Assessing the penal harm movement
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Most Americans believe that prisons should rehabilitate criminals and think of it as a humane way of inflicting punishment. Rehabilitation, however, is susceptible to criticisms. To have wide public acceptance, it should consider the good of the public at the core of treatment interventions employed. Government incentives should be linked to prisoner performance in programs that promote individual responsibility, control deviant behavior and promote public interest.
Publication Name: Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-4278
Year: 1995
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Rosa Beddington
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The obituary is devoted to Rosa Beddington, an embryologist with extraordinary technical skill with the ability to combine the approaches of classical embryology and modern molecular genetics. In the field of science she was the International Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization and of the Academia Europeae, and she received The Waddington Medal of the British Society for Developmental Biology.
Publication Name: Cell
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0092-8674
Year: 2001
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Con under a hot tin roof
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A production of a long-lost play by Tennessee Williams brought to the stage by Vanessa Redgrave is discussed. This early work was based on a true story of four Philadelphia prisoners who died from overheating in their cells.
Publication Name: Philadelphia Magazine
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0031-7233
Year: 1999
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