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Prison
About: Prison is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 25120 publications have been published within this topic receiving 470474 citations. The topic is also known as: jail & gaol.
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TL;DR: This paper used a narrative analysis to explore the masculinity narratives of male prisoners, and conducted individual interviews with nine men aged twenty-two to forty-seven, and found that the interviews were conducted with nine different men.
Abstract: This study uses a narrative analysis to explore the masculinity narratives of male prisoners. Individual interviews were conducted with nine men aged twenty-two to forty-seven. Using a method descr...
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TL;DR: In the Netherlands, a period of sustained recarceration after 1985, and its prolongation, into the 1990s and beyond, entailed a sweeping reconfiguration of penal policy.
Abstract: Postwar developments in Dutch penal policy encompass one period of sustained reduction in the scale of imprisonment (1947–74), producing the most humane penal system in Europe, followed by a second (1975 to date) in which that trend reversed, producing an imprisonment rate that exceeds the European average, with adverse consequences for the character of prison regimes. The causes of the initial period are not self‐evident, taking place while crime was rising, and based on a philosophy of minimizing the resort to custody. Key elements of that approach continued from 1975 to the mid‐1980s, during a period of sharply rising crime rates. The period of sustained recarceration after 1985, and its prolongation, into the 1990s and beyond, entailed a sweeping reconfiguration of penal policy. Managerial, instrumental, and incapacitative measures took precedence over previous goals of resocialization and restorative justice.
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TL;DR: The challenges that prison systems encounter in TB control are described and solutions for the more efficient use of limited resources based on the three pillars of the post-2015 End TB Strategy are provided.
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TL;DR: In this article, personal conflict and major misconducts indicative of aggressive behavior were examined as a function of age for a homogeneous set of prison inmates, and a direct correlation between conflict and aggression was found.
Abstract: Interpersonal conflict and major misconducts indicative of aggressive behavior were examined as a function of age for a homogeneous set of prison inmates. In contrast to previous studies, a direct ...
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TL;DR: Using Power, Champion, and Aris's Significant Others Scale, this article examined the function and structure of social support in a group of incarcerated young offenders and highlighted the importance of prison relationships with a close friend and members of prison staff in the experience of psychological distress.
Abstract: Using Power, Champion, and Aris's Significant Others Scale, the present study examined the function and structure of social support in a group of incarcerated young offenders. Support across nine key relationships from both outside and inside the prison were examined. The study aimed to examine social support as a key variable in coping with incarceration. Furthermore, the study examined the role that social support plays in the experience of self-reported psychological distress (anxiety, depression, and hopelessness) while incarcerated The importance of prison relationships-with a close friend and members of prison staff in the experience of psychological distress-was highlighted, where distressed inmates were more likely to report discrepancies in the actual/ideal levels of both emotional and practical support. Regression analyses highlighted the importance of relationships with the staff as predictors of anxiety, depression, and hopelessness.
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