The authors investigated male juvenile delinquents' causal attributions about others' behavior and the salient pieces of information that the male juveniles used in arriving at their attributions. Participants were 82 male juvenile offenders whom the authors drew randomly from the population of juveniles who were incarcerated at a correctional facility. A concurrent mixed-methodological analysi...

Network. The network Healthy Start – Young Family Network is a project from IN FORM – German national initiative to promote healthy diets and physical activity. In this nationwide network medical and scientific societies, professional organizations, and professionally oriented institutions combined together to accompany and support parents through pregnancy and birth by providing information on...

Increased rate of exam failure in mathematics is observed at many educational institutions in the last years. Various approaches have been applied to resolve that problem. Some of them like e-learning methodologies and intelligent tutoring systems are more technologically oriented while others focus on face to face communications and group study techniques. In this work we consider a way to adj...

We investigate behavioral institutions and refinements in the context of the object oriented paradigm. The novelty of our approach is the application of generalized abstract algebraic logic theory of hidden heterogeneous deductive systems (called hid-algebraic logic theory of hidden heterogeneous deductive systems (called hidden k-logics) to the algebraic specification of object oriented progra...

This article examines the ways in which sustainability discourses intersect with carceral policies. Building new prisons to ‘green’ industry standards; making existing prison buildings less environmentally harmful; incorporating processes such as renewable energy initiatives; offering ‘green-collar’ work and training to prisoners; and providing ‘green care’ in an effort to reduce recidivism are...

1 Corrections Management Quarterly, 2001, 5(1), 1–9 © 2001 Aspen Publishers, Inc. A persistently disruptive force in correctional facilities is prison gangs. Prison gangs disrupt correctional programming, threaten the safety of inmates and staff, and erode institutional quality of life. The authors review the history of, and correctional mechanisms to cope with prison gangs. A suppression strat...

The four major penal institutions for men in Washington state were surveyed in June 1983, to assess the quality of tuberculosis screening and the proportion of residents who were reactors. A total of 4,744 medical charts of current residents were reviewed of which 4,269 (90.0 percent) had skin test results recorded. The proportion of inmates residing in the four institutions during 1983 who wer...

Technology is providing a positive impact on delivery mechanisms employed in distance education at the university level. Some institutions are incorporating distance education as a way to extend the classroom. Other institutions are investigating new delivery mechanisms, which support a revised perspective on education. These latter institutions are revising their processes for interacting with...