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NCJ Number: 199689 Find in a Library
Title: Three Degrees of Security: Attachment and Forensic Institutions
Journal: Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health  Volume:12  Issue:2  Dated:2002  Pages:S31-S45
Author(s): Gwen Adshead
Editor(s): John Gunn; Pamela J. Taylor; DAvid Farrington; Mary McMurran
Date Published: 2002
Annotation: This paper examines the use of attachment theory for understanding management issues in forensic institutions and discusses the relationship between security and violence.
Abstract: Research data indicate that attachment processes may be useful in understanding the genesis of violence in an individual detained in a secure custodial or therapeutic institution. It can help in understanding why people act violently to others, the problems they pose in hospitals, and in creating truly secure therapeutic spaces. Attachment theory argues that individuals form psychological representations in the mind of attachment figures from childhood. There is a powerful mirroring of language between attachment theory and the language of forensic systems. Care-giving and care-seeking are manifestations of attachment behavioral systems that are aimed at promoting a sense of security in the individual. Forensic institutions also have an aim to promote security. This paper examines abnormal attachment patterns relating them to problems of living in a forensic institution and the relationship between security and violence and describes how pathological attachments influence the relationships between staff and patients in long-term residential secure units, from admission to discharge. It is recommended that forensic institutions need to become a secure base for both staff and residents. Features necessary for the provision of a secure forensic base are outlined. A secure base encourages monitoring, naming, and regulation of negative feelings using a portfolio of therapeutic interventions. References
Main Term(s): Facility security
Index Term(s): Forensic sciences; Hospital security; Inmate personal security; Institutional violence; Management; Security management; Staff client relations; Theory; Violence
Publisher: http://www.whurr.co.uk 
Page Count: 15
Format: Article
Type: Report (Study/Research)
Language: English
Country: United Kingdom
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