The Institutional Features of the Prisoners of War Treaties by James D. Morrow Formal treaties on the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs) were negotiated and ratified during the 20th century. These treaties create a system for the treatment of POWs with universal and detailed standards and decentralized enforcement. I explain the form of the POW system as a rational institutional response to f...

Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. To the Editor: Although some studies have found decreased cog-nitive performance in repatriated prisoners of vs^ar (POWS)/'^ other studies have not found such deficits.^-* Many of the studies that have found an intellectual decrement in POWs have meth-odological limitations, including failure to control for concurrent depression, posttraumati...

‘No one's going to be interested in a story about prisoners of war!’ This is the withering comment that director Julien Duvivier supposedly made Charles Spaak, scriptwriter one greatest films all times, La grande illusion (1937), which was ultimately directed by Jean Renoir. Fortunately for his readers, Renaud Morieux well aware stories war can interest everyone.

This paper seeks to examine the experiences of Vietnam POWs, both those held in the jungles of South Vietnam and those in the Hanoi prison camps of North Vietnam based on POW narratives consisting of memoirs, autobiographies, and interviews. Early POW history depicts great differences between the two groups of POWs, giving the impression that Pilot POWS, who comprised the majority of prisoners ...

The present paper applies Latent Class Analysis to obtain empirical evidence for some aspects of a propaganda model developed by Herman & ChOlnsky (1988) in order to explain why some subjects are preferably dealt with by the news media whereas no attention is paid to others. An essential criterion for this is the usefulness of a topic. Herman & Chomsky, therefore, refer to "worthy" und "unworth...

Little is known about how survivors of extreme events cope with traumatic memories and subsequent negative life experiences. The present study compared (a) repatriated prisoners of war (RPWs) from World War II (WW II) with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), (b) RPWs without PTSD, and (c) noncombat veterans on measures of general psychological functioning, appraisal, and coping. Appra...

We present a variety of different protocols for solving the “100 Prisoners and a Light Bulb” riddle, including explicit computations of average runtimes. This is an updated and corrected version of the original unpublished document released on December 5, 2002 at http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/. The protocols presented here can be attributed to many members of [wu::forums], an online forum of...

The U.S. criminal justice population is aging at a significantly more rapid rate than the overall U.S. population: the population of older adults in prison has more than tripled since 1990. This increase is at the root of a prison healthcare crisis that is spilling into communities and public healthcare systems as nearly 95% of prisoners are eventually released. The graying prison population is...