Throughout the ages man has recognized that there is in some way or ?ther an association between physical deformity and a twisted outlook on life. When the Greeks fought under die walls of Troy, the one chieftain whom Homer described as ill-tempered and of unbridled tongue, hateful to his colleagues, and especially to Achilles, was " Thersites, whose mind was full great store of evil words?evil...

The current research examines the utility of the evil woman hypothesis by examining sentencing discrepancies between male and female sex offenders. National Corrections Reporting Program data are used to identify sex offenders for the years 1994 to 2004 and the sentences they received for specific sex offenses. Statistical analyses reveal a significant difference in sentence length between men ...

Over the past ten years, State and Territory housing authorities have stressed the importance of resident participation in community and urban renewal. However, their renewal efforts have lacked a sound evidence base.Why is community participation seen as crucial? What are the most effective ways of promoting participation, and what are the practical barriers to residents getting involved? Mart...

P.M. Neri1; L. Redden1; S. Poole2,3,4; C.N. Pozner2,3,5;J. Horsky2,5; A.S. Raja2,5; E. Poon6; G. Schiff2,5; A. Landman2,5 1Clinical & Quality Analysis, Partners HealthCare System, Wellesley, MA; 2Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; 3Neil and Elise Wallace STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation; 4Simulation Consulting, Phoenix, Arizona, USA; 5Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 6Boston Medic...

Introduction Labor costs are often cited as one of the primary reasons for the economic hardships plaguing many older industrial cities, such as Cleveland. Of course, other factors, such as local taxes, proximity to markets, product cycles, and energy costs may also contribute to the area's diminished ability to compete with other regions in attracting and retaining businesses. Nonetheless, sin...

The lay public is much more likely to have encountered a forensic psychiatrist on television or in the movies than to have encountered a real one. Thus, by way of popular culture, the jury's perceptions and expectations of forensic expert witnesses may have been formed long before they take the stand. We describe a typology of five categories of forensic experts portrayed in fiction: Dr. Evil, ...

How can we more formally define good and evil? My esteemed colleague Stanley Krippner PhD has suggested to me “that something is ‘good’ if it is life-potentiating and helps people manifest the potentials with which they entered this world. Something is ‘bad’ if it is life-depotentiating and blocks their potentials. Of course, culture plays a critical role and often what is ‘good’ in one culture...

We speak a different language, and here our tongue is incomprehensible. The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption... but to this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in earthly things,...

The central distinction in Derek Edyvane’s book Civic Virtue and the Sovereignty of Evil: Political Ethics in Uncertain Times is that between aspirational politics and preventive politics. I am going to dedicate the first section of the paper to the analysis of this distinction. There are authors who say that the two politics are symmetrical. In their opinion, preventing evil is preventing the ...

The age-old philosophical problem of evil, especially prominent in Western philosophy, as resulting from the intellectual irreconcilability some appellations God with presence evil – indeed, myriads world, has been debated upon by many African religious scholars; particularly, philosophers. These include John Mbiti, Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Gyekye, E. B. Idowu and E.O. Oduwole. While debate often ab...