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Advertising Facilities for Murder.

February 21, 2019October 28, 2017 by admin

What would be thought of a newspaper which had a section of its advertising columns specially devoted to giving publicity to establishments devoted to the training of juvenile thieves, to the puffing of the newest and most effective implements of burglary, and to the announcement of the whereabouts of "cracksmen" and pickpockets who wished to secure coadjutors in crime? Can it to possible that the chastity of woman and the lives of babes are of less account than a few ounces of precious metal, or a roll of greenbacks? The law watches narrowly over every attempt which imperils the safety of the latter, and utterly disregards a wide spread conspiracy against the former. Public opinion would be shocked at the coolness of- an advertisement from a professional thief, and the newspaper which admitted it would certainly be looked after by the Police. But both the public and the Police appear to be perfectly callous about the offenses of newspapers which insert the lying notices Of men and women whose profession, if it means anything at all, means; murder made...

The Management of Thoracic Injuries

February 21, 2019October 9, 2017 by admin

WITH THE roads daily becoming choked with fast cars, Casualty Departments throughout the country are increasingly familiar with major chest injuries. The crushing forces applied to the chest as the driver is thrown against the steering column, and the stresses imposed upon mediastinal structures by rapid deceleration in head-on collision often produce injuries so severe that death is instantaneous. In those fortunate enough to reach hospital, resuscitative measures must be applied immediately and often by doctors untrained in thoracic surgery. London (1963) found ninetythree chest injuries in a series of 551 casualties admitted to the Birmingham Accident Hospital, and of these, sixty-eight had other important lesions. The principles underlying the management of thoracic trauma are straightforward and their application involves only a few easily acquired techniques. Abrams (1961a) succinctly defined the causes of death from chest injury as 'the lethal triad, bleeding, drowning and suffocation',...

The Age and Crime Relationship Social Variation, Social Explanations

February 21, 2019October 27, 2017 by admin

The relationship between aging and criminal activity has been noted since the beginnings of criminology. For example, Adolphe Quetelet (1831/1984) found that the proportion of the population involved in crime tends to peak in adolescence or early adulthood and then decline with age. In contemporary times, the FBI's Uniform Crime Report (UCR) arrest data (1935–1997), particularly the Crime Index (homicide, robbery, rape, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, auto theft), document the consistency of the age effect on crime. They also reveal a long-term trend toward younger age-crime distributions in more modern times. Today, the peak age-crime involvement (the age group with the ...

The Dangerousness of Persons with Delusional Jealousy

February 21, 2019October 10, 2017 by admin

Delusional jealousy has received increasing recent attention from the psychiatric community and the public.5 This renewed interest is related to a greater appreciation of the linkage between delusional jealousy and subsequent aggression, especially aggression associated with domestic violence. Delusional jealousy may thus be one of the important variables to be studied when addressing violence prevention or setting social policy in domestic or similar dyads. Despite renewed interest in the study of delusional jealousy, relatively little systematic work has been done to investigate it from the perspective of a forensic psyhiatrist. Even less work has been done to develop a comprehensive bio psychosocial perspective of delusional jealousy by integrating neurobiological, psychological, ecological. and cultural parameters. The objectives of this article are as follows: (1) to report important psychiatric and psychosocial characteristics in a sample of 20 cases of delusional jealousy; (2) to explore the degree o...f

Witkin 6. [§ 291] Other Kinds of Simple Kidnaping and Related Offenses.

February 21, 2019October 6, 2017 by admin

(1) Other Kinds of Simple Kidnaping. Additional provisions of P.C. 207 cover one who does the following: (a) To commit an act defined in P.C. 288 (lewd acts with children under age 14, 2 Cal. Crim. Law (4th), Sex Offenses and Crimes Against Decency, § 41 et seq.), “hires, persuades, entices, decoys, or seduces” using false promises, misrepresentations, or similar means, a child under age 14 to leave the county or a part of the county, the state, or the country. (P.C. 207(b); see CALCRIM, No. 1200 [Kidnapping: For Child Molestation]; CALJIC, No. 9.51 [kidnaping for child molestation].) (b) By force or fear “takes or holds, detains, or arrests” a person, designing to remove the person from the state without having established a claim under federal or state law. (P.C. 207(c).) (c) From outside the state “abducts or takes by force or fraud” a person, against the law of the place where the act...

List of rights; posting; waiver, CA WEL & INST § 5325

February 20, 2019October 5, 2017 by admin

Each person involuntarily detained for evaluation or treatment under provisions of this part, and each person admitted as a voluntary patient for psychiatric evaluation or treatment to any health facility, as defined in Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code, in which psychiatric evaluation or treatment is offered, shall have the following rights, a list of which shall be prominently posted in the predominant languages of the community and explained in a language or modality accessible to the patient in all facilities providing those services, and otherwise brought to his or her attention by any additional means as the Director of Health Care Services may designate by regulation. Each person committed to a state hospital shall also have the following rights, a list of which shall be prominently posted in the predominant languages of the community and explained in a language or modality accessible to the patient in all facilities providing...

Stalking and Serious Violence

February 20, 2019October 3, 2017 by admin

Stalking, sometimes known as “obsessional following,” describes behavior characterized by the repeated unwanted intrusion of one person into the life of another, by either direct contact or communication. A characteristic of the behavior is that it occasions fear or apprehension in the victim. Dramatic incidents of stalker violence brought stalking to public prominence and were the impetus to the introduction of antistalking legislation that, in most jurisdictions, is framed in terms of a behavior that places a person in fear of physical harm., However, most stalkers are not violent; rates for violent behavior range between 30 and 40 percent in most reported series.2 Violence infrequently results in serious physical injury, with most victims being grabbed, punched, slapped, or fondled by the stalker. Serious violence is rare. It has been suggested that the homicide rate in stalking is probably less than two percent,4–6 but an analysis of prevalence rates of...

Psychiatric Aspects of Familicide

February 20, 2019October 28, 2017 by admin

Introduction

Various types of killings occur within family matrices. The news media highlight the dramatic components, and even novels now use it as a theme. 1 However, a psychiatric understanding remains elusive. Not all killings within a family are familicidal. For want of a better term, I have called the killing of more than one member of a family by another family member "familicide." The destruction of the family unit appears to be the goal. Such behavior comes within the category of "mass murders" where a number of victims are killed in a short period of time by one person. However, in mass murders the victims are not exclusively family members. The case of one person committing a series of homicides over an extended period of time, such as months or years, also differs from familicide. The latter can result in the perpetrator...

When You Say Nothing at All: Non-Disclosure in Intimate Relationships

February 20, 2019October 27, 2017 by admin

Abstract

8 interviews and 2 groups of ginabayang talakayan revealed the range of motivations/intentions that increased the probability of non-disclosure of a significant other in an intimate heterosexual relationship and the range of reactions elicited by the non-disclosure. The researchers also looked into the possible topics that were often not disclosed. We found that the range of motivations for non-disclosure, largely based on the anticipated consequences after disclosure, could be classified into three depending on who will benefit: a) self-centered non-disclosure; b) other-oriented non-disclosure; and c) kapwa-oriented non-disclosure. To put this range of motivations into context, a cognitive model, which suggests the steps a discloser goes through in deciding whether to disclose or not, was posited. Finally, the benefits of non-disclosure in increasing the level of intimacy in a relationship, with emphasis on the shared identity of the two people involved in the,,,

Combining Police and Probation Information Resources to Reduce Burglary: Testing a Crime Analysis Problem-Solving Approach

February 20, 2019October 8, 2017 by admin

Abstract

This research report describes the joint effort of the Phoenix Police Department (PPD) and the Maricopa County Adult Probation Department (APD) to develop a shared database for use, with GIS mapping, as a crime analysis tool within a formal problem-solving process to reduce crime. The project as originally designed included three components:

1. Construction of a shared database and integration of selected data from the two departments; 2. Collaboration of the departments in a formal, systematic problem-solving process aimed at reducing regional instances of burglary; and 3. Documentation of the above components and an evaluation of their impact on crime, using a quasi-experimental research design.

Evaluators established a quasi-experimental design to test the central proposition that database shared by the police and probation departments and used in crime analysis and problem-solving applications would support greater reductions in crime than would reliance solely on single-agency data....

On the Plausibility of Adaptations for Homicide

February 20, 2019October 13, 2017 by admin

1 Introduction

1. People kill other people in every known culture around the world. The question is why. This chapter presents our theory of Evolved Homicide Adaptations, and contrasts this theory with two competing conceptions of why people kill: The Byproduct Hypothesis and the Evolved Goal Hypothesis. Prior to presenting these competing views of homicide, we discuss the concept of “innateness” from an evolutionary perspective in relation to our conception of evolved homicide adaptations.

2. The Concept of Innateness from the perspective of Evolutionary Psychology The term “innateness” is used to refer to a multitude of different phenomena (see Elman, Johnson, & Bates, 1996). Our conceptualization of innateness falls in line with the standard definition of the innateness of adaptation. It is clear that selection has acted on genes that pattern human ontogeny. These genes provide the blueprint for the development of adaptations. Like the blueprints to a house,...

The Plausibility of Adaptations for Homicide

February 20, 2019October 12, 2017 by admin

1 Introduction

People kill other people in every known culture around the world. The question is why. This chapter presents a new theory of homicide, Homicide Adaptation Theory, which proposes that humans evolved adaptations to facilitate killing. The new theory is contrasted with two competing conceptions of why people kill: The Byproduct Hypothesis and the Evolved Goal Hypothesis. Prior to presenting these competing views of homicide, we discuss the concept of “innateness” in relation to our conception of evolved homicide adaptations. 2 The Concept of Innateness from the perspective of Evolutionary Psychology The term “innateness” is used to refer to many different phenomena (see Elman, Johnson, & Bates, 1996). Our conceptualization of innateness falls in line with the standard definition used by evolutionary psychologists and biologists when referring to any adaptation. Selection has shaped the genes that pattern human ontogeny. These genes provide the blueprint for the development of... ...

Covert Behavior And Mental Terms: A Reply To Moore

February 20, 2019October 20, 2017 by admin

In a recent paper, Moore (2001) compares the behavior analytic treatment of so-called mental phenomena with other behaviorist approaches, in particular, with logical behaviorism and conceptual analysis (see also Moore, 1980, 1981, 1995). Moore concludes that behavior analysis gives a more adequate account of the phenomena than the other positions. In this note, I will argue that the behavior analytic treatment has itself some fundamental shortcomings. These problems are avoided if we adopt a behaviorist theory that has the following features: (i) it only accepts the existence of entities (factors, events, states, etc.) if this existence is supported by empirical evidence, (ii) it is based on Quine’s materialist repudiation theory which assigns no role at all to mental entities, (iii) it acknowledges the well documented fact that organisms can acquire new behavior not only by operant conditioning but also by being exposed to the pairing of two (salient) stimuli.

Psychological and Behavioral Effects of Bias and Non-Bias Motivated Assault, Final Report

February 20, 2019October 1, 2017 by admin

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to determine if measurable differences exist in the psychological and behavioral sequelae of individuals who have experienced an aggravated assault differentiated by the offender motive (i.e., bias or non-bias). Obtaining more reliable information in this area would support the development of more informed law and policy relative to the extra-detrimental effects a specific type of criminal offense may have on citizens. The research was based on police department criminal incident reports, probation records and victim surveys. Records were collected and analyzed for victims of aggravated assaults in Boston during the 1992- 1997 period. The sample of 560 bias-motivated assault victims and 544 non-bias assault victims yielded 136 valid surveys. Sixteen psychological and 12 behavioral indicators were examined while controlling for the effects of 7 independent aspects between the two victim groups (i.e., bias vs. non bias motivated, s/e factors, medical treatment, family support, quality of police

State Laws Affecting the Voting Rights of People with Mental Disabilities

February 20, 2019October 21, 2017 by admin

In California

The Legislature shall provide for the disqualification of electors while mentally incompetent CAL. CONST. art. 2, § 4.

A person shall be deemed mentally incompetent, and therefore disqualified from voting, if, during the course of any of the proceedings set forth below, the court finds that the person is not capable of completing an affidavit of voter registration in accordance with Section 2150 and a conservator is appointed or the person has pled not guilty by reason of insanity. CAL. ELEC. CODE § 2208(a). If the proceeding under the Welfare and Institutions Code is heard by a jury, the jury shall unanimously find that the person is not capable of completing an affidavit of voter registration before the person shall be disqualified from votin...