The setting-up of the Criminal Cases Review Commission has set back the pursuit of justice in the UK by more than twenty years. We now have a post-trial process that is long-drawnout but only intermittently efficacious. We have also created a situation whereby the UK criminal justice system has a defective trial process and a defective appeals process, but then abdicates its responsibility for ...

CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND BEHAVIOR, Vol. 37 No. 6, June 2010 695-708 DOI: 10.1177/0093854810363721 © 2010 International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology AUTHORS’ NOTE: Christopher T. Lowenkamp is now at the Administrative Offices of the U.S. Courts. Matthew D. Makarios is now at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. Richard Lemke is now at the University of West Georgia. This res...

This study is a 2-year follow-up of girls with serious and chronic delinquency who were enrolled in a randomized clinical trial conducted from 1997 to 2002 comparing multidimensional treatment foster care (MTFC) and group care (N = 81). Girls were referred by juvenile court judges and had an average of over 11 criminal referrals when they entered the study. A latent variable analysis of covaria...

Asperger's Disorder remains an under-diagnosed condition because of clinical unfamiliarity with its adult presentation. As forensic clinicians become familiar with the presentation of Asperger's disorder, it appears that affected individuals are over-represented in forensic criminal settings. Unique features of such persons may heighten their risks for engaging in criminal behavior. Both Theory...

AIM To evaluate the effect of educational intervention on individuals' knowledge of and attitudes toward forensic mental health. METHODS We conducted a questionnaire regarding attitudes toward various ideas about forensic mental health. The respondents attended a 1-h seminar regarding forensic mental health after answering the questionnaire. On completion of the seminar, the respondents answe...

For at least 111 years society has been searching for a will o' the wisp "legal test" of criminal responsibility, i.e., liability for punishment provided by law, applicable to all cases in which the defense of insanity is raised.' The purpose of the search is obvious: Society wants a legal standard by which to judge whether or not a man should be held responsible for his acts in order to establ...

BACKGROUND The combination of adverse social indicators and a predominantly youthful population puts Nigeria, and indeed many countries of sub-Sahara Africa, at the risk of explosion in the number of youth coming in contact with the juvenile justice system. Despite this risk, custodial childcare systems in the region are still poorly developed with both juvenile offenders and neglected adolesce...

as a private domain, the family is subordinate to the characteristics of private law. on the other hand, as the only major authority, the government has the responsibility of supporting all individuals by resorting to civil and criminal law. however, by taking the public aspect of the criminal law into consideration, its basis is on the lack of need of its presence when facing the family, the b...