A qualitative inquiry: management of recidivism in South Africa
This study explores how the Department of Correctional Services in South Africa manages recidivism using the perspectives of staff and external stakeholders. A qualitative study was conducted with 19 Department of Correctional Services employees and ten external stakeholders. The findings postulate that South Africa ’s Department of Correctional Services (1) lacks defined policy guidelines, processes, or structure for addressing recidivism; (2) suggests a gap in the system as departments work independently within the Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Cluster (JCPS), which includes, among others, the Depa rtments of ...
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - February 5, 2024 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
A comparative study of tobacco control scale score in the Eastern Mediterranean Region countries
CONCLUSION: Tobacco control policies have been implemented and improved in most EMR countries, but there is room for further improvement. Tobacco pricing and taxation, national tobacco control program budgets, and cessation treatments require more attention.PMID:38279865 | DOI:10.26719/emhj.23.120 (Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal)
Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal - January 27, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Authors: Elnaz Saeedi Sepideh Abdi Amir Reza Dardashti Pedram Fattahi Negar Taheri Fereshte Lotfi Saeed Nemati Mojtaba Vand Rajabpour Source Type: research
With just weeks to live, these marsupials prioritize sex over sleep
If you only had 3 weeks left to live, what would you do? For a fuzzy little Australian marsupial, the answer is clear: Have as much sex as possible—even at the cost of sleep. During the single mating season that caps off the brief life span of a male antechinus (pictured above), these animals
forgo shuteye to carve out more time for lovemaking
, researchers report today in
Current Biology
.
The work starkly illustrates “the trade-offs animals have to make between sleeping and doing something more directly related to survival [of the species],” says Paul-Antoine Libourel, an ecophysiologist a...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - January 25, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Do financial constraint and perceived stress modify the effects of food tax schemes on food purchases: moderation analyses in a virtual supermarket experiment
CONCLUSION: Further studies with larger samples are recommended to assess whether food-related taxes differentially affect food purchases of subgroups.PMID:38224250 | DOI:10.1017/S1368980024000077 (Source: Public Health Nutrition)
Source: Public Health Nutrition - January 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sanne K Djojosoeparto Maartje P Poelman Michelle Eykelenboom Mari ëlle A Beenackers Ingrid Hm Steenhuis Maartje M van Stralen Margreet R Olthof Carry M Renders Frank J van Lenthe Carlijn Bm Kamphuis Source Type: research
The effects of health-related food taxes on the environmental impact of consumer food purchases: secondary analysis of data from a randomised controlled trial in a virtual supermarket
CONCLUSIONS: A nutrient profiling tax based on Nutri-Score reduced the environmental impact of consumer food purchases. An SSB tax did not affect the environmental impact in this study.PMID:38224101 | DOI:10.1017/S1368980024000090 (Source: Public Health Nutrition)
Source: Public Health Nutrition - January 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Michelle Eykelenboom Derek Mersch Alessandra C Grasso Reina E Vellinga Elisabeth Hm Temme Ingrid Hm Steenhuis Margreet R Olthof PEN Consortium Source Type: research
