\The skull seems broken as with some big weapon, but there's no weapon at all lying about, and the murderer would have found it awkward to carry it away, unless the weapon was to small to be noticed." \Perhaps the weapon was too big to be noticed," said the priest, with an odd little giggle. Gilder looked round at this wild remark, and rather sternly asked Brown what he meant. \Silly way of put...

Forensic science has recently gained a high profile worldwide, owing in part to publicity surrounding criminal cases in which advanced methods have been used to determine guilt or innocence, sometimes even overturning previous verdicts. In particular, advances in DNA sampling and testing have spawned powerful methods that police investigators increasingly rely on in serious crime cases. As DNA ...

History written without psychological insight is like a meal without salt and spices: dull, tasteless and flat. Herodotus, the father of all historians, is so readable today because he characterized all his figures, from the most ancient Egyptians and Persians to his contemporary Greeks, by their likes and dislikes, by their loves and hates, their ambitions and frustrations, their motives good ...

MURDERERS AND NONVIOLENT OFFENDERS: A COMPARISON OF LIFESTYLE, PAMPERING, AND EARLY RECOLLECTIONS by Richard A. Highland Alfred Adler outlined a theory of crime that suggests criminals suffer from a lack of social interest and have experienced parental pampering and childhood hyperactivity. He posited that these forces lead to criminality; however, his theory remains largely untested. A review ...

of ongoing plaque rupture and as a warning of possible heart attack in the near future. validated in an independent cohort, the new work suggests that tell-tale CECs may be useful in the clinic as evidence disease (narrowing of arteries in the legs and feet). Although the study must be conducted in more patients and ECs with larger cellular and nuclear areas, relative to age-matched controls an...

Understanding how neurons operate is one thing; understanding how they make us the conscious beings we are is another matter Imagine this scene from the future. You are staring at a screen flickering with snow. Scientists have hidden one of two patterns in the dots, and eventually you spot one. But you don't have to tell the scientists what you are seeing; they already know. They are looking at...

We present a novel formalization of counterfactual conditionals in a quantified modal logic. Counterfactual conditionals play a vital role in ethical and moral reasoning. Prior work has shown that moral reasoning systems (and more generally, theory-of-mind reasoning systems) should be at least as expressive as first-order (quantified) modal logic (QML) to be well-behaved. While existing work on...

ion. There is no commitment in KRL as to what sorts of concepts in the domain should be represented at what level of categorization. The specific three types are based on psychological studies (Rosch, 1975; Rosch & Mervis, 1975) that human reasoning makes extensive use of a layered system of categories. The choice of whether a particular prototype (such as Person or Visit) should be basic, abst...

PROBLEMS pertaining to concepts of legal and medical insanity have long been present and at times seem to defy solution. Differing views of justice, the impulse toward revenge, and the devices to expiate guilt of the individual and society complicate further the complex currents of any era. They were with us in the aftermath of the killing of a President and the condemnation of his alleged assa...

It comes as no surprise that the resource document Professor Richard Bonnie has crafted for the APA Council on Psychiatry and Law to aid in the implementation of Atkins v. Virginia is clearly written and to the point. What was not expected, however, is the document’s significantly limited scope. Because the document is intended as a resource for mental health professionals who may be consulted ...