The reception, admission, and subsequent management of casualties from the Summerland fire are described. A senior member ofthe staff assessed priorities and direceted casualties to different prearranged teams, and a nurse was allocated to each patient to aid continuity of treatment and documentation. Though regular revision and discussion of major accident procedures with all members of the hospital staff and co-ordination with other rescue workers is helpful expensive rehearsals are of limited value in a civilian incident.
The relationship between crime and punishment is examined and a dilemma in this relationship is identified. Labeling theory suggests that leaders responsible for enforcing the law respond to the crime they see by increasing punishment, under the assumption that punishment will deter crime, whereas recipients often respond to this punishment with a feeling of injustice, which then incites them to break the law more frequently, resulting in more serious problems on a delayed basis. The operation of this sort of dilemma in a U.S. Army population was tested with cross-lagged panel correlation, using companies (groups of about 200 soldiers) as the unit of analysis. In SO companies, company leaders punished their subordinates, particularly blacks, as a response to the lawlessness they attributed to these subordinates, while subordinates responded to this punishment in the ensuing months with a sense of injustice and increased lawlessness. Observations are offered about the usefulness of the methodology, and about the implications of the dilemma that has been identified, for law-abidingness.
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