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Priorities and Public Safety: Reentry and the Rising Costs of our Corrections System [PDF]
Examines trends in the state's corrections budgets, prison population, and recidivism and the impact of the economic crisis on corrections policies nationwide.
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Addiction‐related problems in Japan: A regional perspective
Abstract Japan's addiction landscape appears paradoxical. The lifetime use of illicit drugs is among the lowest in Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries, but harm from alcohol, tobacco, and gambling ranks among the world's highest.
Soichiro Ide +19 more
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The Price We Pay: Economic Costs of Barriers to Employment for Former Prisoners and People Convicted of Felonies [PDF]
Despite modest declines in recent years, the large and decades-long blossoming of the prison population ensure that it will take many years before the United States sees a corresponding decrease in the number of former prisoners.
Alan Barber, Cherrie Bucknor
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Do I Look Like a Criminal? Examining how Race Presentation Impacts Human\n Judgement of Recidivism [PDF]
Keri Mallari +5 more
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ABSTRACT Introduction People with opioid use disorder (OUD) are at elevated risk of incarceration. Understanding factors linked to this risk may support more targeted prevention and intervention efforts. This study used cross‐sectional survey data to examine associations with time to first incarceration and repeated incarceration among individuals with
Christel Macdonald +8 more
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Crime Rates and Alaska Criminal Justice Reform [PDF]
A shorter version of this article appeared on pp. 1–2 of the Fall 2017 print edition.Definitive conclusions about the impact of Senate Bill 91 on the rate of property crimes in Alaska are not possible for a number of reasons, including that the most ...
Cravez, Pamela, Myrstol, Brad A.
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Summary: More Than a Job Final Results from the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities Transitional Jobs Program [PDF]
The evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) transitional jobs program is one of the most rigorous tests of an employment program for former prisoners in recent years.
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The Minimum Wage, EITC, and Criminal Recidivism
Amanda Agan, Michael D. Makowsky
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