scholarly journals Beyond mental hospital sites

1990 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 399-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mabel Tannahill ◽  
Greg Wilkinson ◽  
Peter Higson
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
The Public ◽  
Discussion Document ◽  
The Future ◽  
Policy Committee

Professor R. G. Priest and Dr K. A. Day have prepared a discussion document on the future of mental hospital sites on behalf of the Public Policy Committee (Psychiatric Bulletin, April 1990, 14, 245–248), and may be complimented for stating their views in such detail.

scholarly journals Notices from the Public Policy Committee

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. 586-586
Author(s):  
R. G. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Committee

Prison Crowding and the Evolution of Public Policy

1985 ◽  
Vol 478 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOAN MULLEN
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Budget Constraints ◽  
The Public ◽  
Minimum Standards ◽  
Eighth Amendment ◽  
The Future ◽  
American Prison

While crowding has been a persistent feature of the American prison since its invention in the nineteenth century, the last decade of crisis has brought more outspoken media investigations of prison conditions, higher levels of political and managerial turmoil, and a judiciary increasingly willing to bring the conditions of confinement under the scope of Eighth Amendment review. With the added incentive of severe budget constraints, liberals and conservatives alike now question whether this is any way to do business. Although crowding cannot be defined by quantitative measures alone, many institutions have far exceeded their limits of density according to minimum standards promulgated by the corrections profession. Some fall far below any reasonable standard of human decency. The results are costly, dangerous, and offensive to the public interest. Breaking the cycle of recurrent crisis requires considered efforts to address the decentralized, discretionary nature of sentence decision making and to link sentencing policies to the resources available to the corrections function. The demand to match policy with resources is simply a call for more rational policymaking. To ask for less is to allow the future of corrections to resemble its troubled past.

scholarly journals Proper Methodology and Methods of Collecting and Analyzing Slavery Data: An Examination of the Global Slavery Index

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Guth ◽  
Robyn Anderson ◽  
Kasey Kinnard ◽  
Hang Tran
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Measurement Tools ◽  
The Future ◽  
Public Policy Debate

The Global Slavery Index aims to, among other objectives, recognize the forms, size, and scope of slavery worldwide as well as the strengths and weaknesses of individual countries. An analysis of the Index’s methods exposes significant and critical weaknesses and raises questions into its replicability and validity. The Index may prove more valuable in the future if proper methods are implemented, but the longer improper methods are used the more damage is done to the public policy debate on slavery by advancing data and policy that is not based on sound methodology. To implement proper methods, a committee of sophisticated methodologists needs to develop measurement tools and constantly analyze and refine these methods over the years as data is collected.

scholarly journals The Management of Parasuicide in Young People Under Sixteen

1982 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 182-185
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Young People ◽  
Adolescent Psychiatry ◽  
Working Party ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry ◽  
The Public ◽  
Suicidal Attempts ◽  
Policy Committee

The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Section has agreed that a view should be formulated about the management of suicidal attempts in young people under sixteen. This report of the Section's Working Party is being published with Council's approval. (Members of the Working Party: Dr M. Black (Convener), Dr J. Erulkar, Mr M. Kerfoot, Professor R. Meadow and Dr H. Baderman.) A Working Party of the Public Policy Committee, which includes representatives of other professions, is continuing discussion of this topic.

scholarly journals The Public Policy Committee—A Decade On

1983 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney Levine
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Practice ◽  
Prevention And Treatment ◽  
Parliamentary Committee ◽  
Policy Committee

Following the establishment of the College, the Public Policy Committee held its first meeting in March 1972. It evolved from the Parliamentary Committee of the RMPA and at that meeting its terms of reference were agreed and are still current. They are: ‘That it shall take note of and consider legislation, existing and prospective, and departmental, regional and local administrative practice with a view to commenting on matters touching upon the affairs of the College. In this respect it is empowered to take immediate action, if public statements about psychiatric affairs are urgently required, but normally will report to Council any measures which it recommends. It shall concern itself with the education and enlightenment of the public in matters relating to the prevention and treatment of mental disorder and the work of the College and its members.’

Parliamentary News: (as Reported to the Public Policy Committee)

1978 ◽  
Vol 2 (11) ◽  
pp. 189-191
Author(s):  
A. Walk
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Committee
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