The number of incarcerated sex offenders in the Israeli prison system has steadily increased during the past decade. While treatment of sex offenders is complex, treatment of those in prison seems to be more challenging. This publication presents major considerations and dilemmas, clinical as well as ethics-related, derived from the experience of the psychiatric division in the Israeli prison s...

Suicide is a leading cause of death among prison inmates. A recent study found that nearly half of the inmates who committed suicide in a state prison system during the study period did not have a major mental disorder. This prompts the question of why a person in prison who has no mental illness decides to end his or her life by committing suicide. Stressors associated with maximum security se...

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...

The prison library at the Münster Correctional Facility was named “Library of the Year 2007” by the German Library Association. An examination of this specific library in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) provides insight into the operation and services of prison libraries in Germany. This article will hopefully inspire readers to get involved in library work with a social focus and bring attention ...

Law No. 12 of 1995 article 14 (1) concerning correction which in Letter (d) states that prisioners receive healt services and proper food. Inadequate health are one the impacts can be felt by inmates class II B Takengon Prison, affect prisoners’ health. In this study, author discussed way on how prosiners’ has been implemented prison. This study used an empirical legal research method tried to ...

purpose: to examine and compare the prevalence of different types of mental disorders among the administrative staff and warders of the central prison of sistan and baluchestan. materials and methods: the study population included all employees of zahedan general office of prisons. the sample consisted of 100 employees, of whom fifty individuals worked in various administrative units of zahedan...

In this paper, we describe the process of rulebased conversion of Russian dependency treebank into the Stanford dependency (SD) schema. The motivation behind this project is the expansion of the number of languages that have treebank resources available in one consistent annotation schema. Conversion includes creation of Russian-specific SD guidelines, defining conversion rules from the origina...

H susceptibility is a measured by how easily a person can be hypnotized (2). There are several types of scales used; among all of them, the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility (HGSHS) (3,4,5) and the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scales (SHSS) (4,5) are the most common (6). Both of the Standard scales and Harvard scales are connected to the traditional perspective of hypnosis. The...

One widely accepted theory on media use is media richness theory. However, media richness theory was developed without consideration of new electronic media and the many social factors that can influence media selection, communication processes, and outcomes. Recent empirical investigations have raised questions about media richness theory's applicability to these new media. Therefore, this pap...