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'Reclaiming the criminal' : the role and training of prison officers in England, 1877-1914 [PDF]
, 2008 This article examines the role and training of prison officers in England, between 1877 and 1914. It is concerned with the changing penal philosophies and practices of this period and how these were implemented in local prisons, and the duties of the ...
Blake Major W. +26 more
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In-prison university programs in Argentina: Building citizenship
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2023 In Argentina, more than half of the public universities carry out some kind of academic activity inside prisons. Together with their remarkable extension, these heterogeneous programs have emerged in a context that could be considered adverse: alarming ...
Ramiro Gual
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Blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections: a cross-sectional study in a Swiss prison
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018 Background Incarcerated people carry a high burden of infection, including blood-borne diseases (BBDs). It is also known that one million people contract a sexually transmitted infection (STI) every day worldwide, which represents a global public health ...
Komal Chacowry Pala +5 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2018 Background: Previous studies have reported a high prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among people living in detention (PLD) corresponding to a five- to ten-fold increase compared to the general population.
Stéphanie Baggio +14 more
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Teaching a distance higher education curriculum behind bars: challenges and opportunities [PDF]
, 2010 The provision of education that is both effective and relevant to the needs of students within prison is challenging on a number of levels. The uniqueness of prison culture with a regime characterised by a focus on security measures such as lock-downs ...
Watts, Jacqueline H.
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Prison staff and the health promoting prison. [PDF]
, 2011 Purpose – This paper aims to discuss some of the obstacles to implementing policy and strategy related to health promoting prisons. It focuses on the role of prison officers and raises issues concerning their conditions of service, training and ...
Dixey, R, Woodall, J
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Differences in triage and medical confidentiality between prisons of Belgium and the Netherlands [PDF]
, 2021 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 +4 more
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Men researching men in prison: the challenges for profeminist research [PDF]
, 2007 This article addresses epistemological and practical issues in conducting research in male prisons from a profeminist standpoint. It considers the role of the male researcher in engaging with prison masculinities and a sexist prison culture.
Cowburn, M.
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European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract This study explored the validity of person judgements by targets and their acquaintances (‘informants’) in longitudinally predicting a broad range of psychologically meaningful life experiences. Judgements were gathered from four sources (targets, N = 189; and three types of informants, N = 1352), and their relative predictive validity was ...
Nele M. Wessels +3 more
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Learning from PPO Investigations: End-of-Life Care [PDF]
, 2013 With a large and ageing prison population, the Prison Service has to deal with more foreseeable deaths from terminal and incurable illnesses than ever before. This brings new challenges for both prison regimes and prison facilities to accommodate the end
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