By Hans Toch
“I recently left my family to spend a week at a neighboring motel. The adventure was heavily subsidized by state and federal funds…” Paper presented at the Forensic Psychiatry Conference on Psychiatric and Psychological Services in Jails and Prisons, Bellevue Medical Center, November (1983) 18 pages,
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By Hans Toch
“Toward the end of 1970, two inmates hanged themselves within two weeks of each other at the Manhattan House of Detention.” Unpublished paper. (ca. 1971) 15 pages.
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By Hans Toch
“If we grant that a man’s best friend is his dog, a person’s next best friend is his or her dictionary.” An unpublished paper send to Calvin S. Hall. (1979) 8 pages.
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By Hans Toch
“…prisons nod not control their intake populations..” In press, Prison Service Journal. (ca. 2012) 9 pages.
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By Hans Toch
“Gilbert and Sullivan were probably joking when they proclaimed that ‘a policeman’s lot is not a happy one,’ but law enforcement officers tend to view this hypothesis as an established fact.”Presentation for the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, September 1 (1963) 11 pages.
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By Hans Toch
Prepared for the 1978 Colloquium on Stress and Crime (Mitre Corporation). This working paper rejects…the ‘structuralist’ approach to prison stress, which places emphasis on ‘built-in’ stressors affecting inmates and some prison staff…” (1978) 14 pages.
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By Hans Toch
U.S. Naval Personnel Research Field Activity. Study S02015.2.1. NP002015. “Individuals cited as having high morale were almost always favorably depicted…”June (1956) 43 pages.
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By Hans Toch
“The study aims at isolating the principal sources of dissatisfaction that could adversely affect performance on CPOs in the Navy.” U.S. Naval Personnel Research Field Activity, San Diego 52, California. Study SD2101.3.1 NP002101. PEFASD Report No. 107. January (1957) 59 pages.
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By Hans Toch
Part if what I mean by ‘liberating the guard’ is releasing him from the pressures that relegate him to custodial work…” Proceedings of the 15th Interagency Workshop Sam Houston State University Criminal Justice Center. May 18024. (1980) 6 pages.
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By Hans Toch
Panel Presentation American Psychological Association, 77th Annual Meeting, September 1969. “Classifying people in life is a grim business, which channelizes destinies and determines fate…” (1969) 7 pages.
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Foreword by Hans Toch
“The fact that prison officers are called ‘officers’ and that they wear uniforms has helped to obfuscate the question of what they do and what they are…” (2011) 3 pages.
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Reviewed by Hans Toch for the journal Aggressive Behavior. “…a moral quagmire and a challenge to the heart and the conscience…” (1984) 5 pages.
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Draft Foreword for the book Police in Hong Kong by former student K.C. Wong. “Several decades ago I became convinced that in a clearly foreseeable future I would find myself studying erudite books written by Sam C. Wong, who at that time was an impressive, though superannuated gradate student…”(ca. 2005) 3 pages.
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By Hans Toch
A Diagnostic Classification designed specifically for prison clinical staff. “A little learning may be a dangerous thing, but too much learning is wasteful… [The] three core categories of classification are (1) nut, (2) the schnook, and (3) the crumb.” (ca. 1997) 3 pages.
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By Hans Toch
Prepared for the Fourth Annual NEPACS conference in Durham, 22 April, 2009. “Transcontinental guests like myself risk making fools of themselves…” (2009) 11 pages.
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By Hans Toch
“…there isn’t anything I know about this subject, or any other subject that I haven’t learned from somebody else in this room…” (1975) 17 pages.
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By Hans Toch
Foreword. “The book shows what can happen when good science and empathic advocacy go hand in hand…” (1991) 6 pages.
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By Hans Toch and James Acker.
“In July of 2014, a brief was submitted to United States Supreme Court on behalf of the Arkansas Department pf Corrections [ADC] defending the prison system’s decision not to allow a prisoner to sport a short beard in subservience o his religious beliefs….” (ND) 23 pages.
