Case studies provide rich descriptions of significant vignettes that highlight atypical systemic or clinical problems and identify potentially important research questions. The case study presented by Venters, Razvi, Tobia and Drucker (2006) describes an unfortunate set of events pertaining to an individual's experience as they were failed by s several systems all at once and neglected for havi...

Within multimodal prisoner reentry programs, an important challenge for practitioners is how to effectively assign participants to services based on individual need. The Reentry Well-Being Assessment Tool (RWAT) is an innovative practice tool to systematically guide individualized assignment into reentry program services based on a participant’s changing needs during the transition from prison ...

Prison is a marginal space that hidden from society, and life writing by prisoners thus offers valuable insights into prison life. This paper examines prisoner writing, as genre neglected academia, focusing on how the prisoner-writer describes imprisonment to non-prisoner reader. My analysis explores Davies’s (1990. Writers in Prison. Oxford: Blackwell) assertion represents an act of translatio...

We explored the extent to which prisoner sociodemographic variables (age, education, marital status, employment, and whether their parents were married or not) influenced offending in 64 randomly selected Brunei inmates, comprising both sexes. A quantitative field survey design ideal for the type of participants used in a prison context was employed to investigate the problem. Hierarchical mult...

The article considers the representation of war in Leo Tolstoy's artistic and journalistic work. The concept of "War" is a key notion in the writer's works. The paper describes the lexicon embodying the topic. To express the essence of the concept, Leo Tolstoy uses such words as sumasshestviye (madness), zlo (evil), and nasiliye (violence). The article analyzes the evolution of attitu...

Recognise that people have many, possibly conflicting, aspects to their personality. We hypothesise that each separate characteristic of a personality may be treated as an independent player in a non-zero sum many player game. This idea is applied to the two person Prisoners’ Dilemma as an introductory example. We assume each prisoner has a “mercenary” characteristic as well as an “altruistic” ...

The relevance of this article is studying the problem “Man at war” includes examining a fate prisoners war. Detention conditions Frenchmen in England during Napoleonic wars remain subject discussions foreign historiography. Besides this, it has also never been studied earlier national In they are considered by means regression analysis captivity duration and mortality. Their dependence from suc...