News tagged with prisoners
Bacteria offer insights into human decision making
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying how bacteria under stress collectively weigh and initiate different survival strategies say they have gained new insights into how humans make strategic decisions that ...
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Robot guards being tested in South Korea
(Phys.org) -- South Korea, a nation with a self-proclaimed goal of being a leader in robotics technology has, through the Asian Forum of Corrections (AFC), begun testing the feasibility of using robots as ...
Apr 18, 2012 |
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Material success and social failure?
It is common knowledge that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. Likewise, large inequalities of income are often regarded as divisive and corrosive.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Facing a judge? Study says go early or after lunch
If you have to face a judge, try for first thing in the morning or right after lunch. A new study suggests that's when they're most lenient.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 11, 2011 |
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Three-strikes law fails to reduce crime
California's three-strikes law has not reduced violent crime, but has contributed significantly to the state's financial woes by substantially increasing the prison population, according to a University of ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 28, 2012 |
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Free after 35 years: DNA clears Florida inmate
(AP) -- For years, James Bain insisted he was home watching TV with his twin sister when a 9-year-old boy was kidnapped and raped.
Dec 18, 2009 |
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Psychologists offer ways to improve prison environment, reduce violent crime
U.S. prisons are too punitive and often fail to rehabilitate, but targeting prisoners' behavior, reducing prison populations and offering job skills could reduce prisoner aggression and prevent recidivism, a researcher told ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 08, 2009 |
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Hacker pleads guilty in huge credit card theft case
A 28-year-old Florida man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to hacking into corporate computer networks and carrying out what US officials have described as the largest credit card theft in US history.
Dec 29, 2009 |
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What do the punished think of punishment?
A new study from The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research gives an insight into what offenders really think about their punishment.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 12, 2010 |
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Bacteria use chat to play the 'Prisoner's Dilemma' game in deciding their fate
When faced with life-or-death situations, bacteria — and maybe even human cells — use an extremely sophisticated version of "game theory" to consider their options and decide upon the best course ...
Mar 27, 2012 |
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Research examines the price of prison for children
It comes as no surprise that many children suffer when a parent is behind bars. But as rates of incarceration grew over the past 30 years, researchers were slow to focus on the collateral damage to children.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 09, 2010 |
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Sexual offenses between inmates occur less often in states that allow conjugal visitation
Could widespread conjugal visitation reduce sexual offending in prisons? It's a possibility, according to Stewart D'Alessio and his team from Florida International University in the US. Their work shows that in states where ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Prison punishes more people than just the inmates
(PhysOrg.com) -- More people live behind bars in the United States than in any other country, but the American prison system punishes more than just its inmates--it also takes a toll on the health of friends ...
Apr 21, 2009 |
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fMRI scans used in murder trial sentencing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans have been used, possibly for the first time, in the sentencing phase of a murder trial in Chicago in the US.
Nov 25, 2009 |
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Study: Potential criminals deterred by longer sentences
Deterrence is often a stated goal of criminal sentencing guidelines, but there is debate about whether the threat of punishment actually discourages people from committing crimes. A new study published in the Journal of Po ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 18, 2009 |
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