Whether, and the extent to which, stiffer sanctions deter crime is an integral question in fashioning corrections policy. To the extent that the behavior of the criminally inclined is completely insensitive to variation in punishment severity, crime-control policy should focus on incapacitation. Sentences should be long enough to ensure that offenders are removed from society during the period ...

In recent years there has been growing acknowledgement of the place of workhouses within the range of institutional provision for mentally disordered people in nineteenth-century England. This article explores the situation in Bristol, where an entrenched workhouse-based model was retained for an extended period in the face of mounting external ideological and political pressures to provide a p...

Is. 6d. This is a unique report of a continuous period of after carc given to cases of general paralysis of the insane treated at the Mott Clinic. It makes a notable contribution to social case-work 72

available literature therefore is not great and a proportion of it rather diffuse and uninforming. In general, two rather vague ideas are current; that in association with insanity, scanty menstruation or actual amenorrhoea is common; and that, when menstruation persists, exacerbations of mental disease are likely to occur at these times. Such views are found in many of the current text-books a...