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Implementation of a Suicide Risk Screening Instrument in a Remand Prison Service in Berlin. [PDF]

Front Psychiatry, 2018
Dezsö D, Konrad N, Seewald K, Opitz-Welke A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Gatekeeping harm reduction in Canadian Federal Prisons: Perspectives on the threat risk assessment for the prison needle exchange program by prison administrative leadership

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Prison needle exchange programs (PNEPs) are evidence‐based, cost‐effective interventions that prevent transmission of blood‐borne viruses. PNEPs were introduced in a minority of Canadian federal prisons in 2018; however, participation is contingent on a mandatory approval process known as a “Threat Risk Assessment” (TRA ...
Nadine Kronfli, Nashira Popovic, Elise Weiss, Mark Stoové, Lise Lafferty, Olivia Price, Lynn M. Madden, Behzad Hajarizadeh, Andrew R. Lloyd, Frederick L. Altice   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A novel linked dataset to improve understanding about the health of people in Northern Ireland’s prisons

International Journal of Population Data Science
Objective and Approach We describe a collaboration between the Queen’s University Belfast, Administrative Data Research Centre (ADRC) in Northern Ireland (NI) and the NI Healthcare in Prisons Service (HIPS) to develop a novel linked database to assess ...
Janine Cooper, Dermot O’Reilly, Trish Kelly, Richard Kirk, Stephen McGarrigle, Ruth Gray, Michael Donnelly   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Context, mechanisms and outcomes of a social enterprise model of residential rehabilitation for problem substance use: A realist‐informed process evaluation

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims This study evaluated a three‐year residential rehabilitation programme, which aimed to support recovery from problem substance use via peer support and social enterprise activities. The aims were to clarify programme mechanisms and identify contextual factors associated with variation in outcomes.
Martin Anderson, Lucy Pickering, Mark McCann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early insights from a national scheme providing vaping devices for smoking cessation: A preliminary evaluation to inform future return‐on‐investment modelling in England

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Swap to Stop is a government scheme to promote smoking cessation. Local authorities in England were given e‐cigarette (vape) starter kits to provide alongside behavioural support in a wide range of settings. This study evaluated (i) scheme uptake by region of England, (ii) proposed delivery settings and the type and length ...
Esther Moore, Duncan Gillespie, Erikas Simonavičius, Leonie Brose   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public virtue, private ambition—Women owners of private hospitals in early twentieth‐century New Zealand

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract New Zealand's early‐twentieth‐century health service was a two‐tier system of state hospitals supported by an expanding network of over 300 private hospitals, almost exclusively owned by nurses and midwives. This article will show that this environment was created by a legislative framework introduced between 1901 and 1906, requiring nurses ...
Ann‐Marie Quinn
wiley   +1 more source

When First Nations Don't Count: H.V. Evatt and the Erasure of Palestinian Rights

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
As Minister for External Affairs in the Chifley Government, Herbert Vere Evatt played a pivotal role at the United Nations in securing the partition of Palestine and recognition of the State of Israel. These endeavours were represented by Evatt and in subsequent commentary as exemplifying Evatt's commitment to justice.
Jeff Rickertt
wiley   +1 more source

Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
wiley   +1 more source

Australian Royal Commissions Into Child Welfare, Abuse and Protection

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Both nationally and internationally, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (RCIRCSA) is widely viewed as a remarkably successful public inquiry. Unlike many other commissions, it was stable, attracted little controversy, was highly regarded, and led to extensive legal, regulatory and policy reform ...
Shurlee Swain, Katie Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper theorizes a source of bias in discretionary arrests: strategic limits on police officer learning. Officers have a variety of tactics at their disposal besides arrest that they use for less serious offenses when they judge the underlying behavior to be less severe. In departments led by a chief with special expertise in crime control,
Andrew J. McCall
wiley   +1 more source