While there are no systematic studies of speech, language and communication difficulties in adult prisoners, conditions which are strongly associated with communication difficulties such as dementia, learning difficulties and psychiatric conditions are shown to be prevalent in this population. In addition, ...
slip-up or by-product theoryadaptations to killThe United States prison population is becoming more diverse and comprised of increasingly more violent inmates. Although race has been cited as a risk factor for inmate violence, most prior research had narrowly investigated White/Black differences in ...
PrisonRace/ethnicityPurpose: With the rapid growth in the older inmate population and the economic impact of end-of-life treatments within the cash-... Phillips,L Laura,Allen,... - 《Gerontologist》 被引量: 13发表: 2011年 The Joint Effects of Offender Race/Ethnicity and Sex on Sentence Len...
We applied a "prison life expectancy" to specify differences in exposure toimprisonment by gender and race at the population level.Methods: The impact of imprisonment on life expectancy in the United States was measured foreach year from 2000 to 2004, and then averaged. Using the Sullivan ...
INTRODUCTION The North Carolina Sentencing and Policy Advisory Commission has a legislative mandate to prepare prison population (bed) projections on an annual basis. The projections are prepared in conjunction with the Department of Public Safety and are used by the Department and the General Assembly...
While the Jewish population in prison is small, it's hard for practicing Jews to go unnoticed. Chris Dankovich discusses the reasons behind antisemitism in prison. For many reasons, Jewish people in prison are often viewed as perpetual outsiders, and have often[...] ...
based on race White 36.60%Black 37.97%Hispanic 25.43% violent vs non violent crimes violent crimes 72.66%non violent crimes 27.34% People of color make up 37% of the U.S. population but make up more than 67% of the prison population. African American men are 6x more likely to be incarce...
A substantial amount of scholarly research on trends in the correctional population emerged in the 1990s and 2000s. The consequences of the unprecedented increase in incarceration have also been examined, particularly with regard to the large-scale incarceration of minorities. Overall, the numerous ...
Prisons were first used for confinement in Europe in the 16th century (a prison called Tuchthuis was founded in the Netherlands in 1595). The original purpose of isolation by imprisonment was to deter criminals and render them harmless. With the growth of the prison population, men were separat...
their popularity waned in the 1970s as people began to realize that this might not be an acceptable environment in which to raise children. There are currently eight states with prison-nursery programs, though some states have community-based residential parenting programs to handle this population....