Of the 11.1 million victims of violent crime each year, almost one in four, or 2.7 million, report that the offender had been drinking alcohol prior to committing the crime (Greenfeld 1998). Among the attacks that were committed by current or former intimate partners of the victims, two out of three of the offenders had been drinking prior to the attack (Greenfeld 1998). Over the years, consist...

BACKGROUND Antipsychotics and mood stabilisers are prescribed widely to patients with psychiatric disorders worldwide. Despite clear evidence for their efficacy in relapse prevention and symptom relief, their effect on some adverse outcomes, including the perpetration of violent crime, is unclear. We aimed to establish the effect of antipsychotics and mood stabilisers on the rate of violent cri...

Abstract Criminal responsibility refers to a person’s ability understand his action, behavior at the time crime is committed, what person thinking when he commits or expected result committed. Crime defined in terms of an act omission (actus reus) and mental state (mens rea). In this paper, presented general concept irresponsibility essentially reduced as reason be exempted from punishment prov...

BACKGROUND Epilepsy and traumatic brain injury are common neurological conditions, with general population prevalence estimates around 0.5% and 0.3%, respectively. Although both illnesses are associated with various adverse outcomes, and expert opinion has suggested increased criminality, links with violent behaviour remain uncertain. METHODS AND FINDINGS We combined Swedish population regist...

This brief clinical report focuses on a case in which we were ordered by the Wayne County Circuit Court to complete a forensic evaluation of a 26year-old man facing criminal charges of Felonious Assault and Criminal Sexual Conduct. The patient believed that he had committed the offenses but that his behavior was substantially influenced by a recently diagnosed seizure disorder. After a complete...

A criminal defendant has a constitutional right to a “meaningful opportunity to present a complete defense.” Grounded in several different constitutional provisions, this right has been invoked as a defense to criminal charges in a variety of contexts and has been sustained by the Supreme Court on several occasions. Probably no context, however, has been as controversial and difficult for the c...

Many crimes can happen every day in a major city, and figuring out which ones are committed by the same individual or group is an important and difficult data mining challenge. To do this, we propose a pattern detection algorithm called Series Finder, that grows a pattern of discovered crimes from within a database, starting from a “seed” of a few crimes. Series Finder incorporates both the com...

64 British Journal of General Practice, January 2010 As to the second case, sections 30–33 create offences involving sexual activity with people suffering from a mental disorder (Box 2). The touchstone is ‘sufficient understanding of the nature or reasonably foreseeable consequences of what is being done ...’ This begs three crucial questions: what is sufficient?; sufficient for what? and; what...

Data association is an important data-mining task and it has various applications. In crime analysis, data association means to link criminal incidents committed by the same person. It helps to discover crime patterns and catch the criminal. In this paper, we present an outlier-based data association method. An outlier score function is defined to measure the extremeness of an observation, and ...