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Policy Capacity Under Decentralization: Kindergarten Education Reforms in the Philippines

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines the relationship between policy capacity and policy effectiveness in decentralized governance setups. It challenges the conventional view that policy functions should only be decentralized when requisite capacities already exist at lower levels of government. Instead, the paper proposes that capacity can follow function ‐ as
Kidjie Ian Saguin, M. Ramesh
wiley   +1 more source

THE PROBATION OFFICER APPLICATION: CURRENT LEGAL STATUS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES [PDF]

Probacja
The quality of educational, social rehabilitation, diagnostic, preventive and control tasks by the probation service depends on which candidates are recruited for the profession of probation officer through recruitment and how they are prepared to ...
Anna Janus-Dębska
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Members Only—The Emergence of the Business Family as a Professionalized and Differentiated Organizational System

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The importance of business families is increasingly gaining attention. However, to truly understand business families and their dynamics, they must be viewed as distinct systems. Since this area has received limited scholarly focus, we argue that forming a new system is more than just an extension.
Heiko Kleve, Theresa Arnold, Simon Caspary   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

European regional standards and recommendations on probation

Конституційно-правові академічні студії
This article explores the institutional and normative mechanisms of probation at the european regional level, focusing on their alignment with international legal standards.
Inga Demianchneko
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Alameda County Placement Risk Assessment Validation [PDF]

, 2000
The Alameda County Probation Department was awarded a grant from the National Institute of Justice in 1998 to develop a risk assessment for probation placement cases.

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Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
wiley   +1 more source

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Probation and problems of its implementation in the Russian Federation [PDF]

Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия «Экономика. Управление. Право»
Introduction. On February 6, 2023, the Federal Law “On Probation in the Russian Federation” 10-FZ was adopted. The law is aimed at the effective inclusion of persons subject to criminal penalties into a law-abiding society, as well as at ...
Gromov, Vladimir G.
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Philadelphia's Less Crowded, Less Costly Jails: Taking Stock of a Year of Change and the Challenges That Remain [PDF]

, 2011
Examines factors behind the 2009-10 decrease in Philadelphia's jail population; strategies for managing pretrial, sentenced, and probation or parole violator populations; and policies for further streamlining court processes and reducing jail ...
Clair Shubik-Richards, Don Stemen, Larry Eichel   +2 more
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How healthy is your ‘community of practice’? [PDF]

, 2004
This article explores cultural change and situated approaches to learning as a basis for understanding developments in the daily life of the probation organization. These are highlighted in the concept of ‘communities of practice’ that describes learning
Lynch, R.
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