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La privatizzazione degli istituti di pena: il caso Italia
Get PDFLa privatizzazione della pena è da tempo oggetto di sperimentazione sovranazionale che ha visto protagonisti soprattutto i
paesi di Common Law in un’altalenante valutazione della possibile positività degli effetti prodotti. Ad oggi sono numerosi i
Paesi che, a fronte di fallimenti riconducibili alla forte influenza delle dinamiche profit che regolano le funzioni svolte dai
partners privati, propongono un ritorno alla gestione statale dell’esecuzione penale.
A fronte dell’avvio della prima esperienza di privatizzazione in Italia, gli Autori, attraverso una lettura critica delle esperienze
internazionali, cercano di puntare l’attenzione sugli aspetti che, anche se delegati a terzi, potrebbero comunque garantire
l’esecuzione della pena detentiva secondo i principi fissati dalla normativa penitenziaria nazionale, consapevoli del fatto che
la cronica carenza di risorse per l’edilizia penitenziaria potrebbe cogliere come positivo l’afflusso di capitali provenienti dal
settore privato
In the shadow: elderly people in prison
No full textSet within the background of Italy’s penal system this contribution provides a critical introduction to the international debates associated with the increasing incarceration of elderly offenders. At European level there are not comparable data as the definition of ‘older prisoner’ is inevitably arbitrary: European countries afford a different cut off point for a prisoner to be legally defined as older inmate. Notwithstanding this the Council of Europe has revealed that Italy has the largest elderly prison population followed by England Spain and Germany. At the root of the proliferation in elderly prisoners are increasingly harsh criminal justice policies. Furthermore data extrapolated by deconstructing sentencing research evidence that actors in the criminal justice system discriminate against elderly people by not considering their specific social and health care needs. The concluding section of this paper claims that the burden of age with the collateral consequences of incarceration can be reversed with appropriate resources. The proposal here is for a human rights framework to the laws policies and practices relating to aging and seriously ill people in prison. Such framework can provide assessment guidelines for developing or evaluating existing public health and criminal justice laws such as compassionate and geriatric release laws
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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