Title Problems in prison psychiatry / by J.G. Wilson, M.D. ; Senior Surgeon (retired) United States Public Health Service ; Director, Division of Hospitals and Mental Hygiene, Department of Welfare of the State of Kentucky and M.J. Pescor, M.D., Clinical Director, United States Public Health Service Hospital, Fort Worth, Texas

Published Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Printers, 1939 Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Printers ©1939

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Description 1 online resource (275 pages) Series PsychBooks Collection Contents Historical considerations -- A difficult problem -- Attempts to solve the problem -- The normal prisoner -- The feeble-minded prisoner -- The psychoneurotic prisoner -- The psychopathic prisoner -- The psychotic (insane) prisoner -- The neuropathic prisoner -- The homosexual prisoner -- The recidivist -- Discipline in prison -- The value of imprisonment Summary "This book attempts to analyze some of the mental health problems or psychiatric aspects of correctional institutional procedure. The authors of this book question by implication whether the present state of scientific knowledge concerning human conduct and behavior is being applied to penal and correctional procedure. A medical service for any penal and correctional system of given jurisdiction must bear a direct relationship to those agencies that minister to the physical and mental health of the general population. The place which correctional institutions and forensic and psychiatric medicine must occupy eventually in such a scheme remains to be determined. A formal recording of the psychiatric problems among prisoners, however, is a step in that general direction, and represents an effort to apply our scientific knowledge in terms of social values"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Online resource (HeinOnline, HathiTrust, viewed March 23, 2015) In PsycBOOKS (EBSCO). EBSCO Subject Crime. Psychology, Pathological. Prisons. Jails. Crime Psychopathology Prisons crimes (events) Jails Crime Prisons Psychology, Pathological Form Electronic book Author Pescor, M. J. (Michael James), 1904- author.

Other Titles Prison psychiatry, Problems in

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