The study investigated the effects of time spent in prison and quality of life before prison on male, federally sentenced prisoners’ adaptations to imprisonment, controlling for sentence length and prison security level. Data consisted of responses on a self-administered survey completed by 712 prisoners. Findings tended to support the independent effects of the indigenous (deprivation) and imp...

Critical illness is a sudden traumatising lived experience that affects the sufferer and their family throwing them into a crisis situation [1,2]. It is disruptive and alienating. Critically ill patients emerging from unconsciousness often suffer from confusion that could be momentary or lasting. There is an increasing number of critical illness survivors in intensive care units (ICU) with nume...

In this work, I would like to question the canonical view of prison, which underlies the daily practice of law, and criminal law courses at law schools. Our criminal discourse excessively limits, or even forbids, the possibility of discussing imprisonment. In this way, imprisonment, a rudimentary and brutal tool, is criminal law ́s ordinary means of punishment, and there is no evidence that lega...

1 Basic context 2 Depictions in Luke-Acts 2.1 Status of the Church 2.2 Scribes and chief priests 2.3 Jerusalem Temple 2.4 Imprisonment of Peter and John 2.5 Role of Sadducees 2.6 Martyrdom of Stephen 2.7 Persecution in Damascus 2.8 Execution of James 2.9 Violence against Paul 2.10 Crowds in Corinth 2.11 Threats against Paul's life 2.12 Paul before a Sanhedrin 3 Elsewhere in the New Testament 3....

BACKGROUND The present study aimed to examine pathways to imprisonment for women in Pakistan. It was hypothesized that early life victimization in women, problematic family relationship and economical deprivation would be significantly associated with criminal activities of women prisoners. METHOD To identify the pathways to prison, structured interview was devised by the researchers. Sample ...

Bülow, W., 2014. Ethics of Imprisonment: Essays in Criminal Justice Ethics. Theses in Philosophy from the Royal Institute of Technology 47. XII + 99 pp. Stockholm. ISBN: 978-917595-076-1 Abstract: This licentiate thesis consists of three essays which all concern the ethics of imprisonment and what constitutes an ethically defensible treatment of criminal offenders. This licentiate thesis consis...

ISSN 1746-6938 PAPER Introduction We present here a brief outline of findings from our research, which explores the relationship between welfare expenditure and levels of punishment. We begin by examining research on welfare spending and imprisonment rates across US states and replicate this work using data from 18 countries, including the United Kingdom. The results show that welfare provision...

The project has two goals. First, it seeks to explain both the overall trend of rising imprisonment and rising racial disparities in imprisonment, and geographic and temporal differences in these trends. Official data sets on arrests, imprisonment, and social, economic, and demographic factors are merged to create a new longitudinal data set that permits the researchers to control for current a...

From the early 1980s through 2000, the number and the percentage of African American men in prison skyrocketed. This would be expected to have negative impacts on Black well-being, but Black child poverty generally decreased during this period. Using data from the U.S. Prison Census and the Current Population Survey for the period from 1983-1998, we examine the effects of Black male imprisonmen...