BACKGROUND 'Non-compliant' individuals in opioid maintenance treatment, OMT, are often met with tight control regimes to reduce the risk of 'diversion', which may lead to harm or death among persons outside of OMT. This article explores reported practices of, and motivations for, diversion of methadone and buprenorphine, in a group of imprisoned individuals in OMT. FINDINGS 28 in-depths inter...

This paper describes the demographic, gender violence and psychopathological characteristics of 399 men in a specialized treatment programme for gender violence. Furthermore, a comparison of all the variables studied among the subjects referred by the court to the treatment programme (n = 276) and those who were imprisoned (n = 123) was conducted. The results showed the existence of numerous st...

Abstract This paper shows that the protagonists of Byzantine Passions are often depicted as attaining holiness while on move: after their arrest by pagan soldiers, Christian martyrs subjected to travels for legal reasons. Drawing anthropological concept liminality (Arnold van Gennep, Victor Turner), I will suggest such inflicted or transfers in serve liminal phases between interrogation, tortur...

Native peoples account for a disproportionate number of inmates in the current American prison population. Due to differences in the character of practice between Native and Judeo-Christian religions, it has been suggested that Native inmates face challenges that other prisoners do not because their religious needs are poorly understood. In the course of this paper I will discuss the disparitie...

one of the goals of comparative literature is to investigate the common and different aspects of cultural and historical background of people to better discover the connection between nations and civilizations. this paper compares the similarities in life and poetry of the two iranian & arbic poets sa' d salman & abu f oras hamdan both imprisoned for long period of time.