‘White-collar crime’ is a broad and loose description of a wide variety of crimes and activities. One of the key difficulties in attempting to analyse crimes in this area has been a lack of theoretical models with which to evaluate offences. A further criticism that has been made about these crimes has been the variety of mental elements needed to prove the offences, and, at times, an underlyin...

Developments in medical technology and medical science have revolutionised modern medical practice of the past two decades and have created novel ethical and legal dilemmas for medical practitioners. This paper will discuss one of the most contentious legal issues associated with medically indicated withdrawal of life sustaining treatment from incompetent patients, where such discontinuance wil...

BACKGROUND Few longitudinal studies have explored lifetime criminality in adults with a childhood history of severe mental disorders. In the present study, we wanted to explore the association between adult delinquency and several different childhood diagnoses in an in-patient population. Of special interest was the impact of disturbance of activity and attention (ADHD) and mixed disorder of co...

OBJECTIVE Few, if any, US studies have examined rates of criminal behaviors among patients in clinical samples. According to findings from non-US studies, mostly in psychiatric samples, rates of criminal behavior are higher than in the general population. In this study, we examined the prevalence of criminal behaviors in an internal medicine outpatient sample from a resident-provider clinic. ...