The past decade has witnessed a number of serious attempts at empirically investigating the ability of mental health professionals, especially of psych iatrists, to discriminate between those individuals who will not act dangerously and those individuals who eventually will act dangerously .1-:1 These investigations have concentrated on the assessment of patients in hospitals for the criminally...

Although there is much to commend in Sarch's Criminally Ignorant: Why the Law Pretends We Know What Don't, this piece, I invite Sarch expand on his analysis by considering how English doctrine diverges from US he takes as foundational, and raise some doubts putting pressure theory of culpability that motivates views ignorance supplies culpability. In particular, (a) question defence a motive-in...

We have presented a model for developing forensic psychiatric treatment and teaching services of a medical school Department of Psychiatry, but where these services are the basic comprehensive health care delivery system for the entire community. These offer consultative and treatment services for adult and family court clinic, psychiatric forensic services, of forensic psychiatry open bed and ...

Deficiency Act. Under Section 9 of the Act, 23 persons found to be mentally defective were removed from prison to Certified Institutions. In the years 1924-27, the average annual number of prisoners certified as M.D. was 257; in the years 1928-34, the annual average was 251; the amended definitions in the M.D. Act of 1927 appear therefore to have little practical effect, so far as this particul...

Controversy has arisen surrounding findings of not criminally responsible (NCR) or not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) in recent years. In some countries, the debate has been driven by the concerns of victims, who are seeking greater information on discharge, accountability on the part of the offender, and involvement in the disposition of NCR or NGRI perpetrators. Their demands raise quest...

Some criminal suspects claim to have had an alcohol-induced blackout during crimes they have committed. Are alcoholic blackouts a frequently occurring phenomenon, or are they merely used as an excuse to minimize responsibility? Frequency and type of blackout were surveyed retrospectively in two healthy samples (n = 256 and n = 100). Also, a comparison of blood alcohol concentrations was made be...