The British Journal of Forensic Practice: Volume 2 Issue 2
Table of contents
Forensic Psychiatric Nursing In Close Supervision Centres
Tracy WhiteThis 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 PrinsSo‐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 VaughanThere 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 HibbsThis 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 ChandleySpecial 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…