Introduction Over the past several years little has been reported regarding the ethics of biomedical research among prisoners. It appears that, following a spate of reports about egregious transgressions of canons of ethics by clinicians engaged in research in prisons, regulations put in place may have solved the problems. However, the dictum of a Persian Prince who is credited with advising a ...

During a conference held in Hangzhou on the 15 th of March 2012, Huang Jiefu, China's Deputy Minister of Health, announced that China will ban the transplantations of human organs from executed prisoners in 3 to 5 years [1]. It represents the first step to regulate organ transplantation in a Country where 65% of transplants are grafts from non-heart-beating donors, over 90% of whom are executed...

objective: many psychodynamic oriented psychotherapists believe that people do not become addicted without a reason they use drugs to avoid painful feelings, thoughts and memories. the present study examines the relationship between the level of dissociation, substance dependence disorder and other psychiatric disorder. methods: in a descriptive study on prisoners of adel-abad prison, shiraz, i...

More than 10 million people are incarcerated worldwide; this number has increased by about a million in the past decade. Mental disorders and infectious diseases are more common in prisoners than in the general population. High rates of suicide within prison and increased mortality from all causes on release have been documented in many countries. The contribution of prisons to illness is unkno...

The current study was designed to identify personality subtypes on the basis of the five-factor model dimensions in male prisoners. Participants included 110 Flemish male prisoners assessed by means of the Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness Five Factor Inventory and different symptom, personality, and coping measures. We found two clusters: an emotionally stable/resilient cluster and an aggres...

All correctional services face the challenge of ‘doing more with less’. Doing more means that they are expected not only to ‘house’ prisoners in a safe and secure environment but also to deliver rehabilitative programmes and to prepare prisoners for release. Importantly, they must also meet the growing expectations of external accountability agencies including human rights organizations. Doing ...

More than 600,000 prisoners are released from incarceration each year in the United States, and most end up residing in metropolitan areas, clustered within a select few neighborhoods. Likely consequences of this concentration of returning prisoners include higher rates of subsequent crime and recidivism. In fact, one-half of released prisoners return to prison within only 3 years of release. T...

religious values were investigated in a group of iranian revolutionary guards in tehran.the sample consisted of official duty troops and conscripts who were in prison due to a crime. one hundred thirty seven individuals cooperated with us in the project (37 official personnel and 100 conscripts). the instruments used included a demographic questionnaire containing personal data and the allport,...

We analyze in...nitely repeated prisoners’ dilemma games with imperfect private monitoring, and construct sequential equilibria where strategies are measurable with respect to players’ beliefs regarding their opponents’ continuation strategies. We show that, when monitoring is almost perfect, the symmetric e¢cient outcome can be approximated in any prisoners’ dilemma game, while every individua...