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Toxic Prisons? Local Environmental Quality and the Wellbeing of Incarcerated Populations
LandA growing body of scholarship draws attention to prisons and environmental justice, pointing out the propensity for prisons to be located on contaminated sites and to be in close proximity to polluting industries, as well as for prisons themselves to ...
Dominique Moran +2 more
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What\u27s Going on in Our Prisons? [PDF]
, 2016 Additional governmental oversight is urgently needed to truly change the culture of a system that holds 53,000 inmates across 54 prisons in New York State.
Mushlin, Michael B.
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study develops and tests a novel prioritization framework for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under varying geographic scales (regional, sub‐regional, national), focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as a pilot case.
Lea Issa, Mutasem El Fadel
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Increased mortality among Indigenous persons during and after release from prison in New South Wales
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2012 Objective: To estimate the overall and cause specific mortality of Aboriginal offenders in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Methods: The study cohort consisted of all Aboriginal men and women aged 18 years and older who had experienced full‐time ...
Azar Kariminia +3 more
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The Psychological Impact of Long-Term Solitary Confinement on Inmates in the United States [PDF]
, 2016 Psychological distress among inmates is prevalent in correctional facilities throughout the United States. Although, according to Haney (2003), severe isolation of incarcerates has been commonplace in prisons since their inception, the use of secure ...
Schulz, Kerri
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Quel corpus pour l’analyse de la prison comme « terrain difficile » ? [PDF]
, 2015 Valentina Gabriela Hohotă
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Homicide, punishment and deterrence in Australia
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Australian data encompassing 1910–2022, by year and state, were analyzed to estimate the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates. Our estimates showed that capital punishment had a negative and significant effect on homicides. In some specifications, the estimates implied that an execution was associated with 12.68 fewer homicides ...
Hugh Farrell, Vincent O'Sullivan
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Narratives of Health in Prison [PDF]
, 2011 In this paper I want to talk about the use of narrative to explore health issues in prisons. I begin with a discussion of story, the part it plays in our lives and its use in research.
Fairbairn, G
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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Under the Enemy Flag: Prisoner of War Experiences: An Interview with Angela Zombek and Michael Gray
, 2018 Over the course of this year, we’ll be interviewing some of the speakers from the upcoming 2018 CWI conference about their talks. Today we are speaking with Angie Zombek, Assistant Professor of History at St. Petersburg College. Dr.
Luskey, Ashley Whitehead
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