Medical Accident and Criminal Case

Medical Interventions as Criminal Remedies

Criminal offenders are sometimes required to undergo medical interventions that are intended, at least in part, to reduce the risk that they will re-offend. For example, drug-addicted offenders may be required to take medications intended to replace their drug of addiction and thereby prevent further drug-related offending. Similarly, sex offenders may be required to receive injections of testo...

Case Analysis of Criminal Behaviour

In this paper, it is shown how behavioural properties can be specified for three types of violent criminals. Moreover, it is shown how empirical material in the form of informal descriptions of traces of crime-related events can be formalised. Furthermore, it is shown how these formalised traces and behavioural properties can be used in automated analysis, for example in order to determine whic...

Study of accident and emergency case records

Background On Sunday 11th of December 2005, an explosion occurred at the Buncefield oil depot, Hertfordshire, resulting in a large fire that blazed for several days. Two Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments were placed on stand-by to receive casualties. A simple surveillance system was put in place during the acute phase of the incident, but this was not adequate to fully examine the health...

"Unnatural deaths," criminal sanctions, and medical quality improvement in Japan.

Medical and related aspects of the Goiânia accident: an overview.

On 13 September 1987, a radiation accident occurred in the city of Goiânia in Central Brazil. Approximately 250 people were exposed to a 137Cs source from an abandoned radiotherapy unit. At least 14 patients showed some degree of bone marrow depression, and eight developed the classical signs and symptoms of acute radiation syndrome (ARS). Twenty-eight people presented local radiation injuries ...