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Defining and measuring homicide rates for birth cohorts: Methodological and theoretical challenges and solutions

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Social scientists have long been interested in understanding how age, period, and cohort effects shape long‐term homicide trends. Yet fundamental measurement challenges remain pervasive in estimating age‐specific homicide rates for birth cohorts.
Jason Robey, Matt Vogel
wiley   +1 more source

Routine active case finding in Nigerian penitentiary institutions: comparing yields from digital X-ray with CAD4TB and WHO 4-symptom screening. [PDF]

BMC Infect Dis
Chukwuogo O, Odume B, Ugochukwu L, Ogbudebe C, Chukwu E, Useni S, Nwokoye N, Sheshi M, Nongo D, Ihesie A, Eneogu R, Ubochioma E.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Prisoners and Prisons

Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, 1929
openaire   +1 more source

Can prisons move people into better jobs? A look at correctional vocational training programs and sectoral employment outcomes

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Three‐quarters of US prisons offer vocational training programs, which aim to place trainees in middle‐skills jobs in specific occupational sectors post‐release. These middle‐skills jobs may more effectively reduce recidivism than the jobs that normally characterize the labor market experience of the formerly incarcerated, yet whether ...
Britte van Tiem
wiley   +1 more source

Systematic review of the tuberculosis burden in prisons: Regional patterns and gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean. [PDF]

Glob Epidemiol
Perea-Jacobo R, Soto-Ledesma JL, Laniado-Laborín R, Flores DL, Zapata-Garibay R, González-Fagoaga JE, García-Sánchez LA, Robles-Flores J, Villa-Aviles LG, Muñiz-Salazar R.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Prisoners Educating Prisoners

Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, 1969
openaire   +2 more sources

Prevention of Hepatitis C by Screening and Treatment in U.S. Prisons

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2016
T. He, Kang Li, M. Roberts, A. Spaulding, T. Ayer, J. Grefenstette, J. Chhatwal   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Correctional officers and drug smuggling: Boundary work, horizontal surveillance, and cultural responses to drug entry

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Drug entry into prisons represents a serious issue for both incarcerated people and prison staff. Although substances enter prisons in many ways, staff drug smuggling represents a consistent problem facing correctional institutions globally. We draw on 131 interviews with correctional officers (COs) working in four Western Canadian prisons to ...
William J. Schultz, Sandra M. Bucerius, Kevin D. Haggerty   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Considerations for Collecting Public Health Data on Justice-System Involvement. [PDF]

Public Health Rep
Boothe D, Sharpe JD, Halleck B, Marlow M.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The hidden discount: Examining racial disparity in the use of suspended sentences

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Extant research on criminal sentencing generally concludes that racial/ethnic disparity is concentrated in the “in–out” decision, and that racial differences in sentence lengths are small and inconsistent. However, sentence length analyses rarely focus on the fact that criminal sentences are often partially or fully suspended, creating ...
Kevin Petersen, Brian D. Johnson, Allison D. Redlich, Miranda A. Galvin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source