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Central Bank communication with the general public: Promise or false hope?
Blinder, Alan S.; Ehrmann, Michael; de Haan, Jakob; … - 2022
Central banks are increasingly reaching out to the general public to motivate and explain their monetary policy actions. One major aim of this outreach is to guide inflation expectations; another is to ensure accountability and create trust. This article surveys a rapidly-growing literature on...
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Psychological distress among re-education through labour camp detainees in Guangxi Autonomous Region, China
Yap, Lorraine; Shu, Su; Zhang, Lei; Liu, Wei; Chen, Yi; … - In: Journal of Mental Health 26 (2017) 1, pp. 57-65
[Background:] There is currently no information about the prevalence of, and factors contributing to psychological distress experienced by re-education through labour camp detainees in China. [Methods:] A cross-sectional face-to-face survey was conducted in three labour camps in Guangxi, China....
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Investment in human capital during incarceration and employment prospects of prisoners
Giles, Margaret; Le, Anh Tram - 2009
prison term and the potential labour market outcomes of this investment. The results suggest that prisoners use education … makers have emphasised the importance of rehabilitating prisoners as a way of reducing recidivism. Consequently, the … management of prisoners has changed, with more prisoners being encouraged to undertake some form of education, training and …
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Die politische Agenda Deutschlands
Breunig, Christian; Schnatterer, Tinette - In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 61 (2020) 1, pp. 131-149
Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt eine neue, umfassende Datenbank über die politischen Agenden Deutschlands vor und zeigt ihr Potenzial in der politikwisssenschaftlichen Forschung auf. Dazu fassen wir im ersten Teil den theoretischen Hintergrund – Agendasetzung – kurz zusammen und stellen...
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Incarceration and Crime: Evidence from California's Public Safety Realignment Reform
Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2013
-specific prison incarceration rates. We find very little evidence of an effect of the large reduction in incarceration rates on … research, the results from this study support the hypothesis of a crime-prison effect that diminishes with the scale of …
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The effect of criminal identity on dishonesty
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2013
We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum-security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … on dishonest behavior. We randomly primed half of the prisoners to increase the mental saliency of their criminal … identity, while treating the others as the control group. The results demonstrate that prisoners become more dishonest when we …
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Religion in Public Institutions: Comparative Perspectives from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe
Cadge, Wendy; Griera, Mar; Lucken, Kristen; … - In: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 56 (2017) 2, pp. 226-233
Much is known historically about the formal place for religion and spirituality in various countries. Less is known sociologically about the actual ways religion and spirituality are present in public institutions or about the conceptual and methodological assumptions that underlie how scholars...
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Can Electronic Monitoring Reduce Reoffending?
Williams, Jenny; Weatherburn, Don - 2019
This research evaluates the impact of electronic monitoring as an alternative to prison on reoffending. Leveraging … monitoring reduces reoffending within 24 months by 16 percentage points compared to serving a prison sentence. For offenders who … offender who serves their sentence under electronic monitoring rather than in prison. …
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Age-dependent court sentences and crime bunching: Empirical evidence from Swedish administrative data
Tyrefors Hinnerich, Björn; Palme, Mårten; Priks, Mikael - 2017
According to Swedish penal code, there is a "rebate" on all prison sentences before the 21st birthday. We exploit this …
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Life after prison: The relationship between employment and re-incarceration
Skardhamar, Torbjørn; Telle, Kjetil - 2009
resident released from prison in 2003 for several years. By the end of 2006, 27 percent are re-incarcerated. Using a Cox … release from prison. …
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