The measurement of psychopathic personality traits via self-report has become an important tool in legal psychology. One prominent instrument is the Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI; Lilienfeld and Andrews, 1996), a well-validated questionnaire that is widely applied in many countries. In Germany, it is the only questionnaire assessing psychopathic traits that is available from a publish...

At the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), a detention camp guard, charged with acts of murder and torture, advanced a plea of diminished responsibility. Defense psychiatrists testified that he had a personality disorder that influenced his ability to control his behavior, but a prosecution expert testified that the guard did not meet Diagnostic and Statistical M...

objective: To evaluate the prevalence of mental disorders in convicted sex offenders admitted to the Psychiatric Custody and Treatment Hospital (Forensic Psychiatric Facility). Method: 89 patient records of males admitted from March 2005 to August 2006 were analyzed. The analysis included evaluation of two study groups: Group I comprised subjects who had committed sex offenses (sexual offenders...

PURPOSE OF THE REVIEW Persons with intellectual disability come into frequent and underreported contact with the legal system. Advances in forensic psychiatry help better identify persons with intellectual disability in forensic contexts, inform evaluation and treatment, and elucidate unique characteristics of this population. With the release of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Diso...

On 21 April 2016, The Supreme Court indicated in its judgment that the Council of Chamber Nurses and Midwives has legal subjectivity, which entails it both personality judicial capacity. This is also not prevented by status, i.e. being a body Midwives. It derives qualities from role actually performs, representing professional association nurses midwives outside. Of course, follows Act literatu...

OBJECTIVE Precipitating factors and life events associated with medically serious suicide attempts were examined in young people making serious suicide attempts and control subjects. METHOD Using a case-control design, the authors contrasted 129 young people making serious suicide attempts with 153 randomly selected community controls on a series of life event occurrences within the preceding...

Every year there are university graduates who should be able to improve the quality of human resources in Indonesia. The reality is that college more directed formal sector so when jobs legal industry do not grow, people try create their careers. This research aims analyse effect Higher Education Learning Support, Social Income Expectations and Personality on Student Entrepreneurial Interests R...

Virtual reality and augmented have the potential to change economy society as much internet once did. In AR, virtual objects mix with real environments objects. environments, people will move around using avatars individualise their spaces artworks. However, integration of humans into semi-virtual also leads an intensification problems connected relationship individual technology powerful platf...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to analyze factors associated with the legal status at psychiatric admission of individuals with psychosis or bipolar disorder in a Latin-American cultural setting. METHODS Prospective observational study was conducted in São Paulo, Brazil. We analyzed 169 individuals with bipolar or psychotic disorder in need of hospitalization. Sociodemographic data, data...