BACKGROUND The suicide rate in young people in the United Kingdom has increased over the last decade. As there is a paucity of information about the characteristics of young suicides we have undertaken a detailed investigation of suicides in people aged 15-24 years by means of the psychological autopsy approach. METHODS The sample consisted of 27 subjects (25 males, two females) whose deaths ...

Introduction. The article considers the directions of prisoner war personality transformation for resocialization, necessary under conditions a special military operation. In historical context, these problems are relevant during any operations, which is confirmed by materials Great Patriotic War: resocialization foreign prisoners was accompanied persons’ worldview and political attitudes forma...

Research analyzes the issues of determining legal status artificial intellect. As intellect (AI) systems become more sophisticated and play an increasingly important role in society, arguments that they should have some form personality are becoming relevant. The research argues most could create a new category persons. innovative trends law enforcement practice also focus as well establishing ...

Since I am a lawyer, let me start with a disclaimer: nothing I shall say is intended to reflect the views of my employers past or present or any professional association to which I may belong. And please don’t write any letters — unless they are addressed to me. The reason I start in this fashion is that some years ago, when I had just become a notary, I gave an interview to a charming lady fro...

AIM The aim of the article was to investigate how during the last 25 years of implementation of the new canons law code changed the use of these new law regulations by the church lawyers as well as the mental causes for marital incapacity. METHOD The basis of investigation was the analysis of 135 forensic-psychiatric opinions made by the author for the Metropolitan Tribunal of Gniezno in the ...

BACKGROUND The recent emergence of new recreational drugs, combined with the ability of the Internet to disseminate information quickly, have raised a number of concerns in the fields of drug policy, substance use research, and public health. METHODS A semi-structured questionnaire was advertised on The Study Room's website from November to December 2010 to explore the awareness, the use and ...

It is known that many male juvenile delinquents commit violent crimes while intoxicated with flunitrazepam (FZ), often in combination with alcohol or other drugs. We have also noted the combined abuse of FZ with, for example, alcohol in male forensic psychiatric patients. Our objective was to study violent behavior, impulsive decision-making, and amnesia in male forensic psychiatric patients wh...

This article attempts to theorise legal personhood in a manner that will enable courts to express what it is about newborn infants that relevantly distinguishes them from foetuses for legal purposes. This is a difficult task if one focuses solely on the intrinsic properties of the foetus, as many philosophical and biological accounts of personhood tend to do. Further, it is a task complicated b...

People who cannot contain their urges to harm (or kill) people repeatedly for no apparent reason are assumed to suffer from some mental illness. However, they may be more cruel than crazy, they may be choosing not to control their urges, they know right from wrong, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are definitely NOT insane, at least according to the consensus of most scholars (Sam...