This dissertation was developed in the form a group of scientific papers which are interconnected in order to describe the main risk and protective factors experienced by incarcerated mothers and their children. Initially ...

Although there is debate about whether juvenile incarceration deters future crime, it is a common practice worldwide. We contribute to this debate by using Chilean data to assess the causal impact of different types of ...

All rights reserved. The increase in incarceration in recent decades has been particularly pronounced in the female prison population. In a patriarchal society where parenting falls mainly on women, this has consequences ...

To determine the prevalence of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections among incarcerated adolescents in Salvador, Brazil, we interviewed 300 incarcerated youth aged 11–18 years to participate in a physical examination ...

Considering that brazilian legislation provides that the objective of incarceration is to re-educate and reintegrate into society people in situations of deprivation of liberty, this paper analyzes the National Policy of ...

Around a third of prisoners worldwide (2.8 million) are incarcerated before trial. This paper combines Chilean individual administrative data for criminal cases and labor market outcomes to estimate, by differences-in- ...

This work analyze female incarceration and seeks to understand data recorded by national public security agencies. The objective is to know what causes the increase in the imprisonment of women, between the years 2000 to ...