Need For Reintegration Research Articles

"People say you're going home, but I don't have a home": Housing After Prison.

Recidivism in Australia is high, especially in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). While high-quality stable housing has been shown to reduce recidivism, people released from prison face many barriers in obtaining housing. This paper reports on a qualitative study exploring the housing experiences of 11 people released from prison in the ACT. Participants felt the importance of housing for reintegration and avoiding recidivism, but reported many challenges, including issues relating to lack of pre-release planning, income and employment, drug use, difficulties and delays with accessing social housing, and complying with parole or bail conditions. We recommend increased investment in services to assist people in prison with organizing housing before release. Furthermore, as housing is a foundational need for reintegration and drug use is high among the prison population in the ACT, Housing First initiatives may be the most appropriate model for providing accommodation and reducing recidivism.

The Criminal Case Processing of Foreign Nationals in the Netherlands

Abstract Foreign nationals are increasingly encountering the criminal justice institutions of many European countries. Yet, basic questions about how they are punished within these institutions, particularly at the early stages of case processing, remain unanswered. This article combines linked case information from arrest through sentencing with interviews of Dutch judges and prosecutors to fill this gap. Our findings reveal considerable unexplained citizenship disparities in multiple case outcomes. Compared to Dutch citizens arrested for the same crimes and with similar criminal records, foreign nationals are more likely to have their cases referred to court, to be detained, convicted, and imprisoned. The interviews identified several mechanisms that explicate these differences, including (i) annoyance when foreign nationals are perceived to be in the country for the purpose of committing crime; (ii) logistical issues when noncitizens do not have a permanent residence, and; (iii) undermining the need for reintegration because many defendants are unlikely to remain in the Netherlands.

The Chair's Role in Leveraging Multigenerational Workforce Strategies in Times of Crisis

The Chair's Role in Leveraging Multigenerational Workforce Strategies in Times of Crisis

Fenotipska varijabilnost osobina klasa i genetička struktura populacije u kolekciji jarih ječmova

Domestication, selection and modern breeding narrow the genetic variability of barley, and thus create the need for re-integration of variability as a basis for barley breeding. In this study, 4 barley cultivars and 48 landraces from Serbian gene bank were analysed during two years. Phenotypic variability and genetic structure of the two quantitative spike traits: length and width, and one trait of grain: 1000 grain weight, were analyzed in a population with genotypes of known type of vegetation and spike form. Average spike length ranged from 4,2 to 10,2 cm, spike width 0,65 to 1,27 cm and 1000 grain weight from 27,58 to 51,35 g. Analysis of variance has a significant F value for all sources of variation in all traits. Analysis with 16 SSR markers detected a total of 105 allelic forms. Observing the groups of vegetation type and spike form, diversity of genes was the highest in the spring barley (two-row and six-row forms) and six-row barley (spring and winter types). The results of AMOVA test for spike form showed highly significant values for both sources of variation, while the intergroup component was dominant both for the type of vegetation (91,26 %) and form of the spike (90,83 %). Based on the cluster dendrogram 52 genotypes are classified into three main groups and 11 sub-groups. The results showed there is considerable variability of examined traits in the collection, so it can be used in barley breeding programs.

Putting the World Together: The Future of Successful American Christianity

The future of Christianity in America can be found by looking at one of this country’s longstanding religious traditions. The tradition I have in mind is not the white-steepled churches of New England Puritanism, or the Second Great Awakening’s populist Evangelical revivals. In fact, it is not even Christian. To understand the future, one must look instead at the Sun Dance of the Plain Indians. This three-hundred year-old ceremony, considered in the first section of this paper, recapitulates the whole world and relates Indians to all of life. This reintegrative function is what makes for successful modern American Christianity.Admittedly, such a ceremony seems an unlikely model for American Christianity in the twenty-first century, in a society where the division of labor and fragmentation of society observed by Max Weber has taken full effect. The modern world is structured in such a way that “major cultural and institutional spheres of society… develop [their] own institutional autonomy.” In other words, the various functions of life and institutions organizing them are separate: business and family, politics and religion are no longer assumed to have anything to do with each other. It is also home to a high degree of cultural pluralism, wherein urbanization, mass media, and social freedom allow for the coexistence of a wide array of individuals, groups, and communities.How, then, is the Sun Dance—an attempt at representing and reorienting all things, a task that seems to contradict the extraordinarily complex realities of modernity—a model for successful modern Christianity? People have a deep need for reintegration in the face of dizzying complexity and diversity. They want to know how to organize the world, and how to relate to it. Evangelicalism and Catholicism, two successful Christian groups in modern America, serve this function effectively. The second part of this paper will consider how by analyzing Evangelicalism’s orienting ideas and the Catholic Magisterium.Both Peter Berger and Robert Bellah have commented extensively on modern American religion. The final part of this paper will weigh their approaches in light of its main thesis of reintegration as the key to successful modern American Christianity. Berger’s prediction of religion’s future in “sheltering communities” is more accurate than Bellah’s claim that religious communities with the weakest ties to doctrinal orthodoxy and moral purity will thrive. But a successful modern Christian community does not merely shelter its members. It enables them to put the world together, just as the Sun Dance does.

Global offshoring - knowledge journeys of three SMEs

This paper analyses three small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the textile industry involved in manufacturing, design sales and procurement offshoring. Adopting the knowledge-based theory of the firm and the theory of knowledge integration leads to identification of ‘direction’ and ‘organisational routines’, which are important for the integration of knowledge between entities dispersed in time and space. The companies were followed over a period of four years, with annual interviews that show that, to differing degrees, offshoring of manufacturing becomes a journey for the companies involved to take back outsourced activities when it proves difficult to create the appropriate managerial direction and organisational routines. Travelling experts, virtual interaction through IT, and training of employees abroad are three central elements encountered. Changes in the globalised upstream setups challenge the companies’ manufacturing and innovative capabilities, since innovation,knowledge and activities prove less transferable and robust, leading to a need for re-integration in the restructured upstream sourcing setups.

Economics, Sociology, History: Notes on Their Loss of Unity, Their Need for Re-integration and the Current Relevance of the Controversy between Carl Menger and Gustav Schmoller

We are experiencing a situation of increasing criticism of the state in which economics is being represented nowadays. One of the remarks is that economics has become too formalized and too abstract and that the state of discipline has become increasingly unable to express many phenomena of “real life” with its concrete socioeconomic specifica. Criticism has found a way to get cumulated in different terms of economic pluralism. The claim for fostering interdisciplinary research which we also find nowadays reflects the diagnosis that our islands of shared knowledge have become too fragmented. When reflecting what is going on in recent times a view back to the end of the nineteenth century may help to contextualize recent debate. Looking at the debate between Carl Menger and Gustav Schmoller which was later classified as the first battles in social sciences helps to sort up arguments which are still on the agenda, inductive versus deductive methods or empirism versus abstract theorizing.

Child Health Problems: A Need for Reintegration Within Health Psychology

Child Health Problems: A Need for Reintegration Within Health Psychology

To Unify the Liberal-Arts Curriculum

C URRICULUM reform has been under way for so long in the liberal-arts colleges that it is possible now to examine the results with some degree of hopefulness, though it is not yet possible to appraise their value. One fact must strike the careful observer at once: there seems to be no agreement among the students of liberal-arts education as to the fundamental principle or principles upon which a college curriculum ought to be built. Numerous experiments are being tried, but the whole body of experimentation bears an uncomfortable similarity to rule-of-thumb methods long ago abandoned by careful scientists. The difficulty seems to be that there has been no recognized integrating concept upon which to base experiments. The liberal-arts college once possessed such a concept in the older idea of culture. The older college was a distinctly classical institution. Destined for the most part for the professions, its students expected to enjoy a certain degree of leisure and a favored cultural status. Culture meant philosophy, the classics, and the humanities in general, the spirit of detachment from affairs of the present and of contemplation of the values of the past. The older college thus found its guiding principle in the elements of the culture of detachment, as conveyed through the learning of the past. It was possible in a college of this type to present a unified curriculum. Unification indeed took care of itself. Content, purpose, and method were in more or less complete harmony; this is no longer true. During the last half or two-thirds of a century the curriculum has absorbed so many new departments and courses, with conflicting aims and points of view, that the old unity has wholly disappeared. The content of the new far exceeds in quantity that of the old. Yet the college has attempted, until within the last decade, to maintain its traditional outlook, and the older members of its faculty still lament the fundamental change in spirit which not even they can deny. If liberal-arts education is to be reintegrated, more will be required of the college than merely a change in curriculum, but curricular changes aimed directly at the need for reintegration should accomplish much and are a sine qua non to that end.