Typical Murders Committed by Convicts in Prisons

Misuse of Psychologically Active Substances of Convicts being in Prisons and their Treatment

Due to the data of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Serbia, over 70% of persons being in prisons and serving their sentences are drug addicts, and 50% of them are drug users. In the European prisons, the percentage of persons using drugs in the entire prison population is 20-70%, and in the USA 70-80%, in the Australian prisons between 50 and 80% of the convicts in prisons are addicts...

Moors' Murders Publicity

Mental Health, to call the attention of the Press Council to a matter which recently has been the cause of considerable concern to members of the Association. Their concern arises from the amount of space, detail and prominence which has been given by certain sections of the Press in their reporting of a recent murder case.

Some curare murders?

The President: Now it is my pleasure to introduce Dr Ann Ferguson. The title of her talk is “Some Curare Murders?” Well, that interests me. Dr Ferguson is a retired anaesthetist and she says that her particular interest in curare goes back to a research year at McGill University, in Montreal. Then, on retirement, she did the Diploma in the History of Medicine at the Society Apothecaries and her...

Lynton: convicts, landscape and colonisation strategies in midwest Western Australia

Historical and archaeological studies of Australian convictism have embraced a variety of themes and directions, from exploration of the ideologies and mechanisms of punishment and reform (e.g. Kerr 1984, 1988), to investigations of convicts as part of broader colonizing strategies and a means of creating industrial workforces (e.g. Blair and Claoué-Long 1993). It is increasingly apparent that ...

Personality and Intelligence of Convicts in West Virginia