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    In the field of correctional psychology every detainee‚ prisoner or offender are offered the benefits of treatment programs offered or many are required to seek one or more of the services offered including assessments‚ crisis interventions‚ substance abuse treatment‚ or reentry

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    Binocular Disparity

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    Binocular disparity is a depth cue based on differences in relative positions of the retinal images of objects in the two eyes. There are several ways to describe the positions of objects in regards to binocular disparity. Corresponding points are those in which if the left and right retinas were superimposed would produce coinciding points. Noncorresponding points are just the contrary; points on the retinas would not coincide if superimposed. When an observers focuses on an object‚ a horopter is

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    Evaluating the Economic Causes and Consequences of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Kristen Suthers‚ PhD‚ MPH R acial and ethnic health disparities are differences in health status driven by social inequities. While most agree that disparities in health are a social justice issue‚ underlying economic issues that exacerbate these differences have not been recog- nized. This paper dissects the economic costs of disparities first‚ at the individual level in terms of adverse impacts

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    The Impact of Juvenile Inmates’ Perceptions and Facility Characteristics on Victimization in Juvenile Correctional Facilities is written by Aaron Kupchik and R. Bradley Snyder. The significance of the problem the article focuses on is evidence of a third theoretic model in addition to the deprivation and importation theoretic models. The third model combines facility and individual variables that concentrate on the perception of the youth toward the facility’s rules and standards. The deprivation

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    health disparities

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    Maria J Garcia Health Disparities Now a days it is very common that people’s health depends on their income rate‚ social environment and the area we live in‚ and now the mortality rate is very remarkable between areas of the community‚ what does the mortality rate has to do with our location? Here in San Antonio‚ diabetes mortality rate is very high but it is higher in some places than others‚ and this is because a person’s income influences their location‚ according to research data about

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    Health disparities related to access to mental health care services continues to be a growing concern for the field of nursing and other healthcare professions. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) (2016b)‚ 20% of people living in the United States (U.S.) currently struggle with mental illness. Despite the goals of Healthy People 2020 (2016) to improve mental health through prevention and access to care‚ significant disparities still exist. Substantial cuts have occurred in

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    The Us Correctional System

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    Criminal Justice Unit 9 Final Project January 01‚ 2013 The US Correctional System When it comes to the phrase “being behind bars‚” most people get the visualization and thought of prison‚ our correctional facilities. When thinking of these prisons there is one big thought about it and that is time. Offenders that get sentenced to prison usually have a very long sentence over there head. The real questions for these correctional systems is how are offenders punished as well as how are they rehabilitated

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    Health disparities are a continuing issue‚ especially in America where there are many different socioeconomic hierarchies that can affect the level of health care. These health disparities refer to the different groups of people and how diseases affect each group. There have been many studies done to identify the health disparities driven by socioeconomic status (SES). Most all of the studies have provided evidence that racial and ethnic minorities tend to receive lower quality health care than

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    crimes. (Bartollas & Miller‚ 2011). Adolescents and young adults have the highest rate of criminal victimization. ( Conklin‚ 2010). Juvenile court judges have many sentencing choices‚ such as probation‚ issuing fines‚ sending juveniles to correctional I institutions or foster homes‚ referrals to day treatment or social skills classes‚ mental health or community service. The harshest treatment a judge may order is commitment to a secure facility. Juvenile residential facilities are similar

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    The word “Population Growth” has its origin from the latin words ‘Populus’ meaning people. According to ecological term; “population is group of people of the same species occupying a particular space”. Population is subdivided further into demes or local population which is group of interbreeding organism in demes; they share a common gene pool. Population density is defined as a number of individual per unit area or per unit volume of environment. When the size of the individual is uniform the

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