The British Journal of Forensic Practice: Volume 2 Issue 2

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Forensic Psychiatric Nursing In Close Supervision Centres

Tracy White

This article outlines the work of close supervision centres within the prison services. The work outlines the development of such centres and how they currently manage those…

A Proposed Socio‐legal Classification of Unlawful Killing ‐ with Special Reference to ‘Serial Killing’

Herschel Prins

So‐called ‘serial killing’ is frequently a topic of both professional and media concern and comment. As such, the term can be misused and may serve to obfuscate rather than…

Developing Service Specifications for Secure Provision

Phillip Vaughan

There is not only an absence of guidelines for the development of medium and low secure units but also confusion over the definitions of these types of provision.

Cognitive Therapy: A Complementary Strategy for Expressed Anger During the Restraint of an Aggressive Individual

Andrew Hibbs

This paper proposes a complementary strategy that works in conjunction with physical restraint and which seeks to address dysfunctional thinking patterns thought to be…

Time and Confinement: Towards a Common Sense of Socio‐temporality in a Special Hospital

Mark Chandley

Special hospitals are notorious for their social isolation. In this sense they are not unlike tribal societies. These hospitals, like their tribal counterparts, are ripe for local…

ISSN:

1463-6646

Online date, start – end:

1999 – 2012

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited