The Location of Women's Prisons and the Deterrence Effect of 'Harder' Time [PDF]
Most studies of the deterrence effect of incarceration treat a year in prison as having the same deterrence effect regardless of the conditions of incarceration.
Eric Helland, Kelly Bedard
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Poverty, Race, and Community Policing in Buffalo [PDF]
, 2015 The region’s inequality has dramatic effects in every aspect of life, and the criminal justice system is no exception. As PPG documented in its 2013 report, Alarming Disparities, African-Americans account for 14% of Erie County’s population but 43% of ...
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'Close confinement tells very much upon a man' : prison memoirs, insanity and the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century prison [PDF]
, 2019 This article explores prisoners’ observations of mental illness in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century prisons, recorded in memoirs published following their release. The discipline of separate confinement was lauded for its potential to improve
Marland, Hilary
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The Present prison system and the stimulus to depersonalization of the prisoner
, 2021 Este artigo pretende oferecer uma pequena contribuição ao debate interdisciplinar do direito com a filosofia, concretamente a perspectiva filosófica da vida humana enquanto narrativa, do filósofo espanhol Julián Marías. A visão de Marías e seu conceito de despersonalização serão aqui trazidos para analisar o sistema prisional atual.
Siqueira, Gilmar +2 more
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'From defensive paranoia to … openness to outside scrutiny' : prison medical officers in England and Wales, 1979-86 [PDF]
, 2017 This article examines how a branch of medicine based within the criminal justice system responded to a society which by the 1970s and 1980s was increasingly critical of the prison system and medical authority.
Duvall, Nicholas
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La polizia penitenziaria tra sovraffolamento carcerario e burnout: il dibattito interno [PDF]
Rivista di Criminologia, Vittimologia e Sicurezza, 2014 This article tackles the problem of operational and professional management of Italian Prison Police Corps starting from the present precarious situation of the Italian prison system.
Marco Baudino
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Keeping our mob healthy in and out of prison [PDF]
The prison health system presents an opportunity to improve Aboriginal prisoners’ health and wellbeing, diagnose and treat health and mental health problems, and mitigate the effects of harmful behaviours.
Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
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Population trends, convictions and imprisonment: Demographic divergence, dichotomy and diversity [PDF]
, 2006 The links between population patterns and trends, and policy and planning for the justice system is important. The trends in the number of convictions and imprisonments by regional councils are investigated for the period 1986 to 2001. This does not just
Baxendine, Sandra, Pool, Ian
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Justice in Review: New Trends in State Sentencing and Corrections 2014-2015 [PDF]
, 2016 In 2014 and 2015, 46 states enacted at least 201 bills, executive orders, and ballot initiatives to reform at least one aspect of their sentencing and corrections systems.
Maia Spotts +2 more
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Tuberculosis Outbreak in a State Prison System - Washington, 2021-2022. [PDF]
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep, 2023 Stalter RM +11 more
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