Long-term Prisoners Research Articles

Book Reviews : The Regime for Long-term Prisoners in Conditions of Maximum Security. Report of the Advisory Council on the Penal System, Home Office, London, H.M. Stationery Office. U.S.A., British Information Service, New York, I968, pp. 95, 8s. 6d. ($I.70

Book Reviews : The Regime for Long-term Prisoners in Conditions of Maximum Security. Report of the Advisory Council on the Penal System, Home Office, London, H.M. Stationery Office. U.S.A., British Information Service, New York, I968, pp. 95, 8s. 6d. ($I.70

THE REGIME FOR LONG-TERM PRISONERS IN CONDITIONS OF MAXIMUM SECURITY*

Journal Article THE REGIME FOR LONG-TERM PRISONERS IN CONDITIONS OF MAXIMUM SECURITY Get access T. P. M. T. P. M. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 8, Issue 3, July 1968, Pages 312–314, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a049151 Published: 01 July 1968

Przestępczość 100 młodocianych recydywistów w okresie od 18 r. ż. do ukończenia 25-28 lat (wyniki badań katamnestycznych)

Przestępczość 100 młodocianych recydywistów w okresie od 18 r. ż. do ukończenia 25-28 lat (wyniki badań katamnestycznych)

Physiological Findings in Schizophrenia

In the editorial titled Psychosis, Biological or Psychological? reference was made to studies which showed elevated levels of macroglobulins in psychiatric patients and long-term prisoners. It was mentioned that in these particular population groups the macroglobulin had rheumatoid factor-like activity. We have recently reported 1,2 our results with Rhein's modification of the drop latex fixation test in special population groups including psychiatric state hospital patients and state penitentiary patients. We found a decreased incidence of positive latex fixation tests in both of the incarcerated populations. Of sera from 969 persons admitted consecutively to ten Ohio state hospitals for the insane only ten were latex positive, and of sera from 585 persons admitted consecutively to the Ohio State Penitentiary only five were latex positive. The seropositive incidence therefore was 1.03% and 0.85%, respectively. This is significantly lower than the 3% to 5% seropositive incidence reported for the general population. One might

PSYCHOSIS: BIOLOGICAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL?

It has been pointed out that many functional psychoses are caused by interwoven psychological and somatic events. It would seem sterile, therefore, to argue whether such a psychosis in a particular patient has a psychodynamic or organic basis. The fact may be accepted that the so-called functional behavioral disturbance is but one facet of a generalized disorder. Studies at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute have been concerned with the interrelationships between disturbed cerebral function and immunological mechanisms. In the sera of psychiatric patients the gamma globulin and macroglobulin levels were raised, and the rheumatoid factor-like activity (itself due to a macroglobulin) increased. Also, in a study of long-term prisoners who were to appear before a parole board, severe mental stress was found to be associated with significant increase in macroglobulins. Further reports in the literature have pointed to the important role of mental stress, and disturbances of the diencephalon and

Witchcraft and Anti-Witchcraft in Nupe Society

Opening ParagraphMy investigations into witchcraft among the Nupe were carried out under extremely adverse conditions. In February 1932 Bida, the capital of Nupe Emirate, had seen an outbreak of witchcraft which threw the whole country into a state of gravest unrest. Three women, an alleged witch with her daughter and granddaughter, were stoned to death by the enraged people of Bida when they tried to obtain justice against their accusers. The house of one of the town notables who was involved in the case was set fire to. The town was in turmoil, and the ensuing trial before the European authorities, complicated as it was by political issues and violent party feuds, was carried out under great difficulties. It lasted three months, and ended with two death sentences and two sentences of long-term imprisonment. When I arrived in Nupe country in January 1934, these happenings were still alive in every one's memory.

Recidivism regarded from the Environmental and Psychopatological Standpoints

With the view of testing to what extent an interchange took place between the perpetrators of the four major crimes I have prepared a return of 370 convicts and long-term prisoners in Scotland, convicted of (i) homicides, assaults, etc.; (2) crimes against property with violence; and (3) vjitliout violence; and (4) crimes against chastity. The result, an interesting one, finds expression in the following figures.