BACKGROUND Studies from the United States and the United Kingdom have found that imprisoned women are less likely to experience poorer maternal and perinatal outcomes than other disadvantaged women. This population-based study used both community controls and women with a history of incarceration as a control group, to investigate whether imprisoned pregnant women in New South Wales, Australia,...

Purpose: to analyse selected statistical data on final convictions for sexual offences in Poland. Methods: a method was used the number of and types penalties imposed. Results: Poland represent small proportion all recent years. In 2018, highest among concerned offence rape (Article 197 Polish Penal Code) acts with minor under age 15 200 § 1 Code – so-called paedophilia). The indicated are most...

Since the early 2000s, Turkey’s youth justice system has undergone extensive reforms. However, it is centred around high-security remand imprisonment. Based on research conducted between 2014 and 2015 to comprehend how imprisonment acquired such a central role, this article provides an analysis ways in which diverted into peculiar ‘managerialism’. Certain themes emerged revealing turn ‘manageri...

The rate of imprisonment of Indigenous people in Australia and New Zealand continues to be unacceptably high. Indigenous people are more likely to return to prison than are non-Indigenous people. How can young Indigenous adults be assisted to make a successful transition from prison to the community? What public services and community supports have been shown to contribute to a successful trans...

The article focuses on the family relations of people sentenced to imprisonment. aim project is study between former prisoners and their members, particularly define various strategies rebuilding relations, applied by in process social adaptation. Based reconstruction biographies adult who experienced imprisonment a parent during childhood, adolescence early adulthood, author characterised as w...