Do Offenders Deserve Proportionate Punishments?

Do HIV-Infected Incarcerated Sexual Offenders Deserve a Little More Attention?

Sexual offenders are putatively at high risk of contracting and transmitting HIV as a result of their nonconsensual and coercive sexual practices. To identify and manage particular health and psychological needs among infected sexual offenders should be of high public interest. In this study, we aimed to compare incarcerated sexual offenders who reported with those that denied being HIV-positiv...

Sociology. Scientific misconduct: do the punishments fit the crime?

Do S&L programmes deserve a ‘robust evaluation’ label?

Standards & Labelling programmes are believed to represent a cost effective way to overcome market failures in the sale of energy efficient appliances and equipment. The focus in relation to S&L programmes is often upon MVE, establishing compliance with a standard or label. Less clear is the difference the existence of the standard or label makes to the energy using product market, and so net e...

Good ideas deserve repeating.

To the Editor:—In a recent letter, Erickson and Lanier reported on a useful method to preoxygenate claustrophobic patients who will not tolerate a facemask, by having the patients hold the L-connector of the anesthesia circuit in their mouth. They may be interested to know that an identical method, complete with an almost identical photograph, was published as a correspondence by Keifer and Sti...

Do juveniles bully more than young offenders?

This study compares bullying behaviour among juvenile and young offenders and incorporates two different methods to measure bullying. Ninety-five male juvenile and 196 male young offenders completed two questionnaires, one that measured bullying directly and one that measured behaviours indicative of "being bullied" or of "bullying others". Juveniles perceived a higher extent of bullying than y...