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- Publisher
- SAGE
- Copyright
- © The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and Authors, 1978
- ISSN
- 0004-8658
- eISSN
- 1837-9273
- DOI
- 10.1177/000486587801100408
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
ANZJ Crim (1978) 11 BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Basic Psychiatry for Corrections Workers. Henry L Hartman. Charles C Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 1977, $USI6.75. Sir Denis Hill wrote, in his obituary to the late Dr Peter Scott, "Although he had been a member of the first committee which had recommended what are now called 'medium security units' for mentally abnormal offenders in the NHS, by 1970 he saw in this a threat to the development of the prison medical service. He wanted to make the prisons more like hospitals, not the hospitals more like prisons. He saw no valid arguments against the care of the mentally sick in prisons, but wanted a wide range of facilities in prisons and hospitals." This point of view, espoused by Scott, does not commend itself to all correctional administrators and not, oddly enough, to all mental health administrators. However, if correctional workers are to be, and hopefully will be, involved in the care of a number of the mentally sick, then there is a need for a text concerned with the subject of psychiatry for the correctional worker. This book by Hartman is offered to fill such a need and the text "has grown
Journal
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE
Published: Dec 1, 1978