Conscription and Military Service: Do They Result in Future Violent and Non-Violent Incarcerations and Recidivism?

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

Treatment of psychosis in prisons and violent recidivism

BACKGROUND Violence among released prisoners with psychosis is an important public health problem. It is unclear whether treatment in prison can influence criminal behaviour subsequent to release. AIMS To investigate whether treatment in prison can delay time to reoffending. METHOD Our sample consisted of 1717 adult prisoners in England and Wales convicted of a serious violent or sexual off...

Csf 5 - Hiaa in Violent and Non-violent Suicide Attempters

Many studies have reported involvement of monoamine neurotransmission in suicide through measurement of serotonin and its main metabolite, 5-HIAA, in brain of suicide victims and in CSF of suicide attempters. 23 non-depressed non-psychotic suicide attempters and equal number of controls were selected, and all the subjects were screened on Cornell Medical Index. Suicide attempters were assessed ...

Non-Violent Strategies in Violent Contexts

Facial traumas among females through violent and non-violent mechanisms.

INTRODUCTION Injuries stemming from facial trauma have both physical and emotional consequences among affected individuals as well as an economic impact on the healthcare system. OBJECTIVE The aim of this retrospective study was to determine the occurrence of facial trauma among females of different age groups treated at an urgent care ward in the northeast of Brazil in a two-year period. M...