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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Alternatives to incarceration."”.
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APPLYING GLADUE PRINCIPLES REQUIRES MEANINGFUL INCORPORATION OF INDIGENOUS LAWS AND PERSPECTIVES, INCLUDING CONSIDERATION OF COMMUNITY-BASED ALTERNATIVES TO INCARCERATION
… justice, including community-based solutions, into mainstream justice. Indigenous communities and people carry their own laws and legal systems to deal with criminal behaviour, including sanctions to manage behaviour. If Canada is serious about creating a justice system that works for Indigenous …
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Delinking economic development and mass incarceration : imagining new futures for rural communities
… have shown that prisons often have weak linkages to the host community, and sometimes have negligible or even negative impacts on rural economies. A combination of factors including changing sentencing laws, inadequate conditions in older facilities, fiscal conservatism, and increasing reliance on …
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Problem Solving Courts & Race: An Examination of Community Courts and the Impact of Race
The United States currently leads the world in incarcerations rates. The dramatic increase of using prison as a response to most criminal offenses has called for new and innovative practices. Problem solving courts have been leading the way by incorporating evidence-based practices in the courtroom …
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Refusing Rehabilitation: Outlaw Epistemologies and the Carceral-Therapeutic State in NYC
<p>During an historic re-articulation of incarceration in New York City, <em>Refusing Rehabilitation: Outlaw Epistemologies and the Carceral-Therapeutic State </em>explores how gender, race, and class have been transformed at the intersection of criminal legal system reform and the overdose crisis. …
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Qualitative Exploration of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and Creation of Informed Police Officer Training in Canada
… individuals with FASD are 30 times more likely to come in contact with the criminal justice system (CJS) and police officers as victims, witnesses, and suspects/accused parties (McLachlan et al., 2019). Within the Ontario, Canada, context, my overarching interdisciplinary research question asks: …
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Bridging the Gap Between Punishment and Care: An Ethnographic Study of the Breddon Women's Centre and its Relationship to the State
… England. Women’s centres are gender-responsive alternatives to incarceration that offer holistic and wraparound support for vulnerable women in England and Wales. By acting as a quasi-caseworker and working closely with clients, co-leading groups in the Centre, and assisting with day-to-day …
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Moms on a mission : a case study exploring the socio-ecological impact of a pre-trial intervention program on participant self agency.
… pre-trial diversion programs for mothers to combat these conditions. ReMerge of Oklahoma County is a pre-trial diversion program serving high-risk, high-need mothers facing non-violent felony offenses. Women with children under 18 charged with felony crimes selected for the program can …
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Medidas alternativas a la prisión preventiva: Posibilidades de implementación de los servicios de antelación al juicio en la provincia de catamarca
… use of pretrial detention, establishing that automatic incarceration is adopted in the absence of knowledge of the personal circumstances of the accused. The non-existence of a reliable system for collecting and verifying data on detainees, and the absence of an effective supervision system, …