Abstract Background Little is known about the prevalence and nature of paraphilic interests in Hong Kong young adult population. This study explores psychosocial factors associated with interests. Methods Testing propositions several criminological theories (i.e., self-control, general strain, social learning, control, routine activity), recruited 1171 participants (18–40 years old), from Septe...

We were involved as forensic experts in the case of the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. We discuss the scene and victim autopsy findings, with a brief consideration of the basic emotion of hostility. These findings support the thesis that at the basis of this serial killer's behavior were primary unconscious feelings of hate that he had channeled into a sadistic programmed destruction of 17 young...

A major point of debate about morally good motives concerns an ambiguity in the truism that and strong-willed people desire to do what is right. This shaped by assumption “what’s right” combines only two ways with “desire,” leading distinct de dicto re readings truism. However, a third reading such expressions possible, first identified Janet Fodor, which has gone wholly unappreciated philosoph...

The issues concerning the female body and sexuality have long been a priority for feminist scholars critics. In last three decades, this field of study has greatly influenced by current technological implementations, especially regarding creation modification bodies. Although these modifications seem promising from perspectives tech-optimists, feminists object to bodily underlining fact that te...

This article seeks to lay bare the central epistemological and theoretical principles that undergird Bourdieu's work by dissecting the analyses proposed in his book The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the New Mode of Domination (1989, transl. 1996). It is argued that this study offers not only a powerful and generalizable theoretical model of class rule in advanced society. It also contains lu...