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Community experiences of organised crime in Scotland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The research explored community experiences of serious organised crime in Scotland (SOC). The report provides information on the nature and extent of the impact of SOC on everyday life in the community, as well as offering suggestions for policy ...
Atkinson, C.   +7 more
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The Prison Education Project in Scotland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The Prison Education Project (PEP) is the largest prison education program of its kind in the United States. With the assistance of 2,400 university student and faculty volunteers, PEP has served approximately 7,000 inmates in 14 correctional facilities ...
Reese, Renford
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Bad NGOs? Competition in the Market for Donations and Workers' Misconduct

open access: yesThe Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we investigate how competition among NGOs to attract donations shapes the incentives that NGOs provide to their employees. NGOs hire workers to undertake development projects, which are horizontally and vertically differentiated.
Nadia Burani, Ester Manna
wiley   +1 more source

‘There are Fourteen Grey Areas’: ‘Jailing’, Professionalism and Legitimacy in Prison Officers’ Occupational Cultures

open access: yes, 2020
The occupational cultures in which one is immersed have a profound impact on individual and group occupational identities (Ashforth and Kreiner, 1999). Occupational cultures are socially constructed patterns of shared thinking, feeling, and behaving, distinctly associated with particular occupations (Manning, 2007; Schein, 2010).
openaire   +1 more source

Leaders' Functional Specialization and Responses to Institutional Shifts during Crises: Evidence from the Pandemic

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Prior studies on crisis management often highlight the adaptiveness of generalist leaders, whose diverse functional experiences allow for flexible and innovative responses. However, we propose that in situations where crises lead to abrupt shifts in dominant institutional pressures, leaders with specialized functional backgrounds potentially ...
Yidi Guo, Danqing Wang, Shuo Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Incarceration American-Style [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In the United States today, incarceration is more than just a mode of criminal punishment. It is a distinct cultural practice with its own aesthetic and technique, a practice that has emerged in recent decades as a catch-all mechanism for managing social
Dolovich, Sharon
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Do deepfakes, digital replicas and human digital twins justify personality rights?

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract Unauthorised deepfakes are deeply problematic, from the spreading of misinformation to non‐consensual pornographic content. This paper asks whether deepfakes, digital replicas and human digital twins justify personality rights. To address this question, it examines the harms that deepfakes can cause through disinformation, demeaning content ...
Hayleigh Bosher
wiley   +1 more source

Priorities and Public Safety II: Adopting Effective Probation Practices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Outlines the structural problems of Massachusetts' corrections, the role of probation in public safety, best practices in community supervision in other states, and the elements of an evidence-based probation system, including inter-agency ...
Alyson Boehler   +3 more
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Unchained voices: Exploring incarcerated women's pathways to restorative justice

open access: yesLegal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Restorative justice (RJ) is an approach to justice that focuses on repairing the harm caused by criminal offences through dialogue, accountability and reparation. Despite its growing recognition, the implementation of RJ programmes within prison settings remains limited, particularly in women's prisons.
Inbal Peleg‐Koriat   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Keeping Kids In School and Out of Court [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
As the education of our children -- our nation's future -- and the school-justice connection has increasingly captured public attention, the sunshine of increased graduation rates has brought into sharp focus the shadow of the so-called school-to-prison ...

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