Symptoms of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), particularly remorselessness, are frequently introduced in legal settings as a risk factor for future violence in prison, despite a paucity of research on the predictive validity of this disorder. We examined whether an ASPD diagnosis or symptom-criteria counts could prospectively predict any form of institutional misconduct, as well as aggres...

plagiarism is a serious debate in scientific community and in recent years has been in the center of interest in academic and scientific communities. plagiarism is considered as an unethical and improper act, because it constitutes theft from an intellectual work. self-plagiarism is considered as a sort of plagiarism and is defined as an improper release of information as a new idea, or using m...

OBJECTIVES To study whether systematic reviewers apply procedures to counter-balance some common forms of research malpractice such as not publishing completed research, duplicate publications, or selective reporting of outcomes, and to see whether they identify and report misconduct. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of systematic reviews and survey of their authors. PARTICIPANTS 118 systema...

BACKGROUND The identification of health care professionals who are incompetent, impaired, exploitative or have criminal intent is important for public safety. It is unclear whether psychiatrists are more likely to commit medical misconduct offences than non-psychiatrists, and if the nature of these offences is different. AIM The aim of this study was to compare the characteristics of psychiat...

Article history: Received 28 March 2011 Received in revised form 26 December 2011 Accepted 24 January 2012 Available online 18 February 2012 There is a long tradition of theoretical and empirical research linking intelligence to criminal activity. At the same time, the extant literature has been slow to examine this relationship in other settings. One such setting in which this relationship may...