The present study used an informant method of psychiatric assessment to evaluate Saddam Hussein, and these results were compared to a posthumous assessment of Adolf Hitler. Eleven Iraqi adults who lived under Hussein’s influence for a median of 24 years completed the Coolidge Axis II Inventory, a measure of 14 personality disorders. The mean consensus among the 11 raters was r = .57. It reveale...

Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats (1998), an appropriation of the myth of Medea, re-presents the predicament of Hester Swane, who like Medea, is an outsider, a dispossessed woman living on the margins of society, who, at the age of seven, was abandoned by her mother, and now is struggling to establish her identity by looking for connection with the lost m/other. Carr shifts the focus from stereo...

A number of studies have been published of Josephus' portraits of biblical heroes, wherein we see that Josephus systematically aggrandizes their qualities of good birth, handsomeness, and the cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, temperance, justice, and piety? But how does he depict biblical rogues? Three Israelite kings whose wickedness is emphasized in the biblical record-namely, Jeroboam I, ...

Alleviating poverty in small-scale fisheries requires a clear understanding of what poverty means. On the whole, different perspectives and strategies have been used to understand and address poverty. These strategies have been grounded in an understanding of poverty as a straightforward economic problem. Moreover, a number of these strategies and perspectives have one way or another been groun...

The theme of the 16 International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2015) – “Digital Government and Wicked Problems” – drew attention to the increasingly complex global problems we are facing today. In the late 1960s, the term “wicked problems” was coined to refer to societal and public planning problems that had no definitive solutions [1,2]. Many problems, such as those identifi...

This article is a discussion of the conceptual relationship between wickedness and (mental) illness, quite apart from their uses in the criminal law. One of the these defended in the article is that in ordinary language illness has lost much of its power to mitigate and excuse, so that "sickos" are treated as if they were some strange minority or political sect.