This article considers the variety of theoretical justifications, or moral arguments, which have been put forward to support approaches that can be broadly described as ‘rehabilitative’. The article takes an historical approach, tracing the development of ideas supportive of rehabilitation which begins with the origins of probation in England & Wales, and the Christian mission to ‘save souls’. ...

BACKGROUND In the North West of England, data on drug users are routinely collected from a variety of agencies including specialist treatment centres, police and probation services. However, the covert nature of drug use means that alone, these conventional monitoring systems cannot provide the epidemiology required to target and develop drug treatment and prevention initiatives. METHODS Util...

To increase the likelihood that probationers with serious mental disorder can be identified by probation agencies, we tested the utility of two promising mental health screening tools, the K6 and the Brief Jail Mental Health Screen (BJMHS), in identifying probationers with DSM-IV Axis I mental disorders. In this study, 4,670 probationers completed the screening tools as part of routine intake p...

1 This paper supported in part by National Science Foundation grant: EEC-9872498, Engineering Education: Assessment Methodologies and Curricula Innovations and Engineering Information Foundation grant 98-4. 2 Alejandro Scalise, University of Pittsburgh, School of Engineering, 1048 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, [email protected] 3 Mary Besterfield-Sacre3, University of Pittsburgh, School of...