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World Prison Population: Facts, Trends and Solutions

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The Effectiveness of Harm Reduction Programs in Seven Prisons of Iran.

TL;DR: Intervention policies in prisons resulted in reduction of drug consumption, from 57% of the newly admitted inmates to 10% after two months of incarceration.

El modelo de libertad condicional español

TL;DR: The presente tesis se aborda el sistema de libertad condicional espanol con referencia a otros sistemas de Libertad Condicional foraneos as discussed by the authors.
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Perpetrating good: Unintended consequences of International Human Rights Advocacy

TL;DR: The authors analyzes the negative impact of popular strategies used by international human rights organizations when promoting human rights causes; namely human rights reporting, advocacy and strategic litigation, and questions whether they are working and if so, for whom.
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Perpetrating Good: Unintended Consequences of International Human Rights

TL;DR: The authors analyzes the negative impact of popular strategies used by international human rights organizations when promoting human rights causes; namely human rights reporting, advocacy and strategic litigation, and questions whether they are working and if so, for whom.
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Criminal Victimisation in Seventeen Industrialised Countries. Key findings from the 2000 International Crime Victims Survey

TL;DR: The International Crime Victimization Survey (ICVS) as mentioned in this paper is the most far-reaching program of fully standardised sample surveys looking at householders' experience of crime in different countries.
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Why Are U.S. Incarceration Rates So High

Michael Tonry
- 01 Oct 1999 - 
TL;DR: Most explanations of the unprecedented increase in American incarceration rates are inadequate as discussed by the authors, and crime rate increases, more punitive public attitudes, postmodernist angst, and cynical politics are all only part of the explanation.