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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"penology"”.
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Reconsidering the 'new' penology: Risk management, dangerous and judicial decision-making.
… penal era has been characterized as a “new penology.” According to Malcolm Feeley and Jonathan Simon (1992), this period is identified by the priority of risk management, the use of actuarial risk assessments and the growing need for system efficiency. In this study, discourse analysis was …
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Challenging occupational norms : an ethnographic study of female prison officers in a women's prison
… tumultuous period in contemporary British penology, whilst providing an important counter-narrative to previous gendered studies of prison occupational culture. Staff-prisoner relationships are central to the running of prisons (Sparks et al, 1996) and this thesis argues these relationships …
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Colonial penality : a case study of Hong Kong's penal policy and programmes under British administration (1945-1997)
… in the fields of historical and comparative penology.
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GHOSTS BEYOND OUR REALM A neo-abolitionist analvsis of prisoner human rights and prison officer occupational culture
… that is, the complex interrelationship between penology, law, penal policy, and occupational culture. Utilising a neoabolitionist normative framework, the legitimacy of the current meanings of prisoner human rights are scrutinised, and an alternative promoted. It is argued that in the five year …
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Ex-prisoner leadership and legitimacy: community-based restorative justice in Northern Ireland
… justice, peace studies, criminology, and penology. Within such research, these individuals are often portrayed as threats to be managed, rather than as agentic subjects with the ability to actively contribute to societal peace-making efforts. <br/><br/>Using the case of Northern Ireland as …
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Contribution or corruption? A survey of supervisory, managerial and administrative attitudes toward the use of discretion in adult male prisons
… in prison administration. The current of body penology literature portrays correctional managers, as a group, as abusing their discretionary authority to shirk (goof off on the job), subvert (commit acts of administrative malfeasance), and steal (use public office for private gain); and fails …
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Motherhood Challenged: A matricentric feminist study exploring the persisting impact of maternal imprisonment on maternal identity and role
… post-prison motherhood, Feminist criminology, penology and gender, women and crime, mothers and crime, sentencing, women and rehabilitation, women and probation, maternal identity. 9. Please provide the text of the abstract: Abstract The persistent pains of maternal imprisonment, especially …
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A study of Cork City Gaol, (1824-1878), As a typical example of an Irish county Gaol of the Nineteenth century with reference to the relevance of such county gaols to modern prisons and as an example of heritage research
… archaeology, architecture, history, sociology, penology, health,and religion. For example, Buchanan, (1980), argued with reference to industrial archaeology, that the cooperation of multi disciplined experts is required if a comprehensive picture is to develop. Morris and Rottman, (1995), argued …
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Managing a risky business : developing the professional practice of police and probation officers in the supervision of high risk offenders
… about the application and effects of “the new penology”, with its emphasis on “actuarialism”, which promotes quantitative methods used in accountancy as an analytical method for risk assessment. This thesis goes beyond policy texts and theories providing original contribution that explores how …
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Lubanga, child soldiering and the philosophy of international law
… we can extrapolate viable rationales for ICC penology. How do the trial, conviction and punishment of Lubanga for the ‘mass crime’ of child soldiering serve the collectivist ethos of international law and society? The project that follows proposes a penal rationale that accounts for the ICC’s …
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Does Social Support Moderate the Effects of Strain on Delinquency More for Females than Males?
Despite more than a century of studies, males have been the focus of theory and research about delinquency until relatively recently (e.g., Box, 1983; Broidy & Agnew, 1997; Canter, 1982; Dale & Chesney-Lind, 1988; Morris, 1987). However, the correlates of delinquency may differ for males and …
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The Hyper-Criminalization of the Latinx Community
This dissertation research study aims to identify the different types of hyper-criminalization found in the Latinx community. This in-depth qualitative research study consisted of eighteen interviews with residents of Little Village, a Latinx neighborhood, located on the West Side of Chicago. The …
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Police and Burnout: A Quantitative and Theoretical Analysis of Burnout in American Policing
The bulk of the empirical research examining burnout among police officers has focused on individual outcomes related to officer health and performance. This dissertation study suggests a more comprehensive approach leading in two directions: a quantitative analysis of three individual theories of …
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MAINE'S NEW JUVENILE CODE: A CASE STUDY IN JUVENILE JUSTICE REFORM
<p>The history of juvenile justice in the United States is largely a history of failed reform efforts. The most significant of these efforts was the establishment of the juvenile court at the turn of the century and the idea of "socialized" juvenile justice on which it was based. Because the …
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CRIMINAL HOMICIDE IN NORTH CAROLINA, 1975-1977
<p>The focus of this dissertation was patterns of criminal homicide in North Carolina between 1975 and 1977. Using Uniform Crime Report data between 1933 and 1979, North Carolina was compared to non-Southern and national time series trends. North Carolina's criminal homicide rate was shown to have …
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THE LIVES OF CRIMINALLY VIOLENT WOMEN (VOLUMES I AND II) (STRESS, HOMICIDE)
<p>The purpose of the present study is to better understand why some people kill others. Using the autobiographical accounts of convicted female homicide offenders, this work defines the life experiences behind their violence. Seventy-six women, representing several age and racial groups, were …
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Law enforcement's reconceptualization of juvenile prostitutes from delinquency offenders to child sexual abuse victims in six US cities
<p>The involvement of youth in prostitution has proven to be a difficult and complex issue for law enforcement, child welfare, and social service agencies to confront. This stems from the complicated social and legal aspects of the problem, which have created considerable ambiguity in how to …
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