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| What was the aim of Gillis and Nafekh's study? |
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| To investigate the impact of community based employment on offender reintegration |
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| How many participants were in Gillis and Nafekh's study? |
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| What was the design used by Gillis and Nafekh? |
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Matched pairs:
Divided into those employed prior to release and those unemployed
Matched for gender, risk level, release year, sentence length, family/martial relations, substance abuse, emotional orientation, community functioning and attitudes |
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| What were the results of Gillis and Nafekh's study? |
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Average time to get employment was 6 months for men, 10 for women
Those on employment programmes prior to finishing their sentence more likely to remain on conditional release and less likely to return to custody with a new offence - median time to return was also longer
End of study 70% of employed group remained on conditional release compared to 55% of unemployed group |
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| What was the aim of Dooley's study? |
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| To investigate all unnatural deaths that occured in prisons in England and Wales |
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| What was the methodology of Dooley's study? |
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| A content analysis of Prison Department personal papers |
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| What were the results of Dooley's study? |
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442 unnatural deaths were recorded in prisons in England and Wales between 1972 and 1987
Of these 300 got a verdict of suicide and 52 from consciously self-inflicted injury
Signifcantly more of the sucide group were on remand compared to those classes as CSI
More of the CSI group were female and deaths occured mainly at night |
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