Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a major public health problem in the United Kingdom (UK) and the limited data available may suggest high prevalence rates (especially of HIV, hepatitis B and C) in the escalating male prison population. Sex, rape and injecting drug use are a part of prison life, yet screening for STIs does not routinely take place and there are inconsistencies in the a...

To date, there are no empirical studies assessing the impact of war captivity on persistent dissociation (PD) and the longitudinal relations between captivity stressors, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and PD. The current study included two groups of male Israeli veterans from the 1973 Yom Kippur War: ex-prisoners of war (ex-POWs) and comparable veterans who were not taken captive. Both g...

Much scholarly and governmental research has been conducted both on recidivism rates of released prisoners and on offenders who have participated in alternative sanction programs, such as community service or home detention. However, limited research is available that compares recidivism rates of offenders released through traditional incarceration to offenders released through alternative sanc...

Diaspora mobilization to influence homeland conflicts has been explored extensively. What considered less is the role diasporas play as ‘long distance human rights advocates’ in for political prisoners. Adding increased attention on advocates, this inquiry conceptualizes and compares of American Jewish Vietnamese during Cold War release prisoners Soviet Union Vietnam. created influential, speci...

The paper examines the ways in which people talk about others of different culture or ethnic origin. I analyse interview talk of the British W.W.II veterans about their experiences at the prisoners of war camp in Japan and recent activities of reconciliation. Proposed is a discursive approach to the study of culture and cross-cultural communication, in comparison to work in cultural anthropolog...

Debilitating events could leave either more frail or more robust survivors, depending on the extent of scarring and mortality selection. The majority of empirical analyses find more frail survivors. I find heterogeneous effects. Among severely stressed former Union Army prisoners of war (POWs), the effect that dominates 35 years after the end of the Civil War depends on age at imprisonment. Amo...

During the First World War South Asian combatants and non-combatants were taken prisoner in France, Belgium, Mesopotamia, East Africa and other theatres of war. The conditions under which POWs were captured differed enormously in terms of housing, food, disciplinary rules, medical treatment, social and cultural facilities. Usually, the men were segregated not only according to their military ra...

The paper explores the connection between short-range social ties (i.e. links with close relatives) and the occurrence of suicide. The objective is to discriminate between a model based on social ties and a model based on psychological traumas. Our methodological strategy is to focus on instances characterized by the severance of some social ties. We consider several situations of this kind. (i...

The article states the absence of national regulation treatment interned convicted prisoners war (primarily in Penal Code Russian Federation) and only a partial mention them Geneva Convention «On Treatment Prisoners War», which is especially updated by special military operation Ukraine. Taking into account specific individualizing characteristics (combat experience, psychological other trainin...