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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Jail systems"”.
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Getting sober while incarcerated: An exploratory analysis of correctional substance abuse treatment programs
… abuse programs within California and New York jail systems. Specifically this study explored the impact of location, demographic characteristics, offense committed, and previous drug treatment on successful completion of the treatment program. Descriptive analyses were used to examine the …
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Black Women at Work in Corrections in the Era of Mass Incarceration: Documenting Demographic Changes in the New York City Department of Correction
… corrections, particularly in large metropolitan jail systems. This paper documents the increase in black women working as correction officers and administrators in the New York City Department of Correction since the late 1970s and explores the implications of this growth on the strict racial …
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Essays on the Economics of Labor and Criminal Justice
… 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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Essays in Local Governance: Studies of Policy Choices, Resource Management, and Community Impacts
… police response and crime prevention, to county jails, decarceration, and local labor markets. These far-reaching policies share a fundamental commonality: local decision makers allocating resources in a way that impacts the behavior of individual actors within their communities. The studies …
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Examining the Impact of Hepatitis C in Montana: A Descriptive Case Study
… education and awareness and the prison and jail systems. The physical, social and psychological effects of not only having HCV, but being treated for HCV, were found to be tremendous. Treatment costs, lack of knowledge, difficulty of treatment, lack of access to treatment, the slow …
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Examining the Impact of Hepatitis C in Montana: A Descriptive Case Study
… education and awareness and the prison and jail systems. The physical, social and psychological effects of not only having HCV, but being treated for HCV, were found to be tremendous. Treatment costs, lack of knowledge, difficulty of treatment, lack of access to treatment, the slow …