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Imprisonment and women's health: concerns about gender sensitivity, human rights and public health
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2011 The health of prisoners is among the poorest of any population group and the apparent inequalities pose both a challenge and an opportunity for country health systems.The high rates of imprisonment in many countries, the resulting overcrowding ...
Brenda J van den Bergh +3 more
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Prison brain? Executive dysfunction in prisoners [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 A better understanding of the functioning of the brain, particularly executive functions, of the prison population could aid in reducing crime rates through the reduction of recidivism rates. Indeed, reoffending appears to be related to executive dysfunction and it is known that executive functions are crucial for self-regulation. In the current paper,
Jesse eMeijers +5 more
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Release from prison--a high risk of death for former inmates.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2007 BACKGROUND The U.S. population of former prison inmates is large and growing. The period immediately after release may be challenging for former inmates and may involve substantial health risks.
I. Binswanger +6 more
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Do Overcrowding and Turnover Cause Violence in Prison?
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 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 ...
Stéphanie Baggio +8 more
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Self-harm among inmates of the Berlin prison system
Frontiers in PsychiatryIntroductionSelf-harming behavior in prisoners is a prevalent phenomenon, with international studies estimating a 4% prevalence rate. However, studies on self-injurious behavior in the German prison system are currently lacking. Therefore, our study aims
Alexander Blees +10 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 BackgroundAmong people living in detention, substance use is highly prevalent, including opioid dependence. Opioid agonist treatment (OAT) has been established as an evidence-based, first-line treatment for opioid dependence.
Kira von Bernuth +6 more
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Perspectives and Challenges in the Analysis of Prison Systems Data: A Systematic Mapping [PDF]
2021, 2021 Context: Open public data enable different stakeholders to perform analysis and uncover information from different perspectives. The identification and analysis of data from prison systems is not a trivial task. It raises the need for the research community to know how these data have been produced and used.
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Discover Social Science and HealthBackground The 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda resulted in the tragic loss of over one million lives and severely damaged social fabric of the country.
Felix Bigabo +4 more
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Strategic equivalence among hat puzzles of various protocols with many colors [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 We discuss ``puzzles of prisoners and hats`` with infinitely many prisoners and more than two hat colors. Assuming that the set of hat colors is equipped with a commutative group structure, we prove strategic equivalence among puzzles of several protocols with countably many prisoners.
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Prisoner's Dilemma on Real Social Networks: Revisited [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Prisoner's Dilemma is a game theory model used to describe altruistic behavior seen in various populations. This theoretical game is important in understanding why a seemingly selfish strategy does persist and spread throughout a population that is mixing homogeneously at random.
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