For persons with co-occurring disorders, interaction with criminal justice systems is a frequent occurrence. As a result, a variety of diversionary programs have been developed nationwide. In this study, a total of 248 individuals with co-occurring disorders of serious mental illness and substance use disorders who had been arrested and booked on misdemeanor charges participated in a post-booki...

AIM To determine the views of new house officers (HO) on professionalism and unprofessional behaviour following dismissal in January 2007 of a HO who was caught video-taping nurses in the shower. METHODS An anonymous self-administered questionnaire was administered during new house officers' orientation. Using a Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree), HO were asked to rank...

The article is devoted to the study of various approaches understanding concept, content, essence, purpose and meaning penalty measures in legal science. Therefore, when studying this interdisciplinary category, author based on scientific opinions both Soviet modern Ukrainian researchers, formulated doctrines labor, administrative, criminal executive law, as well penitentiary psychology pedagog...

primary objective is to provide critical reviews of research problem areas and techniques, the content of state-of-the-art conferences, integrative research reviews and significant original research. Its dual publication emphasis is rapid and targeted dissemination to the scientific and professional community. ii FOREWORD When this monograph was originally conceived (1973), Institute scientists...

On August 2, 2010, a Navy helicopter entered the highly restricted airspace above Washington, D.C. without permission [1]. The event might have passed as unremarkable but for the fact that no-one was piloting the helicopter: as an unmanned aircraft, it carried no humans onboard, and—somehow—the vital communications link to its ground operators had been lost. The 1,429-kilogram MQ-8B Fire Scout ...

“Sex worker” is a broad umbrella term that can refer to anyone who works in the sex industry. Although some people use this term to include exotic dancers, actors in pornographic films, and nude models, this issue of PERSPECTIVES uses “sex worker” to refer specifically to people who exchange sex for money. Using “sex work” recognizes this activity as an occupation that provides a source of inco...

Despite the common conception that human trafficking is primarily a problem beyond our shores, sex trafficking is a growing epidemic within the United States. Sex traffickers are increasingly preying on children in particular in response to growing demand for paid sex with younger girls and boys. Strikingly, the criminal justice system charges and prosecutes these trafficking victims for sellin...

BACKGROUND As the "war on drugs" enters the latter half of its third decade since being forged into the American lexicon by President Ronald Reagan, the public has grown more skeptical of the current strategy and has proven to be receptive to a broader consideration of alternatives to incarceration. This has been the case most notably with marijuana offenses, where the policy discussion has shi...