My cat is learning to catch squirrels in the back garden. It’s a painfully slow process. He seems to be trying every available technique, improving step by step. He’s tried sitting near the house and charging down the garden when a squirrel appeared, only for the squirrel to spot him and dash off. He’s tried assaulting the squirrel when it came down the tree, only to find out that squirrels cli...

Brian is an 11-year-old boy who presented to the emergency room with suicidal ideation and hearing voices. In the preceding weeks, he had escalating symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and bipolar disorder. His medical history was notable for complex partial epilepsy with onset at age 4 that had been well controlled with divalproate. He ha...

Life often presents us with situations in which it is important to assess the “true” qualities of a person or object, but in which some factor(s) might have affected (or might yet affect) our initial perceptions in an undesired way. For example, in the Reginald Denny case following the 1993 Los Angeles riots, jurors were asked to determine the guilt or innocence of two African-American defendan...

BACKGROUND Interventions to reduce maternal mortality have focused on delivery in facilities, yet in many low-resource settings rates of facility-based birth have remained persistently low. In Tanzania, rates of facility delivery have remained static for more than 20 years. With an aim to advance research and inform policy changes, this paper builds on a growing body of work that explores dimen...

To study the risks of abuse, violence, and homicide, 5 studies of groups at risk for violence are summarized. 192 Abused Infants, 181 Abused Children, 127 Homicidal Youth, 425 Assaulters, 223 Rapists, and 223 Molesters were randomly selected and tracked in court, probation, medical, and school records, then compared with carefully matched groups of Controls and (in older groups) Nonviolent Deli...

kurdistan province is located in western iran and its geographical position as a corridor has always been routs of attacks by western invaders from the most ancient times including assyrians. so, inhabitants of this region to protection against enemies have created defensive fortification structure by which they could protect themselves. studying and evaluating these habitats can help us to ach...

This thesis explored the effects of race and athlete status on the public's perceptions of guilt in sexual assault cases. It investigated how race and athlete status of a man accused of sexually assaulting a woman affected the perceived believability of the accuser and the perceived severity of the crime. It also explored the correlation between perceived guilt and rape myth acceptance. The res...

Drug facilitated crimes (DFCs) can be defined as criminal acts carried out by means of administering a substance to a person with the intention of impairing behaviour, perceptions, or decision-making capacity. It also extends to taking advantage of an impaired person after voluntary intake of an incapacitating substance. Crimes include robbery, money extortion, and maltreatment of the elderly, ...

The rape trial of former Notre Dame football p layer Donald Dykes began this week and his accuser, a former Notre Dame student, testified as the first wit­ ness for the p ro se c u t io n on Tuesday. Dykes is the second of the four former Notre Dame football play­ ers accused of sexually assaulting the woman to be tr ied . He is charged with rape, conspiracy to commit rape and sexual battery. D...