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1	Social Work Students' Views and Attitudes Towards Working with Previously Incarcerated Individuals Comptois, Tiffany, Villa, Brianda 01 June 2018 (has links) Due to the lack of literature on social worker involvement with the rehabilitation of previously incarcerated individuals, this study was designed to explore social work student’s views and attitudes towards working with this population in the future. This study used a web-based quantitative survey design containing one open-ended question to survey 77 CSUSB social work students. Findings reveal that most social work students recognize previously incarcerated individuals as a vulnerable and marginalized population that is deserving of services and expect to work with this population in the future. Additionally, this study identified that having children may impact social work student’s views and attitudes towards working with previously incarcerated individuals. Common themes that emerged were dignity and worth of persons, intersectionality of this population with social work, and concerns regarding skills, training, and experience which reflected social work students’ adherence to professional social work values and ethics as set forth by the NASW. This study highlights the need of social work students to be provided with the tools necessary in making them feel equipped to work with the rehabilitation of previously incarcerated individuals. Future research identifying barriers that prevent social worker involvement with this population can generate information that can be used to develop trainings to provide further education and knowledge to promote social work student’s competency with this population. previously incarcerated social work social work students rehabilitation ex-offenders convicted felons Social Work
2	The Crime Of Coming Home: British Convicts Returning From Transportation In London, 1720-1780 Teixeira, Christopher 01 January 2010 (has links) This thesis examines convicts who were tried for the crime of 'returning from transportation' at London's Old Bailey courthouse between 1720 and 1780. While there is plenty of historical scholarship on the tens of thousands of people who endured penal transportation to the American colonies, relatively little attention has been paid to convicts who migrated illegally back to Britain or those who avoided banishment altogether. By examining these convicts, we can gain a better understanding of how transportation worked, how convicts managed to return to Britain, and most importantly, what happened to them there. This thesis argues that convicts resisted transportation by either avoiding it or returning from banishment after obtaining their freedom. However, regardless of how they arrived back in Britain, many failed to reintegrate successfully back into British society, which led to their apprehension and trial. I claim that most convicts avoided the death penalty upon returning and that this encouraged more convicts to resist transportation and return home. The thesis examines the court cases of 132 convicts charged with returning from transportation at the Old Bailey and examines this migration home through the eyes of those who experienced it. First, the thesis focuses on convicts in Britain and demonstrates how negative perceptions of transportation encouraged them to resist banishment. The thesis then highlights how convicts obtained their freedom in the colonies, which gave them the opportunity to return illegally. Finally, the thesis shows that returned felons tried to reintegrate into society by relocating to new cities, leading quiet honest lives, or by returning to a life of crime. British crime America transportation convicts felons colonies punishment London Britain History
3	Race and Sentencing Equality in Kentucky Hurley, Robert L. 01 December 1979 (has links) Disparity in sentencing felons based on racial considerations has long has been considered a problem for civil libertarians and scholars alike. Examining data gathered in Kentucky, this thesis addresses this issue through the application of recently developed methodological techniques. Utilizing an index of sentencing equality, this study shows that while differences do exist in black and white offender offense characteristics, these differences do not account for the variations in sentences rendered in cases of white as opposed to black felons. This exploratory research reviews and critiques previous research and provides evidence which should prove useful in resolving the problem of racial-based sentencing disparity. Western Kentucky University Felons Prisoners Judicial System Discrimination African Americans Blacks Minorities African American Studies Courts Criminal Law Criminal Procedure Inequality and Stratification Judges Law Law and Race Race and Ethnicity Social and Behavioral Sciences Sociology
4	The Political Implications of Felon Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States Connaughton, Katharine G 01 January 2016 (has links) This empirical study analyzes the political implications for presidential election outcomes that stem from varying felon disenfranchisement laws within the United States. In the past decade incarceration rates have drastically increased, consequently augmenting the disenfranchised population. This paper focuses on presidential election outcomes and state political party majorities in the election years 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012. I use demographic characteristics to calibrate assumptions for voter turnout and political party choice among the disenfranchised populations within each state. I then apply these voting populations to historical election outcomes and find that three state political party outcomes change, as well as the potential for a reversal in the 2000 presidential election. I also apply the estimated voting populations by state to an entirely Republican turnout and then to an entirely Democratic turnout to analyze the scope of the disenfranchised population and find that under these assumptions several states’ political party majorities and several election outcomes are reversed. Disenfranchisement Felons Election Political Party Law American Politics Criminal Law Criminology Criminology and Criminal Justice Law and Race Law and Society Legal Theory Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance
5	En röst inifrån : En kvalitativ studie av hur klienter vid svenska anstalter kan nyttja sin rösträtt vid allmänna val / A voice from within : A qualitative research of how inmates at Swedish prisons can utllize their right to vote during general elections Granath, Felicia January 2021 (has links) The purpose of this study is to examine how Swedish inmates can utilize the right to vote during their time in prison. To fulfill the purpose, the study investigates how the Swedish Prison and Probation Service arrange elections in different prisons. Interviews with representatives of the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, as well as with a previous inmate, are conducted to show how the different prisons work with arranging elections and encouraging the prisoners to vote. The results are analyzed with a qualitative method. A theory of social inclusion and the right to vote as a positive right is used to analyze the data. The data shows that prisons work differently with arranging elections and most of the prison representatives thinks that there should be room for different approaches due to security level, clients and other conditions. The representatives of the prisons that participated in the study perceive the directions from the Swedish Prison and Probation Service differently which could imply a need for clearer information. The level of participation from the inmates differs, which could correlate to the efforts being done by the prison to encourage the inmates to vote. The conclusions that can be drawn from the study is that cooperation with other relevant actors is necessary to arrange elections where all inmates can participate, and that encouraging efforts from the prisons are needed to secure the inmates’ right to vote. Right to vote inmate felons' rights prison positive rights human rights elections social inclusion citizenship Rösträtt Kriminalvården fångars rättigheter fängelse positiva rättigheter mänskliga rättigheter allmänna val klienter social inkludering medborgarskap Social Sciences Samhällsvetenskap Other Social Sciences Annan samhällsvetenskap
6	Funding Faithful Felons: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Higher Education Transitions of Ex-Offender Scholarship Recipients Leary, Judith A. 22 July 2015 (has links) No description available. Academic Guidance Counseling Adult Education Biblical Studies Bible Clerical Studies Community College Education Criminology Education Education Finance Education Policy Educational Sociology Educational Theory Ethics Families and Family Life Finance Higher Education Higher Education Administration Individual and Family Studies Law Legal Studies Minority and Ethnic Groups Pastoral Counseling Peace Studies Personal Relationships Philosophy Political Science Rehabilitation Religion Religious Congregations Religious Education School Finance Social Research Social Work Spirituality Teaching Theology Vocational Education Community Colleges Reentry Higher Education Faith Felons Ex-offenders Christian Liberal Arts Schlossberg Transition Stigma Labeling Invisible Stripes Phenomenology Colson Scholarship Prison Ministry Wheaton Prisoner Crime Correctional Education PSCE

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