n he nurse officer took a step back and punched the prisoner in the face while he was still sitting in the chair." These are not the words of a do gooding penal reformer or the claims of an embittered relative. They were spoken under oath from the witness box of Alloa Sheriff Court in August 1992 by Dr James MacGregor. He is a local general practitioner, who with his three colleagues has been c...

So many medical men in Government service in India of all grades are concerned in prison administration that the publication of this little paper-bound volume by Col. Barker will be very welcome. It is a presentation of the present position with regard to Indian prisons, and a suggestion for future policy and improvements, based on the author's long experience of prison administration in the Ce...

to date. The task he sets himself, j! describe the penal system in Britai" in theory, law and practice, is a' enormous one and, in so far as tb'| is possible within the covers of of1 volume, he succeeds. What is oUl standing is his approach: instead the usual airy-fairy theorising, 1 which criminology all too readi' lends itself, Dr. Walker introduce scientific methodology. Not only thj but whe...

the islamic penal code of i.r. iran mentioning to insanity and its degrees, requires briefly that they are playing obstacle role for considering a person as liable one. this brief speaking has been caused to different interpretations to the legal and psychiatric concepts of insanity. this paper is going to review the interaction between these concepts.

Setting out to identify predictors of recidivism in seriously mentally ill (SMI) persons who return to their community from prison, Hall and colleagues offer to the forensic community a substantive contribution to the organization of interventions aimed to promote both the social and the psychiatric recovery of these individuals and to reduce their rate of re-entry into the penal system. While ...