Background: Prison is not the space where children should live. A jail can never provide a family environment which every child very much deserves. Stimulating and emotionally supportive care is associated with positive developmental outcomes for children but, in the absence of a family structure, the concept of a home is almost absent in prison. The present study identifies the prison faciliti...

BACKGROUND Despite the considerable changes in the provision of health care to prisoners in the UK there is little published literature that attempts to examine broader aspects of health and the impact of imprisonment on these, focusing instead on disease specific areas. This is surprising given that one of the main drivers behind the changes was the need for improvements in the quality of care...

This article takes a life-course perspective to the meaning of persistent short-term imprisonment and introduces significance ‘penal careers’. Examining total 62 interviews with men women in Scotland long careers (progression through) criminal punishment, it uses concept belonging as lens interpret their experiences. While some participants already felt early on career that they belonged prison...

The paper is dedicated to the analysis of phenomenon penal policy mass imprisonment, which assumed be cause and consequence increasing social inequalities. relationship between inequality, vulnerability crime creates complex patterns - direct indirect mechanisms interaction that can observed from different perspectives. Following idea deeper social, economic ideological regroupings regulations ...

This study aimed at a legal and scientific analysis of the Guarantees death penalty for pregnant women as comparative between Emirati Jordanian legislation, At time when there is lot controversy over retention or abolition this penalty. Researcher sought to analyze execution woman before after trial during also analyzed Definition maintaining abolishing Supporting opposing sides Capital Punishm...

review of the effect of imprisonment on mental health. Owing to the time factor much must perforce be left out which ought to be inserted, and as it is impossible to go into any detail, the most that can be hoped is to give a broad general survey. The effect of imprisonment on any particular person is the product of many factors, the most important of which are his physical health, the length a...

THIS PAPER CONCERNS SOME JURISPRUDENTIAL ISSUES RAISED BY THE abolition of the mandatory life sentence for murder, a step undertaken in New South Wales in 1982— Crimes (Homicide) Amendment Act 1982, Crimes (Life Sentences) Amendment Act 1989— and Victoria in 1986— Crimes (Amendment) Act 1986. It starts, however, with more general issues of sentencing philosophy. The first main section of this p...

Over the past twenty years, neuroscientists have discovered that brain maturation continues through an individual’s midtwenties. The United States Supreme Court cited this research to support its abolition of the juvenile death penalty in Roper v. Simmons. Now the Court is faced with two cases that challenge the constitutionality of sentencing juveniles to life imprisonment without parole. Many...