Hans Wolff
Biographic Data
| ID | 91589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans Wolff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolff |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFF H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4978-2176 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1939 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Exploring reasons and motivations for suicide attempts in prison before and during the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic
Informed Consent in Vulnerable Populations
Informed consent (IC) is a critical component in research involving human participants, yet participants' understanding of consent information remains underexplored, particularly in vulnerable populations. This study aimed to assess whether attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was associated with understanding and willingness to sign the IC among detained individuals. This secondary analysis used data from a randomised trial conducted …
Prevalence Rates and Evolution of Psychiatric Disorders Among Incarcerated Youths in Comparison With Non-incarcerated Youths
Background: Our main objective was to provide estimates of the prevalence rates of psychiatric disorders and comorbidities among youths in a juvenile detention center in Geneva, Switzerland. We also aimed to investigate potential positive effects of intensive psychotherapeutic and educational services this center provides. Finally, we examined psychiatric care prior to and after custody as well as the evolution of the youths' mental health during…
Covid-19—The Case for Rethinking Health and Human Rights in Prisons
This article considers health and human rights implications for people deprived of liberty during the COVID-19 crisis. The health risks of incarceration for individual and community health, particularly in overcrowded and underresourced prisons and detention centers, are well known, but with the COVID-19 pandemic have become a public health emergency. Physical distancing in prisons is hardly manageable, and protective means are poor or lacking. E…
Do Overcrowding and Turnover Cause Violence in Prison
Violence is common in prison and its individual risk factors are well documented. However, there is a mixed evidence on the relationship between prison violence and institutional factors, such as overcrowding and turnover, and recent research suggested that these factors may not be important or relevant. This study investigated the association between prison violence and institutional factors in a Swiss pre-trial prison between 2013 and 2018. Mea…
The Accessibility of Opioid Agonist Treatment and Its Forced Discontinuation in Swiss Prisons—Attitudes, Perceptions and Experiences of Defense Lawyers in Dealing With Detained Persons Using Opioids
Defenders who had been exposed to the opioid crisis during the course of their legal career had adopted a positive attitude towards OAT and associated it with a stabilizing influence on their clients, an improvement in criminal prognosis, and a reduction in recidivism. They were generally of the opinion that access to OAT had improved, however identified a considerable variance in different penitentiaries, which were mediated by attitudes of staf…
Incarceration Harms Health
Hepatitis B prevalence, risk factors, infection awareness and disease knowledge among inmates
BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major health concern in prison, but data are scarce in European prisons. This study aims to measure the prevalence of HBV infection, risk factors, awareness about infection, and HBV knowledge among inmates in Switzerland's largest pre-trial prison. METHODS: Serological blood tests (HBsAg, anti-HBs, and anti-HBc) and a standardized socio-demographic and sexual health survey were offered to consenting prison…
Words matter
BACKGROUND: Words matter when describing people involved in the criminal justice system because language can have a significant impact upon health, wellbeing, and access to health information and services. However, terminology used in policies, programs, and research publications is often derogatory, stigmatizing, and dehumanizing. DISCUSSION: In response, health experts from Europe, the United States, and Australia recommend that healthcare prof…
Comorbidity of Symptoms of Alcohol and Cannabis Use Disorders among a Population-Based Sample of Simultaneous Users. Insight from a Network Perspective
Research into comorbidity of alcohol and cannabis use disorders has resulted in inconsistent findings, especially among simultaneous users, who used alcohol and cannabis together on a single occasion. This study investigated the association of alcohol and cannabis use disorders among simultaneous users using a network perspective, which considers direct relationships between symptoms. We used a subset of simultaneous alcohol and cannabis users dr…
Association of Overcrowding and Turnover with Self-Harm in a Swiss Pre-Trial Prison
Self-harm is a common issue in detention and includes both suicidal and non-suicidal behaviours. Beyond well-known individual risk factors, institutional factors such as overcrowding (i.e., when the prison population exceeds its capacity) and turnover (i.e., the rate at which the prison population is renewed), may also increase the risk of self-harm. However, these factors are understudied or previous studies reported inconsistent findings. This …
Prison Health Care Governance
Clinical independence is an essential component of good health care and health care professionalism, particularly in correctional settings (jails, prisons, and other places of detention), where the relationship between patients and caregivers is not based on free choice and where the punitive correctional setting can challenge optimal medical care. Independence for the delivery of health care services is defined by international standards as a cr…
Retractable Syringes in a Swiss Prison Needle and Syringe Exchange Program
Die Rechtsgestalt der Universität
The Border of Reproductive Control
Dual Loyalty in Prison Health Care
Despite the dissemination of principles of medical ethics in prisons, formulated and advocated by numerous international organizations, health care professionals in prisons all over the world continue to infringe these principles because of perceived or real dual loyalty to patients and prison authorities. Health care professionals and nonmedical prison staff need greater awareness of and training in medical ethics and prisoner human rights. All …
Health problems among detainees in Switzerland
Little is known about the health status of prisoners in Switzerland. The aim of this study was to provide a detailed description of the health problems presented by detainees in Switzerland's largest remand prison. In this retrospective cross-sectional study we reviewed the health records of all detainees leaving Switzerland's largest remand prison in 2007. The health problems were coded using the International Classification for Primary Care (IC…
Prevalence and Associated Factors for Chlamydia trachomatis Infection Among Undocumented Immigrants in a Primary Care Facility in Geneva, Switzerland
Sexual and Reproductive Health Behaviors of Undocumented Migrants in Geneva
Undocumented Migrants in Switzerland
New obesity body mass index threshold for self-reported data
BACKGROUND: Since subjects included in population studies tend to underreport their weight and overestimate their height, obesity prevalence based on these data is often inaccurate. A reduced obesity threshold for self-reported height and weight was proposed and evaluated for its accuracy. METHODS: Self-reported heights and weights were compared with measured heights and weights in a Swiss city adult population representative sample. Participants…
Chlamydia trachomatis prevalence in undocumented migrants undergoing voluntary termination of pregnancy
This population of undocumented, pregnant migrants consisted primarily of young, Latino-American women. Compared to control women, undocumented migrants showed higher prevalence rates of genital CTI, which indicates that health professionals should consider systematic screening for STI in this population. There is a need to design programs providing better access to treatment and education and to increase migrants' awareness of the importance of …
Undocumented migrants lack access to pregnancy care and prevention
Compared to women who are legal residents of Geneva, undocumented migrants have more unintended pregnancies and delayed prenatal care, use fewer preventive measures and are exposed to more violence during pregnancy. Not having a legal residency permit therefore suggests a particular vulnerability for pregnant women. This study underscores the need for better access to prenatal care and routine screening for violence exposure during pregnancy for …
Health care and illegality
Bermerkung zur Katagraphefrage
Marriage Law and Family Organization in Ancient Athens
In an article published in 1927, Herbert Meyer showed that the Germanic legal system possessed from an early epoch, perhaps from its very beginning, in the form of friedelehe a type of marital union which was characterized by the legal equality of husband and wife, in contrast with the muntehe in which the wife was legally subject to her husband. This important discovery implied that the distinction made in Roman law between marriage with manus a…
Health care and illegality
Dual Loyalty in Prison Health Care
Despite the dissemination of principles of medical ethics in prisons, formulated and advocated by numerous international organizations, health care professionals in prisons all over the world continue to infringe these principles because of perceived or real dual loyalty to patients and prison authorities. Health care professionals and nonmedical prison staff need greater awareness of and training in medical ethics and prisoner human rights. All …
Comparative Siouan I
Prison Health Care Governance
Clinical independence is an essential component of good health care and health care professionalism, particularly in correctional settings (jails, prisons, and other places of detention), where the relationship between patients and caregivers is not based on free choice and where the punitive correctional setting can challenge optimal medical care. Independence for the delivery of health care services is defined by international standards as a cr…
New obesity body mass index threshold for self-reported data
BACKGROUND: Since subjects included in population studies tend to underreport their weight and overestimate their height, obesity prevalence based on these data is often inaccurate. A reduced obesity threshold for self-reported height and weight was proposed and evaluated for its accuracy. METHODS: Self-reported heights and weights were compared with measured heights and weights in a Swiss city adult population representative sample. Participants…
Covid-19—The Case for Rethinking Health and Human Rights in Prisons
This article considers health and human rights implications for people deprived of liberty during the COVID-19 crisis. The health risks of incarceration for individual and community health, particularly in overcrowded and underresourced prisons and detention centers, are well known, but with the COVID-19 pandemic have become a public health emergency. Physical distancing in prisons is hardly manageable, and protective means are poor or lacking. E…
Osage I
Comparative Siouan IV
Linguistics
American AnthropologistVolume 67, Issue 6 p. 1598-1598 Free Access LINGUISTICS: The Study of West African Languages. Robert G. Armstrong. An expanded version of an inaugural lecture delivered at the University of Ibadan on 20 February 1964 Hans Wolff, Hans Wolff Northwestern UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Hans Wolff, Hans Wolff Northwestern UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: December 1965 https://doi…
An Osage Graphemic Experiment
Osage II
Yuchi Text with Analysis
Yuchi Phonemes and Morphemes, with Special Reference to Person Markers
Trinoctium
The Lex Cornelia De Captivis and the Roman Law of Succession
On the evening of December 15th (Thursday), the Riccobono Seminar of Roman Law in America held its third monthly meeting for the academic year, 1938-1939, in the Law Library of the Catholic University of America. It was called to order by the magister, Dr. Rscoe J. C. Dorsey, Professor of Jurisprudence, at the Washington College of Law. He presided. After informing the Seminar tha the paper, which had been submitted by Dr. Hans Julius Wolff, Prof…
The Praxis-Provision in Papyrus Contracts
Marriage Law and Family Organization in Ancient Athens
In an article published in 1927, Herbert Meyer showed that the Germanic legal system possessed from an early epoch, perhaps from its very beginning, in the form of friedelehe a type of marital union which was characterized by the legal equality of husband and wife, in contrast with the muntehe in which the wife was legally subject to her husband. This important discovery implied that the distinction made in Roman law between marriage with manus a…
America en el Teatro de Lope de Vega . Marcos A. Morínigo , Lope de Vega
Bibliography of Bibliographies of North American Indian Languages Still Spoken
Yuchi Phonemes and Morphemes, with Special Reference to Person Markers
Partial Comparison of the Sound Systems of English and Puerto-rican Spanish
Comparative Siouan I
Comparative Siouan III
Comparative Siouan II
Yuchi Text with Analysis
Comparative Siouan IV
(Die Grundlagen Des Griechischen Eherechts *)
1 DIE GRUNDLAGEN DES GRIECHISCHEN EHERECHTS *) von HANS JULIUS WOLFF (Kansas City). I. Das Recht des klassischen Athen. Im Gegensatz zum romischen Recht, das das Wesen der Ehe in der tatsachlichen vom beiderseitigen Ehewillen ge- tragenen Lebensgemeinschaft der Ehegatten fand, zu der die MKMM nur als ein zweites, lediglich die familienrechtliche Stellung der Frau betreffendes Element hinzutrat - im Gegensatz auch zum kanonischen Recht und zu den …
Die Grundlagen Des Griechischen Eherechts
DIE GRUNDLAGEN DES GRIECHISCHEN EHERECHTS von HANS JULIUS WOLFF (Kansas City). (Schluss) II. Das übrige Griechenland. Eine eingehende Darstellung des attischen Eherechts wurde an den Anfang dieses Berichts gestellt, weil das Recht des klassischen Athen das einzige unter den Systemen Alt- griechenlands ist, von dem wir genfgend Kunde haben, um uns ein lebendiges und einigermassen erschbpfendes Bild formen zu konnen. Im ubrigen besitzen wir aus dem…
Roman Law
Journal Article Roman Law: An Historical Introduction Get access Wolff H. J.Roman Law: An Historical Introduction.Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1951 Pp. xiii, 260. M. I. Finley M. I. Finley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 1, Issue 3, Summer 1952, Pages 316–317, https://doi.org/10.2307/837796 Published: 01 July 1952
Osage II
Osage I
Phonemic Structure and the Teaching of Pronunciation1
An Osage Graphemic Experiment
Fact and Distortion in Language Teaching
Das Justizwesen der Ptolemaer
Yoruba Numerals. Robert G. Armstrong
Language in Africa. John Spencer
Linguistics
American AnthropologistVolume 67, Issue 6 p. 1598-1598 Free Access LINGUISTICS: The Study of West African Languages. Robert G. Armstrong. An expanded version of an inaugural lecture delivered at the University of Ibadan on 20 February 1964 Hans Wolff, Hans Wolff Northwestern UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Hans Wolff, Hans Wolff Northwestern UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: December 1965 https://doi…
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