For Immediate Release: How to safely reduce prison ...

2 “There is a better way. We need to move from anger-based sentencing that ignores cost and effectiveness to evidence-based sentencing that focuses on results—sentencing that assesses each offender’s risk and then fits that offender with the cheapest and most effective rehabilitation that he or she needs. We know how to do this.

The Costs of Confinement: Why Good Juvenile …

•Policies that lock up more youth do not necessarily improve public safety. Ten years of data on incarceration and crime trends show that states that increased the number of …

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See Justice Policy Brief on TX Imprisonment & Race

: RACE AND IMPRISONMENT IN TEXAS ˘ The disparate incarceration of Latinos and African Americans in the Lone Star State ny discussion about the impact of incarceration in this country must acknowledge that the

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Expensive, Ineffective and Unfair - justicepolicy.org

JUSTICE POLICY INSTITUTE 2 Virginia ranks low in Violent and Property crime nationally, but high in incarceration and spending State Ranking Ranking

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FINDING DIRECTION - Justice Policy Institute

sets out guidelines for protecting the rights of youth in the criminal justice system and ensuring appropriate treatment given their age and cognitive development.

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AGE E juvenile justice system - Justice Policy Institute

a raise the age law in 2007, the state did not experience a $100 million ... juvenile justice system was $139 million, compared to $137 million in 2011-12. Instead, the raise the age process in Connecticut inspired a shift to better juvenile justice policies and practices, which resulted in the state

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Adverse Childhood Events as Risk Factors for Negative ...

tive mental health outcomes and that risk factors often co-occur. Adverse child-hood events are a set of modifi able risk factors, and intervening to reduce these risk factors may have far-reaching impli-cations in terms of mental health promo-tion and mental illness prevention. AFFECTIVE AND ANXIETY DISORDERS Adverse childhood events have been

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Unit 11: Understand Mental Wellbeing and Mental Health ...

Learning outcomes and assessment criteria . ... 1.3 Explain how risk factors and protective factors influence levels ... • A negative concept of mental health is a view that being mentally healthy is an absence of mental ill health, e.g. no signs stress, anxiety means you are

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MENTAL HEALTH AND RESILIENCE - Outward Bound

interaction between risk factors and impacts, with particular negative outcomes such as poor mental health further compounding cognitive development, which can then cause young people to become involved in further risky behaviours. This cumulative effect will …

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DEPRESSION LITERATURE REVIEW F ISK - World Health …

Toronto Public Health, is a comprehensive review of the literature from 1990-2002 in four related areas: 1) risk factors for postpartum depression, 2) its detection, prevention and treatment 3) the effects of the illness on the mother- infant relationship and child growth and development and 4) public health interventions and

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