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Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform: Learning from Failure (Urban Institute Press) by Fox Aubrey & Berman Greg
epub |eng | 2016-03-20 | Author:Fox, Aubrey & Berman, Greg [Fox, Aubrey]

A Changed Job In tracing the story of California’s penal policy from Richard McGee to the 1977 Determinate Sentencing Act to the present day, one theme stands out: the communication ...
( Category: Social Policy April 4,2020 )
The NRA by Frank Smyth
epub |eng | | Author:Frank Smyth

* * * Charlton Heston resigned from the NRA in 2003 after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. He died at the age of eighty-four in the spring of 2008. “It’s ...
( Category: Non-Governmental Organizations April 1,2020 )
Religion and Civil Human Rights in Empirical Perspective by Hans-Georg Ziebertz & Carl Sterkens
epub |eng | | Author:Hans-Georg Ziebertz & Carl Sterkens

We used regression analyses to define the predictive strength of religious attitudes and background characteristics in terms of the individual civil rights. We only analysed variables with at least a ...
( Category: Social Policy March 29,2020 )
America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible by Thernstrom Stephan & Thernstrom Abigail
epub |eng | 2009-07-14 | Author:Thernstrom, Stephan & Thernstrom, Abigail [Thernstrom, Stephan]

TRACKING If standardized tests are unfair to blacks—or more broadly to students from other than middle-class homes—it follows that using them to assign students to particular courses or academic tracks ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 28,2020 )
A Life in Error by James Reason
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:James Reason

The ‘Mental Economics’ of Violating The German psychologist Petra Klumb1 investigated the costs and benefits of non-compliance. Where the latter outweigh the former, a violation is almost certain to occur. ...
( Category: Health & Safety March 28,2020 )
The Accidental American by Rinku Sen
epub |eng | 2011-04-30 | Author:Rinku Sen

125 Mexico: Stalled Development and Emigration It’s impossible to comprehend the migration of people like Hernandez and Salas without understanding the effect of economic globalization and internal political decisions on ...
( Category: Cultural Policy March 24,2020 )
The Rebirth of Education: Schooling Ain't Learning by Lant Pritchett
epub |eng | 2013-09-29 | Author:Lant Pritchett [Pritchett, Lant]

Source: Adapted from Duflo, Dupas, and Kremer (2012). The idea behind using solid research methods (such as randomization) is to prove what works so that these new ideas can be ...
( Category: Social Policy March 23,2020 )
Ethics Dumping by Doris Schroeder Julie Cook François Hirsch Solveig Fenet & Vasantha Muthuswamy
epub |eng | | Author:Doris Schroeder, Julie Cook, François Hirsch, Solveig Fenet & Vasantha Muthuswamy

Analysis The case study shows ethical inadequacy at several levels. The suggestion that the study would be beneficial to participants is controversial. Vaccination against hepatitis B is included in the ...
( Category: Social Policy March 22,2020 )
What's Wrong with the Poor? by Raz Mical
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Raz, Mical

Intervention or Resegregation? By the late 1960s, however, race could no longer be ignored. In 1967, Julius Hobson, an African American civil rights activist, filed a lawsuit against Carl Hansen, ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 22,2020 )
Who Killed Civil Society? by Howard A. Husock
epub |eng | 2019-03-21 | Author:Howard A. Husock

5 WILBUR COHEN AND THE SCALING OF THE SOCIAL SERVICE STATE The growth of the American social service state, the federal government’s approach to improving the lives of the poor ...
( Category: Social Policy March 22,2020 )
The Future of Crime and Punishment by William R. Kelly
epub |eng | | Author:William R. Kelly

Mental Illness and Neurodevelopmental and Cognitive Impairment More Broadly The insanity defense is only a very small fraction of the bigger problem of mentally disabled, compromised, or incompetent defendants being ...
( Category: Social Policy March 22,2020 )
Treaty Interpretation Under the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties by Chang-fa Lo
epub |eng | | Author:Chang-fa Lo

10.5.4 Some “Rules” Would not Adversely Affect the Flexibility and the Holistic Interpretation of Treaty Terms There could be concerns about establishing some “rules” for the use of dictionary could ...
( Category: Social Policy March 22,2020 )
We're Still Here by Jennifer M. Silva
epub |eng | 2019-03-21 | Author:Jennifer M. Silva

“I Ain’t Got No Quit Button” For George, a twenty-six-year-old black man, suffering crystallizes his identity and makes him even stronger. George asks me to give him the pseudonym of ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 22,2020 )
The New Eugenics by Judith Daar
epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Judith Daar [Daar, Judith]

S • E • V • E • N The Harms of Procreative Deprivation In December 1982, historian and law professor Paul Lombardo had an encounter with a historical figure ...
( Category: Social Policy March 21,2020 )
Intergenerational Wellbeing and Public Policy by Girol Karacaoglu & Jacek B. Krawczyk & Anita King
epub |eng | | Author:Girol Karacaoglu & Jacek B. Krawczyk & Anita King

How this model is broadly consistent with the full stylised model of Chap. 2. What the operational policy-simulation model would be used for – how it could assist in policy ...
( Category: Social Policy March 21,2020 )

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