Resource Tag: CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR

This study compared 215 former adolescent Permanently-Excluded-From-School young men with no statutory right to social work support with 438 Looked-After-Children men, now aged 16-24. The study was totally records based. Chi square tests were used compare outcomes of levels of offending & being victims of crime. Epidemiological rates were used to compare violent deaths. There […]

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This article describes mortality, rates of reconviction at different periods, violent behaviour not leading to conviction, readmission, & employment after discharge from a medium secure unit in the United Kingdom. Of 595 first admissions over a 20-year period, 550 discharged cases were followed up. Multiple data sources were used. 57 patients had died, 18 by […]

The ‘Health of the Nation’ (Department of Health, 1992) suicide targets focus upon the mentally ill, but virtually ignore the mentally abnormal offender. Whilst forensic services deal with the severely disturbed, the majority of offenders remain in the community, despite long-standing psychosocial difficulties. This study explores the mortality rates of a six-year cohort of male […]

The purpose of this article is to test the advisability of admitting evidence of attempted suicide by determining whether is is relevant to a fair inference of conscious & actual guilt &, if so, whether any of the recognized rules of exclusion in American law would bar its admission. It is concluded that any connection […]

This polemic explores a newspaper article about youth justice, suggesting a dominant discourse holds a powerful hegemony over large parts of the British media through which young people generally, & those in trouble with the law, are demonized. When events take place which threaten to disrupt that discourse, strenuous journalistic efforts have to be made […]

The case of an obsessed fan who attempted to kill a rock star & then completed suicide is presented. By analyzing his detailed diary, both insight into the motivational dynamics of this type of stalker & delineation of several warning signs, which help differentiate an enthusiastic fan from one who harbours a potentially dangerous obsession, […]

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This study analyzed the content of newspaper articles reporting police suicides from 1 January 1996 through 1 October 1998. These articles were gathered from four databases: Newspaper Abstracts, New York Times, Data Times, and Westlaw (United States Newspapers). Over 200 local, regional, and national newspapers are included in these databases. The search terms were “police” […]

Print copy indicates, incorrectly, this article was published in Volume 19, Issue 3, 2006.

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136 treatment-seeking women were followed prospectively for 8-12 years to compare those with restricting anorexia nervosa & those with binge/purge anorexia nervosa on measures of impulsivity, course, & outcome. There were no differences between the two groups on measures of suicide attempts or gestures. In the 3-way analyses, there were significant associations for history of […]

This paper analyses one of the non-Nuremberg war crimes trials in Germany, specifically that which arose from the deaths of more than 400 people in the Hadamar Sanitorium. These individuals were put to death, allegedly suffering from incurable tuberculosis, under the Euthanasia Order passed in 1940 in Germany. The 7 defendants claimed a plea of […]

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Countries included in this study are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Caech Republic, England & Wales, Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, New Zeland, Northern Ireland, Norway, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, West German, & USA>

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