Incarceration Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/32-1/ The best minds on the most important topics. Tue, 22 Oct 2024 23:35:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Incarceration Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/32-1/ 32 32 Forum – Fall 2015 https://issues.org/forum-28/ https://issues.org/forum-28/#respond Thu, 01 Oct 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13623 Reevaluating educational credentials
Mark Schneider’s work on the wide variation in the economic value of postsecondary educational programs, as described in “The Value of Sub-baccalaureate Credentials” (Issues, Summer 2015), is… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/forum-28/feed/ 0 From the Hill – Fall 2015 https://issues.org/from-the-hill-6/ https://issues.org/from-the-hill-6/#respond Thu, 01 Oct 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13627 White House budget guidance
In early July, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued their annual joint memo identifying science… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/from-the-hill-6/feed/ 0 Technologies for Conserving Biodiversity in the Anthropocene https://issues.org/perspective-technologies-for-conserving-anthropocene-biodiversity/ https://issues.org/perspective-technologies-for-conserving-anthropocene-biodiversity/#respond Thu, 01 Oct 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13629 Conservation biologists have endeavored to preserve biodiversity from the most extreme excesses of human environmental destruction. Most of these efforts to reverse, halt, and even slow biodiversity decline have proven ineffective, with… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/perspective-technologies-for-conserving-anthropocene-biodiversity/feed/ 0 Advice to My Smart Phone https://issues.org/perspective-advice-to-my-smart-phone/ https://issues.org/perspective-advice-to-my-smart-phone/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13631 Until recently our friends were the ones who knew us best, and perhaps even knew what was best for us. But nowadays that role is being claimed by our smartphones: our new… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/perspective-advice-to-my-smart-phone/feed/ 1 CRISPR Democracy: Gene Editing and the Need for Inclusive Deliberation https://issues.org/crispr-democracy-gene-editing-inclusive-deliberation/ https://issues.org/crispr-democracy-gene-editing-inclusive-deliberation/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13634 Not since the early, heady days of recombinant DNA (rDNA) has a technique of molecular biology so gripped the scientific imagination as the CRISPR-Cas9 method of gene editing. Its promises are similar… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/crispr-democracy-gene-editing-inclusive-deliberation/feed/ 1 Jailhouse Rot https://issues.org/editors-journal-jailhouse-rot/ https://issues.org/editors-journal-jailhouse-rot/#respond Thu, 01 Oct 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13636 Americans seem to have a thing for prisons. Not only do we have the world’s largest prison population, we have a rich and incongruous pop culture heritage of films and songs about… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/editors-journal-jailhouse-rot/feed/ 0 Reducing Incarceration Rates: When Science Meets Political Realities https://issues.org/reducing-incarceration-rates-when-science-meets-political-realities/ https://issues.org/reducing-incarceration-rates-when-science-meets-political-realities/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13638 As the United States considers ways to improve how it incarcerates people in prisons and jails—and particularly how to reduce the number of people incarcerated—it is first necessary to recognize that there… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/reducing-incarceration-rates-when-science-meets-political-realities/feed/ 1 The Effects of Mass Incarceration on Communities of Color https://issues.org/effects-mass-incarceration-communities-color/ https://issues.org/effects-mass-incarceration-communities-color/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13642 Understandably, most of us would expect that removing criminals—those who would victimize others—from a community would be welcomed by the populace, and that both residents and their property would be better off… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/effects-mass-incarceration-communities-color/feed/ 1 Unwinding Mass Incarceration https://issues.org/unwinding-mass-incarceration/ https://issues.org/unwinding-mass-incarceration/#respond Thu, 01 Oct 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13644 Consensus is now emerging that the United States should move away from its heavy reliance on mass incarceration, which has ramped up over the past 40 years, ending in more people being… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/unwinding-mass-incarceration/feed/ 0 Correctional Health Is Community Health https://issues.org/correctional-health-care-community-health-prisons-jails/ https://issues.org/correctional-health-care-community-health-prisons-jails/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13646 The recent and dramatic expansion of the criminal justice system in the United States has been described by legal scholars as hyperincarceration, or “mass incarceration.” Much of the increase in the size… Read More

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