Review Of Security Research Articles

High security for mentally disordered people

Two years after the trenchant criticism of Ashworth Hospital by a committee of inquiry chaired by Sir Louis Blom-Cooper, QC,1,2 the Department of Health has published its review of high security and related psychiatric provision. Dr John Reed, senior principal medical officer, and his committee recommend sweeping changes in the way treatment under special security is provided for patients in England and Wales.3,4 High security provision is a new term which should encourage us to think of services rather than institutions. The report accepts that such provision will always have a place in the range of psychiatric services but that a service based on the three existing special hospitals (Ashworth in Merseyside, Broadmoor in Berkshire, and Rampton in Nottinghamshire) administered from a special health authority in London cannot continue. What is needed is something “generally more attuned to the wider delivery of mental health care on the eve of the twenty first century.” At present there are about 1700 patients in the special hospitals, two thirds of whom are subject to the authority …

The Present and Future Handling of the Mentally Disturbed Offender Part II

POLICY IS firmly set at diverting mentally dis turbed offenders from the Criminal Justice System and into the care of the health or social services. Projects and research are in place designed to facilitate this with improved arrangements for psychia ric assessments.Co-existence of the agencies involved in the treatment of mentally disturbed offenders implies readiness of each to accept patients whose security needs are downgraded. This would be facilitated by a review of medium security and long term provision. Meanwhile, th e Prison Service must seek to do what it can to care for those placed in its charge.

The Present and Future Handling of the Mentally Disturbed Offender (Part 1)

Policy is firmly set at diverting mentally disturbed offenders from the Criminal Justice System and into the care of the health or social services. Projects and research are in place designed to facilitate this with improved arrangements for psychiatric assessments. Co-existence of the agencies involved in the treatment of mentally disturbed offenders implies readiness of each to accept patients whose security needs are downgraded. This would be facilitated by a review of medium security and long term provision. Meanwhile, the Prison Service must seek to do what it can to care for those placed in its charge.

Call for national review of hospital security.

A national review of hospital security is urgently needed to tackle the growing problem of violent attacks on staff and patients, Congress agreed.

Local Area Network Operations: A Security, Control and Audit Perspective

This paper provides a framework for the review of security and control within a local area network environment. Network operations are subdivided into several functional areas or components for further review. Each component or area is briefly explained and the security risks, issues and concerns highlighted. Controls and security measures are proposed as guidelines to counter these threats. An approach to the audit of each major area of network operations is proposed. This suggested framework provides guidance to information system security officers, auditors, communications and network administrators, consultants and information systems management for the review of local area network security during network operations.

Local area network operations: a security, control and audit perspective

This paper provides a framework for the review of security and control within a local area network environment. Network operations are subdivided into several functional areas or components for further review. Each component or area is briefly explained and the security risks, issues and concerns highlighted. Controls and security measures are proposed as guidelines to counter these threats. An approach to the audit of each major area of network operations is proposed.

Security and control issues in local area network design

This paper presents security and control issues and concerns associated with network design within a local area network (LAN) environment. Five key issues are identified for more detailed investigation: adequate network planning, sound network management, dangers from external LAN connections, access to data and programs, and level of LAN service. For each of these issues control and security measures are proposed as guidelines to counter these risks or concerns. To complement this issues approach, an alternative strategy based on LAN components is presented in the form of a summary table. Here network design is subdivided into several functional areas or components, together with the security and control measures providing protection for each component. The identification and discussion of these issues, concurrently with suggested security measures, provides guidance to personnel involved in the design and review of LAN security during the LAN design phase. Information on LAN risks, exposures and protective measures will be valuable to information systems management when planning resource commitments for the security budget.

Regionalism, strategic Denial and South Pacific security

THE PRIME MINISTER OF THE COOK ISLANDS, SIR THOMAS DAVIS, BEGAN 1986 BY DECLARING that he intended to proclaim his country formally neutral. Sir Thomas offered, in explanation, his belief that the ANZUS regional security pact was in collapse, leaving the Cooks solely dependent on a bilateral defence relationship with New Zealand which he described as worthless. Apparently, Sir Thomas wanted to indicate that if his country could not rely on a regional arrangement for its security, he would prefer to fall back upon an ostensibly unilateralist solution (neutrality) buttressed by the global guarantees of international law. Whether or not his declaration was a ploy to embarrass the New Zealand Labour Government of David Lange in its dispute with the United States over nuclear warship port access, and notwithstanding the practical and legal impediments to carrying out his intention, Sir Thomas's gesture epitomizes the dilemma facing the South Pacific regarding regionalism and the security of the region. Many of the underpinnings of the Pacific Islands regional system come from outside the islands themselves, and yet these same supports are linked to sources of danger which threaten not only the validity of the regional system but also the exercise of sovereignty by member states. Regionalism has played a central if contested role in the international affairs of the South Pacific since at least World War II. The small states of the South Pacific are more obliged than most to pursue their international objectives through single rather than multiple avenues. The loss of regionalism as an effective avenue of diplomacy would therefore impose vastly more significant costs on the South Pacific states than would be expected in other regions. This review of regionalism and security focuses on two central themes of the current security debate. The first concerns the nexus between regionalism and regional security: that is, how important is the vitality of the regional system to the security of the South Pacific? Second, to what extent can regional security in this part of the world be independent of the global priorities of the superpowers? The answers to these two questions are not necessarily mutually compatible. Indeed, the prospects for security in this region could depend upon insulating the regional system from many extra-regional pressures, at least under the existing framework. The islands (as well as other states) may find that retaining the South Pacific regional system involves both structural change and a shift away from the traditional, tacit, Western alignment on security issues.

Book Review Department : REVIEW OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND NATIONAL POLICY By David E. Woodsworth, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and London, 1977, pp. 156

Book Review Department : REVIEW OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND NATIONAL POLICY By David E. Woodsworth, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and London, 1977, pp. 156

Recent Book: Disinformation: Review of Security and the State

Recent Book: Disinformation: Review of Security and the State

Countdown services: Fire and its aftermath in a computer bureau

Destruction of a computer centre by a physical hazard such as fire is often talked about but not often acted upon sufficiently. The computer at Countdown Services was destroyed by fire in April 1977. Despite sound security measures before the fire, considerable difficulties were experienced with file recovery and ongoing processing due to the unavailability of a compatible computer system in the city. Recovery and processing had to be undertaken over a period of time in three different cities with accompanying staff morale, operating standards and communication problems. The case raises insurance, hardware replacement, backup, user attitude, morale and other considerations. It also caused Countdown Services to plan even more stringent physical security measures. The experiences of this organization can serve as a useful trigger for a review of security and control measures in any computer installation.

Recent Book: Ssh!: State Research:- Review of Security and the State 1978

Recent Book: Ssh!: State Research:- Review of Security and the State 1978

Canada's Social Security Review

Canada's social security system is a patchwork quilt of relatively discreet and uncoordinated programs built up over many decades. While constitutional responsibilities for income security and social services rests with the provinces, federal program initiatives were seen to be eroding the provincial responsibilities and causing confusion between federal and provincially financed programs. The Review of Social Security attempted to comprehensively evaluate the ‘system’ of programs in Canada to correct deficiencies.Financing and respective government responsibilities were also examined. The three year review did not result, in the author's opinion, in sufficient changes in the social security system ‘for the benefit of all Canadians’. The failure to adequately confront employment (unemployment) issues was one gap. Another was the failure to implement changes in income supplementation for the working poor. Tangible results included the introduction of a new Social Service Act which permits cost sharing, and increased cooperation between and among departmental officials and ministers. The Canadian experience contains lessons for the development of joint social policies between state and commonwealth governments in Australia.

Nursing and Health Issues Face Ninetieth Congress

Appropriations for programs passed by the Eighty-ninth, review of social security are already on the agenda.

Review of Medical care and family security.

Review of Medical care and family security.

Review of The Security of Infants.

Review of The Security of Infants.

Review of Social Security

Review of Social Security