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Philadelphia's Crowded, Costly Jails: The Search for Safe Solutions [PDF]
, 2010 Analyzes trends in Philadelphia's jail population, spending on jails, and steps to enable effective management of the population while ensuring public safety, including reducing pretrial detentions.
Claire Shubik-Richards
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Care and control: Juvenile probation officers' roles when supervising pregnant and parenting teens
Juvenile and Family Court Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The purpose of this study is to understand how juvenile probation officers (JPOs) fulfill the “care” and “control” functions of their job when supervising a potentially vulnerable group of young people: pregnant and parenting teens. The results, derived from surveys administered to JPOs in a large county in Texas, indicate that many JPOs have ...
Brae Young
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Exploring Probation Supervision Compliance in the Netherlands [PDF]
, 2019 Security and Global ...
Aarten, Pauline G.M.
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Efficiency in the Global Prison System: A Systematic Literature Review and Bibliometric Analysis
Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study systematizes the international literature on prison system efficiency, highlighting patterns and research gaps through a multidimensional framework. By situating efficiency within broader institutional, social, and rights‐based contexts, it examines how academic research has assessed carceral performance.
Leandro Moreira +2 more
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Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose In some contexts, US‐based White jurors appear to exhibit a heightened focus on legally relevant information when the defendant is Black as compared to White. The current study tested this ‘watchdog’ effect in the Canadian context by examining mock jurors' decisions using a trial involving a recanted confession with an Indigenous or a ...
Logan Ewanation, Evelyn M. Maeder
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Positive practice positive outcomes: a handbook for professionals in the criminal justice system working with offenders with learning disabilities (2011 ed.) [PDF]
, 2011 Updated version of the handbook by the same name published by CSIP in 2007. "This handbook is intended as an introduction to working with offenders with learning disabilities. This group includes police suspects and defendants in court.
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
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Helping, holding, hurting: recalling and reforming punishment [PDF]
, 2009 The Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Bill currently before the Scottish Parliament represents one of the most significant planned reforms of punishment in Scotland for generations.
McNeill, Fergus
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how probation inspectors in England and Wales construct their self‐legitimacy; the internal belief in their moral and professional right to inspect. Drawing on qualitative interviews and Bottoms and Tankebe's dialogic model of legitimacy, it shows how inspectors justify their authority through legal mandates, professional
Jake Phillips
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Does the stepping‐stone effect of temporary agency employment vary over the business cycle?
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, EarlyView.Abstract We examine the cyclicality of the stepping‐stone effect of temporary agency work in Germany across three business cycles using administrative data and a timing‐of‐events model. We estimate in‐ and post‐treatment effects and their response to the unemployment rate.
Elke J. Jahn, Michael Rosholm
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