphanie, Baggio S, Liebrenz M, Gétaz L, Wolff H, Heller P, Peigné N   +11 more
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Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese, Chiara Fiscone, Ashraf Kagee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association Between the Emergency Department Length of Stay and in-Hospital Mortality: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Open Access Emergency Medicine, 2023
Hadiki Habib,1– 3,* Mondastri Korib Sudaryo4,* 1Doctoral Program of Epidemiology, Epidemiology Department, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia; 2Emergency Unit, Dr.
Habib H, Sudaryo MK
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Diagnosing the system: Mental health, necropolitical uncare, and the abolition of migration detention

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the psychological effects of migration detention in the European Union's Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC) on Samos through an ecological lens. It explores a double normalization of suffering: the brutalization of necropolitical migration governance and the simultaneous understanding of resulting distress as an ...
Julia Manek
wiley   +1 more source

Emergency department overcrowding: first Swiss application of the Emergency Department Work Index and risk factors for overcrowding

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionEmergency department (ED) overcrowding is associated with increased waiting time, reduced patient satisfaction, and decreased quality of care. Numerous validated scores are available for assessing ED overcrowding.
Aline Herzog, Michael Luster, Dagmar I. Keller Lang, Ksenija Slankamenac   +3 more
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Overcrowding as a possible risk factor for inpatient suicide in a South African psychiatric hospital

South African Journal of Psychiatry, 2015
About 4% of all suicides are estimated to occur while being an inpatient in a psychiatric facility. Staff generally assume that an inpatient suicide reflects a failure on their part to recognise the patient’s suicidal intent and whether it could have ...
Christoffel Grobler, Johanita Strumpher, Ruwayda Jacobs   +2 more
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Immigration detention centers as torturing environments: Ethical reckonings, radical refusals, and implications for a psychology of resistance

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines psychologists' ethical dilemmas in immigration detention centers. Using critical psychology, border, and detention scholarship, it highlights psychologists' historical complicity in state violence, from the U.S. Enhanced Interrogation Program to current border regimes.
Francesca Esposito, Federica de Cordova, Julia Manek, Sara Buckingham, Camilla Ponti, Francesco Tommasi, Bradley Olson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke, Joelle Moore, Fatemeh Aminpour, Katya Eagles   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prison overcrowding trend in Nigeria and policy implications on health

Cogent Social Sciences, 2021
In recent years, one of the major challenges confronting the Nigerian Prisons is the problem of overcrowding. The problem has snowballed into various dimensions such as poor feeding, dilapidated structures and unhygienic environment affecting the health ...
Oyeyipo Eyitayo Joseph, Asamu Festus Femi, Arisukwu Ogadimma, Rasak Bamidele, Oyeyipo Oluwakemisola, Oyekola Isaac Akintoyese, Olorunmola Jide Joseph   +6 more
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Classroom Overcrowding

, 2020
Cherrie Lyn Beltran's presentation titled "Classroom Overcrowding.
Beltran, Cherrie Lyn
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