Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder
In an attempt to establish whether it could be effective to treat serious and high risk offenders the United Kingdom Government launched a programme in 1999. This established treatment centres in two high security prisons and two high security hospitals and a further four medium secure hospitals.
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Famous quotes containing the words dangerous, severe, personality and/or disorder:
“And I have seen dust from the walls of institutions,
Finer than flour, alive, more dangerous than silica,
Sift, almost invisible, through long afternoons of tedium,”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
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—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of God. Some Earl of Bridgewater, thinking it better late than never, has provided for it in his will. It is a sad mistake.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered, and the problem solved, how to give every individual his fair weight in the government, without any disorder from numbers. In a town-meeting, the roots of society were reached. Here the rich gave counsel, but the poor also; and moreover, the just and the unjust.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)