INTRODUCTION Criminally insanes form a special group of mentally ill patients. This paper investigated some psychiatric, criminological and social aspects of the above mentioned group of patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS The author summarized the data of 114 patients whom he treated in the Forensic Mental Institute at least for two months between 1st February 1997 and 31th January 2002. And thes...

Criminals have their activities described as 'a career crime', and Dr. R. D. Laing has spoken of 'madness j*s a career'. Large industries have been created around careers: police, prisons, mental hospitals, psychiatrists, welfare and so on. The productive aim of oese industries is rehabilitated persons?i.e. people jfl whom the tendency to mad or criminal behaviour been eliminated. The criterion...

A crime has been committed for which two prisoners are held incommunicado. The district attorney is assigned to question the prisoners. He designs the following incentive structure to induce the prisoners to talk. If neither prisoner talks, both prisoners automatically receive mild sentences (payoff 4). But if exactly one prisoner squeals on the other, the squealer is let off scot free (payoff ...

Today there is a lot of sexual violence against minors. A religious teacher as well scout and paskibraka trainer at SMPN Tangerang molested his students the victim received trauma healing services for psychic healing. If child commits crime, it regulated under Law Number 11 2012 concerning Juvenile Justice System. Imprisonment children only used last resort (ultimum remedium). The issue abortio...

SCOPE AND DEFINITIONS It is convenient to define computer crime as any criminal act which involves one or more computers either as the object of the crime or as accessories in its commission. Computer crime may then be subdivided into computer related crime (CRC) and computer assisted crime (CAC). In the former, the computer or its contents is the subject of the criminal act (eg hacking or deni...

Two general ethical problems in psychiatry are thrown into sharp relief by long term care. This article discusses each in turn, in the context of two anonymised case studies from actual clinical practice. First, previous mental health legislation soothed doubts about patients' refusal of consent by incorporating time limits on involuntary treatment. When these are absent, as in the provisions f...

Abstract This article explores the response of postcolonial state to question widow immolation – sati. It demonstrates that conversation on practice sati at high point Hindu law reform in 1950s reflected simultaneous pressures new democracy establish rule while also accommodating renewed reverence for tradition and religious custom an independent nation state. Distinct from colonial treated wom...

Prior to the second world war, most persons confined in insane asylums were regarded as legally incompetent and had guardians appointed for them. Today, most persons confined in mental hospitals (or treated involuntarily, committed to outpatient treatment) are, in law, competent; nevertheless, in fact, they are treated as if they were incompetent. Should the goal of mental health policy be prov...