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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"former prisoners"”.
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Labor Force Participation and Crime among Serious and Violent Former Prisoners
… relationship between work and crime among male former prisoners. Criminological theories and observational studies suggest that work reduces crime, but recent studies cast doubt on the ability of employment programs to reduce recidivism among former prisoners. Ongoing weak evaluations may …
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The Impact of Public Service Motivation on Reentry Managers' Decision-making Practices
… (reentry managers) in the management of former prisoners. The overarching research question seeks to answer if, and in what way, PSM score influences reentry managers' approach to their work with the formerly incarcerated, who are in transition from prison back into the community. The …
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Legal Exoneration: A Case Study through the Life History of John Thompson
… "exonerated"‖refers to a legal acquittal of a former conviction due to the introduction of new evidence. Since 1989, the number of legal xonerations has increased dramatically due to DNA and other new evidentiary technologies that can demonstrate innocence of formally convicted persons. This …
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Lone Star under the Rising Sun: Texas's "Lost Battalion," 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment, During World War II
… the men of the 2nd Battalion were joined as prisoners-of-war by the sailors and Marines who survived the sinking of the heavy cruiser USS Houston. From March 1942 until the end of World War II, these men lived in various Japanese prison camps throughout the Dutch East Indies, Southeast Asia, …
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Pathology as a Crime: Analysis of Dissection Protocols from Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, 1944-1945
… instead of uncovering them. This confirms what former prisoners had testified to in the immediate postwar period. The thesis furthermore attempts to provide a more probable cause of death in three exemplary cases. Finally, it evaluates the scientific nature of the dissection protocols. It …
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Effectiveness of a psychosocial rehabilitation programme for Iraqi repatriated prisoners of the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988
… related to war captivity has reported that most former prisoners of war are still distressed by memories of traumatic experiences of their capture and captivity decades after repatriation. In addition, the earliest investigations of the effects of this traumatic experience on those repatriates …
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The state of prisoner dietary health and the impact of dietary interventions on prisoner health, wellbeing and behaviour
Prisoners experience a higher burden of health issues compared to the general population. Diets are compromised, and improvements could lead to better health outcomes. Vitamin D deficiency is global, and evidence suggests it improves health beyond its primary role in bone health. As a vitamin …
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Formerly Incarcerated Adults in Higher Education: A Life-History Study of a Restorative Approach to Prisoner Reentry
… incarceration rate and the largest number of prisoners. Each year more than 700,000 inmates are released from prison and re-enter their communities. The majority of released prisoners lack the necessary education, work experience, and life skills to successfully reintegrate back into …
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Civil War prisons in American memory
… raised by the deaths of approximately 56,000 prisoners of war, almost one-tenth of all Civil War fatalities. During the war, throughout Reconstruction, and well into the twentieth century, a sectional debate raged over the responsibility for the prison casualties. Republican politicians …
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Paramilitary imprisonment in Northern Ireland 1969-1999 : resistance, management & release
… Northern Ireland, the treatment of paramilitary prisoners, and in particular the question as to whether and to what extent their political motivation has been recognised by the prison authorities, has been a defining issue for all of the protagonists. Prisoners have asserted their political …
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Navigating the Wreck: Writing women’s experience of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore. Salvaged from the Wreck: A novel -and- Diving into the Wreck: A critical essay
… been described mostly by Western historians and former prisoners of war who have forged a predominant patriarchal narrative. In that narrative—despite the all-encompassing nature of the occupation and the cataclysmic effect it had on civilians—women are virtually invisible. The objective of this …
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Beyond behavior: An intersectional analysis of the impact of sexual networks, segregation, and incarceration on disparities in STDs
… that serves as a reentry point for those formerly incarcerated, and STD rates. The analysis is based on county-level indicators compiled into a single dataset in which county (n=3,089) is the unit of analysis. The analysis examines the relationship of reentry locations and incarceration …