information technology development has deeply affected all aspects of social, economic, cultural, life including criminal law. this development has forced lawyers and policy makers of these areas to reflect deeply. differences between traditional and cyber crimes are such that long standing conventional criminal policy can no longer tackle them. transnationality, easiness of occurrence, anonymi...

in many jurisdictions, psychiatric problems are intended for commutation. therefore, a forensic psychiatrist has an important role in detection of malingering. while several studies evaluate diagnostic tests, it is less known what symptoms are more likely to be imitated by malingerers.in a prospective study 45 malingerers, who were diagnosed according to interviews by two forensic psychiatrists...

men on the subject of insanity, that barristers are in the habit of making on occasions when they defend prisoners charged with criminal offences, could ever dissipate the dense obscurity which surrounds these subjects in the public mind. The legal profession generally, and especially the judges, have so little practical acquaintance with insanity, that their minds are absolutely unable to comp...

This paper puts the famous story of Jekyll and Hyde to work for a specific analytic purpose. The question of responsibility for crime, complicated by the divided subjectivity implicit in Mr. Hyde’s appearance, and illuminated by Robert Louis Stevenson’s grasp of contemporary psychiatric, evolutionary, and medical thought as promising new technologies for effecting a distinction between criminal...

For at least 111 years society has been searching for a will o' the wisp "legal test" of criminal responsibility, i.e., liability for punishment provided by law, applicable to all cases in which the defense of insanity is raised.' The purpose of the search is obvious: Society wants a legal standard by which to judge whether or not a man should be held responsible for his acts in order to establ...

AIM To evaluate the effect of educational intervention on individuals' knowledge of and attitudes toward forensic mental health. METHODS We conducted a questionnaire regarding attitudes toward various ideas about forensic mental health. The respondents attended a 1-h seminar regarding forensic mental health after answering the questionnaire. On completion of the seminar, the respondents answe...