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A positive childhood experience focused approach to planning programs serving children of incarcerated parents

open access: yesDiscover Psychology
Understanding children of incarcerated parents frequently reflects a myopic focus on risk, disadvantage, and likelihood of intergenerational justice system involvement.
Chelsea Hunsucker
doaj   +1 more source

Employment After Prison: A Longitudinal Study of Releasees in Three States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Analyzes former prisoners' experiences in finding work after release as well as predictors of success, including demographics, pre-prison employment, participation in in-prison employment-related programs, and job-hunting strategies.
Christy Visher   +2 more
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Killing Two Birds With One Stone? A New Pragmatist Perspective on the Rigor‐Relevance Gap in the Literature on Capacity Building Projects

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite scholarly and professional efforts, most capacity building projects fall short. The normative agenda, an effort to structure the concept and its practical applications, failed to produce rigorous thinking. A rigor‐relevance gap seems to prevail.
Kablan P. Kacou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Iowa Private Sector Prison Employment Works, Data Download, Iowa Department of Corrections, November 2006 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This issue of the ICON Data Download describes highlights from the findings for the Iowa sample, which tracked 1,091 inmates who worked in private sector prison industries jobs and were released from prison between 1999 and 2001, and compared their ...

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Leaving Terrorism Behind: The Healthy Identity Intervention Model of Change

open access: yesJournal for Deradicalization
Providing rehabilitation for individuals who commit terrorist offences presents challenges. These challenges include the varied and complex pathways into terrorism, which require flexible and comprehensive interventions that address the multitude of ...
Andrea Hall   +2 more
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Book Review-- Prison Pedagogies: Learning and Teaching with Imprisoned Writers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Prison Pedagogies, Learning and Teaching with Imprisoned Writers Edited by Joe Lockard and Sherry Rankins-Roberson Syracuse University Press, New York, 2018 ISBN 9780815654285 Reviewed by JUNE EDWARDS Mountjoy Prison, Dublin ...
Edwards, June
core   +1 more source

Illegal Wildlife Trade in a Tourism and Biodiversity Hotspot

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There are clear connections between tourism, development, and sustainable use—particularly in biodiversity hotspots, where tourists may unknowingly purchase souvenirs made from protected wildlife. This issue is explicitly recognized in the Sustainable Development Goals, including SDG15, Life on Land, and SDG16, Peace, Justice, and Strong ...
Jessica Chavez   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prosocial Motivation of Prison Service Officers as an Occupational Group with a Social Mission [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Journal of Social Rehabilitation, 2015
The occupation of the Prison Service officer belongs to the professions of public trust and is associated with the penitentiary social mission. In choosing their career path, officers should identify themselves with the mission of the penitentiary system
Robert Poklek
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Tra il reato e la persona

open access: yesCulture e Studi del Sociale, 2023
This paper focuses on the strategic nature of prison treatment activities proposed to men convicted of violent crimes against women. In a constant movement between theoretical dimensions and transformative practices, we will place at the centre of the ...
Liberata di Lorenzo , Gerardo Pastore
doaj  

Evaluating peer-supported screening as a hepatitis C case-finding model in prisoners

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal, 2019
Background Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection is endemic in prison populations, and HCV management in prisons is suboptimal. Incarceration is a public health opportunity to target this cohort.
Desmond Crowley   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

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