Suicide or ' self-murder ' is regarded by the law as murder, a murder committed by a person on himself or herself (felo-de-se or felony committed on one's self). The verdict usually given by the coroner and other competent authorities in such cases is ' Death is due to suicide, whilst temporarily insane'. This expression is regarded as a charitable addition to relieve the suicide and his family...

This study was undertaken to investigate the authors' clinical impression that there are significant differences between the male and female insanity acquittees in Colorado, and that these differences result in significantly different treatment needs. The study sample included 149 patients: 112 men and 37 women committed to the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo as not guilty by reason ...

Background: Prisoners are a vulnerable group within societies, and also threaten society due to their dangerous behavior. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between prisoners’ personality disorders and their crime and substance use.Methods: This was a descriptive-correlational study. The statistical population consisted of all prisoners of Kerman, Iran. Through ...

COMPUTER CRIME, HIGH-TECH CRIME, AND COMPUTER FRAUD ARE ALL terms used to describe the involvement of computers in the commission of crime. Computers have become a common business and household item and come in the form of personal organisers, notebooks, laptops, desktops, networks, mini and mainframe computers. Computer technology has not introduced a new crime but has changed the form of trad...

Using a longitudinal data set containing high resolution spatial and temporal data of crimes committed in the city of Philadelphia during 1999, we attempt to quantify correlations and relationships between crime events as well as locations throughout the city. We use a variety of techniques from autoregressive models, time-series analysis, and random matrix theory to deduce the correlation stru...

Individual returns of schooling have been examined intensively but social returns of schooling have received less attention. If schooling yields not only individual returns but also social returns such as a reduction in crime then the rationale for policies which encourage individual investments in schooling is strengthened. In this paper, we explore the e ect of schooling on juvenile delinquen...

The case report “Patricide and Schizophrenia”1 is very interesting and the topic highly relevant, once violence among psychiatric patients is quite a taboo, surrounded by prejudice, on the one hand, and misinformation on the other hand. In the first place, it is noteworthy that psychiatric patients are more prone to be victim than perpetrator of crime and violence2. Thus, the main reason why pe...