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One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008 [PDF]
, 2008 Examines the prison population's growth by gender, race/ethnicity, age, and state, and the costs of that growth, including its impact on other state funding priorities.
Jenifer Warren
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Efficiency in the Global Prison System: A Systematic Literature Review and Bibliometric Analysis
Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study systematizes the international literature on prison system efficiency, highlighting patterns and research gaps through a multidimensional framework. By situating efficiency within broader institutional, social, and rights‐based contexts, it examines how academic research has assessed carceral performance.
Leandro Moreira +2 more
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Field Theory and Colonialism: Indirect Colonial Situation as a Social Field in Egypt (1882–1922)
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Egypt under British rule (1882–1922) constituted a field of power in which the local state of Egypt and the British administration competed to dominate three key subfields to ensure control over a contested territory: the modern courts system, policing, and agricultural production.
Mehdi Hoseini
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Violent Crime in the City of Good Neighbors [PDF]
, 2007 A look at violent crime rates over the past twenty years shows that the ebb and flow of crime in Buffalo has reflected trends in many other cities: up in the early ‘90s, down during the mid and late ‘90s and rising gradually since 2000.
The University at Buffalo Regional Institute
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Bad NGOs? Competition in the Market for Donations and Workers' Misconduct
The 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
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Prison Officers and Their World.
Contemporary Sociology, 1990 Ronald S. Everett, Kelsey Kauffman
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The work in prison: reflections on the health of prison officers.
Revista brasileira de enfermagem, 2017 to understand the working conditions of prison officers and the repercutions of labor activity on their health.qualitative and descriptive research. Data were collected through open interviews with the prison officers of a regional prision and the speeches were submitted to content analysis.the results showed unsatisfactory working conditions due to ...
Caroline Raquele, Jaskowiak +1 more
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Journal 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
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Doing (Prison) Research Differently: Reflections on Autoethnography and ‘Emotional Recall’
Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2017 This paper offers a reflection on both the family of methods called autoethnography and on the experience of doing autoethnography in practice as a follow-up to a prison ethnography.
Luigi Gariglio
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Maternity Leave of a Prison Service Officer
Roczniki Nauk Prawnych, 2019 The study examines maternity leave regulations in a situation where both parents or legal guardians of a child are officers of the Polish Prison Service, or one of them is a PS officer, and the other is an employee or insured on the basis other than the employment relationship, e.g. a contract of mandate.
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