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Justice in Review: New Trends in State Sentencing and Corrections 2014-2015 [PDF]
, 2016 In 2014 and 2015, 46 states enacted at least 201 bills, executive orders, and ballot initiatives to reform at least one aspect of their sentencing and corrections systems.
Maia Spotts +2 more
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Homicide, punishment and deterrence in Australia
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Australian data encompassing 1910–2022, by year and state, were analyzed to estimate the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates. Our estimates showed that capital punishment had a negative and significant effect on homicides. In some specifications, the estimates implied that an execution was associated with 12.68 fewer homicides ...
Hugh Farrell, Vincent O'Sullivan
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Mental Health Consultations in Immigration Detention: What Can We Learn From Clinical Records?
International Journal of Public HealthObjectives: Knowledge on mental health consultations in immigration detention and characteristics of people receiving consultations is scarce. Based on a sample of 230 adult men in immigration detention in Switzerland, we aimed to: (1) Quantify the ...
Leonel C. Gonçalves +11 more
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Peer support in prison health care: an investigation into the Listening Scheme in one adult male prison [PDF]
, 2011 [Executive Summary] Introduction: Prisoners are six times more likely to take their lives than an average person in the UK. Current prison suicide prevention policy in England and Wales reflects the importance of peer supporters and working with outside
Foster, John, Magee, Helen
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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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 +5 more
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On Prison Ethics and Prison Labour [PDF]
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 1891 n ...
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The state of the prisons. Deaths in prison. [PDF]
BMJ, 1984 Revue aux points de vue statistique, medicolegal et psychologique. Les morts par suicide, par greve de la faim, par «autres causes». Les morts par incendie.
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Prison Visiting Policies and Practices [manuscript] [PDF]
, 1991 A version of this manuscript, as revised, was published as: Schafer, N.E. (1991). "Prison Visiting Policies and Practices." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 35(3): 263–275 (Fall 1991).
Schafer, N. E.
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Violence, Volition, and Volatility: The Embodied Subjectivity of Women in Cults
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This paper explores the embodied experience of 25 women who are former cult members. By delving into the stories of three protagonists, we examine how these women engaged with and possibly redefined the cult's socially constructed notion of womanhood.
Shirly Bar‐Lev, Michal Morag
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