The tax code provides subsidies for employers to hire ex-felons, to promote employment among low-income workers, and to encourage economic opportunity in distressed areas. These incentives are motivated to different degrees by a belief that economic opportunity facilitates successful reintegration of ex-felons and deters entry into crime. In this paper, we offer a more comprehensive view of the...

Little attention has been paid to the importance of the relationship between therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) and the role of criminal defense lawyers in insanity and incompetency-to-stand-trial (IST) cases. That inattention is especially noteworthy in light of the dismal track record of counsel providing services to defendants who are part of this cohort of incompetency-status-raisers and insani...

An obvious, if somewhat perverse, attraction of criminal law for those who study it is that it involves the regulation of some of the darkest and most disturbing aspects of human behavior. If one is interested in observing the most wrongful, harmful, and anti-social kinds of conduct in which people are capable of engaging, the criminal law offers as promising a place as any to start. Moral phil...

The Norwegian prison inmates are burdened by problems before they enter prison. Few studies have managed to assess this burden and relate it to what occurs for the inmates once they leave the prison. The Norwegian Offender Mental Health and Addiction (NorMA) study is a large-scale longitudinal cohort study that combines national survey and registry data in order to understand mental health, sub...

The General Criminal Thinking (GCT) score of the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) was correlated with recidivism data obtained on 284 released male federal prisoners. The sample was divided into those inmates who had been released within 24 months of having completed the PICTS (shorter test-release interval; n = 138) and those inmates who had been released more than 2...

Abstract Background Prisoners report much higher prevalence rates of drug use and more harmful consumption patterns than the general population. People who drugs have above-average experiences with criminal justice system in general, prison subsequent release situations particular. Release from is associated increased mortality among users due to risk overdose. The EU-funded project ‘My first 4...

the crime of worthless cheque has been changed-over chiefly since the first criminalization under public criminal law 1304. sometimes legislator in consequence of social and economic conditions has taken sever criminal attitude. however, he has often taken gentle criminal attitude. the last modifications of the cheque issuance crime, which was ratified in 1372, had been improved in 1382. some o...

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...

This chapter examines the role of social inequality in crime and deviance by specifying a social psychological theory of the causal mechanisms by which inequality is associated with crime. We begin by noting that the powerful have more input into the content of criminal law, a point illustrated by the relatively soft penalties for white collar and corporate crimes compared to the harsh penaltie...