in iran, department of forensic psychiatry is one of the special units of legal medicine organization concerned with individuals who demonstrate psychological and psychiatric problems. the duties of forensic psychiatrists in the department are, performing psychiatric examinations and determining mental competence of two major groups of referrals: individuals who are involved in a legal problem ...

Australian surrogacy legislation punishes the pursuit of a commercial surrogacy arrangement as a criminal offence. Such legislation was first introduced in Victoria in 1986 and has since been applied in every Australian jurisdiction except for the Northern Territory. The current application of criminal law is based upon this 1980s policy which has never been subject to public debate. This artic...

SA Crime QuArterly No. 54 • DeC 2015 * Camilla Pickles is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Child Law, Department of Private Law, University of Pretoria. This article is inspired by recent legal developments in Latin America. In Venezuela, the Organic Law on the Right of Women to a Life Free from Violence (2007) recognises obstetric violence as a form of violence that health personnel infl...

This Note assesses the effect of laws that specifically criminalize behaviors that expose others to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This Note examines the relationship between HIV testing decisions by high-risk individuals and the existence of these HIV-specific statutes, as well as the amount of media coverage related to them. One of the main reasons public health experts criticize cri...