tive of ethical, moral and cultural conclusions which changes in response to public awareness and medicolegal prompting. In 1976, in the case of Morgan1, ‘no’ was ‘yes’. In November 1976 the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 19762 made ‘no’ finally ‘no’. This was not serendipity. In the case of Morgan, a raped woman was said to have consented because the rapists believed she was consenting. This ...

This paper proposes an identification framework of the possible criminal offences charges based on textual criminal cases of the Civil Law system. The framework is constructed as the model, devised as a multi-stage based on the defined charges structure in criminal law codes. The first stage is to modularly identify type of action which is designed based on the offences charges abstractly categ...

OBJECTIVES The prevalence and profile of adults with a history of traumatic brain injury (TBI) has not been studied in large North American forensic mental health populations. This study investigated how adults with a documented history of TBI differed with the non-TBI forensic population with respect to demographics, psychiatric diagnoses and history of offences. METHOD A retrospective chart...

Results: Fifteen per cent of participants committed a new offence in the 2 years following program commencement, and 11 per cent committed a further traffic offence. Being male, aged between 16 and 20 years, Indigenous, having a prior criminal record, and having 3 or more concurrent offences were all associated with an increased risk of being convicted for any further offence. Being aged betwee...

Self-selection policing is the term given to the identification of serious active offenders by dint of their commission of more minor infractions. The paper explores the feasibility of using the nonproduction of documentation as required after the issue of an instruction to do so (form HO/RT1) as a way of identifying active, serious offenders. Such non-producers (no shows): 1. were more likely ...

The present study is an in depth empirical study of dowry-related offences. It makes a critical analysis of judicial activism-a new developmentin liberating women. The specific objective of this paper was to study the socio-educational profile of victims of dowry offences and relate it to the socio-cultural practice of dowry. It also makes an analysis of the laws related to dowry and their effe...

The use of illicit drugs and high rates of crime are strongly associated. Under drug prohibition, drug-consumption and drug trafficking are inevitably defined as offences. Drug-related offences — especially incomegenerating property crime — are also common although psychopharmacological offences and violence between drug traffickers are less prevalent. Drugs and crime are also linked by many co...

BACKGROUND The use of performance enhancing drugs is still a major problem in competitive sports. Even though tennis is not affected by systematic doping, there is lack of scientific evidence on the effect of sanctions on players` career. The aim of this study was to analyze male tennis players' career after a doping sanction. METHODS All doping offences committed by male professional tennis ...

BACKGROUND It is unclear whether adult offenders with a history of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are more likely to re-offend, and if so, in any specific offences. AIM This study aimed to examine correlates of childhood ADHD symptoms among prisoners. METHODS A randomly selected sample of 1179 participants from the adult sentenced population of Puerto Rico (USA) reported th...

on an investigation designed to remedy some of the deficiencies in our knowledge of homosexuals. He interviewed six groups of 50 men each: homosexuals convicted of offences with adults, paedophiliacs convicted of offences with children, homosexual patients under psychiatric treatment, non-homosexual psychiatric patients, other homosexuals to whom none of the foregoing qualifications applied and...