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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"detainee"”.
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The psychological effects of detention with particular reference to the South African political detainee
… stressful, with a strong likelihood of the detainee developing debilitating psychological sequelae. Post-traumatic stress disorder appears to be commonly implicated, and symptoms may persist for many years. Family and community members and organisations to which the detainee belongs suffer …
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A study of the association of non-structured school days with daily detainee population counts
… race/ethnicity, and gender on rural daily detainee population counts for non-structured days. Comparisons were made for public school year (SY) and summer (SU). The study tested 1 hypothesis and explored 19 questions regarding the relationship of these factors to the time of incarceration. …
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Examining the Legality of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques Used in the War on Terror
… are discussed within the overall issue of detainee abuse. However, when analyzing the issue of enhanced interrogation techniques from the paradigm of strategic, operational and tactical perspectives it is possible to conclude that enhanced interrogation techniques are legal, appropriate and …
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Amphetamines and Western Australian detainees: A social profile
… in Australia (DUMA). The DUMA project examined detainees’ social demographics and past and present drug use, at various Australian sites. The current study examined secondary data as a subset of the DUMA data collected from the East Perth lockup in Western Australia. Three sections of the DUMA …
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United States Detention Policy in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency Operations: 2001 to 2011
… to military personnel involved in day to day detainee operations and interrogations. The topic is further elucidated by the examination of the many declassified government documents and official Department of Defence press releases. This thesis illustrates how the conflicts in Afghanistan and …
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Rhetoric of exception: signing statements, sovereignty, and the Bush presidency
… of the signing statement attached to the Detainee Treatment Act which reserved the right of the president to have absolute power over the authority to render a decision on the treatment of persons detained by the United States as suspected terrorists, in spite of legislation to the …
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Can China fully protect and prevent all detained persons from torture under its current legislative, institutional and political model?
… persistent allegations of ill-treatment of detainees indicate endemic practices; examines the effectiveness of nascent torture prevention measures and identifies the factors that may enable resilience of abuse. Overall, it investigates whether torture prevention is effective within the PRC …
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Did 9/11 Change Everything? Security and Human Rights Trade-offs in International Cooperation
… of being observable (ex-post), as we can analyse detainee testimony and suspected extraordinary rendition flight paths using publicly available data. This thesis capitalizes on an opportunity to provide theoretically driven and empirically testable answers to questions on the causes and …
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The Uncorrected Self: Identity Negotiation in Juvenile Detention
… the process of identity negotiation for juvenile detainees in a county detention center in the Midwestern United States. Participants included six male, first-time detainees, ages 12 to 16, their parents, and detention center staff and administrators. Working within a narrative framework that …
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Bearing Il/liberal Secondary Witness: Un/disciplined Pedagogies of Response to Testimonial Narratives
… toward the aforementioned ends, spans Guantánamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s memoir, <em>Guantánamo Diary</em>, Syrian writer Mustafa Khalifa’s semi-autobiographical novel, <em>The Shell</em>, Salvadoran writer Horacio Castellanos Moya’s testimonial novel, <em>Senselessness, </em>Guatemalan …
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Prison Sights: Carceral Counter-Visions in Documentary Film
… the production of the visual field in which the detainee bodies appeared. While Ghosts of Abu Ghraib and Standard Operating Procedure have rarely been read alongside one another, I contend that both documentaries can be read as critiques of this military bureaucracy and that they both attempt to …
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The taming of a toothless tiger : INS implementation of the Flores settlement agreement
… a number of advocacy groups on behalf of child detainees. The following study is an attempt to assess the treatment that unaccompanied children receive while in the custody of the INS, and to what extent the agency is in compliance with its own regulations.
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The sexual assault and rape of male offenders and awaiting-trial detainees
… of male sentenced offenders and awaiting-trial detainees in Pretoria Local Correctional Centre were investigated. Prison gangs, overcrowding of correctional centres, the involvement of correctional officials and the sexual orientation of the potential victim were highlighted as risk factors in …
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L¿ESECUZIONE DELLA PENA E L¿ORDINAMENTO PENITENZIARIO PER IMINORENNI: L¿EVOLUZIONE E LE NUOVE PROSPETTIVE ALLA LUCEDEL D.LGS. 2 OTTOBRE 2018, N. 121
… by relatives or other persons close to the detainee, as well as by volunteers of the institution itself): the aim is to redesign the execution of the juvenile sentence with a view to a progressive rapprochement to society. Secondly, it is necessary to investigate the core of activities that …