The study evaluated the disaster preparedness of selected penitentiaries under BJMP in CALABARZON areas as to identify profile jails assessed terms strategic location, jail infrastructure and construction, equipment vehicles; present respondents job position, designation, years service, trainings attended, educational attainment; determine personnel’s assessment on following disasters: earthqua...

Studies in comparative penology still lack English writings about penal cultures non-Anglo-European countries, particularly those that steer their focus away from imprisonment. This article fills this gap by giving accounts of control Thailand and how its criminal justice practices differ the Western models which they were inspired. Although quite similar forms, Thai court routines diverge West...

Despite years of experimentation and hope, many authorities of penology now conclude that few rehabilitative programs reduce recidivism.' However, it has been stated that "lower rates of recidivism are associated with either very short sentences . . . or long sentences." 2 The only method that can tailor length of sentence to individual needs is the indeterminate sentence. By carefully evaluati...

units to university departments. We need, for example, one or two departments of forensic psychiatry to stimulate interest in the subject, to inquire scientifically into the problems, and to foster the required skills in new recruits to the field. Scotland has made a small beginning with a chair at Edinburgh University. England has no department of forensic psychiatry at all, though Professor T...

Today, it is rightly considered that issues related to the selection and use of tools and methods with which the resocialization (treatment) is realized, has increasingly become the main issue of penology. The issues that occur as most actual and typical will be examin edhere in shortlines. Usually, when it comes to general principles the notion treatment, deals with all criminal sanctions, but...

The notion of ‘black drug couriers’ in prison suggests that theories of penology, criminology and victimology should move beyond their preoccupation with the individual offender. This is (not just because of the plural sense of ‘couriers’ but more importantly) because some of what is conceptualized as punishment goes beyond individual offenders to affect whole groups and categories who could be...