Investing in The Health and Well-Being of Young Adults

This report was prepared to assist federal, state, and local policy makers and program leaders, as well as employers, nonprofit organizations, and other community partners, in developing and enhancing policies and programs to improve young adults' health, safety, and well-being. The report also suggests priorities for research to inform policy and programs for young adults.Young adulthood - ages approximately 18 to 26 - is a critical period of development with long-lasting implications for a person's economic security, health and well-being. Young adults are key contributors to the nation's workforce and military services and, since many are parents, to the healthy development of the next generation. Although 'millennials' have received attention in the popular media in recent years, young adults are too rarely treated as a distinct population in policy, programs, and research. Instead, they are often grouped with adolescents or, more often, with all adults. Currently, the nation is experiencing economic restructuring, widening inequality, a rapidly rising ratio of older adults, and an increasingly diverse population. The possible transformative effects of these features make focus on young adults especially important. A systematic approach to understanding and responding to the unique circumstances and needs of today's young adults can help to pave the way to a more productive and equitable tomorrow for young adults in particular and our society at large

The Contentious Prison: From Rehabilitation to Incapacitation in New South Wales and Pennsylvania, 1965-1990.

This dissertation explores the re-emergence of imprisonment as a major social policy in New South Wales, Australia and Pennsylvania, USA during the late twentieth-century. It focuses on three themes: (1) the increasing visibility of prisons; (2) transnational relationships in penal reform; and (3) the flow of penal knowledge. The introduction of rehabilitation after World War II proved to be very contentious with prison staff and the broader public and they encouraged greater criticism from prisoners. These reforms coincided with the formation of a transnational, prisoners’ rights movement, which attempted to redefine the status of confined people. Penal authorities struggled to explain the efficacy of their policies and increases in crime and prison unrest. These problems engulfed the penal system in both states in controversy and created a vacuum of control within prisons. Staff resorted to more control strategies, like segregation and officials imported practices, like classification, from other jurisdictions, and build new prisons. By the 1990s, prison populations in both states grew rapidly, but there was little agreement on what prisons should do other than incapacitate people.PHDAnthropology and HistoryUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/120886/1/jrcoene_1.pd

The Political Economy of Bank Regulation in Developing Countries

Why do governments in some developing countries implement international standards, while others do not? Focusing on the politics of bank regulation, this book develops a new framework to explain regulatory interdependence between countries in the core and the periphery of the global financial system. Drawing on in-depth analysis of eleven countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, it shows how financial globalization generates strong reputational and competitive incentives for developing countries to converge on international standards. Regulatory interdependence is generated by relations between regulators, politicians, and banks within developing countries, and international actors including investors, peer regulators, and international financial institutions. We explain why it is that some configurations of domestic politics and forms of integration into global finance generate convergence with international standards, while other configurations lead to divergence. This book contributes to our understanding of the ways in which governments and firms in the core of global finance powerfully shape regulatory politics in the periphery, and the ways in which peripheral governments and firms manoeuvre within the constraints and opportunities created by financial globalizatio