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Corrections, mental health, and social policy : international perspectives / edited by Robert K. Ax and Thomas J. Fagan.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners--Mental health services.
- Prisoners.
- Prisoners--Medical care.
- Prisons--Government policy.
- Prisons.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (446 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Springfield, Illinois : Charles C Thomas, Publisher, Ltd., 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is well suited to readers dealing with correctional issues in today's complex global society. Given the task of providing adequate mental health care to the burgeoning U.S. prison population, including those thousands with serious mental illnesses who have defaulted from the nation's disjointed mental health systems, the book provides a consideration of approaches and ideas beyond those generated in the domestic academic-practitioner community, including the mental health concerns that transcend borders and national sovereignty. In this category are the treatment and management of te
- Contents:
- CORRECTIONS, MENTAL HEALTH,AND SOCIAL POLICY:INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES; CONTENTS; PART I: CORRECTIONS AND MENTAL HEALTH IN THE UNITED STATES; Chapter 1 AN INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN CORRECTIONAL MENTAL HEALTH:; Chapter 2 CONTEMPORARY UNITED STATES CORRECTIONS, MENTAL HEALTH,; Chapter 3 U.S. PRISONS: A PUBLIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVE; PART II: CORRECTIONS AND MENTAL HEALTH IN THEWESTERN EUROPEAN TRADITION; Chapter 4 PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES IN ENGLISH AND WELSH PRISONS; Chapter 5 CORRECTIONS IN FRANCE: CURRENT ISSUES AND FUTURE CHALLENGES; Appendix A PRINCIPLES OF SENTENCING IN CANADA
- Appendix B CANADIAN LEGAL RIGHTSChapter 7 CORRECTIONS IN AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND:; PART III: CURRENT CHALLENGES TO CORRECTIONAL SYSTEMS; Chapter 8 "WHAT WORKS" IN PREDICTING PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALIZATION AND RELAPSE:; Chapter 9 PRISONS AND THE ROLE OF NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS; Chapter 10 PRISON POLICY AND TERRORISM:; Chapter 11 PRISON GANGS; Chapter 12 THE DEATH PENALTY:; Chapter 13 DIFFERING PERSPECTIVES:; PART IV: GENERAL CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 14 FUTURE DIRECTIONS; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-398-08506-4
- OCLC:
- 689995755
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