CONTEXT Previous research has focused on suicide among male prisoners and ex-prisoners, but little is known about risk in the wider offender population. OBJECTIVE To examine suicide risk over 3 decades among all people processed by a national criminal justice system. DESIGN Nested case-control study. SETTING The whole Danish population. PARTICIPANTS Interlinked national registers identi...

As we commemorate the centenary of World War 1 and the offi cial withdrawal of UK military troops from Afghanistan, the fate of former armed forces personnel has come into sharp focus once again. Most of the current generation of personnel who leave service make successful transitions back into civilian life. However, some personnel do not. A proportion will develop mental health problems, and ...

Major changes in mental health policies and laws have placed untold numbers of persons with serious mental illness (PSMIs) in the community, where they receive inadequate or intermittent care, or no care at all. These changes have caused criminal justice professionals to become involved with PSMIs at every stage of the justice process. In this chapter, we explore the blurred boundaries between ...

Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England is comprised of four books, written in two volumes, running well over 1500 pages in length. Within this enormous work there may be no more wellknown or more memorable line than that which has come to be known as the Blackstone Ratio: “the law holds that it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”1 The Blackstone Ra...

fundamental importance of evidence in the criminal procedure revealsnecessity of a deep study of that and its principles. one of the progressiveprinciple governing of evidence in criminal procedure, is free proof .that isinvolving free obtaining and evaluation of evidence. according to thisadvanced principle that there are no restriction in presentation andacceptance of evidence unless with sti...

.................................................................................4 Chapter 1: Introduction to the Industrial Food System and the Prison Industrial Complex....................................................................5 Chapter 2: Literature Review: Social Movements toward Criminal Justice Reform and Food Justice..............................................................2...

The previous chapter reviewed empirical findings regarding the psycho–social needs of child victims. This evidence–based examination has been integrated with the normative human rights framework presented in Chapter 2. Together they create a multidisciplinary model which can be used to evaluate public responses to crimes against children. The current chapter utilizes the needs–rights model to e...

Some of the most neglected, misunderstood, and unseen individuals in our society are the more than one million women in our jails, prisons, and community correctional facilities. Although the rate of incarceration for women has increased dramatically (tripling in the last decade), prisons have not kept pace with the growth in the number of women inmates, nor has the criminal justice system adap...