This study on prisoners' diseases and food conditions in the early days of operation of the Casa de Prisão com Trabalho (labor penitentiary) in Salvador, Bahia, analyzes prisoner strategies for obtaining medical treatment and decent food. In their resistance and struggle to achieve more breathing room within the new prison model, which authorities hoped to implement at Bahia's first penitentiar...

This article explores the relationship between individuals’ media use during incarceration and their re-entry experience. Previous research suggests that mass media may facilitate the transition from prison to the free world because they can normalise life in the penitentiary and keep prisoners informed about major events and developments in society. The findings of a quantitative study into th...

Abstract Except for the military and science, confidence in most American political non-political institutions has fallen precipitously over past fifty years. Declines trust are partly result of dissatisfaction with governmental institutional accountability concomitant skepticism about competency responsiveness institutions. also a polarization institutions, as Republicans business, police, rel...

given in full, with their reasons for assigning the punishment for life only :? " We have ready made to our hands a weapon of tremendous power. The horror with which the people regard transportation is a feeling born with them, and the questions whether it bo a wise or foolish feeling, whether it be a just deduction from true premises, or the result of ignorance and superstition, are nothing to...

The authors investigated male juvenile delinquents' causal attributions about others' behavior and the salient pieces of information that the male juveniles used in arriving at their attributions. Participants were 82 male juvenile offenders whom the authors drew randomly from the population of juveniles who were incarcerated at a correctional facility. A concurrent mixed-methodological analysi...

This paper presents partial results of a study that reflects on ten years of the annual International Conference on Electronic Publishing ElPub. The rich content available in the proceedings of the nine previous conferences, plus the material available through 'pre-10th conference' provided the data from which a number of aspects were looked at. This includes data on authors, papers, countries,...

During 2007, East Africa has been the venue for an attempt to field-test the principles of spatial data infrastructures (SDIs). The effort has involved a selfmotivated group of United Nations (UN) offices and programmes, and their partners amongst the non-governmental organizations, inter-governmental organizations, regional research institutions, and academia and beyond. The motivation for the...

BACKGROUND Healthcare-seeking behaviour in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) has been investigated to a limited extent, and not in developing countries. Switches between different health sectors may interrupt glycaemic control, affecting health. The aim of the study was to explore healthcare-seeking behaviour, including use of complementary alternative medicine (CAM) and traditional healers,...