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A SAMPLE OF HANS TOCH’S VOLUMINOUS WORKS

“I am not now Who I used to be Then” Risk assessment and Maturation of Long-term Prison Inmates.

By Hans Toch

“…I made the point of mentioning that he prisoner they were considering had written in an essay for publication that he would have denied his own parole at earlier stages of his sentence…” Presentation at the Annual meeting and Conference of Ingternayional Correctional Prisons Association, October 28 (2009) 10 pages.

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Providing Sanctuary in New York State Prisons

By Hans Toch

“In an effort to be useful I have occasionally shared a few research findings with humane and thoughtful practitioners…” Report on a workshop for practitioner-participants. (1975) 12 pages.

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Research and Reform in Community Policin

By Hans Toch

“A s community policing and problem-oriented policing become more sophisticated, it becomes harder to see the two as completely separable.” Paper presented to the Community Policing Symposium, San Jose, California, March 30 (1993) 11 pages.
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Humanizing the Workplace

By Hans Toch

“…some types of organizational climates can help to promote violence…climate-wise, human service organizations may be changing for the worse, which raises ominous possibilities.” Paper presented at the conference on Managing Assault and Violence in the Workplace, East Lansing, Michigan, June 1 (1995) 9 pages.

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Prisons: Problems and Prospects

By Hans Toch

“Most problems in prisons originate outside their walls.” Pre-published paper. Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, Revised Edition. (1999 ) 28 pages.

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Coping with Non-Coping Convicts.

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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Two Autopsies: A General Impression

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 Unpublished paper.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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The Violent Individual

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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Reform on the Cheap

By Hans Toch

“…prisons nod not control their intake populations..” In press, Prison Service Journal. (ca. 2012) 9 pages.

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Psychological Consequences of the Police Role

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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A Note on Prison Stress

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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Determinants of Chief Petty Officer Attitudes Toward the Navy

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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Liberating Prison Guards

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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Classifying Violent People.

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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Furnishing Care, Custody, and Data For Research

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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Policing in Hong Kong

By Hans Toch

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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