This Bulletin provides policymakers with information that will help them to determine the appropriate space needed to accommodate the number of juvenile offenders expected to be placed in residential facilities. An overview of juvenile justice system policies and decisionmaking that affect the process of assessing future space needs is provided, and an analysis of the different projection model...

OBJECTIVES The primary objective of this study was to collect baseline data on the number of children living in residential care institutions in Cambodia. The secondary objective was to describe the characteristics of the children (eg, age, sex, duration of stay, education and health). The data were intended to guide recent efforts by the Government of Cambodia to reduce the number of children ...

In the period 1992-2000, the Public Health Laboratory Service Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre collected standardized epidemiologic data on 1,877 general outbreaks of Norovirus (formerly "Norwalk-like virus") infection in England and Wales. Seventy-nine percent of general outbreaks occurred in health-care institutions, i.e., hospitals (40%) and residential-care facilities (39%). When co...

Over the past few years, metropolitan crime has fallen significantly in the United States while nonmetropolitan crime has continued to increase. This paper examines nonmetropolitan crime during the period 1977-1995, and describes its spatial dynamics and changing characteristics. The paper outlines standard economic, sociological, and regional science approaches to explaining geographical varia...

This paper examines the usefulness of the British Household Panel Survey in investigating entry into residential care. Of over 2,000 people aged 65 and over, 101 elderly people have entered into long-term residential care between Wave 1 and Wave 8. The circumstances leading to entry into residential care are complex and multi-faceted. Theoretically the likelihood of an individual moving into ca...

environmental hazards caused by living conditions and human behaviour in residential areas are types of manmade hazards which have rarely been studied and documented in literature. available studies that had considered theconventional residential environment had proved that residents’ perception were influenced by human and environmental factors. with focus on educational institutions, this pap...

Background Aggression in residential youth care institutions is a frequent problem. Objective The present short-term longitudinal study examined individual and institutional predictors of aggression in a group of 198 adolescents placed in open, semi-secure and secure residential institutions from the perspective of the importation and deprivation model. Methods A total of 198 adolescents in...

Purpose – This study aims to contribute to improving quality of life for people with end stage dementia living in residential care settings by investigating the experiences of elderly spouses whose relatives died with end-stage dementia in nursing homes in both Northern Ireland (NI) and the Republic of Ireland (RoI). A second aim is to develop guidelines for nursing home staff for the delivery ...