scholarly journals Impacting attitudes towards gambling: A prison gambling awareness and prevention program

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Nixon ◽  
Gordon Leigh ◽  
Nadine Nowatzki
Keyword(s):  
Correctional Facility ◽  
Skill Score ◽  
Prison Inmates ◽  
South Oaks Gambling Screen ◽  
Cognitive Error ◽  
The Past ◽  
Error Recognition ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
Problem Or Pathological Gambling ◽  
Frequency Score

Research indicates that approximately one third of prison inmates meet the criteria for problem or pathological gambling (Williams, Royston, & Hagen, 2005). However, despite this rate being among the highest of all gambling populations (Walters, 1997; Shaffer & Hall, 2001), there appears to be a lack of prison gambling awareness and prevention programs. This study sought to develop, implement, and evaluate one such program at the Lethbridge Correctional Facility in Alberta, Canada. Forty-nine inmates completed a six-session program over 18 months. Gambling screen results revealed a significant increase in cognitive error recognition, and attitudes towards gambling became significantly more negative. The program did not render any significant differences in math skill score, Canadian Problem Gambling Index (CPGI) score, or past-year South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) score. Changes in the past-year frequency score approached significance. This study suggests that programs of this kind can be effective for inmate populations, particularly in changing attitudes towards gambling.

scholarly journals Bloody Women: How Female Authors Have Transformed the Scottish Contemporary Crime Fiction Genre

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-71
Author(s):  
Lorna Hill
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
Crime Novel ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Changing Attitudes

Abstract This study will explore the role of female authors in contemporary Scottish crime fiction. Over the past thirty years, women writers have overhauled the traditionally male dominated genre of crime fiction by writing about strong female characters who drive the plot and solve the crimes. Authors including Val McDermid, Denise Mina and Lin Anderson are just a few of the women who have challenged the expectation of gender and genre. By setting their novels in contemporary society they reflect a range of social and political issues through the lens of a female protagonist. By closely examining the female characters, both journalists, in Val McDermid’s Lindsay Gordon series and Denise Mina’s Paddy Meehan series, I wish to explore the issue of gender through these writers’ perspectives. This essay documents the influence of these writers on my own practice-based research which involves writing a crime novel set in a post referendum Scotland. I examine a progressive and contemporary Scottish society, where women hold many senior positions in public life, and investigate whether this has an effect on the outcome of crimes. Through this narrative, my main character will focus on the current and largely hidden crimes of human trafficking and domestic abuse. By doing this I examine the ways in which the modern crime novel has evolved to cross genre boundaries. In addition to focusing on a crime, the victims and witnesses, today’s crime novels are tackling social issues to reflect society’s changing attitudes and values.

Baring and Bearing Life Behind Bars: Pat Graney's “Keeping the Faith” Prison Project

2008 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Berson
Keyword(s):  
Correctional Facility ◽  
Washington State ◽  
Freedom Of Movement ◽  
Stated Goal ◽  
The Past ◽  
Group Cooperation ◽  
Bearing Life

For the past 10 years Seattle-based choreographer Pat Graney has directed “Keeping the Faith” at the Washington State Women's Correctional Facility. The project provides participants with rare opportunities for self-expression and group cooperation, apparently serving the prison's stated goal of rehabilitation; but it also offers possibilities for transgression as it extends freedom of movement to highly regulated bodies.

Musical life stories coherence through musicking in the prison setting

2022 ◽  
pp. 174165902110591
Author(s):  
Kjetil Hjørnevik ◽  
Leif Waage ◽  
Anita Lill Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Prison Inmates ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Prison Life ◽  
The Past

Despite the strong relationships evidenced between music and identity little research exists into the significance of music in prisoners’ shifting sense of identity. This article explores musicking as part of the ongoing identity work of prisoners in light of theory on musical performance, narrative and desistance and discusses implications for penal practice and research. Through the presentation of an ethnographic study of music therapy in a low security Norwegian prison we show how participation in music activities afforded congruence between the past, the present and the projected future for participants by way of their unfolding musical life stories. Complementing existing conceptualisations of music as an agent for change, our study suggests that musicking afforded the maintenance of a coherent sense of self for participating prison inmates, whilst offering opportunities for noncoercive personal development. We argue that research into musicking in prison offers fruitful ways of tracing how the complexities inherent in processes of change are enacted in everyday prison life, and that it can advance our knowledge of relationships between culture, penal practice and desistance.

scholarly journals Changing Attitudes Toward Influenza Vaccination in U.S. Kidney Transplant Programs Over the Past Decade

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 1637-1641 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. James Chon ◽  
Pradeep V. Kadambi ◽  
Robert C. Harland ◽  
J. Richard Thistlethwaite ◽  
Bradford L. West ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Influenza Vaccination ◽  
Kidney Transplant ◽  
The Past ◽  
Changing Attitudes

scholarly journals Features of Experiencing a Spiritual Crisis and Attitudes to Self in Persons with Spinal Injury

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-64
Author(s):  
I.V. Vachkov ◽  
M.A. Odintsova ◽  
O.A. Tristan
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Spinal Injury ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Spinal Injuries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Spiritual Crisis ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
Real Self

The article presents the results of the study of the specifics of spiritual crisis experience and attitudes to Self in persons with spinal injury (N=65) and conventionally healthy respondents (N=63). The characteristics of spiritual crisis most typical of people with spinal injury were: dissatisfaction and loneliness attributed to the past, present, and future; and suffering attributed to the past. The categories of dissatisfaction, loneliness, and suffering were heterogeneous, as reflected in texts produced by people with spinal injuries and healthy people of different sex and age. Groups distinguished by time elapsed since injury did not differ on quantitative signs of spiritual crises but differed qualitatively in their experiences of dissatisfaction, loneliness, and suffering. People who had lived with the injury longer often experienced uselessness, and a lack of contacts, attention, and support; they were disposed to self-flagellation and guilt. Their attitude to Self reflected in the texts of fairy tales. Healthy controls wrote simple fairy tales describing the interaction of the Real Self and Ideal Self. By contrast, people with spinal injuries focused their stories on emotional experiences of their attitude to Self (complicated fairy tales) or finding meaning, accepting oneself and life in all its fullness and variety (complex fairy tale). Counseling people with a spinal injury, one should take into account both gender and age of the injured person and the potential of the fairy tale itself, which becomes a resource in the experiencing of spiritual crisis and in changing attitudes to Self.

scholarly journals Development and validation of the gambling problems scale

2015 ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Brooke J. Arterberry ◽  
Matthew P. Martens ◽  
Stephanie K. Takamatsu
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Gambling Problems ◽  
South Oaks Gambling Screen ◽  
The Past ◽  
Score Interpretation ◽  
Midwestern University ◽  
Additional Support ◽  
College Student Population ◽  
Development And Validation

The purpose of the present study was to examine the initial psychometric properties of the Gambling Problems Scale (GPS), developed for the college student population. Participants were college students recruited for an ongoing larger clinical trial from a Midwestern university who reported gambling in the past 60 days and who were experiencing gambling-related problems, scoring +3 on the South Oaks Gambling Screen or +1 on the Brief Biopsychosocial Gambling Index (N = 334). Factor analyses and reliability analyses were conducted to examine the validity of score interpretation and the reliability of scores for the measure. Results suggested a 16-item unidimensional measure provided the best parsimony and theoretical fit. Examination of concurrent and incremental validity of scores provided additional support for the psychometric properties of the GPS. The GPS may be a useful tool for researchers and clinicians interested in examining gambling-related problems among college students and other young adults.

The Music Behind the Mask: Rossini’s Uncanny Salon

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-114
Author(s):  
Simon Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Old Age ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
Nineteenth Century France ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
A Site ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
Shed Light

Despite receiving scant attention from scholars and performers, Rossini’s Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age), written between 1857 and 1868 for his private salon, have a unique and expressive stylistic language. In these works, the composer gives musical voice to the uncanny discourses that emerged around the idea of his “creative death.” This paper establishes how Rossini’s return to composition functioned as a musical “exhumation,” with his compositional activities functioning as a site for broader discourses about disease, aging, and death in nineteenth-century France. Close readings of visual depictions of Rossini by Eugène Delacroix and Antoine Etex shed light on changing attitudes toward the composer, which coincided with broader aesthetic shifts taking place at the time. The tensions engendered by Rossini’s precarious status as both living and dead, and his nostalgic relationship to the past, constitute a kind of doubleness that can be heard in his late compositions. Bringing together cultural history and musical analysis, I show that the privacy of Rossini’s salon gave rise to music with unique signifying potential that has not yet been duly acknowledged.

scholarly journals Changing attitudes toward needle biopsies of breast cancer in Shanghai: experience and current status over the past 8 years

2015 ◽  
pp. 2865 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuang Hao ◽  
Zhe Bin Liu ◽  
Hong Ling ◽  
Jia Jian Chen ◽  
Ju Ping Shen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
The Past ◽  
Changing Attitudes
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