BACKGROUND Violence among released prisoners with psychosis is an important public health problem. It is unclear whether treatment in prison can influence criminal behaviour subsequent to release. AIMS To investigate whether treatment in prison can delay time to reoffending. METHOD Our sample consisted of 1717 adult prisoners in England and Wales convicted of a serious violent or sexual off...

Background CJDATS-2 (Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Systems), a 5-year multisite national research collaborative funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), targeted implementation of evidence-based approaches for assessing and treating drug abuse within criminal justice settings. The Organizational Process Improvement Intervention, one of the major projects within the collabo...

Nearly 1,300 drug involved prisoners from the Delaware correctional systemwere followed for up to five years after release. Those who had participated in a work release therapeutic community treatment program, compared to a similar group in regular work release, were significantly less likely to have had a new arrest, or to have returned to incarceration, and had significantly longer times befo...

With over 2 million individuals currently incarcerated, and over half a million prisoners released each year, the large and growing number of men being processed through the criminal justice system raises important questions about the consequences of this massive institutional intervention. This article focuses on the consequences of incarceration for the employment outcomes of black and white ...

BACKGROUND Although male prisoners are five times more likely to die by suicide than men of a similar age in the general population, the contribution of psychiatric disorders is not known. AIMS To investigate the association of psychiatric disorders with near-lethal suicide attempts in male prisoners. METHOD A matched case-control study of 60 male prisoners who made near-lethal suicide atte...

PURPOSE Prisoners are at a particularly high risk of suicide. In contrast to other psychosocial risk factors it remains unclear to what degree the risk of suicide differs between prisoners with local citizenship and foreigners. In order to provide more detailed information for suicide prevention in prisons, this study aims to compare suicide rates (SR) between these populations in German crimin...

The article is devoted to the analysis of understanding essence correction and resocialization convicts, which common in doctrine criminal executive law, as well clarification influence measures incentives penalties applied juvenile prisoners on their resocialization, so, justification value a criterion effectiveness such measures.The author highlighted provisions number normative legal acts fi...

Research has found links between academic failure and criminal offending suggest that many incarcerated young people have experienced significant behavioral learning problems in school, which could result outcomes poor performance. The objective of this study was to analyse writing disorders impulsive compulsive prisoners. sample composed 194 male prisoners, 81 had been diagnosed with Antisocia...