Sexual Psychopath Legislation: Is There Anywhere to Go but Backwards?

Whither Mental Health Policy-Where Does It Come from and Does It Go Anywhere Useful?; Comment on “Cross-National Diffusion of Mental Health Policy”

Factors influencing cross-national diffusion of mental health policy are important to understand but complex to research. This commentary discusses Shen’s research study on cross-national diffusion of mental health policy; examines the extent to which the three questions researched by Shen (whether countries are more likely to have a mental health policy (a) the earlier a country becomes a memb...

A New Acceptance Sampling Design Using Bayesian Modeling and Backwards Induction

In acceptance sampling plans, the decisions on either accepting or rejecting a specific batch is still a challenging problem. In order to provide a desired level of protection for customers as well as manufacturers, in this paper, a new acceptance sampling design is proposed to accept or reject a batch based on Bayesian modeling to update the distribution function of the percentage of nonconfor...

The Sexual Psychopath Act in Practice: A Critical Discussion

The sexual psychopath.

The Mental Health Bill and the Psychopath

In the new Bill "psychopathic disorder" is defined as "a persistent disorder of personality (whether or not accompanied by subnormality of intelligence) which results in abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct on the part of the patient and requires or is susceptible to medical treatment". This is a very wide definition and though it will satisfy no one it will please many that...