Jenny Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673713 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jenny Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jenny |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9084-0446 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Racial and ethnic differences in quitting when marijuana retail markets are legal
Racial and ethnic minorities are subjected to greater enforcement of marijuana laws under prohibition. This research examines whether there is a corresponding difference in their response to the introduction of legal protection of marijuana retail markets. We use California’s medical marijuana retail market as a case study. A well-established system of dispensaries operating in California before the introduction of legal protection of its medical…
The Covid-19 global pandemic and allostatic load among a cohort of Black and Latina transgender women living with HIV
This exploratory study investigated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stress biomarkers and allostatic load for Black and Latina transgender women living with HIV (BLTWLH), as well as COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and vaccination status. LITE Plus is a longitudinal cohort study of BLTWLH designed to identify pathways linking biopsychosocial stress to HIV co-morbidities. Participants were enrolled between October 2019-June 2022. Descri…
Prevalence and Factors Associated With Alleged Offending Among Children Aged 10–13 Years in the Northern Territory of Australia
Recent policy discourse in Australia focuses on the minimum age of criminal responsibility with minimal attention to prevention strategies. Guided by theory which views child development within nested environmental contexts and recognises the cumulative impact of risk factors, this retrospective cohort study uses de‐identified linked administrative data to investigate the prevalence of, and factors associated with, alleged offending among childre…
Opportunities in Middle Childhood
Middle childhood offers a crucial window to identify and support children at risk of adverse outcomes in adolescence. This retrospective cohort study examined how data from multiple systems could identify children with the greatest need for support during middle childhood and early adolescence. Using individual level linked records from health, education, child protection and justice system for children who were enrolled in Northern Territory gov…
Are Employment Protection Laws for Persons with Disabilities Effective in a Developing Country
This paper investigates the impact of a law protecting the employment rights of persons with disabilities in Cambodia. Similar to studies in high-income countries, we find that Cambodia’s national disability law did not improve the employment situation of persons with disabilities, and may have worsened it, 4 years after implementation. The reduction in employment and hours worked of disabled persons following the law’s introduction is concentrat…
Can Electronic Monitoring Reduce Reoffending
We evaluate electronic monitoring as an alternative to prison for nonviolent offenses. Leveraging plausibly exogenous variation in sentencing outcomes generated by quasi-random assignment of judges, we find electronic monitoring reduces reoffending at both extensive and intensive margins. Compared with prison, electronic monitoring is estimated to reduce the probability of reoffending by 22 percentage points five years after sentencing and by 11 …
Delinquency, Arrest and Early School Leaving
Boys typically initiate delinquent behaviour during their teenage years, and many go on to be arrested. We show that engaging in delinquency and being arrested in youth are each associated with early school leaving. The effect of delinquency on school leaving is largely driven by crimes that produce a monetary return, and the increase in school leaving is greater when onset of these types of crime, and arrest, occur at younger ages. The sizeable …
Factors that influence specialist physician preferences for fee-for-service and salary-based payment models
Most physicians across the world are paid through fee-for-service. However, there is increased interest in alternative payment models such as salary, capitation, episode-based payment, pay-for-performance, and strategic blends of these models. Such models may be more aligned with broad health policy goals such as fiscal sustainability, delivery of high-quality care, and physician and patient well-being. Despite this, there is limited research on …
How may alternative drug policy settings influence criminal charges? A longitudinal study of cannabis patients and a general population sample
Standard of Living and Disability in Cambodia
Little is known about the extra costs faced by households with disabled members in low resource settings and the impact of these costs on living standards. In this paper we estimate the direct cost associated with disability for households in Cambodia. Using the Standard of Living approach, the direct cost associated with having a member with disabilities is estimated to be 19 per cent of monthly household consumption expenditure. Accounting for …
A reading in moral literacy or love story in the shadow of the Holocaust
This essay attempts to account for the success of a German novel, Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser, in English translation by analysing both the effects of translation decisions and the influence of prevailing discourses in the receiving culture. It is shown how particular decisions in relation to content and style result in the downplaying of the political and philosophical aspects of the novel and the foregrounding of relationships between indiv…
Geographic variations in health care utilization
This paper applies social capital analysis to the geographic variations in health care utilization documented by the Dartmouth Atlas project. The paper proposes a typology of social capital effects on behaviour relevant to health policy, including a dimension of interpersonal transactions in which strict adherence to a duty to others may be overcome by a measure of selfishness. The paper examines the concept of physician-induced demand through th…
Is the relationship between socioeconomic status and health stronger for older children in developing countries
Recent research on the relationship between child health and income in developed countries reveals a positive gradient that is more pronounced for older children, suggesting that the impact of income upon health accumulates. This article examines whether the same is true in a developing country. Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey on children aged 0 to 14 years, we find that although low income adversely affects health, its impact d…
Chapter 6 An Intertemporal Model of Rational Criminal Choice
Understanding choices and constraints in student applications for university entry
Degrees of choice: social class, race and gender in higher education Diane Reay, Miriam David and Stephen Ball, 2005 Stoke on Trent, Trentham Books 180 pp. ISBN 13‐978‐1‐85856‐330‐5 Degrees of Choi
More Lives than One. A Biography of Hans Fallada
Hans Fallada was a drug addict, womanizer, alcoholic, jailbird and thief. Yet he was also one of the most extraordinary storytellers of the twentieth century, whose novels, including Alone in Berlin, portrayed ordinary people in terrible times with a powerful humanity. This acclaimed biography, newly revised and completely updated, tells the remarkable story of Hans Fallada, whose real name was Rudolf Ditzen. Jenny Williams chronicles his turbule…
Language, Education & Society in a Changing World
A new act of mediation”
Ethical issues concerning potential global climate change on food production
Short reviews
Ralf Dahrendorf, THE MODERN SOCIAL CONFLICT: AN ESSAY ON THE POLITICS OF LIBERTY, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988, xvi + 219 pp., £16.95. John Rex, THE GHETTO AND THE UNDERCLASS: ESSAYS ON RACE AND SOCIAL POLICY, Aldershot: Avebury, 1988, 140 pp., £21.00. Conor Cruise O'Brien, GODLAND: REFLECTIONS ON RELIGION AND NATIONALISM, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1988, £9.95 (paper). Simon Jones, BLACK CULTURE, WHITE YOUTH: TH…
Education and Race
Throughout most of the 1960s there was considerable optimism among education policy makers that schools could foster equality of opportunity: could mitigate social class disparities in educational achievements. During the 1980s a growing number of local education authorities have produced policy documents which are designed to remedy racism, ‘racial’ inequalities and ‘racial’ disparities in achievements. This article argues that these more recent…
Racism, Education and the State
Redefining institutional racism
1985). Redefining institutional racism. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 323-348
Race and Schooling
why, has frequently been used to ridicule the short length of time each theory was fashionable, praise and optimism being replaced by scorn and rejection. Very few theories can have suffered so short an optimistic phase as those concerned with multiracial, multicultural education. Barely had a small section of the teaching profession been converted--the vast majority of teachers refusing to alter their 'colour blind', dominant culture curriculum-…
Redefining institutional racism
1985). Redefining institutional racism. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 323-348
Is the relationship between socioeconomic status and health stronger for older children in developing countries
Recent research on the relationship between child health and income in developed countries reveals a positive gradient that is more pronounced for older children, suggesting that the impact of income upon health accumulates. This article examines whether the same is true in a developing country. Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey on children aged 0 to 14 years, we find that although low income adversely affects health, its impact d…
Education and Race
Throughout most of the 1960s there was considerable optimism among education policy makers that schools could foster equality of opportunity: could mitigate social class disparities in educational achievements. During the 1980s a growing number of local education authorities have produced policy documents which are designed to remedy racism, ‘racial’ inequalities and ‘racial’ disparities in achievements. This article argues that these more recent…
Race and Schooling
why, has frequently been used to ridicule the short length of time each theory was fashionable, praise and optimism being replaced by scorn and rejection. Very few theories can have suffered so short an optimistic phase as those concerned with multiracial, multicultural education. Barely had a small section of the teaching profession been converted--the vast majority of teachers refusing to alter their 'colour blind', dominant culture curriculum-…
Ethical issues concerning potential global climate change on food production
Racism, Education and the State
Race and Schooling
why, has frequently been used to ridicule the short length of time each theory was fashionable, praise and optimism being replaced by scorn and rejection. Very few theories can have suffered so short an optimistic phase as those concerned with multiracial, multicultural education. Barely had a small section of the teaching profession been converted--the vast majority of teachers refusing to alter their 'colour blind', dominant culture curriculum-…
Redefining institutional racism
1985). Redefining institutional racism. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 323-348
Education and Race
Throughout most of the 1960s there was considerable optimism among education policy makers that schools could foster equality of opportunity: could mitigate social class disparities in educational achievements. During the 1980s a growing number of local education authorities have produced policy documents which are designed to remedy racism, ‘racial’ inequalities and ‘racial’ disparities in achievements. This article argues that these more recent…
Racism, Education and the State
Short reviews
Ralf Dahrendorf, THE MODERN SOCIAL CONFLICT: AN ESSAY ON THE POLITICS OF LIBERTY, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988, xvi + 219 pp., £16.95. John Rex, THE GHETTO AND THE UNDERCLASS: ESSAYS ON RACE AND SOCIAL POLICY, Aldershot: Avebury, 1988, 140 pp., £21.00. Conor Cruise O'Brien, GODLAND: REFLECTIONS ON RELIGION AND NATIONALISM, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1988, £9.95 (paper). Simon Jones, BLACK CULTURE, WHITE YOUTH: TH…
A new act of mediation”
Ethical issues concerning potential global climate change on food production
Language, Education & Society in a Changing World
More Lives than One. A Biography of Hans Fallada
Hans Fallada was a drug addict, womanizer, alcoholic, jailbird and thief. Yet he was also one of the most extraordinary storytellers of the twentieth century, whose novels, including Alone in Berlin, portrayed ordinary people in terrible times with a powerful humanity. This acclaimed biography, newly revised and completely updated, tells the remarkable story of Hans Fallada, whose real name was Rudolf Ditzen. Jenny Williams chronicles his turbule…
Chapter 6 An Intertemporal Model of Rational Criminal Choice
Understanding choices and constraints in student applications for university entry
Degrees of choice: social class, race and gender in higher education Diane Reay, Miriam David and Stephen Ball, 2005 Stoke on Trent, Trentham Books 180 pp. ISBN 13‐978‐1‐85856‐330‐5 Degrees of Choi
Is the relationship between socioeconomic status and health stronger for older children in developing countries
Recent research on the relationship between child health and income in developed countries reveals a positive gradient that is more pronounced for older children, suggesting that the impact of income upon health accumulates. This article examines whether the same is true in a developing country. Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey on children aged 0 to 14 years, we find that although low income adversely affects health, its impact d…
Geographic variations in health care utilization
This paper applies social capital analysis to the geographic variations in health care utilization documented by the Dartmouth Atlas project. The paper proposes a typology of social capital effects on behaviour relevant to health policy, including a dimension of interpersonal transactions in which strict adherence to a duty to others may be overcome by a measure of selfishness. The paper examines the concept of physician-induced demand through th…
A reading in moral literacy or love story in the shadow of the Holocaust
This essay attempts to account for the success of a German novel, Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser, in English translation by analysing both the effects of translation decisions and the influence of prevailing discourses in the receiving culture. It is shown how particular decisions in relation to content and style result in the downplaying of the political and philosophical aspects of the novel and the foregrounding of relationships between indiv…
Standard of Living and Disability in Cambodia
Little is known about the extra costs faced by households with disabled members in low resource settings and the impact of these costs on living standards. In this paper we estimate the direct cost associated with disability for households in Cambodia. Using the Standard of Living approach, the direct cost associated with having a member with disabilities is estimated to be 19 per cent of monthly household consumption expenditure. Accounting for …
How may alternative drug policy settings influence criminal charges? A longitudinal study of cannabis patients and a general population sample
Delinquency, Arrest and Early School Leaving
Boys typically initiate delinquent behaviour during their teenage years, and many go on to be arrested. We show that engaging in delinquency and being arrested in youth are each associated with early school leaving. The effect of delinquency on school leaving is largely driven by crimes that produce a monetary return, and the increase in school leaving is greater when onset of these types of crime, and arrest, occur at younger ages. The sizeable …
Factors that influence specialist physician preferences for fee-for-service and salary-based payment models
Most physicians across the world are paid through fee-for-service. However, there is increased interest in alternative payment models such as salary, capitation, episode-based payment, pay-for-performance, and strategic blends of these models. Such models may be more aligned with broad health policy goals such as fiscal sustainability, delivery of high-quality care, and physician and patient well-being. Despite this, there is limited research on …
Can Electronic Monitoring Reduce Reoffending
We evaluate electronic monitoring as an alternative to prison for nonviolent offenses. Leveraging plausibly exogenous variation in sentencing outcomes generated by quasi-random assignment of judges, we find electronic monitoring reduces reoffending at both extensive and intensive margins. Compared with prison, electronic monitoring is estimated to reduce the probability of reoffending by 22 percentage points five years after sentencing and by 11 …
Are Employment Protection Laws for Persons with Disabilities Effective in a Developing Country
This paper investigates the impact of a law protecting the employment rights of persons with disabilities in Cambodia. Similar to studies in high-income countries, we find that Cambodia’s national disability law did not improve the employment situation of persons with disabilities, and may have worsened it, 4 years after implementation. The reduction in employment and hours worked of disabled persons following the law’s introduction is concentrat…
Racial and ethnic differences in quitting when marijuana retail markets are legal
Racial and ethnic minorities are subjected to greater enforcement of marijuana laws under prohibition. This research examines whether there is a corresponding difference in their response to the introduction of legal protection of marijuana retail markets. We use California’s medical marijuana retail market as a case study. A well-established system of dispensaries operating in California before the introduction of legal protection of its medical…
The Covid-19 global pandemic and allostatic load among a cohort of Black and Latina transgender women living with HIV
This exploratory study investigated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stress biomarkers and allostatic load for Black and Latina transgender women living with HIV (BLTWLH), as well as COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and vaccination status. LITE Plus is a longitudinal cohort study of BLTWLH designed to identify pathways linking biopsychosocial stress to HIV co-morbidities. Participants were enrolled between October 2019-June 2022. Descri…
Prevalence and Factors Associated With Alleged Offending Among Children Aged 10–13 Years in the Northern Territory of Australia
Recent policy discourse in Australia focuses on the minimum age of criminal responsibility with minimal attention to prevention strategies. Guided by theory which views child development within nested environmental contexts and recognises the cumulative impact of risk factors, this retrospective cohort study uses de‐identified linked administrative data to investigate the prevalence of, and factors associated with, alleged offending among childre…
Opportunities in Middle Childhood
Middle childhood offers a crucial window to identify and support children at risk of adverse outcomes in adolescence. This retrospective cohort study examined how data from multiple systems could identify children with the greatest need for support during middle childhood and early adolescence. Using individual level linked records from health, education, child protection and justice system for children who were enrolled in Northern Territory gov…
Political science (15 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works)