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Management of the mentally disordered offender in prisons
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ISBN: 1282853996 9786612853999 0773566074 9780773566071 9781282853997 0773514198 9780773514195 6612853999 Year: 1996 Publisher: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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Drawing on extensive case studies and his experience as director of psychiatric services at the Regional Treatment Centre in Ontario, Geoffrey Conacher traces the MDO management process from initial assessment, through secure stabilization, to preparation for release and subsequent community supervision. He outlines the difficulties of managing a population of serious offenders and highlights elements of treatment that are essential if the MDO is to be reintegrated into the community. Conacher also considers dangerousness, issues of treatment, and forensic aspects of mental disorder, as well as psychiatric concerns that are particular to the prison context, such as ethical issues, predatory sexual behaviour, self-mutilation, suicide, the "inadequate offender," and the predictably dangerous mentally disordered offender. Management of the Mentally Disordered Offender in Prisons makes an important addition to existing psychiatric literature by bringing to the fore a neglected area of tremendous social concern.


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Disordered lives : eighteenth-century families and their unruly relatives
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ISBN: 0745615147 9780745615141 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge, UK Polity Press

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"Why did families in the past request that some of their members be forcibly removed from their midst and locked away? What social conditions lay behind the drama of enforced removal and confinement that was played out between family members and their unruly relatives?" "Through their analysis of thousands of case histories in Brabant and Flanders the authors are able to shed light on the material and emotional survival strategies of the growing number of urban families who were requesting the confinement of one of their own members, and to relate those personal decisions to the changes taking place within the urban communities. Disordered Lives is a penetrating study of rebellious youths, adulterous women, alcoholics and violent husbands. In contrast to other 'troublemakers' who have left no trace, these ones have made history. They showed their contemporaries and later generations where the limits of the permissible lay - and why."--Jacket

Hôpital silence suivi de L'attente
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ISBN: 2804011313 9782804011314 Year: 1996 Volume: 110 Publisher: Bruxelles : Labor,


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Prisons and the problem of order
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ISBN: 0191681814 9780191681813 Year: 1996 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon,

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Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in two contrasting English maximum security prisons, the authors systematically compare their institutional order, including the differing control strategies deployed in each, as seen by both custodians and captives, controllers and controlled.

Prisons and the problem of order
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ISBN: 0198258186 9780198258186 Year: 1996 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press,

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