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Hepatitis C virus screening and treatment in Irish prisons from nurse managers’ perspectives - a qualitative exploration

BMC Nursing, 2019
Background Prisoners carry a greater burden of physical, communicable and psychiatric disease compared to the general population. Prison health care structures are complex and provide challenges and opportunities to engage a marginalised and poorly ...
D. Crowley, M. C. Van Hout, C. Murphy, E. Kelly, J. S. Lambert, W. Cullen   +5 more
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‘Cavemen in an era of speed-of-light technology’ : historical and contemporary perspectives on communication within prisons [PDF]

Many prisoners believe that the restricted access they have to computer-mediated communcation (CMC) technologies and, in particular, the almost total absence of computers and Internet access in prisons is a form of censure that renders them second-class ...
Jewkes, Yvonne, Johnston, Helen
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Universal Barriers and Facilitators to Systemic Hepatitis C Care: A Systems‐Informed Qualitative Process Evaluation

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scaling up hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing and treatment for people who inject drugs (PWID) is essential to achieve HCV elimination. We report a retrospective systems‐informed qualitative process evaluation of HCV care across multiple community‐based settings in a region in Scotland, UK.
Gabriele Vojt, Lawrie Elliott, Hannah E. Family, Sharon J. Hutchinson, Matthew Hickman, John F. Dillon, Paul Flowers   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The “We” and “Me” of Identity in Hazardous Industry Organizations: Face Work Tactics Among Practicing Engineers

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
In this paper, we use Goffman's notion of “face work” to examine how pipeline engineers perform and present their working selves as competent experts. Our analysis identifies various faces and face work tactics, including a focus on professional judgment, actively selling one's expertise relative to others, protective self‐deprecatory strategies, and ...
Sarah Maslen, Jan Hayes, Michael James Walsh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

AB 109 and its Impact on Prison Overcrowding and Recidivism: A Policy Analysis [PDF]

California experienced escalating issues with prison overcrowding from the late 1970s to 2010, as the prison population skyrocketed to unprecedented highs.
Wootton, Angie
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Forensic Analysis of Fountain Pen Calligraphy–II. Real Evidence Analysis at the Public Prosecutor's Office

X-Ray Spectrometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The present study is a report of the real forensic analysis of characters written by fountain pen(s) on two sheets of paper. One sheet is the calligraphy written by the victim of the Sayama incident. The other is number characters written with a fountain pen found on the lintel of the suspect's house.
Jun Kawai, Masafumi Nishimoto, Shinichi Ishizuka   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Preliminary Comparative Analysis of Russian Military Operations in Grozny and Kyiv | Uma análise comparative preliminary das operações militares russas em Grozny e em Kyiv

Political Observer
The article aims at a comparative analysis of the Russian military operations in Kyiv, during the current war in Ukraine, and those carried out in Grozny, during the 1st Chechen War, namely from a discursive and operational standpoint, in order to ...
João Gomes
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Differences in triage and medical confidentiality between prisons of Belgium and the Netherlands [PDF]

Objectives: The aim of this study is to describe the opinions of prison doctors, and to compare the primary health care in prisons between Belgium and the Netherlands.
Avonts, Dirk, Hallyn, Mathieu, Matthys, Jan, Miclotte, Anneleen, VAN MAELE, GEORGES   +4 more
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Bridging Leadership Development and Hip‐Hop Culture: Empowering Black Students Through Culturally Responsive Educational Approaches

New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 89-95, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT Hip‐hop music and culture have existed for decades in the United States. Since the 1970s, five critical elements have been defined as parts of hip‐hop culture: the MC (oral), the DJ (aural), graffiti (visual), knowledge (mental), and breakdancing (physical).
Jesse R. Ford, Jason K. Wallace, Johnnie L. Allen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mass incarceration: the juggernaut of American penal expansionism [PDF]

A plethora of evidence confirms that America continues to lead the world in imprisonment. No serious commentator doubts mass incarceration is a major issue for the nation.
Teague, Michael
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