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International Corrections
This tag identifies resources that are sourced outside the United States.
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Violence Against Women: Effective Interventions and Practices with Perpetrators (2014)
The key focus of the report is on reviewing evidence about reducing re-offending in crimes of violence against women.
2016 Law Enforcement Use of Social Media Survey
A national scan of practice among law enforcement agencies across the United States reveals that they use social media to notify the public of safety concerns, manage public relations, and gather evidence for criminal investigations.
FBI Uniform Crime Reports Justice Research and Statistics Association (JRSA)
The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program has been the starting place for law enforcement executives, students of criminal justice, researchers, members of the media, and the public at large seeking information on crime in the nation.
World Female Imprisonment List: Women and girls in penal institutions, including pre-trial detainees/remand prisoners
This third edition of the World Female Imprisonment List shows the number of women and girls held in penal institutions in 219 prison systems in independent countries and dependent territories.
States of Women's Incarceration: The Global Context
"We already know that when it comes to incarceration, the United States is truly exceptional.
States of Incarceration: The Global Context (2016)
"Louisiana has been called “the world’s prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts.
World Prison Brief (WPB) - Highest to Lowest - Prison Population Total
A drop down menu tool used to retrieve different world wide prison statistics.
Prison: Evidence of its use and over-use from around the world (2017)
This report presents a brief history of imprisonment in each of the ten countries, and consider what lessons might be learnt for reducing use of custody worldwide.
Suicide in Prison: Prevention Strategy and Implication from Human Rights and Legal Points of View (2014)
This monograph is aimed to review the relevant national and international literature and conduct a data analysis of recent prison suicides so as to scrutinize the factors behind suicide and provides recommendations for the better identification and management of ‘at-risk’ prisoners as well as changing the general prison environment.
Prisons and the Mentally Ill: Why Design Matters (2017)
The purpose of this blog/article is to share international good design principles and knowledge from research studies that can help to significantly improve the living conditions of mentally ill inmates.
States of Women’s Incarceration: The Global Context 2018
This report updates how U.S. women fare in the world’s carceral landscape, comparing incarceration rates for women of each U.S. state with the equivalent rates for countries around the world.
Inmate Radicalization and Recruitment in Prisons
Offering evidence-based insights to help determine how best to house terrorist offenders, this volume will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Criminology and Criminal Justice, Terrorism, Prisons, and Organized Crime.
Community Re-Entry: Uncertain Futures for Women Leaving Prison
Community Re-Entry: Uncertain Futures for Women Leaving Prison provides a rare opportunity to hear directly from women who have spent time in a Canadian federal penitentiary.
Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations
The handbook considers a wide range of perspectives for understanding the experiences of persons who identify as a member of a traditionally marginalized group. This volume aims to help scholars and graduate students by providing an up-to-date guide to contemporary issues facing corrections and sentencing. It will also assist practitioners with resources for developing socially informed policies and practices.
Prisons and Community Corrections
This volume addresses a range of 21st century issues faced by modern corrective services including, prison overcrowding, young and ageing offenders, mental health, sexual assault in corrective facilities, LGB communities in corrective services and radicalization of offenders within corrective services.
Violence, Sex Offenders, and Corrections
Violence, Sex Offenders, and Corrections critically assesses what is meant by the term 'sex offender', and acknowledges that such meanings are socially constructed, situated, and contingent. The book explores the person, crime, penal space, sexual orientation, legislation, and the community experiences of labeled sex offenders as well as the experiences of correctional officers working with said custodial populations.