What transpires in the minds of violent criminals? Do their actions follow from uncontrollable impulses or simply reflect an absence of moral feeling? Abby Stein’s (2007) response is that violence is “...the inevitable outcome of severely damaging early interpersonal relationships” (p. 38). Her work as a forensic psychologist and Adjunct Associate Professor at the John Jay Criminal Justice prog...

Hunger strike is a common form of protest in prisons and is a potential cause of many types of problems, both for the prison administration and the doctors who care for prisoners who participate in one. Issues of conflict of rights and obligations involved, and how to treat people who are subject to the Administration, which in this case takes the position of guarantor, have created major contr...

The NIEHS relationship with the environmental justice community is much like that of a family—we have a long history, we are integrally connected, and unfortunately, we don't always communicate well. I recently met with our environmental justice grantees, and during our conversations, I realized that my own failure to communicate in the accepted terminology of the environmental justice communit...

OBJECTIVE To describe the socio-demographic along with the medico-legal characteristics of rape victims reporting to a female police station of Lahore. STUDY DESIGN Observational study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Female Police Station in Shadman, Lahore, from, June 1995 to January 2009. METHODOLOGY A total of 74 cases of alleged rape victims were identified while reviewing all available ...

The advent of new imaging techniques is broadening our understanding of the major psychiatric illnesses. The increased knowledge of brain function will have consequences for the expert medical witness who has to give evidence in court. Both the insanity defence and the defence of automatism depend on disorders of the mind. Psychiatry is now able in many cases to produce evidence that these are ...

had considerable experience of " shell-shock" in the war, and included eminent neurologists. They heard evidence from a number of distinguished men, representing opinion on the military, medical and legal aspect of the subject, and also from officers and men who had suffered from " shell-shock." They have made a lengthy and exhaustive report which must long remain the authoritative work on the ...

Immigrants in the destination society are always exposed to various challenges in cultural and social fields in order to be accepted, and for these reasons, they must adapt themselves to the forced effects in the immigrant-receiving societies. In this article, by choosing the Afghan immigrant community, It has been devoted to the sociological study of the cultural and social impact of Afghan im...

The author highlights the importance of emotions in all ethical reflections. He describes the most common positions of ethicists employing duties and rights as the basis for ethical thought. The author, goes to Freudian theory as viewed by the utilitarians, stating that the 'quest for pleasure' is not necessarily egocentric, especially for adults. For example, the feeling of solidarity emerges ...

The above approaches certainly have their place but also have their limitations. The repeated invocation of archival material tends to create an impression that ethical edicts are merely of historical significance and are irrelevant today. Some of the historical texts on medical ethics are based on morality, at times even bordering on the spiritual or the religious. This could be a hindrance to...