Cognitive flexibility is a crucial human ability allowing efficient adaptation to changing task challenges. Although a person's degree of flexibility can vary from moment to moment, the conditions regulating such fluctuations are not well understood. Using a task-switching procedure with fMRI, we found several brain regions in which neural activity preceding each trial predicted subsequent cogn...

This research focuses on the study of use AI in pretrial detention decision making. Specifically, it analyzes way which judges usually assess requirements pre-trial and questions whether systems can replicate such assessment processes, improving efficiency To this end, we analyze biases that incur when deciding detention, assessing purposes dangers justify it, how tools could and, possible, imp...

Law Number 8 of 1981 concerning the Criminal Procedure Code is legislation that has been positioned as a legal umbrella for every law enforcement officer. However, not all powers and discretion exercised by enforcers—especially investigators public prosecutors, can be tested or questioned their validity through submission pretrial application. One model action cannot act instrumental communicat...

Two hundred thirteen males charged with mur4er and who received pretrial psychiatric evaluations were divided into two groups of domestic and nondomestic homicide defendants. Demographics, developmental and family background, prior criminal records, victim characteristics, and psychiatric status at the time of the crime were used to compare these groups. Those who were charged with intrafamilia...

Competency to stand trial (CST) has been among the most thoroughly researched psycholegal issues in the past 20 years. However, little attention has been given to CST in juveniles facing delinquency or criminal proceedings. In a sample of 112 pretrial juvenile defendants undergoing court-ordered CST evaluations, 14 percent of the sample was judged incompetent to stand trial (IST). Sixty-one (55...

Fifty-one retrospective, consecutive patients were compared to twenty-six prospective volunteer controls in a nonrandomized clinical control trial. Both groups had chronic neck pain and lateral head translation posture. For treatment subjects, beginning and follow-up pain scales and anteroposterior (AP) cervical radiographs were obtained after 12.8 weeks of care (average of 37 visits), while th...