Detention, as a preventive measure, can be taken on the basis of an ordinance, with respect to human dignity, rights and freedoms citizens, free development personality, justice, which are supreme guaranteed values. The detention measure cannot ordered simple suspicions or assumptions, it requires strong evidence clues that person has committed crime.

OBJECTIVES Mental illness is associated with physical illness and mortality from a variety of causes including cancer. There is little information on screening attendance among the mentally ill population. An audit was conducted of a breast screening service in inner London to determine uptake rates in women with mental illness. DESIGN Cross sectional data linkage study of the local screening...

BACKGROUND Juvenile detention centers offer public health practitioners an opportunity to gain access to large numbers of adolescents at risk for chlamydia and gonorrhea. GOAL To describe the prevalence and coinfection of chlamydia and gonorrhea among adolescents in 14 US juvenile detention centers from 1997 to 2002. STUDY We calculated the prevalence of chlamydia and gonorrhea in males and...

Insomnia is a frequent reason for medical and psychiatric consultation in prisons. Medical decision-making in correctional health care should be based on the same principles as outside correctional institutions. In places of detention, principles should be balanced according to the same criteria as outside correctional institutions, while taking into account the unique harm-benefit ratios relat...

Self-report measures of psychosocial maturity and screening measures of achievement and intelligence (Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence; WASI) were used to investigate the influence of psychosocial maturity on male juvenile offenders' comprehension and appreciation of the Miranda warning (Grisso's Instruments for Assessing Understanding and Appreciation of Miranda Rights; GUAM). A samp...

This article draws on research into the use of music in the context of torture--both as a technique of torture and as a means of rehabilitation--to ask what types of musical activities and practices may constitute ill-treatment, up to and including torture. As well as providing information on the ways music is used in the context of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishmen...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the use of compulsory detention in the context of a new national tuberculosis (TB) control programme launched in 1997. METHODS A retrospective review was made of the use of compulsory detention in the management of infectious TB before and after the initiation of a new TB control programme, using data from the central TB registry in the Ministry of Health and the charts o...

OBJECTIVES To determine the utility of urine-based ligase chain reaction assays for Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis in (1) the acceptability of such testing to adolescent detainees, (2) the potential use of these tests for identifying asymptomatic infections, and (3) the effectiveness of this approach for ensuring treatment of infected adolescents. DESIGN Cross-sectional scree...

This article examines how adolescent offenders with mental disorders are treated by socio-educative internment treatment. These adolescents come under the aegis of medicine and justice in a contradictory relationship between full protection, vulnerability of a developing person with a mental disorder and a juvenile delinquency offense. In this respect, the legal punishment prevails to the detri...

Abstract This editorial seeks to introduce the special issue Towards an Evidence-Based Approach Pre-trial Detention in Europe . It explains state of field surrounding legal practice pre-trial detention and why interdisciplinary approach is warranted. instrument criminal procedure that has been reportedly overused several European systems, but reasons remain partly unexplored. While scholarship ...