A review of 300 cases of alleged strangulation assault, submitted for misdemeanor prosecution by the San Diego City Attorney's Office, led to a search for medical evidence that would be useful to prosecute these cases (see Strack et al. in this issue of the Journal). The injuries identified in these non-fatal cases are similar to injuries found in fatal domestic violence strangulation assaults....

among legal purchasers of firearms— those who have passed their background checks— and the evidence that extending the denial criteria to additional high risk populations is feasible and effective. Its primary subject is persons convicted of violent misdemeanor crimes, a group sometimes referred to as notsolawabiding gun own ers. It will briefly consider persons who abuse alcohol, which is disc...

UNLABELLED In this secondary analysis of data from a randomized controlled trial comparing supported employment with treatment as usual, we sought to evaluate the study incident rate of legal involvement and subsequent effects of legal involvement on employment among 157 job-seeking Veterans with spinal cord injury. The supported employment vocational rehabilitation program, called the Spinal C...

On October 18, 2003, more than one hundred professionals from the five boroughs of New York City came together to identify, evaluate, and begin to solve some of the complex problems embedded in the culture, operations, and practice in New York City’s Criminal Courts. The conference planners focused on five problems that have undermined the pursuit of justice in New York City’s Criminal Court sy...

it is also being subjected to the evils of the human mind. As physicians, we take oath to a code of conduct that we would not harm a human soul and/or body. As medical scientists, we also need to re-visit the same oath. On a simpler note there are three major regions of promoting misdemeanor in medical research. These are explained in detail at each level; the primary being a clinician's need t...

Methods The sample is 65 persons, co-morbid with substance abuse and severe mental illness, who volunteered for mental health court after conviction of a felony or serious misdemeanor over a four-year period. Their jail days, hospital days, and arrests and convictions post-MHC are compared to their history over a comparable period prior to entry. Outcomes of graduates are compared to those disc...

CONTEXT Some states prohibit the purchase of handguns by persons convicted of selected misdemeanor crimes, but most do not. California has denied handgun purchases by violent misdemeanants since 1991; the effectiveness of these policies is unknown. OBJECTIVE To determine the risk factors for new criminal activity among violent misdemeanants who seek to purchase handguns and whether denial of ...

The New York Police Department (NYPD) under Operation Impact deployed extra police officers to high crime areas designated as impact zones. Officers were encouraged to conduct investigative stops in these areas. City officials credited the program as one of the leading causes of New York City's low crime rate. We tested the effects of Operation Impact on reported crimes and arrests from 2004 to...