Youth- and Crime-Related Political Claims in Comparative Perspective

Claims of crime-related amnesia in forensic patients.

M. Cima*, H. Nijman, H. Merckelbach, K. Kremer, S. Hollnack Assistant Professor, Department of Medical, Clinical and Experimental Psychology, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands Senior researcher, Forensic Psychiatric Hospital De Kijvelanden, Poortugaal, The Netherlands Professor, Department of Experimental Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The...

Let's use those tests! Evaluations of crime-related amnesia claims.

Suspects awaiting trial often claim that they cannot remember important parts of their violent crimes. It is not unusual that forensic experts readily accept such claims and interpret them in terms of dissociative amnesia or, more specifically, a "red-out". This interpretation hinges on the assumption that heightened levels of stress implicated in violent crimes interfere with memory. We argue ...

Comparative Approaches to Urban Crime Prevention Focusing on Youth

social support and crime;the comparative study of criminal and non-criminal youth in ilam

this article is a study about investigation of relationship between social support and youth's crime. the comparison of viewpoints and different definitions of social support (ratous, kessler and heller) and crime (hirschi's social control and strain's agnew) has been performed in order to examinie and compare enjoyment level of criminal and non-criminal of ilam city youth from s...

assessing political stability and instability in central asia and caucasus; case study, azerbaijan and kyrgyzstan

منطقه ی آسیای مرکزی وقفقاز به عنوان منطقه ای تاریخی و به دلیل دارا بودن ذخایر عظیم هیدرو کربنی از اهمیت ویژه ای برخوردار است. کشورهای این منطقه از عوامل عمده ی بی ثباتی نظیر عوامل جغرافیایی، اقتصادی، امنیتی، اجتماعی و سیاسی رنج می برند. پس از فروپاشی اتحاد جماهیر شوروی کشورهای منطقه از نعمت استقلال ناخواسته ای برخوردار شدند که مشکلات فوق را برای آن ها چندین برابر می کرد. در این روند برخی از این...