Criminality as expressed by self-reported arrests and convictions was studied in a sample of 294 drug--mainly heroin--abusing subjects, 77.6% of whom had been arrested and 57.1% convicted. The majority had more than one arrest or conviction for a variety of crimes. Arrests and convictions for other than drug offences outnumbered the drug offences. Only a minority of the subjects were responsibl...

Individuals convicted of violent misdemeanor crimes are at greatly increased risk for subsequent violence, but may purchase firearms under federal law. Felons may not. This 2013 study re-analyzed data collected in 1999 for 787 violent misdemeanants who purchased handguns in California in 1989 or 1990. Nearly 40% had violent misdemeanor convictions resulting from felony charges and would have be...

t the time that Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the party’s monopoly position in the political sphere, and its rationale for playing the dominant role in economic and social arrangements, centered on a single thesis—one that had been prominently stated and emphatically endorsed since Lenin’s time. The party so fully represented the people’s ...

BACKGROUND Although selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are widely prescribed, associations with violence are uncertain. METHODS AND FINDINGS From Swedish national registers we extracted information on 856,493 individuals who were prescribed SSRIs, and subsequent violent crimes during 2006 through 2009. We used stratified Cox regression analyses to compare the rate of violent crim...

This paper deals with two issues related to exoneration cases: On the one hand, it examines the relative number of lineups used as the method of identification that resulted in mistaken identifications and false convictions. On the other, it compares eyewitness error as a cause of false convictions with other common causes. The original intent of the study was to concentrate only on the first t...

In this note we study a new kinetic model of opinion dynamics. The incorporates two forces – alignment opinions under all-to-all communication driving the system to consensus, and Rayleigh type friction force that drives each 'player' its fixed conviction value. balance between these creates non-trivial limiting outcome.We establish existence global mono-opinion state, whereby any initial distr...