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Corrections, Mental Health, and Social Policy: International Perspectives

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This book is well suited to readers dealing with correctional issues in today's complex global society. Given the task of providing adequate mental health care to the burgeoning U.S. prison population, including those thousands with serious mental illnesses who have defaulted from the nation's disjointed mental health systems, the book provides a consideration of approaches and ideas beyond those generated in the domestic academic-practitioner community, including the mental health concerns that transcend borders and national sovereignty. In this category are the treatment and management of te

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Corrections, mental health and social policy: international perspectives

Ax, Robert K.

An international history of American correctional health: the enlightenment to 1976 / Robert K. Ax -- Contemporary U.S. corrections, mental health, and social policy (1970s to present) / Jennifer Boothby -- U.S. prisons: a public health perspective / Scott Chavez -- Psychological services in English and Welsh prisons / Graham Towl and David Crighton -- France / Annie Kensey and Harry Dammer -- Legal and psychological contributions to the development of corrections in Canada / J. Stephen Wormith and Duyen Luong -- Corrections in Aotearoa/New Zealand: current issues and future challenges / Crista McDaniel and Llewelyn A. Richards-Ward -- "What works" in predicting psychiatric hospitalization and relapse: the specific responsivity dimension of effective correctional treatment for mentally disordered offenders / Paul Gendreau, Paula Smith, and Claire Goggin -- Prisons and the role of nongovernmental organizations / Carol Gallo -- Prison policy and terrorism: learning the lessons of the past / Michael Von Tangen Page & Robert K. Ax -- Prison gangs / Joyce K. Conley & Dawn Zobel -- The death penalty: a brief review of historical roots and current practices relevant to the correctional mental health practitioner / Alix McLearen and Patty Zapf -- Differing perspectives: correctional systems in non-western countries / Robert D. Morgan, Aven Senter, and Jon Mandracchia -- Future directions / Thomas J. Fagan, Shelia M. Brandt, and Andrea Kleiver

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