Can psychopaths be treated? In this chapter, we evaluate the empirical evidence on the treatment of psychopaths. We concentrate on treatment for criminal psychopaths and intervention strategies in which efforts to reduce criminal and violent behavior are at least part of the protocol. Without denying the importance of other psychopathic characteristics, criminal and violent behaviors are clearl...

Purpose. To assess the effect of a hospital-based peer intervention program serving youth who have been hospitalized for violent injuries on participant involvement in the criminal justice system and violent re-injury and death following hospital discharge. Methods. A total of 112 violently injured youth (12-20 years of age; 80% male; predominantly African-American [60%] and Latino [26%]) hospi...

one of the issues that has gained a good place in considerations of the office of the prosecution and international criminal court is the gravity threshold set out in paragraph 1(d) of article 17 of statute. this concept from the time of being inserted in statute has some challenges such as lack of definition in statute, lack of criterion for satisfaction of this concept. given to the fact that...

Mental health professionals have focused attention on the psychiatric sequelae of criminal victimization. This article compares the experience of white collar and violent crime victims on several parameters including statistical risk of victimization and psychiatric outcome after victimization. Emphasis is given to data obtained from interviewing 77 victims of a fraudulent financial scheme.

In four empirical studies, we showed that laypeople apply the ignorance of the law defense differently depending on the perceived morality of the defendant’s course of conduct at the time of the illegal act. Moral and neutral defendants who pled ignorance of the law were afforded leniency, whereas immoral defendants were sentenced as though they were not ignorant, even when defendants in all th...

The widespread phenomenon of enacting HIV-specific laws to criminally punish transmission of, exposure to, or non-disclosure of HIV, is counter-active to good public health conceptions and repugnant to elementary human rights principles. The authors provide ten reasons why criminal laws and criminal prosecutions are bad strategy in the epidemic.

The Report on " The Criminal Law and Sexual Offenders prepared by the Joint Committee on Psychiatry and the Law appointed by the British Medical Association and the Magistrates Association, focuses attention upon a part, and perhaps not the most important, of the larger problem of the medical treatment of crime. It will be generally accepted that unless the matter is viewed in perspective, and ...

This paper examines the response of voters to candidates who have reported that they have criminal charges against them, within the framework of a simple analytical model which assumes that criminal charges give rise to some stigma amongst the electorate, and result in a negative effect on vote shares. Campaigning, the cost of which is borne from candidates’ wealth, helps a candidate to increas...

A fundamental principle of constitutional and criminal law is that all people charged with committing an offense must be given an opportunity to defend themselves (see generally, LaFave & Israel, 1985). A number of specific rights emanate from this general principle, including the "right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury," the right to be confronted with the witnesses against h...