Acquisition of new discriminations on two-choice and two-dimensional (form, color) tasks under response-contingent reinforcement was evaluated as a function of nearly four years' history of total-life environments of responsecontingent versus noncontingent experiences. A total of 28 chronic mental patients, half from each history condition, participated in the study, and were prescreened on com...

on an eye-witness account of conditions in a geriatric ward, says 'it is a catalogue of cruelty, callousness, filth and depersonalisation'. He believes the aged mental patient is badly in need of a real court of protection.

“Dangerous Mentally Ill Offender” (DMIO) program in the previous Washington State Institute for Public Policy (Institute) evaluation are sustained at the 2.5year mark. The subsequent reduction in felonies associated with the program is valued, by taxpayers and crime victims, at approximately $820 per participant minus program costs; this represents a return of about $1.03 for every public dolla...