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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"correctional system"”.
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What's Cookin'?: An Analysis of Food as a Method of Control in the Penal System
<p>According to Garland (2001), the U.S. correctional system is a reflection of the culture of control that exists in American society. One way the correctional system exerts control is through food. This concept partnered with Foucault’s ideas about the evolution of punishment and the criminal …
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The Politics of Confinement: Prison Population and Capacity Change in Post-War California
… population and capacity in the California state correctional system from 1946 through 1980. It develops and estimates a structural equation model describing the behavior of prison admissions, releases and rated capacity over time. It also uses qualitative data obtained through semi-structured …
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Medication Access Using An Evidence-Based Adaptive Transitional Care Guidance Tool For Planned Release Of Older Inmates
<p>The aging population is growing faster in the correctional system than in the overall U.S. population. Yet, an effective geriatric transitional care process is not available for older persons released from jail. This article documents the development and results of an evidence-based, adaptive …
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Job Satisfaction of Juvenile Facility Directors: Results from a National Survey
… experiences of line personnel within the adult correctional system, and this research serves to provide new information regarding this specific population. The current study will address the predictors and correlates of a director's job satisfaction. It is hypothesized that specific …
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Inside the Juvenile Justice System
… for all. Within the United States there are systems in place to better the people and communities in order to provide safety and order. However, just as any nation, there is a struggle with violent behavior and tendencies among adults and adolescents. Within the last three decades, the United …
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Out of the cell : exploring the framing of prisoner reentry in Illinois corrections policy
… States has resulted in a severe shock to the correctional system. Specifically, from 1980 to 2004, the population of offenders incarcerated in state and federal prisons has increased almost five-fold from 315,974 to 1,494,216. As a result, 650,000 prisoners are released back into society each …
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Religiosity, ethnic identity, and risky sexual behavior in an African American church-affiliated population
… having sex with someone who has been in the correctional system) and previous six month and lifetime sex-only factors (i.e., number of sex partners, condom use). None of the primary study predictors (i.e., religious beliefs and behaviors, religious coping, God control beliefs, ethnic …
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Reporting behaviors of women inmates
Sexual assault within the correctional system has been a constant issue in America since its creation. While special protections are supposed to be provided for vulnerable populations such as inmates, research shows that for many inmates in prisons around the country, adequate protection against …
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Inmate and Prison Gang Leadership.
… with 20 prisoners located in the Northeast Correctional Complex in Mountain City, Tennessee. Inmate leaders, selected for the study, included gang leaders and non-gang leaders. Interviews were tape recorded and transcribed for the data analysis. To capture the essence of the interviews, …
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A Psychological Profile Analysis of Selected Employees of the Indiana Department of Correction
… key to understanding and improving the present correctional system. It was the purpose of the present study to assess, describe, and analyze a selected group of state correctional employees.</p> <p>Method. The <em>Bipolar Psychological Inventory</em> and several demographic questions were used …
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Understanding the Lived Experiences and Perceived Impacts of Incarceration on the Well-being of Adult Family Members
… are nearly 35,000 individuals in custody in correctional institutions on any given day. As a result, countless immediate and extended family members are impacted by incarceration. My research study aimed to better understand the experiences of adult family members and how their experience …
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The level of service inventory and female offenders : addressing issues of reliability and predictive ability
… of classifying female offenders in the correctional system has been disputed (especially the application of male-normed risk assessment tools), and yet, there is a need to accurately determine the risk of re-offending and the criminogenic needs of the offender along with general and …
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Juvenile recidivism: an analysis of race and other socio-demographic predictors within three intervention modalities in the state of Louisiana
… first adjudication; (c) duration of stay in the correctional system; (d) drug use; and (e) peer influence. The offender's race was not found to be important in determining the likelihood of recidivating. Black offenders differ from white offenders only in terms of gender, but not with respect to …
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The significance of restorative justice on the rehabilitation, restoration, and healing of incarcerated persons sentenced to life imprisonment: A case study of Voorberg Medium B Correctional Centre in the Western Cape
… the backdrop of a predominantly retributive correctional system and the socio-theological challenges of post-apartheid society, the research addresses a critical gap: the need for empirically grounded, theologically informed models of justice that respond to the profound human and spiritual …
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Participation in decision-making within prison settings as a tool for enhancing the enjoyment of the right to health: The case of women inmates in Zambia
… rate in the prison population of 22%. Many correctional facilities and prisons were not designed or built with women in mind. This has seen women excluded in many aspects of correctional and penal systems including in correctional health systems. The situation is no different for Zambian …