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Incarceration Impacts Cognitive Performance, and Prisoner Status Matters

Scientific article

Abstract Globally, incarceration is understood to impoverish the wellbeing of prisoners, but evidence for its impact on cognitive performance is less popular. As most evidence on the criminal justice system has come from advanced western...

Viruses and Places of Detention

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The nature of places of detention is that they are constructed to maximize public safety. This is highly likely to lead to people living in very close proximity of each other in often overcrowded conditions, which increases the probability...

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and Youth Justice

Scientific article

13 February 2018

Abstract Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) among young people in youth detention in Australia. Neurodevelopmental impairments due to FASD can predispose young people to engagement with the law...