URBAN VIOLENCE, PRISON CONDITIONS AND HUMAN DIGNITY

Urban Violence, Prison Conditions and Human Dignity

This paper is about a situation that perhaps represents one of the most radical and profound challenges to the reality of the consensus that contemporaneous western societies – and Brazilian society in particular – claim they share regarding the equality and essential or ontological dignity of mankind. It is an attempt to investigate how Brazilian society, immersed in a context of fear as a res...

Freedom and Human Dignity

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Prison violence: perspectives and epidemiology.

Violent crime receives considerable media attention. Its importance to the community is such that it is used as a yardstick against which to judge the effectiveness of social policy and the performance of governments. Programs and interventions to reduce violence and its consequences are needed given the level of community concern and the impact violence has on both the victim and society. Many...

Prison Conditions and Recidivism

Prison Conditions and Recidivism We use a unique data set on post-release behavior of former Italian inmates to estimate the effect of prison conditions on recidivism. By combining different sources of data we exploit variation in prison conditions measured by: 1) the extent of overcrowding at the prison level, 2) the number of deaths in the facility of detention during an inmate’s stay and 3) ...

A Concept of Human Dignity