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The Supervision of Potentially Dangerous Offender-Patients in England and Wales
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In this article, the legal and administrative framework for the supervision of potentially dangerous offender-patients in England and Wales and some of the practical problems involved in such supervision are described.Abstract:
This article describes the legal and administrative framework for the supervision of potentially dangerous offender-patients in England and Wales and some of the practical problems involved in such supervision. The article is clinical rather than epidemiological and statistical in its orientation.read more
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Working With the Mentally Disordered Offender in the Community
TL;DR: The Home Office guidelines on social supervision as mentioned in this paper have been used to define the mental disordered offender as a distinctive way of working and the assessment of risk: the human volcano risk to others risk to the worker client's risk to self.
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Conditional discharge: the role of the social supervisor ‐ a preliminary study
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the attitudes of social supervisors to the process of conditional discharge and their role within it, and found that social supervisors agreed that there are positive and negative aspects to the conditional discharge process.
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Supervision of patients subject to special restrictions
TL;DR: Forensic social work as a specialism has been developed further with the emergence of the Regional Secure Units and Court Diversion Schemes.
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Sadistic fantasy, sadistic behaviour and offending.
TL;DR: Investigation revealed repetitive sadistic masturbatory fantasies which had spilled over into overt behaviour because the patients had felt impelled to seek and create increasingly dangerous in vivo 'try-outs' of their fantasies.
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Assessing dangerousness in criminals.
TL;DR: The several factors which have been or might be used by those who have to make decisions about dangerousness in criminals are reviewed and it is suggested that these factors are useful insofar as they help to illuminate the individual's capacity to feel sympathy and to learn by experience.
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Mutative Metaphors in Psychotherapy: The Aeolian Mode
Murray Cox,Alice Theilgaard +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the aim of the Aeolian mode is to release an individual's creative energy by freeing that person from the restrictive legacy of the past through imaginative psychotherapy.