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Saskatchewan Secure Unit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Martin G. Livingston
Martin G. Livingston*
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University of Glasgow
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The British approach to administrative problems is often to accumulate more and more evidence for changes which are obsolete before enaction. Such a fate seems likely to happen to plans for the management of the psychiatrically disturbed offender following several reports. It was interesting, therefore, this summer to work as a locum consultant in a Saskatchewan forensic psychiatric hospital.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 8 , Issue 8 , August 1984 , pp. 155 - 156
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