Murderers and life imprisonment : containment, treatment, safety and risk /
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Winchester :
Waterside Press,
2003
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Table of Contents:
- ""Cover ""; ""CONTENTS""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""1 The Scale and Nature of the Problem""; ""I. MURDER HOW OFTEN DOES IT HAPPEN?""; ""WHO ARE THE MURDERERS?""; ""HOMICIDE IN AMERICA""; ""11. LIFE IMPRISONMENT IN THE UK""; ""NUMBERS AND PLACES""; ""PROFILE OF THE LIFER POPULATION""; ""'MYRA SYNDROME'""; ""STRUCTURE OF A LIFE SENTENCE""; ""THE VICTIM'S CHARTER""; ""INDIVIDUAL CASES""; ""TWO STRIKES AND YOU'RE IN""; ""2 The Psychology of the Murderer""; ""I. THEORIES OF VIOLENCE AND MURDER""; ""Biological determinants""; ""Socio-cultural determinants""; ""Psychological determinants""
- ""Situational determinants of violence.""""Psychiatric determinants""; ""Political motivation""; ""11. WHAT THE MURDERERS SAY""; ""SIX CASE STUDIES""; ""Ill. HOW TO KNOW AND HOW TO HELP""; ""STRATEGIES FOR HELPING MURDERERS AND OTHER LIFERS TO CHANGE""; ""THREE Delusions of Innocence""; ""I. LIFERS, INNOCENCE AND HM PRISON SERVICE: THE SCALE OF THE PROBLEM""; ""II. MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE CASES""; ""Ill. PRISON AND INNOCENCE: PROTESTS AND THE OFFICIAL SIDE""; ""IV. THE SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT PROGRAMME AND THE PROBLEMS OF INNOCENCE""; ""V. 'FALSE NEGATIVES'""; ""4 Containment and Treatment""
- ""I. CONTAINMENT""""Physical controls""; ""Psychological controls""; ""Loss of control""; ""Lifers as a stabilising influence.""; ""II. STAFF COMPETENCIES: SKILLS REQUIRED TO WORK EFFECTIVELY WITH LIFERS""; ""Ill. TREATMENT""; ""How the Prison Service 'manages' lifers""; ""The Lifer Manual""; ""THE ROLE OF PROBATION""; ""PRISON SERVICE COURSES""; ""SOTP""; ""Cognitive Behavioural Programmes""; ""MENTALLY DISORDERED OFFENDERS""; ""HOW LIFERS (AND THE STAFF WHO WORK WITH THEM) MANAGE PRISON""; ""5 Discretionary Lifer Panels""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""THE DISCRETIONARY LIFE SENTENCE""
- ""CHANGES IN CULTURE""""II. LEGAL BACKGROUND TO THE CHANGES""; ""Ill. THE CHANGES""; ""IV. HOW DLPs WORK""; ""V. 'SECTION 2 DISCRETIONARY LIFERS'""; ""VI. CONCLUSIONS""; ""6 Lifer Risk Assessment""; ""I. WHAT IS RISK ASSESSMENT? (BRIEFLY)""; ""II. THE NEED FOR RISK ASSESSMENT""; ""Ill. HOW IS RISK ASSESSMENT DONE?""; ""IV. THE ASSESSMENT OF RISK IN LIFE SENTENCE PRISONERS AS PRACTISED IN ENGLAND AND WALES""; ""V. MAJOR CRITICISMS AND WAYS FORWARD""; ""IV. CONCLUSIONS""; ""7 Beyond Criminal Justice""; ""I. THE ETHICS OF LIFE IMPRISONMENT""; ""II. DO LIFERS HAVE HUMAN RIGHTS?""
- ""Ill. THE NATURE OF EVIL""""IV. NATURAL LIFE""; ""V. CONCLUSION""; ""8 Proposals""; ""I. CONTAINMENT""; ""II. TREATMENT""; ""Ill. PUBLIC SAFETY""; ""Appendix A: Alex's Story. Secret Justice. An Extreme Illustration of Why Discretionary Lifer Panels Were Needed""; ""Appendix B The Parole Board Rules 1997""; ""Appendix C: Comparisons Between the Mandatory and Discretionary Life Sentence Systems""; ""Bibliography""; ""Subject Index""; ""Back cover ""
