caa a22 4500 386395632 CHVBK 20180307112137.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0047279400001859 doi S0047279400001859 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0047279400001859 Torpy David M. Regional Secure Units: The Creation of a Policy [Elektronische Daten] [David M. Torpy] This paper examines the historical context of the policy decision of the (then) DHSS in July 1974 to establish Regional Secure Units with an initial provision for 1,000 places. A brief examination of the history of the detention of the criminally insane and the setting up of the county asylums is followed by an examination of the various problems faced by the authorities concerned with the care of the criminally insane and the mentally ill in general in the 1960s. The paper examines the different streams of influence and power that converged upon this solution: government, special hospitals, public inquiries, unlocking of hospital wards, criminal law, DHSS and the Home Office, judges, voluntary bodies, prisons, psychiatrists and the official government reports known as the Glancy and the Butler Reports. The paper seeks to explain the policy decision to build regional secure units as a dynamic outcome arising from the confluence of opportunities, participants and solutions: a policy formation model put forward by March and Olsen (1976). Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Social Policy Cambridge University Press 18/4(1989-10), 549-574 0047-2794 18:4<549 1989 18 JSP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279400001859 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279400001859 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Torpy David M. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Social Policy Cambridge University Press 18/4(1989-10), 549-574 0047-2794 18:4<549 1989 18 JSP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge