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Good practice in projects working with prisoners' families
, 2009 The value of addressing the root causes of offending and understanding factors which encourage desistance from crime is becoming all the more apparent amongst policy makers, practitioners and academics alike.
Barry, Monica
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Inside the Lives of Hispanic Origin Ex-Convicts: Pre- and Post-Incarceration
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2018 Using in-depth interviews, this study examined the social upbringing, subjective experiences and coping mechanisms of Mexican origin ex-convicts before and after their incarceration. Overall, our participants experienced multiple structural disadvantages
Yok-Fong Paat +4 more
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Investment in Human Capital during Incarceration and Employment Prospects of Prisoners [PDF]
The costs of incarceration and recidivism to the community are substantial. These costs not only include the direct costs of imprisonment but also the opportunity costs arising from depletion of human capital and loss of output.
Giles, Margaret, Le, Anh Tram
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WORK OF PRISONERS IN MACEDONIA
Iustinianus Primus Law Review, 2015 The author of the paper analysis the work of prisoners according to the criminal executive legislation of the Republic of Macedonia, next, the international documents dealing with the rights of the prisoners, such as, the Standard Minimum Rules for the ...
Aleksandra Gruevska Drakulevski
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Suicides in male prisoners in England and Wales, 1978-2003.
, 2005 The number of suicides in English and Welsh prisons is increasing, but the excess compared with the general population has not been reliably quantified. We therefore compared, in narrow age bands, all 1312 suicides of male prisoners in England and Wales ...
Benning, R +4 more
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Empirical Evidence on Prisoners’ Discount Rates [PDF]
Listokin has recently drawn our attention to the fact that virtually nothing is known about the magnitude of prisoners’ discount rates in relation to their foregone income (legal or illegal), which incarceration implies.
Andrew Torre
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Investigation into the rehabilitation and reintegration of prisoners in Victoria [PDF]
, 2015 A whole-of-government approach focused on reducing offending is a key recommendation of this report tabled today by the Victorian Ombudsman. From the media release Between 2009 and 2012, the Victorian prison population rose by just under 11%.
Victorian Ombudsman
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The death toll of French former prisoners
, 2017 Several studies have documented that ex-prisoners are at higher risk of death than the general population but only one study, concerning one single prison, has examined the French case.
Kensey, Annie +3 more
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"Finitely Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma with Small Fines: Penance Contract" [PDF]
We investigate the finitely repeated prisoners' dilemma with explicit contractual devices. We show that full collusion can be achieved by incentivizing the players' final period of play with small fines. Our incentivizing modality is the penance contract,
Hitoshi Matsushima
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Health problems among detainees in Switzerland: a study using the ICPC-2 classification
BMC Public Health, 2011 Background Little is known about the health status of prisoners in Switzerland. The aim of this study was to provide a detailed description of the health problems presented by detainees in Switzerland's largest remand prison.
Bertrand Dominique +7 more
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