Topic D - Forensic Corrections > Section D.6.0. Forensic Concepts> Unit.D.6.2. Care/Custody
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Unit.D.6.2. Care/Custody

Australia
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Canada
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International
Required Reading(s)
Rask, M., & Aberg, I. (2002). Swedish forensic

nursing care: Nurses' professional contributions and educational needs. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing, 9(5), 531-539. Retrieved December 12, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=7438493&db=aphbr>

  • In this report, data regarding how nursing care could contribute to improved care and the organizational changes needed and what knowledge the nurses need, in order to be able to meet the demands in the future, were analyzed by means of content analysis.

 

United Kingdom
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Adshead, G. (2002). Three degrees of security:

Attachment and forensic institutions. Criminal Behaviour & Mental Health, Supplement, 12(2), S31-45.Retrieved December 12, 2002, from Academic Search http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=8587748&db=aph

  • Attachment theory can be a useful tool in understanding management problems in forensic institutions, where staff and inmates have long term dependency relationships that involve both care and control. The author discusses the relationship between security and violence and how the forensic institution has to become a 'secure base'.
Mercer, D., Mason, T., & Richman, J. (2001). Professional

convergence in forensic practice. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 10(2), 105-115.
Retrieved December 12, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=4591183&db=aph

  • This paper outlines the development and convergence of forensic science and secure psychiatric services in the UK, locating the professionalization of forensic nursing within a complex web of political, economic, and ideological structures. It is suggested that a stagnation of the therapeutic enterprise in high and medium security provision has witnessed an intrusion of medical power into the societal body. Expanding technologies of control and surveillance are discussed in relation to the move from modernity to postmodernity and the ongoing dynamic of medicalized offending.

 

United States
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Maeve, M. K., & Vaughn, M. S. (2001). Nursing with

prisoners: The practice of caring, forensic
nursing or penal harm nursing? ANS, 24(2), 47-64. Retrieved December 20, 2002, from from Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition database:
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=6682074&db=hch

  • Note - Maeve and Vaughn critically analyze three philosophic stances toward nursing care with prisoners and suggest their philosophic commensurability within traditional nursing practice. A critical hermeneutic perspective is used to illustrate the issues involved.

 

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The 'recommended only' readings for this unit are the following:

Unit.D.6.2. Care/Custody

Australia
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Canada
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Peternelj-Taylor, C. (1999). Forensic psychiatric nursing:

The paradox of custody and caring.
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing & Mental Health Services, 37(9), 9-11. Retrieved July 1, 2002, from ProQuest database.

  • Note - The trials and tribulations encompassing the care and control of the socially undesirable-the criminal, the dangerous, and the mentally ill-have historically burdened society and continue to challenge the collective wisdom of the international community.

 

International
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United Kingdom
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Adshead, G. (2000). Care or custody? Ethical

dilemmas in forensic psychiatry. Journal of Medical Ethics, 26(5), 302-304. Retrieved July 1, 2002 from ProQuest database.

Allen, D. (2001). Capacity to care. Nursing Standard,

15(31), 55. Retrieved July 1, 2002 from ProQuest database.

MacInnes, D. (2000). Interventions in forensic psychiatry:

The caregiver's perspective. British
Journal of Nursing, 9(15), 992-998. Retrieved July 1, 2002, from ProQuest database.

Mercer, D., Mason, T., & Richman, J. (1999). Good &

evil in the crusade of care: Social constructions of mental disorders. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing & Mental Health Services, 37 (9) 13- 17. Retrieved July 2, 2002 from ProQuest database.

  • At the level of nursing practice, this reorientation was advertised by the shift from a custodial to a therapeutic role, enacted through the introduction of nursing process, nursing models, and mandatory reeducation for staff. Though commonplace elsewhere, these innovations assumed symbolic potency in a crusade of change implemented with proselytizing zeal (Mercer, Mason & Richman, 1999).
Willmott, Y. (1997). Prison nursing: The tension between

custody and care. British Journal of Nursing, 6(6), 333-336. Retrieved July 2, 2002 from ProQuest database.

 

United States
Recommended Reading(s)
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Hammer, R. (2000). Caring in forensic nursing:

Expanding the holistic model. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing & Mental Health Services, 38(11), 18-23. Retrieved July 1, 2002 from ProQuest database.

  • Note: A reorientation to the concept of caring as the essence of pofessional practice may be needed in the preparation of graduates of forensic nursing programs so they may be able to realize the full potential of a caring relationship with all the clients and potential clients encountered during forensic nursing practice. Although the concept can be viewed as including the caring that is a standardized part of nursing practice, such as that delineated in the various clinical standards of care, this article is limited to a discussion of the conceptual aspect of caring as demonstrated by caring relationships, caring behaviors, and caring attitudes.

 

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Additional references for this unit can be found in 'forensic references' of the forensic sourcebooks.

  • Sleuth 'forensic reference' database for:
    • care and custody
Kent-Wilkinson, A. (2002). Forensic Sourcebooks: Forensic References.

Retrieved May 28, 2002, from the Forensic Education Website: http://www.forensiceducation.com/references

 

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Video's recommended for this unit are:

Resources (Video)
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Peternelj-Taylor, C.A. & Johnson, R. L. (Producers) and

Bulk, F. (Director) (1993). Custody and caring: A challenge for nursing. [Video] [31.45 minutes] Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, University of Saskatchewan, Division of Audio Visual Services.

  • Note that forensic health care professionals working in corrections face the ongoing challenge of reconciling the conflicting goals of these very different systems.

 

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The required websites to sleuth for this unit are the following:

Unit.D.6.2. Care/ Custody


Australia
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Canada
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International
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Britain and the Netherlands
de Haan, F., & van Drenth. A. (2001). Elizabeth Fry.

The Rise of Caring Power. Retrieved July 1, 2002 from the Elizabeth Fry Website. http://www.elizabethfry.net/

· Note the concept of caring power is based on the historian/philosopher Foucault's concept of
pastoral power, but takes into account the vital role played by gender.

 

United Kingdom
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United States
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For additional websites on this unit, sleuth 'forensic websites' in the forensic sourcebooks.

  • care and custody

Kent-Wilkinson, A. (2002). Forensic Sourcebooks: Forensic Websites.

Retrieved May 28, 2002, from the Forensic Education Website: http://www.forensiceducation.com/websites

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