Criminalization: In and Out

Some perspectives on criminalization.

In recently published articles, there has been an underemphasis on the role serious mental illness (SMI) plays in causing persons to be in the criminal justice system. Increasing attention has been paid to other factors, including criminogenic needs. While these needs may be present and contribute to criminal behavior, persons with SMI who are at greatest risk of criminalization are those who a...

Criminalization of the mentally ill.

In the great world of “they sayers,” they say that the more things change, the more things stay the same. Over a decade ago, Peplau (1994), affectionately known as the mother of psychiatric nursing, observed that the first great psychiatric revolution, and the beginning of contemporary psychiatric nursing, occurred when patients were moved from jails to asylums, and from asylums to hospitals. R...

Legal and Ethical Principles of Criminalization in Iran’s Criminal Law

Background: The criminal code is the rules that restrict the rights and freedoms of a person to ensure peaceful coexistence. What behavior should be prohibited and which one can be removed from the circle of legal acts. How can the word ethics in the world of law refer to ethical and literary means from the past, and is called the tradition of morality, in the sense of moral standards? On the b...

Criminalization of HIV Transmission

________________________________________________________ Rabbi Shalom C Spira ([email protected].) is a research assistant at the McGill University AIDS Centre in the Jewish General Hospital of Montreal, Quebec. Dr. Mark A Wainberg (corresponding author, [email protected]) is the director of the McGill University AIDS Centre, and a professor of medicine at McGill University. Cri...

Criminalization and Stability in Central Asia and South Caucasus