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Violence, Volition, and Volatility: The Embodied Subjectivity of Women in Cults

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This paper explores the embodied experience of 25 women who are former cult members. By delving into the stories of three protagonists, we examine how these women engaged with and possibly redefined the cult's socially constructed notion of womanhood.
Shirly Bar‐Lev, Michal Morag
wiley   +1 more source

Tracking transfers: TB treatment completion among Ugandan prisoners

open access: yesInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2014
A. Schwitters   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

On infinite versions of the prisoner problem [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
We investigate some versions of the famous 100 prisoner problem for the infinite case, where there are infinitely many prisoners and infinitely many boxes with labels. In this case, many questions can be asked about the admissible steps of the prisoners, the constraints they have to follow and also about the releasing conditions.
arxiv  

Charging the Poor: Criminal Justice Debt & Modern-Day Debtors’ Prisons [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Debtors’ prisons should no longer exist. While imprisonment for debt was common in colonial times in the United States, subsequent constitutional provisions, legislation, and court rulings all called for the abolition of incarcerating individuals to ...
Sobol, Neil L.
core   +1 more source

Prisoner Participation in Prison Management

open access: yesChamp pénal, 2006
In January 2006 the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted Recommendation (2006) 2. The Recommendation contains the revised European Prison Rules. A new Rule 50 requires that prisoners be allowed and encouraged to discuss matters relating to the general conditions of imprisonment with prison administrations.
openaire   +2 more sources

Task‐Designated Identities in Danish Homeless Shelters

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This paper is based on an ethnographic study of how domesticity is enacted and adapted at homeless shelters for determining which clients are “service worthy .” The study draws on nineteen placement meetings with homeless men and focuses on institutional mechanisms for encouraging homemaking skills or domesticity among clients.
Amir B. Marvasti, Nanna Mik‐Meyer
wiley   +1 more source

Task Force on California Prison Crowding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This report offers policy and program options to be considered in the Special Session of the Legislature on the severe problems in California ...

core  

The Gold‐Maker of Animal Oil and Prussian Blue Fame — The Chemical and Medicinal Science Philosophy of Johann Conrad Dippel

open access: yesThe Chemical Record, EarlyView.
The radical Pietist Johann Conrad Dippel was a self‐proclaimed adept – a maker of gold and the philosophers’ stone. He was also a magister of theology, a doctor of medicine, and a self‐taught chemist, who coinvented the pigment Prussian Blue together with Johann von Diesbach, became known for his animal pyrolysis oil, his wonder‐wound balm, his ...
Curt Wentrup
wiley   +1 more source

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