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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"release from prison"”.
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Employment of People with Criminal Records: An Exploratory Study of the State of Georgia
… impact their ability to find employment upon release from prison. Collateral consequences are those repercussions which impact the ex-offender’s civil liberties after they are released from prison. Research has shown that ex-offenders who do not find gainful employment upon release from prison …
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Challenges that offenders face upon release that contribute to recidivism in the Department of Correctional Services: a case study of the West Coast Medium ' A' Correctional Centre in the Western Cape
Recidivism, the tendency to revert to crime upon release from prison, seems to be an uncontrollable phenomenon as inmates keep on re-offending, which impacts negatively on the already overcrowded correctional centres in South Africa. Life in prison is harsh and overpopulation leads to numerous …
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The effects of labeling and stereotype threat on offender reintegration
After their release from prison, offenders are faced with many hardships that hinder their reintegration efforts. Often, offenders are stereotyped and face community exclusion due to their criminal record. Much of the literature on reintegration has focused on the way in which society stereotypes …
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Parole in South Africa : is it a right or a privilege? : the theory and practice of parole in South African Correctional centres with specific focus on the nature of parole under the Correctional Service Act 8 of 1959 (repealed) and the current Correctional Service Act 111 of 1998
… essential question of this thesis is whether a prisoner acquires an enforceable right to be released on parole after serving the non-parole period or the statutorily-determined minimum period of imprisonment. The focus is on the status of the prisoner and the process relating to his/her …
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Ambiguous Freedom: A Grounded Theoretical Analysis of Life Outside Prison
Prisonization refers to the idea that prisoners assimilate to prison society, import criminogenic characteristics, and are deprived by prison culture. Post-carceral prisonization is the process by which excarcerated prisoners (EXP) are socialized by features of prisonization that persist after …
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Eliciting Expert Uncertainty from Decision Making
… is used to elicit a prior distribution of a prisoner re-offending upon release from prison. This example shows analysts how to elicit distributions for tabular data; however, more complex data types, such as images and reports, are often used for decision-making. To elicit distributions …
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A comparative study of compliant and non-compliant sexual offenders in the state of Tennessee
… criminals who must be monitored even after their release from prison or after completion of parole. This is accomplished by requiring sexual offenders to comply with registration requirements such as checking in with law enforcement agents on a regular basis, providing information on where they …
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The Impact of Release on Mandatory Life-Sentenced Prisoners’ Identities
This thesis explores the impact of release on mandatory life-sentenced prisoners’ identities and their experiences of returning to the community after serving a lengthy period of imprisonment. In 2023, there were over 7,000 individuals serving life sentences in England and Wales, most of whom will …
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Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSAs): Their use and development for young people with learning disabilities who exhibit sexually harmful behaviour in England
… with high risk adult sex offenders after release from prison. It works by establishing a supportive social network of community volunteers who assist the ex-offender (core member) with reintegration and his/her ongoing risk responsibilities. This thesis critically explores the application …
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"Beyond those gates" : how the process of earning a college degree in prison shapes a person's hoped-for self.
… the process of earning a college degree in the prison context shaped the hoped-for selves of 23 formerly incarcerated individuals. My research focus was twofold: First, I wanted to understand how the content of participants' hoped-for selves changed as a result of earning a college degree in …
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The Case of Reintegration of Women Post Incarceration
Women released from prison or jail face particular obstacles and challenges on reentry to the community, many of which are related to their childhood and to gender roles as women and mothers. This study relates the lived experience of one woman's successful transition to economic and mainstream …
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Keeping Rapunzel: The Mysterious Guardianship of Joan of Flanders the Case for Feudal Constraint
This argues that England King Edward III’s imprisonment of Joan of Flanders, Duchess of Brittany and Countess de Montfort during the Hundred Years War was not for her so-called madness, but was political. Joan of Flanders, who had led a defense of the castellany of Hennebont that routed the French …
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Death among a cohort of prisoners in New South Wales Australia — a data linkage study
… rates among adults who experienced full-time imprisonment in New South Wales between January 1988 and December 2002, by record linkage to the Australian National Death Index. The cohort included 76383 men and 8820 women. Over a mean follow-up of 7.7 years, 5137 deaths (4724 men, 423 women) were …
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Preparing inmates for community re-entry: An employment preparation intervention
… male inmates' ability to secure employment upon release from prison. The intervention curriculum and study were modeled after similar interventions with battered (Chronister & McWhirter, 2006) and incarcerated women (Chartrand & Rose, 1996). The OPTIONS program was grounded in Social Cognitive …
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Prodigal daughters: Imprisoned women, reform, and the femine ideal in the British Isles, 1800-1877
In Prodigal Daughters: Imprisoned Women, Reform, and the Feminine Ideal in the British Isles, 1800-1877, I examine the image(s) of imprisoned women, attempts to reform them, movements for prison reform, and the relationship between England and Ireland. After the 1853 Penal Servitude Acts, convict …
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Doing desistance in divided neighbourhoods : the role of conflict-affected neighbourhoods in the desistance process during reintegration
The process of desistance during reintegration from prison has received increasing attention within criminological literature. Yet, little is known about the role that neighbourhoods and a legacy of conflict may play in the desistance process at this time and the degree to which current theory and …