Named Groups

Prisoners

Persons deprived of their liberty; those held is against their will, or who are kept in confinement or custody.

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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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Aspects Covered

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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Tree Number

  1. M01w.729w

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Prisoners. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011329. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011329
  2. Prisoners. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner
  3. Prisoners. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1862087