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Healthier prisons: The role of a prison visitors' centre [PDF]

, 2009
Since the inception of the prison as a ‘setting’ for health promotion, there has been a focus on how the health of those men and women who spend ‘time inside’ can at least be maintained and if possible, enhanced, during their prison sentence.
Baybutt M, Boswell G, Cunningham A, de Viggiani N, Department of Health, Department of Health, Department of Health, Greenwood N, Hairston C, Hairston C F, Hartworth C, HM Chief Inspectorate of Prisons, Holt N, Home Office, Lester C, Light R, Light R, Loucks N, Loucks N, McCallum A, McEvoy K, Morris P, Niven S, NOMS, Salmon S, Smith C, Smith R, Social Exclusion Unit, Webster G, Woodall J, Woodward W   +30 more
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Promoting radical healing to facilitate community capacity building among formerly incarcerated Black and Latino men with substance use disorders

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study reports on a qualitative thematic analysis of secondary data from group session recordings collected as part of the Community Wise Optimization Trial. Community Wise is a multilevel behavioral intervention designed to increase critical consciousness and reduce substance use among formerly incarcerated men living in predominantly ...
Richmond E. Hayes, Heather A. Jones, Ellen Benoit, Dora N. Watkins, Liliane C. Windsor   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Demographic Variations in Achievement Goal Orientations among Prisoners on Formal and Vocational Training in Uganda [PDF]

, 2018
Educating Prisoners has become a worldwide concern as a measure that can save community costs associated with criminal behavior. In Uganda, there is low participation in formal and vocational training among prisoners which can be associated with lack of ...
Aheisibwe, Irene, Rukundo, Aloysius
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Homelessness Service Usage Patterns of 30,000 Homeless and At‐Risk Households: The Melbourne Access Point Study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the last three decades, overseas researchers have utilised administrative data to identify distinct patterns in shelter use. In Australia, the use of administrative data to understand service utilisation patterns among people ‘at risk’ of homelessness and experiencing homelessness is limited.
Godwin Kavaarpuo, Kathryn Daley, Guy Johnson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transitional Jobs for Ex-Prisoners: Early Impacts from a Random Assignment Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program [PDF]

, 2007
After one year, CEO's transitional jobs program generated a large but short-lived increase in employment for ex-prisoners. A subgroup of recently released prisoners showed positive effects on recidivism: They were less likely to have their parole revoked,
Cindy Redcross, Dan Bloom, Gilda Azurdia, Janine Zweig   +3 more
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‘Somewhere We Can Call Home and…Be Normal’: Findings From the Justice Housing Programme Evaluation

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The relationship between homelessness or unstable housing and reincarceration is well documented. The initial month after a person is released from custody is a period of particular vulnerability, with an increased risk of homelessness and return to prison.
Helen Taylor, Lorana Bartels
wiley   +1 more source

Not hearing us: An exploration of the experience of deaf prisoners in English and Welsh prisons [PDF]

, 2012
This research explores the experiences of profoundly deaf prisoners in England and Wales. It analyses current provisions for deaf prisoners and uses interviews and case studies to investigate the manner in which provision is delivered in order to make a ...
McCulloch, Daniel
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Understanding Youth Assaults of Police Officers in Australia: A Power Threat Meaning Framework Analysis

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores youth violence towards police officers in Australia through the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) to better understand the underlying factors contributing to such violence; focusing on power dynamics, childhood adversity, and trauma.
Dimitra Lattas, Kelly Hine, Catherine Creamer, Kelley Burton, Katelyn Davenport‐Klunder   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling alternative strategies for delivering hepatitis B vaccine in prisons : the impact on the vaccination coverage of the injecting drug user population [PDF]

, 2008
Since 2001 hepatitis B vaccination has been offered to prisoners on reception into prisons in England and Wales. However, short campaigns of vaccinating the entire population of individual prisons have achieved high vaccination coverage for limited ...
A. J. SUTTON, Gilbert, Gilbert, N. J. GAY, O. N. GILL, W. J. EDMUNDS, Weild   +6 more
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Ontogeny of the malleus in Mesocricetus auratus (Mammalia, Rodentia): Systematic and functional implications for the muroid middle ear

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The three mammalian auditory ossicles enhance sound transmission from the tympanic membrane to the inner ear. The anterior anchoring of the malleus is one of the key characters for functional classification of the auditory ossicles. Previous studies revealed a medial outgrowth of the mallear anterior process, the processus internus ...
Franziska Fritzsche, Wolfgang Maier, Irina Ruf   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source