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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
wiley   +1 more source

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

Discover 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

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

Cardiovascular health education intervention in the Prison of Soria

Revista Española de Sanidad Penitenciaria, 2016
Objective: To promote awareness of healthy lifestyles, to help decrease the risk factors that cause cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia, through Health Education (HE).
M.M. Martínez-Delgado, C. Ramírez-López   +1 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Mental Health Consultations in Immigration Detention: What Can We Learn From Clinical Records?

International Journal of Public Health
Objectives: 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, Leonel C. Gonçalves, Patrick Heller, Anne-Claire B. Bachmann, Jonathan Barbolini, Clara Fuhrer, Laurent Gétaz, Laurent Gétaz, Eric Luke, Hans Wolff, Stéphanie Baggio, Stéphanie Baggio   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Collaborating in future states—Contextual instability, paradigmatic remaking, and public policy

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Collaboration is ubiquitous in public policy life, with its presence and profile determined by prevailing governance conditions. Commitments to globalisation and marketisation in the latter part of the 20th century marked the onset of an era defined by collaboration, between and across tiers and spheres of government, with non‐state actors ...
Helen Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

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

Polish 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
doaj  

Ethnic Minority Representation After the 2024 General Election: Does Ethnicity No Longer Matter?

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 127-133, January/March 2025.
Abstract With a new record of ethnic minority MPs elected in 2024, Westminster is nearly fully representative of voters of ethnic minority origins. This outcome was not entirely dependent on Labour's landslide, with pre‐election analyses showing that diversity of MPs would have improved with all possible election results.
Maria Sobolewska
wiley   +1 more source

Tra il reato e la persona

Culture 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

Harm 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, Ross Murtagh, Walter Cullen, Mary Keevans, Eamon Laird, Tina McHugh, Susan McKiernan, Sarah Jayne Miggin, Eileen O’Connor, Deirdre O’Reilly, Graham Betts-Symonds, Ciara Tobin, Marie Claire Van Hout, John S. Lambert   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source