Prisoners - Legislation & jurisprudence
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

New developments in preventive detention in Germany.

30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The present review focuses on forensic psychiatric aspects of new developments in preventive detention in Germany. RECENT FINDINGS: After a short introduction to the history of preventive detention in Germany and its enacting in ... Read more...

Social factors and forensic psychiatry in India.

30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Forensic psychiatry is a psychiatric specialty yet to be recognized in many countries. This review evaluates the current status and practice of forensic psychiatry in India and the impact of social factors as they relate to this ... Read more...

Presumption of service connection for osteoporosis for former prisoners of war. Final rule.

26 Aug 2009 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its adjudication regulations to establish a presumption of service connection for osteoporosis for former Prisoners of War (POWs) who were detained or interned for at least 30 days and whose ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Prisoners - Legislation & jurisprudence'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• New models of collaboration between criminal justice and mental health systems. 30 Oct 2009
• New developments in preventive detention in Germany. 30 Aug 2009
• Social factors and forensic psychiatry in India. 30 Aug 2009
• Presumption of service connection for osteoporosis for former prisoners of war. Final rule. 26 Aug 2009
• Current situation and future tasks for psychiatric services in Japanese prisons. 30 Jul 2009
• Ethical considerations in military psychiatry. 30 May 2009
• ECHR 2009/8 Case of Slawomir Musial v. Poland, 20 January 2009, no. 28300/06 (Fourth Section). 30 May 2009
• ECHR 2009/7 Case of Aleksanyan v. Russia, 22 December 2008, no. 46468/06 (First Section). 30 May 2009
• ["The Appeal of 39", a movement in psychiatry] 29 Apr 2009
• Adding insult to injury?: the untoward impact of requiring more than de minimis injury in an Eighth Amendment excessive force case. 29 Apr 2009
• Constitutional law--substantive due process--Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds that criminal defendant's best interests justify forcible medication.--Commonwealth v. Sam, 952 A.2d 565 (Pa. 2008). 29 Apr 2009
• Richard Lapointe-an unlikely killer in a cellblock with real ones. 30 Mar 2009
• Acting on behalf of mentally disordered offenders. A bin is a bin by any other name. 29 Mar 2009
• Hellhole: the United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture? 28 Mar 2009
• Psychologists abandon the Nuremberg ethic: concerns for detainee interrogations. 16 Mar 2009
• Psychological distress amongst immigration detainees: a cross-sectional questionnaire study. 3 Feb 2009
• Medicaid eligibility. Issue brief. 3 Jan 2009
• Indiana v. Davis: revisiting due process rights of permanently incompetent defendants. 30 Dec 2008
• False confessions: causes, consequences, and implications. 30 Dec 2008
• Commentary: forensic evaluation of military personnel. 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Prisoners'

Descriptor UI: D011329

Alternative terms: Prisoners; Prisoner; Hostages; Hostage;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: M01.729;

History Note: 74(73)

Technical Notes: differentiate from CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; X ref HOSTAGES: coord with VIOLENCE only if particularly discussed