The Mentally Defective Criminal

1913 ◽  
Vol 59 (245) ◽  
pp. 314-325
Author(s):  
J. P. Sturrock
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Preventive Detention ◽  
Juvenile Delinquent ◽  
The Public ◽  
Resident Surgeon ◽  
Psychological Point ◽  
Physical Defects ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Mental Aspect ◽  
Mental Defect

Some forty years ago, Dr. Bruce Thomson, the first resident surgeon to this prison, contributed to the medical journals a series of observations upon over 5,000 prisoners. He dealt chiefly with the more obvious physical defects which, to his thinking, supported the theory of the existence of the instinctive criminal, and though his observations were somewhat generalised, he was rightly regarded as a pioneer in the science of criminal anthropology. He also drew attention to the prevalence of weak-mindedness among juvenile prisoners, and stated that as much as 12 per cent. of all prisoners required special observation soon after admission because of mental defect. There is little doubt that in his time the old method that consigned all forms of disordered conduct to prison still persisted, and many changes have since taken place that would tend to diminish his percentage. Prison discipline is still, in spite of its mildness, largely credited with bringing into prominence many symptoms that are put down to mental defect. It would be reasonable to look for a considerable reduction in the numbers of weak-minded persons in prisons during a period when prison administration can conscientiously take to its credit the fruits of a progressive spirit that is not, however, readily granted to it by many whose reforming enthusiasm takes no thought of the spade-work that has preceded their own awakening. The psychological point of view is prominent in the most recent methods of dealing with the criminal. Preventive detention for the habitual, probation for the first offender, Borstal training for the juvenile delinquent, etc., all recognise the mental aspect of the offender as fully as any system that can be evolved by the mental pathologist. That the mental abnormality of the habitual major offender is a more complex affair in its origin and treatment than is insanity will, I am sure, be amply verified by the future experience of the preventive detention institutions, where grave disorder can only result if the treatment views too much in this light of irresponsibility the vicious tendencies of the inmates. From whatever point of view we look upon the habitual and professional criminal, it is certain that many of this type may be safely left to the law which is rightly concerned with the protection of the public, and continually progresses in an endeavour to fit the punishment to the individual.

scholarly journals Designing Functional Clothes for Persons with Locomotor Disabilities

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonela Curteza ◽  
Viorica Cretu ◽  
Laura Macovei ◽  
Marian Poboroniuc
Keyword(s):  
Life Quality ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Psychological Benefits ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Psychological Point ◽  
Positive Discrimination ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Individual

Abstract The life quality improvement issue is a problem of national and international interest. This acquires total different values when it is to refer to a series of disadvantaged categories, that is the persons with locomotor disabilities. It is an inevitable social responsibility to create equal opportunities for disabled people, to prevent any intentional or unintentional discrimination that they face and apply positive discrimination if necessary to improve their living standards and to let them have an equal share from social development as productive individuals of society. A disability is any kind of restriction or inability to accomplish a certain activity, which belongs to the interval considered as “normal” for a human being. Disabilities are characterized by deficiencies or excesses in the activity or behaviour that is normally expected from a person; they can be temporary or permanent, reversible or irreversible, progressive or regressive. The physical disabilities that require the use of wheelchairs imply the manufacturing of special clothing products that meet certain needs at a functional and/or therapeutic level. The study presents the main aspects involved in designing and developing textile products for this category of users. Therefore, the apparel that is specially designed for persons with disabilities has to: allow more freedom and independence when is being worn, correspond to the aesthetic point of view, offer psychological benefits and help to socially integrate the individual who wears it. In addition, clothes should not hinder the individual’s mobility and must allow the use of the chest and of the superior limbs to the maximum, they must be durable, have a low level of electrostatic charge, be absorbent and comfortable, present the so-called “rehabilitation functions”, and last but not least, be beneficial for the wearer both from a physical and psychological point of view.

scholarly journals Konstytucyjne aspekty procesu karnego w działalności Rzecznika Praw Obywatelskich

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-211
Author(s):  
Stanisław Trociuk
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Public Prosecution ◽  
The Public ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
The Individual

The changes in the broadly conceived criminal procedure which were introduced in recent years refer to the problems which are crucial from the perspective of the protection of human rights, such as the scope of the authority of the services due to operational control which is conducted secretly, the model of the functioning of the public prosecution service or the unlawful acquiring of evidence in a criminal procedure. The evaluation of these changes, conducted by the Ombudsman from the point of view of the constitutional standards of the protection of the rights of the individual is not positive. The new regulations reduce the quality of these standards and they do not contain sufficient guarantees of protection against the arbitrariness of the activities engaged in these terms by the organs of public authority. This phenomenon imposes a particular duty on the courts – which hear criminal cases – to see that the final decision in a criminal case respects the universal standards of the protection of human rights.

scholarly journals “Preparing” and “Repairing” Public Debate: Organizational Learning of Promoters in Environmental and Energy Governance

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Simard
Keyword(s):  
Public Debate ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
The Public ◽  
Learning Capacity ◽  
Energy Governance ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Distribution Of Resources ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Extra High Voltage

The deliberation experience, new imperative for public action (Blondiaux and Sintomer, 2002) produces some forms of learning that set in a new way the distribution of resources in punctual actors system that create infrastructure projects. If deliberative procedures could appear like moments for “metre à plat” values, ideas and solutions in a equilibrated, informed, respectful and transparency exchange, could we expect that it will suspend the power manifestations and the “rapports de force” in the pursuit of interests for stakeholders ? Analyzing the operation of environmental and energetic governance at the individual project level, from the promoter’s point of view, by looking at four extra-high-voltage (EHV) transmission line projects in France and Québec, and the consultation and deliberation procedures applied in each case, we argue that promoters learn better and quicker than the other stakeholders that are concerned by the large infrastructure projects. The radical imbalance of resources, experience and learning capacity among the actors tends to promote negotiation, before and after the public debate, with the actors considered relevant by the promoter, emptying the public debate of much of its content by leaving only the most antagonistic parties.

THE RISE OF PROFESSIONALISM

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-360
Author(s):  
M. L. Larson
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Personal Problems ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Special Competence ◽  
Better Than

The particular relation that professionalism bears to individualism and to the subjective illusion deserves to be noted. Their special competence empowers professionals and experts to act in situations where laymen feel incompetent or baffled. In fact, the assumption by the public that the expert is competent creates a sort of pragmatic compulsion for the expert: to certify his worth in the eyes of the laity, he must act. Deferentially requested to intervene by his clients, the expert practitioner is compelled to do something; from this point of view, anything is better than nothing. As Freidson remarks: "Indeed, so impressed is he by the perplexity of his clients and by his apparent capacity to deal with those perplexities, that the practitioner comes to consider himself an expert not only in the problems he is trained to deal with but in all human problems." Most particularly in the personal professions, the behavior of the expert asserts, ideologically, that a variety of ills—and, in particular, those that can most affect the person—have individual remedies. This reinforces the optimistic illusion of ideological individualism: personal problems of all kinds are purely private and admit, as such, individual and ad hoc solutions. In the predominant ideological way of addressing social issues and social relations experienced by individuals, therefore, structural causes, as well as collective action upon those causes, are relegated to a vaguely utopian realm. At the same time, the practitioner's "compulsion to act" reiterates to the layman that education confers superior powers upon the individual and superior mastery over physical and social environments.

scholarly journals Professional formation of a teacher in monitoring research

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (189) ◽  
pp. 105-110
Author(s):  
Olga Voloshina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
General Purpose ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Pedagogical Orientation ◽  
Psychological Point ◽  
Key Competencies ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Skill

The professional and pedagogical characteristics of the professional development of a teacher include, first of all, the level of professional-theoretical, as well as methodical and practical training of the teacher. The pedagogical orientation of the individual is manifested in the nature of solving this task. The pedagogical orientation of the teacher means, first of all, his interest in pedagogical activity and ability to be engaged in it. Orientation includes goals, motives and emotional attitude to activities (love, pleasure and other needs). Achieving high skill in teaching and educating individuals largely depends on the personal qualities of the teacher. And first of all from his pedagogical abilities. The activity of a teacher, as a form of expressing a person's active attitude to the surrounding reality, is concentrated in the field of involving the younger generation in the accumulation of social experience. Lack of purposeful education can lead to both intellectual and moral degradation of new generations. A specialist in the field of education is entrusted with social responsibility for the consequences of his work. The general purpose of the teacher - the formation of key competencies of the individual in the learning process. From a psychological point of view, a goal is a result of a person's predicted activity with a certain object. The result of the activity demonstrates the changes that occur with the object during human interaction with it. The issue of key competencies is being debated around the world today. This problem is especially relevant now in connection with the modernization of Ukrainian education.

Mental Defect

2016 ◽  
pp. 299-302
Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Clinical Notes ◽  
Anatomical Point ◽  
Psychological Point ◽  
Mental Defect

Chapter 16 of Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood. In this chapter, Winnicott discuses mental defect from an anatomical point of view with regard to the child’s attainments, from the parent’s point of view and from the psychological point of view.

scholarly journals Wahlplakat-Busting. Formen und Funktionen einer (neuen) Textmustermischung

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sascha Michel ◽  
Steffen Pappert
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Text Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Function ◽  
Communicative Power

AbstractFrom a linguistic point of view, this article deals with election poster busting, a widespread practice in which the elements of the text type “election poster” and its text-image-combinations are alienated by processes of resemiotisation. In addition to a corpus-based typology of the practices used in this context, a qualitative analysis of case studies from the Bundestag election campaign 2017 shows that satirical-playful, thematic-discursive and successive (and thus complex) alienation practices are carried out during poster busting. Depending on the respective practices, this can lead to differently pronounced blend of text pattern, i. e. Textmustermischungen (Fix 2008a), which are characterized by a change in content and function. Thus, the function of CAMPAIGNING, which is written into the original poster, is surpassed by that of CRITICISING which not only questions the individual poster but also the communicative power relations in the public space.

scholarly journals Folkesundhed og disciplinering - kulturanalyse af en opdragelsesstrategi

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ask Vest Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Public Health Programme ◽  
Constant Attention ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Health Programme

Analyse af regeringens folkesundhedsprogram 1999-2008 set i relation til ændringen af sygdomsbilledet siden 1900-tallet og diskussion af det nuværende sundhedspolitiske syn på idrætten.Public health and discipline – a cultural analysis of a strategy for instructionIn May 1999 the Danish Government’s Public Health Programme 1999-2008 was published. This article argues that the public health programme was developed as one element in a general slimming down of the welfare state. It will not be possible to maintain standards of welfare unless individuals and social institutions alike undergo a process of slimming down. Seen in this way, the public health programme is part of a project to impose social discipline and order. What has to be regulated is people’s behaviour so that it can become acceptable from the point of view of health. This is made necessary due to changes in the structure of illness during the past century, which in turn have prompted a change in medical focus away from cure and towards prevention. Prevention is a strategy which makes considerable use of a form of risk-moralising which directs itself by and large towards all areas of human activity. The public health programme has in this way changed its focus of operation from a social level to a subject- based, individual level. From this arises a paradox in regard to guilt and responsibility. On the one hand responsibility is taken away from the individual partly by dint of the interference of the state – for example, in relation to smokers – and partly through the way in which plans for prevention manifest themselves. On the other hand there is a tendency towards increased feelings of guilt. The result of this is that a large number of our everyday actions are placed in a health context. Health can no longer be taken for granted but is something to which we have to devote constant attention. The surveillance of health, which was once the task of the medical police, has now become integrated into the life of the individual and has turned into self-surveillance. This indicates that the health project is more concerned with moral than with medical matters.

scholarly journals Visual Landscape Quality as Viewed from Motorways in Spain

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belén Martín ◽  
Rosa Arce ◽  
Isabel Otero ◽  
Manuel Loro
Keyword(s):  
Building Materials ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Users ◽  
Landscape Quality ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Aesthetic Characteristics

Motorways are large infrastructures that alter the environmental resources in a territory, while constituting an important element through which the individual comes into contact with the landscape. Motorways are integrated in the landscape through their layout design and construction, the aesthetic details of minor structures (design and building materials) and the treatment of embankments and landscape planting. In this paper, we test the following hypotheses: motorway elements are related to the perception of landscape quality—from the point of view of the road users—and the aesthetic characteristics of minor infrastructures and planting affect the quality of the landscape perceived from the roads. These research questions were tested by comparing the visual quality of the landscapes captured in 128 photographs taken from sections of motorways in Spain. We compared the results obtained from (a) a photo-based method, and (b) the public’s landscape preferences determined using a survey of 737 people. The results show a correlation between the landscape quality values obtained using the model and the landscape preferences expressed by the public. We also found that the presence of the motorway elements and their aesthetic characteristics are significant in the users’ perception. These results can be applied in the decision-making process for potential investments to integrate new and existing motorways in the landscape.

scholarly journals Psychosocial Implications of Patients with Tracheostomy - a Suggestive Example of Interdisciplinarity

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Stan ◽  
Maria-Daniela Tuta ◽  
Alin Laurentiu Tatu
Keyword(s):  
Self Esteem ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Permanent Disability ◽  
Psychological Training ◽  
Preoperative Training ◽  
Psychological Point ◽  
General Surgeons ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level

Performed urgently or out of necessity, tracheostomy is one of the most traumatic surgeries that seriously affects the patient's quality of life. It has a profound impact on the ability to communicate and on self-esteem, so that the patient can experience a storm of emotions and major changes that can affect their existence. The patient with tracheostomy is a special patient with special needs. The care of such a patient involves a constant multidisciplinary effort supported by specialists in many fields: ENT specialists, oncologists, radiotherapists, anesthetists, neurosurgeons, general surgeons, physiotherapists, speech therapists, nutritionists especially psychotherapists. Tracheostomy affects the basic needs of the individual: communication, nutrition, sexuality, social relationships. Numerous studies show that patients with tracheostomy show a high level of psychological distress. Depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, frustration, alienation, isolation, tendency to suicide are the negative consequences of this mutilating surgery. Perceived as a permanent disability, tracheostomy requires special care from a psychological point of view. Sometimes, however, it is observed that both patients and their families are not sufficiently informed about the management of tracheostomy. Due to lack of means or staff, not enough emphasis is placed on preoperative training so that the patient fully understands both the benefits and the disadvantages of this surgical technique. Therefore, often the patient's family, which later assumes the role of caregivers of the tracheotomized, perceives it as a burden, excessive fatigue, helplessness, abandonment from society. This paper aims to highlight the importance of pre- and postoperative psychological training of both the patient and his family and to demonstrate that tracheostomy care can be one of the most suggestive examples of interdisciplinarity that seeks to provide effective solutions in this regard.

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