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‘The sooner you can change their life course the better’: the time-framing of risks in relationship to being a young carer
No full textIn this article, we compare accounts given by young carers and specialist support workers about the riskiness of becoming a carer relatively early in life. We argue that since the mid-1990s, the policy response has problematised the comparatively early adoption of a caring role as a risk factor for future personal development. This temporal issue has become societally organised around concern about NEETs (young adults not in education, employment or training). Such a concern is predicated on cultural assumptions, now being undermined in response to economic crisis, about the existence of a critical age for transition to adulthood, successful navigation of which requires a time-limited period of personal freedom. Our findings suggest that, whereas support workers mostly see young caring in terms of risks to future prospects, young carers themselves identify not only current stresses, but also personal gains, from their experiences. Instead of categorising the timing of their caring as a source of risk, young carer respondents questioned service shortcomings which they felt made it harder for them to cope in the present, particularly inadequate social service support for relatives with disabilities and insensitivities in the education system. They did not see service providers as helping them to manage their futures. We locate this tension in risk social science debates about individualisation, transition to adulthood in late-modern society and risk management for those deemed vulnerable
On the Theory and Praxis of Nonsense Poetry as Dialogic Scrum; Or, the Poetical Hermeneutics of a Retro-Teleological, Post-Diegetic Transom (Notes towards an Investigation)
No full textThis essay explores the nonsensical elements of the composition and staging of “A Short Program of Poems for Young People, in Four Chapters,” a fifty-minute poetry reading by Michael Heyman and Joseph T. Thomas, Jr. prepared for the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association’s 2019 annual conference, “Send in the Clowns,” focusing primarily on the theory and practice of nonsense in relation to the writing and staging of “A Short Program of Poems for Young People, in Four Chapters,” which was performed in San Diego by Joseph T. Thomas, Jr. and Michael Heyman at the 2019 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference, “Send in the Clowns.
Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
Forensic mental health services as a risk escalator: a case study of ideals and practice
No full textMedium/low secure units occupy a central role in forensic mental health care, bridging high secure and community services. Although outcomes, assessed in terms of readmission and identified reoffending, have been evaluated, little research exploring processes underlying attempted rehabilitation for offenders diagnosed as having mental health problems has been undertaken. The present qualitative study built upon previous research completed in a northern England medium/low secure forensic mental health care institution for adults with learning disabilities (Heyman et al. 2002a,b). It was carried out in a medium/low secure forensic mental health care Unit located in London. In phase one, 43 staff, including general managers, doctors, nurses, psychologists and occupational therapists were interviewed about their philosophy of care, views about risk management for forensic mental health patients and perceptions of the Unit. In phase two, 10 case studies of patients were undertaken. As far as possible, patients were interviewed twice over a period of 11 - 20 months, and staff were asked about their progress. Two case conferences were observed. Data were analysed using the metaphorical concept of a rehabilitative risk escalator around three themes carried forward from the previous study: organisational issues; patient active risk management; and multiprofessional collaboration
The problems of offenders with mental disorders: A plurality of perspectives within a single mental health care organisation
No full textManagers, doctors, nurses, occupational therapists, social workers, psychologists, unqualified staff and service users were interviewed for a qualitative study of risk management and rehabilitation in an inner city medium secure forensic mental health care unit. Different professional orientations to service user problems were identified. Doctors focused primarily on the diagnosis of mental disorder, which they managed mainly through pharmaceutical interventions. Psychologists were principally concerned with personal factors, for example service user insight into their biographical history. Occupational therapists concentrated mainly on daily living skills, and social workers on post-discharge living arrangements. Some front line nurses, held accountable for security lapses, adopted a criminogenic approach. Service users were more likely than professionals to understand their needs in terms of their wider life circumstances. These differences are explored qualitatively in relation to four models of crossdisciplinary relationships: monoprofessional self-organisation combined with restricted communication; hermeneutic reaching out to other perspectives; the establishment of interdisciplinary sub-systems; and transdisciplinary merger. Relationships between professions working in this unit, as portrayed in qualitative interviews, corresponded mainly to the first model of monoprofessional self-organisation. Reasons for restricted crossdisciplinary understanding, particularly the wide power/status differences between the medical and other professions, and between staff and patients, are discussed
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Let\u27s Talk Tech: Merger Analysis in a Modern Economy
No full textCardozo\u27s Antitrust Society, Heyman Center, and Women in Tech Law invite you to a webinar discussion covering important developments in antitrust merger analysis for big tech and telecommunications companies. The panelists will explore the implications of the T-Mobile/Sprint merger and the Google/DoubleClick investigation, as well as discuss proposed solutions for mergers in the tech space.https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/event-invitations-2020/1088/thumbnail.jp
Let\u27s Talk Tech: Merger Analysis in a Modern Economy
No full textCardozo\u27s Antitrust Society, Heyman Center, and Women in Tech Law invite you to a webinar discussion covering important developments in antitrust merger analysis for big tech and telecommunications companies. The panelists will explore the implications of the T-Mobile/Sprint merger and the Google/DoubleClick investigation, as well as discuss proposed solutions for mergers in the tech space.https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/event-invitations-2020/1088/thumbnail.jp
Assessing the probability of patients reoffending after discharge from low to medium secure forensic mental health services: An inductive prevention paradox
No full textCitizens of developed societies are troubled by those who commit ‘irrational' crimes against the person. Reoffending by ex-patients following their release from secure mental health services triggers particularly intense angst when amplified by media and political scrutiny. Forensic mental health service providers are expected to minimise the occurrence of such transgressions by releasing only those patients who are judged acceptably unlikely to reoffend. However, reoffending probabilities can only be estimated by observing behaviour in secure institutional settings designed specifically to prevent patients from transgressing. The article explores this ‘inductive prevention paradox' which arises when the implementation of measures designed to avoid an adverse event obscures direct observation of what might have happened if prophylaxis had not been attempted. The analysis presented draws on data obtained in 1999–2003 from two qualitative studies in medium to low secure UK institutions, one providing forensic mental health services and the other forensic learning disability services. We explored the views of 56 staff members and 21 patients about risk management in forensic services and undertook additional 25 staff interviews for case studies of the 21 patients. The wider applicability of the inductive prevention paradox will be considered in the Discussion. We argue that the prognostic limitations arising from prevention have been underestimated by policy makers and in official inquiries; and that the prevailing personal risk assessment framework needs to be complemented by greater attention to the environments which patients will be discharged into
Health care through the ‘lens of risk’: reflections on the recent series of four special issues
No full textScreening for health risks: A social science perspective
No full textHealth screening promises to reduce risks to individuals via probabilistic sifting of populations for medical conditions. The categorisation and selection of 'conditions' such as cardiovascular events, dementia and depression for screening itself requires prior interpretive labour which usually remains unexamined. Screening systems can take diverse organisational forms and varying relationships to health status, as when purported disease precursors, for example 'pre-cancerous' polyps, or supposed risk factors, such as high cholesterol themselves, become targets for screening. Screening at best yields small, although not necessarily unworthwhile, net population health gains. It also creates new risks, leaving some individuals worse-off than if they had been left alone. The difficulties associated with attempting to measure small net gains through randomised controlled trials are sometimes underestimated. Despite endemic doubts about its clinical utility, bibliometric analysis of published papers shows that responses to health risks are coming to be increasingly thought about in terms of screening. This shift is superimposed on a strengthening tendency to view health through the lens of risk. It merits further scrutiny as a societal phenomenon
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