The present catamnestic study covers 100 petitioners, who either applied for the first time for a driving licence or for readmission to traffic after confiscation of their license by the police. 99 of them were former inpatients or still inpatients at the time of judgement. For all of them, the decision of the police depended upon our expertise. For the judgement we considered our psychiatric i...

At year-end 2012, approximately 2,312,300 individuals were incarcerated in United States jails and prisons nationwide.3 To visualize this, consider almost all of Chicago, half of Ireland, or the whole of Jamaica bounded on all sides by prison walls. This number, however large, represents only adult individuals who are in physical custody; it does not include juveniles and those adults who are i...

Almost 20 years ago, I authored an article in Crime and Delinquency, “Reintegrating the concept of community into community-based corrections” (Byrne, 1989), in which I argued that police and community corrections agencies were undergoing an unprecedented—and controversial— role reversal: Police departments were reinventing themselves as community problem solvers by incorporating the roles and ...

Although a variety of drugs have been detected in sweat, little information is available on the characteristics of drug excretion in sweat under controlled-dosing conditions. A series of clinical studies were designed to determine the identity, concentration, time course, dose dependency, and variability of drug and metabolite excretion in sweat following administration of single doses of cocai...

The cases enforcement of children in conflict with the law has shifted from retribution to restorative. This policy transformation was line ratification Act 11/2012 on Juvenile Criminal Justice System, which replaced 3/1997 Court. study aims examine role community mentors Indonesia, both before and after implementing System Act. utilizes a qualitative approach through literature review primary ...

The assertion of fourth amendment rights by a probationer' or parolee2 suspected of renewed criminal activity creates a potential confrontation between a fundamental constitutional guarantee3 and society's legitimate interest in correctional programs which rehabilitate released offenders and prevent them from lapsing back into crime.4 Because courts refuse to apply the exclusionary rule5 to pro...

As individuals with mental illness were moved to community–based treatment in the late s and s, they were often shuttled into housing or treatment programs that were ill– equipped to meet their mental health needs. Lacking alternatives, they were often at higher risk of arrest for vagrancy, minor infractions, and drug offenses, and they became increasingly common on court dockets, jail ...

BACKGROUND Course failing and delayed graduation are important concerns in educational systems. The reasons of these educational failures need to be clarified. OBJECTIVES This study was designed to determine the academic failure rate and its predictors in Nursing and Midwifery Students in Kashan University of Medical Sciences. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study, the records...