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Les savoirs des prisons : rationalité punitive et savoirs critiques

open access: yesTracés, 2009
Whether aiming at undermining the myths of the prison system, identifying the dominant rationale for the modern criminal justice system, or objectifying the structural violence of security in prisons, critical knowledge on prisons and criminal justice is
Gilles Chantraine
doaj   +1 more source

Carceral citizenship in post-protest Nicaragua: Political imprisonment and civil death

open access: yesEuropean Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2023
This paper demonstrates how the extension and intensification of penal power across Nicaragua following the 2018 protests has produced particular experiences of carceral citizenship. In order to fully understand these experiences, it is necessary to take
Julienne Weegels
doaj   +1 more source

Who Knows Best What the Next Year Will Hold for You? The Validity of Direct and Personality‐based Predictions of Future Life Experiences Across Different Perceivers

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract This study explored the validity of person judgements by targets and their acquaintances (‘informants’) in longitudinally predicting a broad range of psychologically meaningful life experiences. Judgements were gathered from four sources (targets, N = 189; and three types of informants, N = 1352), and their relative predictive validity was ...
Nele M. Wessels   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managing critical services through hybrid arrangements [PDF]

open access: yesRAUSP Management Journal, 2019
Purpose – Building on the literature of hybrids in the context of public organizations, this paper aims to discuss under which conditions hybrids can adequately provide “critical services”, a subset of public services characterized by their simultaneous ...
Sandro Cabral, Claude Ménard
doaj   +1 more source

The ‘one bright light’ of Life in a Dark Cell: Reading and Writing in Victorian and Edwardian English Prisons

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2022
In 2013, the Ministry of Justice’s ban on sending books to prisoners sparked a wave of protests. It was eventually declared illegal as books were deemed essential to rehabilitation.
Alice Bonzom
doaj   +1 more source

Suicide in prisons: an international study of prevalence and contributory factors

open access: yesLancet psychiatry, 2017
Summary Background Prison suicide rates, rate ratios, and associations with prison-related factors need clarification and updating. We examined prison suicide rates in countries where reliable information was available, associations with a range of ...
S. Fazel, Taanvi Ramesh, K. Hawton
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Homelessness Service Usage Patterns of 30,000 Homeless and At‐Risk Households: The Melbourne Access Point Study

open access: yesAustralian 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Designing ‘Healthy’ Prisons for Women: Incorporating Trauma-Informed Care and Practice (TICP) into Prison Planning and Design

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019
There has been growing acknowledgment among scholars, prison staff and policy-makers that gender-informed thinking should feed into penal policy but must be implemented holistically if gains are to be made in reducing trauma, saving lives, ensuring ...
Y. Jewkes   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

‘Somewhere We Can Call Home and…Be Normal’: Findings From the Justice Housing Programme Evaluation

open access: yesAustralian 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

Evaluating strategies for control of tuberculosis in prisons and prevention of spillover into communities: An observational and modeling study from Brazil

open access: yesPLoS Medicine, 2019
Background It has been hypothesized that prisons serve as amplifiers of general tuberculosis (TB) epidemics, but there is a paucity of data on this phenomenon and the potential population-level effects of prison-focused interventions.
T. Mabud   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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