There is a longstanding view within the general population and the criminal justice system that the mentally ill are more prone than the mentally healthy to violence and. This view, however, is not fully supported by empirical research, in particular due to conceptual and methodological challenges that arise when the relationship between mental illness and crime is examined. This paper reviews ...

"Criminalization," the hypothesis that mentally ill persons are diverted to the criminal justice system, has been difficult to confirm. The few relevant studies have examined aspects of the mental health or the criminal justice systems, but not both. This study compares state hospital admissions with the admission of mentally ill persons to state prisons. There was considerable variation betwee...

In recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has created two categorical exemptions to the death penalty. In Atkins v. Virginia, the Court exempted mentally retarded offenders. Three years later, in Roper v. Simmons, the Court extended the protection to juveniles. Based on these cases, the practices of foreign countries, and the opinions of professional organizations with relevant expertise, legal s...

The first purpose of the studies reported was to compare the ability of autistic children in understanding false belief with the corresponding abilities of normal or mentally retarded children. Unexpected location tasks adapted from the SallyAnne false belief tasks were used in experiment 1. Autistic children performed worse than normal children and the mentally retarded children, but the diffe...

objectives: the present study aims to investigate the effectiveness of multimedia education  for the development of self-help and life skills in educable, mentally retarded students.  methods: this research is an applied one in terms of objective. a pretest and posttest, with a control group, research design for the collection of data also makes it a quasi-experimental one. the statistical popu...

We present a polynomial-time reduction from parity games with imperfect information to safety games with imperfect information. Similar reductions for games with perfect information typically increase the game size exponentially. Our construction avoids such a blow-up by using imperfect information to realise succinct counters which cover a range exponentially larger than their size. In particu...