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Organizational Environment, Structure, and Effectiveness: A Comparative Study of County Jails
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Locked Up: Parallel Correctional Officer, Deputy, and Inmate Decision-Making Experiences in County Jails
… exploratory 2014 pilot study at three California county jails found correctional officers and inmates faced similar challenges related to decision-making as a result of their interaction with the criminal justice system.</p> <p>The current study explores a) the decision-making experiences of …
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An Autoethnography of a Social Justice-Minded Teacher in Corrections
… The legal requirement for education includes county jails, the transitory facilities that house inmates while they await court or transfer to prison. The jail educational system is volatile, making it difficult to engage students when there are constant interruptions, unexpected incidents, …
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Three Essays in Law and Economics: Consequences and Formation of Legal Rules in Other Markets
… leveraging term limits imposed on local county elected officials.</p> <p>The first chapter examines the use and impact of peremptory challenges against judges in the California courts. Under California law, a judge cannot preside in a case when the judge is prejudiced against a party or …
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Exploring Locus of Control in Offender Cognition and Recidivism Paradigms
Working with four Washington State county jails to administer surveys to currently incarcerated inmates, we investigated locus of control and beliefs in the likelihood of continued legal involvement as possible antecedents to criminal recidivism. The surveys examined whether there was any …
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Essays in Local Governance: Studies of Policy Choices, Resource Management, and Community Impacts
… work is a comprehensive study of city- and county-level policies and their impacts on local communities. The topics addressed range from land use and real estate development, to police response and crime prevention, to county jails, decarceration, and local labor markets. These far-reaching …
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Essays on the Economics of Labor and Criminal Justice
… of the criminal justice system: prosecutors, county jail officials, and emergency service responders. In the first essay I evaluate how reclassifying felony crimes to less severe misdemeanors impacts a defendants’ recidivism likelihood. Through a causal framework leveraging the quasi-random …
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Ethical Considerations For Outpatient Behavioral Healthcare In North Texas
… healthcare are displaced and being taken to county jails (Gately, 2017). Qualitative research methods were structured interviews in conjunction with the IPA research design to learn of lived experiences. The eight participants were caregivers to consumers receiving behavioral healthcare from …
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The effectiveness of tablet-based education in correctional facilities versus in-person education post-coronavirus pandemic
… solution to help incarcerated individuals in county jails to have equitable access to education and workforce development programs taught by highly qualified instructors. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of tablet-based educational programs versus traditional …
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Advances in NLP Algorithms on Unstructured Medical Notes Data and Approaches to Handling Class Imbalance Issues
… injurious events from happening in the Orange County Jails. This study showed that the medical and mental health progress notes data contain more information about the inmates’ mental health state pertaining to their suicidal or self-injurious tendency than the structured data available in the …
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"""When in doubt, deport!"": U.S. deportation and the local policing of global migration during the 1920s"
… deportees underwent long periods of detention in county jails, private homes, and makeshift holding centers, train journeys to the ports for removal, and the complex logistics of shipping and ground transport abroad. Examined from these angles, deportation becomes far more than a tool of …