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Political Restraint of the Market and Levels of Criminal Homicide: A Cross-National Application of Institutional-Anomie Theory

February 17, 2019October 8, 2017 by admin

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This article examines the effects on national homicide rates of political efforts to insulate personal well-being from market forces. Drawing upon recent work by Esping-Andersen and the institutional-anomie theory of crime, we hypothesize that levels of homicide will vary inversely with the “decommodification of labor.” We develop a measure of decommodification based on levels and patterns of welfare expenditures and include this measure in a multivariate, cross-national analysis of homicide rates. The results support our hypothesis and lend credibility to the institutional-anomie perspective. The degree of decommodification is negatively related to homicide rates, net of controls for other characteristics of nations.

Escalating Prejudice: A Behavioral Analysis of Bias-Motivated Homicide Crime Scenes in the United States (1991-2001)

November 25, 2018October 8, 2017 by admin

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While an impressive body of research mostly focusing on descriptions of victims and offenders has developed around bias crime since official data collection began in 1991, little is known about the situational and behavioral dynamics that are involved in bias homicides. The purpose of this research is to analyze bias-motivated homicides using multidimensional scaling techniques to examine the behavioral characteristics of crime scenes for information that could be used to link offenders to crime scene behaviors and create a meaningful classification system for bias homicides. The data for this research represent all of the bias homicides reported to the UCR program in the ten years (1991-2001) following the passage of the Hate Crime Statistics Act (HCSA) of 1990. The case files of the bias homicides were coded to analyze the co-occurrences of behaviors and demographics for the presence of behavioral themes. These themes will be used to establish...

Dates from Unallocated Space

November 25, 2018October 8, 2017 by admin

Graphic files carved from unallocated areas are almost impossible to attribute date and time information to, however since the investigating team have done so, they must have a good reason for doing so especially if the date and times given are inconsistent with the seemingly associated movie files. This inconsistency could be explained by an unfaithfully maintained system clock so your assertion that the files could not have been accessed at the stated time (i.e. after seizure) relies on the accuracy of said clock.

It may be the case that the cached Art files are 'lost' or 'orphaned' files and hence the attributed timestamps and full paths being quoted. Their existence and provenance as Windows Media Player Art cache thumbnails suggests that they have been created as a result of their originating movie file having being viewed/played using Windows Media Player.

If you are suggesting that the investigating team...

Computer Forensics | Files in Unallocated Space

November 25, 2018October 8, 2017 by admin

The subject has stated in interviews that he did not keep these objectionable files. He admits that he may have down loaded them inadvertently as a batch through Lime Wire and that those he found objectionable he immediately deleted. What sort of puzzles me is that ALL the files they found were in unallocated space and what corroborates his story is that the created, last written and last accessed times are all the same. i.e.

C\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\ArtCache|LocalMLS\{CLISD number}.jpg File Created 7/14/08 08:34:17am Last Accessed 7/14/08 08:34:17am Last written 7/14/08 08:34;17am

The next file will have either a different date and time or just a different time but in all cases the date and times are all the same. If I was looking at this in a Windows GUI in real time in allocated space I would say it was created but never looked at again....

The Value of Crime Scene and Sititation by Forensic Psychologists and Psychiatrists

November 25, 2018October 7, 2017 by admin

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Site visits and crime scene visitation by forensic psychologists and psychiatrists may enhance the accuracy and credibility of their forensic work in criminal, civil, and other important contexts. This ethically sound technique of after-the-fact data collection and verification offers numerous potential benefits to the forensic mental health professional: clarifying the subject's actions, assessing the reliability of witness reports, identifying contextual determinants of behavior, and more fully illuminating subject motivation and decision-making. Limitations and suggested guidelines for conducting site visits are offered. Guidelines include preplanning, arranging for an informed guide to accompany and narrate the visit, and conducting the site visit prior to forensic examinations....

Who Are High Conflict People?

November 25, 2018October 7, 2017 by admin

In 2003, I used the terms High Conflict People, High Conflict Personalities and HCPs in a self-published book titled High Conflict Personalities: Understanding and Resolving Their Costly Disputes. (I couldn’t get a publisher because they said there was no interest in this subject.) The term “high conflict” had been around for at least twenty years, especially in regard to “high-conflict families” in divorce. I wanted to shift the focus to describe and deal with individuals, since it seemed that many high-conflict families included only one high-conflict person – and that dealing directly with that person would be the most effective way to help the family.

Since I had been a therapist before becoming a lawyer, I knew about personality disorders, how confusing they were, how persuasive they could be, and some of the methods for treating them. Yet no one outside of psychiatric treatment seemed to have a...

Borderline Personality and Criminality

November 25, 2018October 7, 2017 by admin

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Borderline personality disorder is characteristically associated with a broad variety of psychiatric symptoms and aberrant behaviors. In this edition of The Interface, we discuss the infrequently examined association between borderline personality disorder and criminality. According to our review of the literature, in comparison with the rates of borderline personality disorder encountered in the general population, borderline personality disorder is over-represented in most studies of inmates. At the same time, there is considerable variation in the reported rates of this Axis II disorder in prison populations, which may be attributed to the methodologies of and populations in the various studies. Overall, female criminals appear to exhibit higher rates of borderline personality disorder, and it is oftentimes associated with a history of childhood sexual abuse, perpetration of impulsive and violent crimes, comorbid antisocial traits, and incarceration for domestic violence....

The LSD Syndrome—A Review

November 25, 2018October 7, 2017 by admin

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LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is a powerful bio-active substance related to serotonin in structure. Its actions generally affect autonomic, sensory and psychological functions. Autonomic stimulation is varied. Sensory responses are usually visual, involving heightened and distorted color perception and fusion of sensory impressions. Psychological responses include a feeling that a unique experience is occurring; feelings of depersonalization; pronounced fluctuation of mood; time and space distortions; autistic phenomena; fluctuation of aggressive drives (usually reduction); and spontaneous reoccurrence of the lsd experience.

The subjective responses can be related to three basic phenomena: (1) expectation; (2) loss of characteristic modes of perceptual and cognitive patterning; and (3) hypersuggestibility.

The major adverse reactions are: (1) chronic drug dependence including subsequent personality changes and depressive reactions; and (2) acute ego dissolution. These reactions usually occur in already emotionally ill people. Most of these users fall into two groups, those with unresolved identity problems and those with severe ego...

Thomson Reuters CLEAR

November 25, 2018October 7, 2017 by admin

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Thomson Reuters CLEAR is designed to meet the unique needs of your investigations. CLEAR streamlines your research by bringing relevant content into a single working environment. The customizable dashboard and intuitive interface saves time by allowing you to search data and view results in a way that matches how you work.

CLEAR online investigation software makes it easier to locate people, businesses, assets and affiliations, and other critical information. With its vast collection of public and proprietary records, investigators are able to dive deep into their research and uncover hard-to-find data....

The Psychology of Power and Evil: All Power to the Person? To the Situation? To the System?

February 21, 2019October 7, 2017 by admin

To understand anti-social behavior by individuals, which includes violence, torture and terrorism, I endorse a greater reliance on situational variables and processes than has been traditional in psychology. The dominant dispositional orientation, embedded in a psychology of individualism, focuses on internal factors that people bring into various situations, such as genetic, personality, character, and pathological risk factors. While this perspective is obviously important to appreciating the integrity of individual functioning, it is vital to add an appreciation of the extent to which human actions may come under situational influences that can be quite powerful. Those influences have not been fully recognized within psychology or society in trying to explain unusual or “evil” behaviors, such as that of the abuses of Iraqi prisoners by United States military police guards at Abu Ghraib Prison. How one understands the root causes of such behaviors then impacts treatment and prevention strategies. This view has...

How to Practice Evidence-Based Psychiatry Basic Principles and Case Studies

November 25, 2018October 7, 2017 by admin

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The use of evidence-based guidelines and algorithms is widely encouraged in modern psychiatric settings, yet many practitioners find it challenging to apply and incorporate the latest evidence-based psychosocial and biological interventions. Now, practitioners have an outstanding new resource at their fingertips. How to Practice Evidence-Based Psychiatry: Basic Principles and Case Studies accomplishes two goals: it explains the methods and philosophy of evidence-based psychiatry, and it describes ways in which psychiatrists and other mental health specialists can incorporate evidence-based psychiatry into their clinical practices. Uniquely relevant to psychiatric clinicians, this is the only book on evidence-based medicine specific to the field of psychiatry that addresses integrated psychopharmacology and psychotherapies.

This new book first provides an expansion on the popular text the Concise Guide to Evidence-Based Psychiatry, updating the sections on clinical trials, the teaching of evidence-based medicine, and the effective treatment of patients with complex comorbid ...

Gunshot Wounds To The Head: Gang- And Non-Gang-Related Injuries And Outcomes

November 25, 2018October 7, 2017 by admin

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This study examined the differences between gang and non-gang-related incidents of penetrative missile injuries in terms of demographics, motivation, intra-cranial pathology, transit time, injury time and clinical outcome. Retrospective and prospective chart review. Between 1985-1992, 349 patients with penetrating missile injuries to the brain presenting to LAC-USC were studied. Inclusion criteria were implemented to keep the cohort as homogenous as possible. Patients excluded were those with multiple gunshot wounds, non-penetrating gunshot wounds to the head, systemic injuries and cases in which the motivation for the incident was unknown. Gang-related shooting slightly out-numbered non-gang-related incidents. Demographic analysis showed both a male and Hispanic predominance for both gang- and non-gang-related victims and significant differences in gender, race and age. Occipital entrance sites were more common in the gang-related vs temporal entrance sites in the non-gang-related. Mean transit time to the emergency department for gangssed Nov 25 2018]....

Language And Thinking In Psychosis. Is There An Input Abnormality?

November 25, 2018October 6, 2017 by admin

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We studied "formal thought disorder" in schizophrenics, schizoaffectives, and manics by examining syntax processing and perception of meaning, using the "embedded click" and "memory for gist tasks," two paradigms that were developed by psycholinguists. To control for generalized performance deficits, a matched-task design was used. Contrary to expectation, patients did worse on a matched memory for digits task than on sentence processing. At a six-month follow-up examination, schizophrenics' performance did not improve while other patients' did. We concluded that psychotic patients have no specific language perception deficit but do have a short-term memory deficit. This deficit tends to remit for manics and schizoaffectives, but not for schizophrenics...

Retaliatory Homicide: Concentrated Disadvantage and Neighborhood Culture

February 21, 2019October 6, 2017 by admin

Much of the research on violent crime is situated within an exclusively structural or subcultural frame-work. Some recent work, however, argues that these unidimensional approaches are inherently limited and thatmore attention needs to be given to the intersection of structural and cultural determinants of violence. Thepresent study takes up this challenge by examining both structural and cultural in uences on one underexam-ined type of homicide: retaliatory killings. Using quantitative data to examine the socioeconomic correlates andecological distribution of homicide in St. Louis, Missouri, and narrative accounts of homicide incidents, we ndthat a certain type of homicide (what we call “ cultural retaliatory homicide” ) is more common in some neigh-borhoods than in others due to the combined effects of economic disadvantage, neighborhood cultural responsesto disadvantage, and problematic policing. Problems confronting residents of these communities are oftenresolved informally— without calling the police—and neighborhood cultural codes support this type of...

Violent Victimization in the Prison Context An Examination of the Gendered Contexts of Prison

November 25, 2018October 6, 2017 by admin

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Currently there are few published, multilevel studies of physical assault victimization of prisoners. This study builds on the extant research by utilizing a nationally representative sample of correctional facilities (n = 326) and inmates (n = 17,640) to examine the impacts of a large set of theoretically and empirically derived individual- and contextual-level variables on prison victimization, including how the gendered context of prison impacts victimization. Results support the lifestyles/routine activities approach. Inmates who were charged with a violent offense, were previously victimized, were smaller in size, were not married, were without a work assignment, misbehaved, did not participate in programs, used alcohol or drugs, and those who had a depression or personality disorder were more likely to be victimized. In addition, the data suggest that 8% of the variance in victimization is due to the prison context. Prisons with high proportions of violent offenders, males, inmates from...

PREA / Offender Sexual Abuse

November 25, 2018October 6, 2017 by admin

The Act applies to all public and private institutions that house adult or juvenile offenders and is also relevant to community-based agencies. It addresses both inmate-on-inmate sexual abuse and staff sexual misconduct. On June 23, 2009, the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission released and forwarded to the U.S. Attorney General its final report and proposed standards to prevent, detect, respond to and monitor sexual abuse of incarcerated and detained individuals. Based on the Attorney General's independent judgment, a final rule was published to the Federal Register on June 20, 2012. Links to the Federal Register, the Commission report and executive summary, the final standards, and other relevant documents are provided in the "Related Web Sites" sidebar to the left....