Structured Summary
Abstract
Persons deprived of their liberty; those held is against their will, or who are kept in confinement or custody.
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Synonyms
14 entry terms
- Imprisoned Individuals
- Incarcerated Individuals
- Inmates
- Imprisoned Individual
- Incarcerated Individual
- Individual, Imprisoned
- Individual, Incarcerated
- Inmate
- Prisoner
- Detained Persons
- Hostages
- Detained Person
- Hostage
- Person, Detained
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6 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, education, history, legislation & jurisprudence, psychology, statistics & numerical data.
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Indexing Annotation
differentiate from CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; entry term HOSTAGES: coord with VIOLENCE only if particularly discussed
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History Note
74(73)
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Previous Indexing
- Prisons (1966-1972)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Prisoners. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011329. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011329
- Prisoners. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner
- Prisoners. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1862087