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ObjectiveWhile scholars have documented high unemployment rates of individuals with disabilities, few studies address how workers with disabilities feel about their jobs. This study uses nationally representative data to explore the relationship between disability and job satisfaction; and examines how differences in job satisfaction between workers with and without disabilities may reflect educational attainment and perceived workplace respect.MethodsData come from the 2006 U.S. General Social Survey (N = 1,613). I estimated a series of ordinal logit regression models, controlling for gender, age, and race.ResultsControlling for demographic and workplace characteristics, workers with disabilities had 49 percent lower odds of reporting high job satisfaction than their nondisabled counterparts. Differences in workplace respect accounted for 38 percent of this difference.ConclusionGiven these results, one policy recommendation would be to implement disability awareness training for all employees, which may increase the amount of respect experienced by disabled workers.

AbstractOutpatient commitment has recently developed as a legal device for maintaining noncompliant chronically mentally ill patients in the community and for preventing the revolvingdoor syndrome, but this new approach presents difficult problems in reconciling the liberty of patients with their treatment needs.

Security and economic benefits of Israeli involvement in the research and technology program.

Considers the benefits to the Israelis in participating in the United States SDI programme. (GAW)

Discontent with the special insanity defense has resulted in pressure on legislatures and courts to change or abolish it. Most reformers urge modifications that they hope will rectify obvious abuses. This article examines the most frequently advanced moderate reforms and compares them to a more radical reform, the so-called abolition of the special insanity defense, which involves the use of the mens rea—or intent—approach as a vehicle for exculpating offenders who are seriously mentally ill, together with a greater emphasis on the dispositional stage of the process. It is argued that abolition of the insanity defense is neither immoral nor inhumane, as is often charged, if it is accompanied by such dispositional reforms. Rather, the elimination of an expanded insanity defense would result in restoring confidence in the criminal justice system and in psychiatry, would eliminate show trials, and would provide a more rational allocation of scarce mental health resources, with ultimate benefit both to the individual offender and to society.