In recent years, a number of new approaches in corrections have developed, one of which is the super-maximum, or "supermax," prison. This article explores the roots of these institutions, explains how they operate, and examines their potential effects on inmate populations. The extant empirical...
from the International Centre for Prison Studies shows that prison populations have risen in # per cent of the countries surveyed in its World Prison Brief (in # per cent of countries in Africa # per cent in the Americas # per cent in Asia # per cent in Europe and # per cent in ...
Michele Deitch, director of the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, said it’s likely, if not a certainty, that more people will die in jails as jail populations grow. And, she said, there will be cumulative...
Populations of the guppy Poecilia reticulata in Trinidad vary markedly in their tendency to school. In many cases this variation in behaviour can be attributed to variation in the predation regime: guppies that co-occur with the pike cic... Seghers, Benoni H,Magurran, Anne E - 《Revue Canadie...
The report reflects how an increase in drug-related crimes and tougher enforcement in those cases are helping to swell U.S. prison populations. In particular, sentences for drug offenses are drawing more and more women into what remain predominantly male institutions. ...
culture. No data existed for the 1990s, when Rosales was a child, but just 24 percent of Latinx responded that they participated in some form of outdoor recreation in 2010, compared to 44 percent today. The lack of participation is particularly dramatic in first-generation Latinx populations. ...
The growing number of older criminals appears to be at least partly a function of aging populations. In the U.S., the median age is now almost 38, a decade older than in 1970. The ranks of the elderly are projected to surge in the next few decades, with the number of people over ...
Adil Haider's conceptual model lists five major themes, which include patient factors, provider factors, system and access issues, clinical care and quality, and postoperative care and rehabilitation, all of which contribute to disparities in surgical patient populations.3 Health disparities in the ...
The attempted renewal of the Greek far right was evident in NP's programme, which identified the nation as the supreme political unit and advocated an expansionist foreign policy to 'liberate' Greek populations abroad. Greek far-rightists were also increasingly attentive to developments in the rest...
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