This paper is concerned with two themes: imprisoned curves and the b-length functional. In an earlier paper by the author, it was claimed that an endless incomplete curve partially imprisoned in a compact set admits an endless null geodesic cluster curve. Unfortunately, the proof was flawed. We give an outline of the problem and remedy the situation by providing a proof by different methods. Ne...

INTRODUCTION In Belgium, offenders who are deemed criminally irresponsible for their criminal actions because of mental illness or intellectual disability are subject to a specific safety measure with the dual objective of protecting society and providing mandated care to the offender. While Belgian law requires that offenders who are deemed criminally irresponsible should be in a hospital, cli...

Youth offenders have a high risk of being injured or dying prematurely. However, few studies considered the role imprisonment and potential childhood factors for these rates. To examine unintentional injury premature death in non-imprisoned imprisoned youth offenders, to parental criminal convictions psychiatric disorders own disorders. All individuals (N = 1,839,711) born Sweden between 1978 1...

BACKGROUND Imprisoned pregnant women constitute an important obstetric group about whom relatively little is known. This systematic review was conducted to identify the risk factors associated with adverse pregnancy outcome present in this group of women. METHODS The review was conducted according to a prespecified protocol. Studies of any design were included if they described information on...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the effects on homicide rates of the gang truce that was brokered in El Salvador in 2012. METHODS Mathematical models based on municipal-level census, crime and gang-intelligence data were used to estimate the effect of the truce on homicide rates. One model estimated the overall effect after accounting for the linear trend and seasonality in the homicide rate. In a mode...