Forensic Psychology - Science topic

Well, there are a few, at least. Mary Ann Cotton- also known as the Dark Angel- was born in 1932 and holds the grim title of the first female serial killer. She was a mother, nurse, and housekeeper and this allowed her to stay in the background. Once arrested and put on trial for the poisoning of twenty-three people, eleven of her own children and three of her husbands, her count was up to twenty-three by the time she was arrested. Once found guilty and obliterating the perception of women in the Victorian era, she was hanged at Durham jail in the year 1873.

This story and more can be found at: Rhiannon Elizabeth Jenkins https://restless.co.uk/leisure-and-lifestyle/art-and-culture/the-uks-most-prolific-female-serial-killers/

Conocimiento de los trastornos mentales, terminología jurídica, posibilidades y límites de la gestión del comportamiento, fundamentos y límites del pronóstico criminal, opciones terapéuticas para la delincuencia, condiciones marco legales para la terapia en un contexto de derecho penal. Además: fundamentos de la capacidad de prestar declaración, límites en la interpretación de los resultados de las pruebas. Capacidad para evaluar de forma neutral un comportamiento problemático.

David Joubert Agree 100%. Besides, since the entire rationale for the MMPI has always been valid empirical prediction, trying to transform it into a more psychometrically sound instrument doesn't make a whole lot of sense. You just end up with scales that cohere well but that nobody would have even considered creating from scratch. If you want pure psychometrics, go with the NEO-PI-III or maybe the 16PF; if you want scales that "make sense" from a contemporary psychiatrist's point of view, go with the PAI or maybe MCMI.

Hi Jack,

did you have any luck with this? I’m literally in the same situation now and want to find a mock crime video free of copyright.

Any help would be appreciated :)

I don’t believe the publishers have made those particular measures available in an online format

( 5 ) different articles enough to focus in your subject . take care to use the citation from different source .

If you still need help I'd be willing to take part. I am working towards my bachelor's in forensic psychology.

From my experience on the subject, as a Forensic Psychopathologist, it is, as a standard rule, that THE VICTIMS narrate and live the situation with great helplessness and after a crisis of COGNITIVE DISSONANCE, which adds to the impact of sexual abuse, MAXIMUM if the perpetrator in addition to acquaintance is familiar ... "How could someone who should protect me do this to me", to this are added feelings of guilt and mechanisms of "victimization", since they may even feel guilty; For all these reasons, the traumatic event can be "repressed" and sometimes "forgotten", as a defense mechanism, having to resort, with the permission of the Judicial Authority, to regressive hypnosis. It is a similar phenomenon, in part, how tragedies and catastrophes are perceived: if they are of "natural orogeny" they are accepted and overcome better than if they are human-made, as in cases of terrorism.

For his part, the VICTIMARY will always begin by DENYING EVERYTHING, saying that they are the fantasies of a hysterical or repressed ... if the fact is substantiated and evidenced, he will try by all means to make believe that THE VICTIM HAS BEEN HIM !!, that she she has seduced him - like a "Lolita" - or tricked him with "woman's bad arts", thus favoring the victimization process of the victim who is presented as the culprit; in such a framework I have witnessed and lived as a forensic scary and terrible situations!

Thanks for sharing.

You can access the DV Myth Acceptance Scale on page 222 here: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/217047421.pdf

I have also just published a qual forensic paper based within the probation service. Here's a link to it on my profile.....

I think this will help you, if you can read it as a full text.

Support for the Death Penalty: A Gender-Specific Model, Stack, s. (2000)

I'm a psychotherapist and university professor teaching courses in criminal justice and pyshology, including forensic psych and criminal profiling. First off, although I do not know all the logistics and regulations where you are (I'm from the USA), my first advice would be to set up a private practice and start providing therapy, perhaps for parolees, ex convicts, youthful offenders, anyone related to your particular field.Consider volunteering at a local jail to provide 'listening counseling' to inmates (just listen, no 'advice.') In other words, get some 'hands on' experience working with those who have been caught up in the criminal justice system. Secondly, if you are offered a teaching postiton TAKE IT!! Do not pass GO - get thee into a classroon. You will learn more than you will ever know, and learn about learning - which will come in nicely when you go for your PhD. Also, as an instructor, you will gather a coterie of other professional colleagues in your field, which will become invaluable over time in terms of alliances, leads on projects you'd never have otherwise known about, and even tips about more advanced positions. Assisting with legitimate academic studies is also a great opportunity, especailly for reputation building over the long run. However, my take on it is, if you want to excel in your field, hang a shingle and start working directly with clients. You will learn more than any classroom can teach you.

Please take a look at this useful link.

Wow, starting to respond to your question sent me on a tangential whimsical foray to "No, not likely."

First offending and criminality are looked at from a wide range of orientations and approached from competing assumptions, so comparative data are problematic. At best we have quasi-experimental studies, but even those are subject to profound bias, sampling errors, inadequate measuring, and high drop-out/poor attendance rates.

One issue is with the term psychotherapy. It is vague and suffers from a range of interpretation. In treatment approaches to offenders, it too often refers to a teaching format rather than to a therapeutic process facilitated by well-trained and experienced clinicians. Regarding the latter, when research findings are applied in treatment programs, they most likely use inexperienced or para-professionals to educate offenders.

The most common measure is recidivism, that also has some variance in definition and and measuring. We really need a colloquium of clinicians to define current understanding and bring some definition to the field before your question can be adequately answered.

I conduct research on clergy pedophilia in the Catholic Church. It is quite protracted over decades, and the massive cover-ups continue to this day. In the Altoona-Johnston Diocese, PA 52 of 56 perpetrators are clergy. Only 1 has been tried and convicted? Two committed suicide as charges were being brought against them. The Diocese is now under federal investigation.

I provide free clinical consultation to survivors. Here are 2 of my published articles on this topic.

Rich

Could the Immersive Tendency Questionnaire by Witmer & Singer work for you alternatively?

https://marketinginvolvement.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/itq-e-itq-f.pdf

I am answer this queation in past time

With Best Wishes

Beside Jos Feys 's great proposition, have you tried to consider partial least square structural equation models (PLS-SEM) [1]? These models are often applied in sociology and economy, and can be useful when complex relationships between independent variables exist. If I am not mistaken, this sounds pretty much what you are after. The paper in [1] is more an introductory paper, easy to read and with examples in R.

[1] Hamdollah Ravan, Purya Baghaei. 2016. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling with R.

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In Spain there is a comprehensive programme of action for people deprived of their liberty with mental illnesses

Let's go step by step

1) Group membership predicts a change in score in Questionnaire A.

ANOVA or ANCOVA adjusted for baseline value of Questionnaire A and probably also for gender and age

First of all you can apply the same ANOVA / ANCOVA model as above for each of 3 componensts of Questionnaire A and that with the lowest p-value (highest test statistics) will be winner = component most affected by group membership.

Another point of view is to take one of 4 groups and which of the three topics of Questionnaire A is most affected by this subgroup. By decriptive statistics select one with the highest absolute mean change. Then you can calculate difference between this component and each of other 3 components of Questionnaire A. For these 3 difference you can apply paired t-test (or paired Wilcoson signed rank test if distributions are far from gaussian)

ANOVA or ANCOVA adjusted for baseline value of Questionnaire B and probably also for gender and age

Linear Regression: Changes A is predictor and changes B is the outcome is one option. You should start with scatter-plot Questionnaire A on x-axis, Questionnaire B on y-axis. But class variable group (there are 4 categorial groups here) should be also included and probably also age and gender. First of all you should check if the linear relation is an appropriate model. If not then some non-linear model could be more appropriate (scatter-plot pathern could help to select which non-linear model)

Linear Regression model - stepwise selection with all 3 components of Questionnaire A, group effect (4 groups), age, gender (and may be another baseline characteristics as predictors if available) will be the best option.

Hi Isabel,

Per your definition, you may also place an announcement in some type of newspaper, other type of media outlet, or use social media to recruit potential participants.

Have a great day!

--Adrian

I would like to get information about the process and the outcome because it is from issues that I am interested in demented illness care or elderly care. good work...

You means Man in general not a special person. I never insult a person I answer. Why would I. It has to do with the English language.

I disagree with Hein. In exploratory, grounded, and/or inductive research it's common to collect data and then explore it. Chapter 15 of my book, 'Basic Research Methods: An Introduction to Social Science Research' (Sage, New Delhi, 2010) has a Describe/Classify/Interpret sequence, including a clunky but effective spreadsheet method for identifying key words and phrases, which should help basic quantitative description and qualitative interpretation.

The short answer to your question is there is no method or way to get around the test Publishers requirements it's important to understand that a test instrument protocol is simply a one-piece or a one data point and in no way captures the essence of a person persons book intellectual functioning or personality function or their characterological traits quite honestly and most of the tools out there anybody could essentially administer them with that with some practice however the misconception is that administering them properly entails having clinical experience not whether to coat it a two-point response or one point response their subtle nuances to that go along with any sort of psychometric tests that only it only a skilled clinician who's been doing it for quite some time is a tuned to more important test Publishers a very stringent criteria as to who can even look at a protocol meaning that if you're not considered qualified there really should be no reason why you should have or anyone should have that protocol in their possession the norming process for any sort of psychometric test is quite expensive time-consuming and the release of raw data which is considered the protocol is considered raw data can compromise the entire test and as a as a result costly test Publishing Company a great deal of money in addition to the test Publishers requirements psychology is also have ethical obligations to even if they are a psychologist if they're practicing outside the bounds of expertise one would hope that they would not use that particular instrument and finally hypothetically if someone is able to administer interpret particular publish test simply because a test is published by no means means that the reliability and validity data satisfies standard practice there is a very big misconception among less experienced practitioners that simply because a Publishing Company publishes a test and charges money for it and people buy it that it is automatically considered reliable and valid and can be used with anybody more experience clinicians would would understand that you need to look at the sample size the the makeup of the sample socio-economics part of the country the sample is drawn from and also the clinical or clinical samples mean individuals who have psychiatric psychological or neurologic to take the test I do hope I am responding to your question and with the some good information but another option would be to hook up with an experienced clinician and get supervised training with that person but again that would this that would depend a lot on state your practice State you're in and their legal requirements and again the test publisher so please don't take my information as anything but advice are not an attorney I don't work for Ted publisher but I can tell you that test Publishers have copyright as well as intellectual property rights to those two tests and one becomes exposed legally should they use it and not be qualified as you refer to it thanks

Hi Chantelle,

I don't live in the UK, but your research sounds interesting. When you're done, would you please send me an overview of your findings?

Thank you!

--Adrian

Is the question actual for you?

Hi Prudence,

Thanks for your thoughts. We are definitely considering focus groups, though, as you say, this might be time consuming. I was hoping to find some existing theory that might negate the need to do this!

Thanks

Alex

Its pretty straight forward with the reference's to Propose, continue, and/or discover. Suicide is environmental (introvert/extrovert) where the biology and neurology to include the cognition of the sufferer is a communicative linguistically cultural dilemma...Realistically though the answer is it a better clinical "crisis" update or cubby hole forensic psychology or forensic ward/institutional (commitment) update?

This ironically is posted right under your add on BING search engine. Sweet topic!

Michael S.

thanks I have this one -and as you se they also basically rely on open source

but an excellent article

Emotional vulnerability and having difficulty on an etiological manifestation of symptomology deals with sensitivity where in looking at neurology the receptors in the neurons (network) are stimulated where the balance of regulating emotions falls on a psychological basis in observation of strong reactions and returning to, per say, balanced behavior being slow on an abnormal side of linguistic in imagery and the baseline after calibration is considered normal. When the sufferer is observed in attempting to balance their emotions, due to on a biological basis modulated (introverted/introverted) aspect of the environment aspect of the environment, this can signify non-comorbidity with other conflicts or disorder depending on diagnosis. The symptomology deals with mild, moderate, and severe with examples like, erratic self-destructive, impulsion and/or from above comorbidity of changing their behavior to compensate to their environment. This is a point of “dementia, delusion, hallucination” in diagnostics within the environment whether controlled or not (researchive) these unstable patterns lead to intense relationships that can manifest the possible or hypothetical comorbidity. (ex. Personality, obsessive compulsive, addiction…). The amygdala deals with the negative natural states within dimensional neurology. This leads to fear and anxiety that modulates neuro-net vigilantes. This is considered co-occurring disorders as well as etiology to psychopathy (Donegan, Sanslow, Blumberg et.al., 2003).or what can be neutral

The pathways when medicine is needed are nasal administered as well as through the blood… where the medicine can enter the brain using theory of olfactory to the base lateral side of the epithelium. Here traces are discovered in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). This aspect of administration of medicine is quicker on a relative basis but can also be administered slowly into the spinal fluid. This medicine gets through the blood brain barrier with the use of liposomes. These are agonists points or what can be neutrally called the bio membrane. The diversity of sufferer’s biology to focusing on modification and objective. Anxiolytic point of cognitive evolutionary advancement effects leads to optimization through oral administration through oral administration to achieve baseline imagery in the neuro synapse in discovering dimension for anxiety and its cognitive affects (Pipren, Watanaton, Sutthparing, et.al., 2008).

When looking at cranial modification, foundational brain size theory comes to mind. This leads to environment or health practices assessment, analysis on morphism, and foundational biology (embodiment). On a researchive basis, it leads to evolutionary advancement in medicine but in associative linguistic, the direction of “Supremacy” comes to mind when looking at brain size theory dominate points of species in life in the environment. With terrorism today and empirical findings of genetic engineering on an invitro and nanotechnology basis, we find terrorism and cell growth of acclaimed armies of insulation (Axis) and turn over points in employment and professional arenas in exchange pursuit (s) of freedom. When looking at why cranial modification and how it was done it can go back to 400 BC with Hippocrates Hutchins 1952) was the first discovery that described the practice (Philosophy) {direction best interest, (Ex. Galan Theory (Circulation…)}. The skull of a newborn soft during development and the first points in empirical research of cranial modification was using bandages to form the development of the heads of new forming generations (children). This was a point of lapse of information until 1800 when many researchers and authors where categorizing the recent types of cranial modification (Duncan, & Hofling, 2011).

The risk assessment can not rely on a sole psychometric result. 

You mentionned the PCL -R which is not a test per se but a scale determining the degree of psychopathy that an individual can have. 

Psychopathy is a personality trait that is highly correlated with aggressive behaviors, and linked statistically with rape. But as the two former colleagues put it, it is not because you scored positively to a PCL-R scale, that you WILL indeed commit a specific type of offense.

The MMPI-2 is one of the most famous personnality questionaire but it does not have a predictive value by itself, if there are some scale such as the O-H and the 43/34 and 49/94 profiles  which are linked to impulsive behavior and sometime violent conducts, it does not provide a predictive certainty. Check this book by Ben Porath, Graham & al "Forensic applications of the MMPI-2",

Risk assessment is a mix combination of psychometric testing, actuarial tools and an analysis of the situational risks inherent to the singularity of the individual. 

Some elements correlated with agressive and / or violent behavior are the use of psychoactive drugs, personality traits such as psychopathy, delusion and psychiatric disorders left untreated, past offenses. But it remains a probabilty that an offense can occur, but sometimes it does not (check false negative and false positive)

Most of the time a better coordination between services would provide a far more effective result on a crime prevention field, than a psychometric score. 

As Ben Levin said in his answer the passion shall be left outside of the Court, probabilty and scores are not an insurance of a zero risk.

Hello ,

thank you for your interest in our work.  If you would be interested to use the tool we use for our work and research (it's called EISIP), please contact Prof Banse from the university of Bonn.  The tool is available in German and English, and we translated it for our purposes into Dutch.  Maybe a translation into Slovakian is possible as well.

Good luck with your work.

Kris Vanhoeck

I.T.E.R., Brussels

In India incidences of vandalism are quite common. To prevent this CCTV are installed in metro hospitals. A professional training to doctors and staff working in casualty / hospital is also required to handle stressed relatives. Relatives are under emotional crisis and tremendous pressure as their close-one is close to death so any rude behavior and argumentation with relatives lead to these beatings of hospital staff. 

 I wonder if these resources will help.

https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/33890/6_Cingolani_paper.pdf?sequ..

In answer to What is your evidence that the WAIS is unreliable?

My ID expert says:

The  WAIS-IV Manual  p113 notes that people with ASD typically have deficits in verbal and non-verbal communication and social deficits. Those with ASD who had pre-assessed IQs of less than 60 were excluded from their normative study, indicating that the test should not be used with these  people. They included only 16 people with ASD in their study.

Souliers.I, Dawson. M. Gernshacher. MA and Mottron. , (2011)'The Level and Nature of Autistic Intelligence II What about Asperger Syndrome?" PLoSone. Vol. 6. Issue 9  says

Taken together, the recent literature therefore suggests that the most commonly used test of intelligence - the Wechsler-IV - should not be considered  a useful tool for the assessment of the intelligence

level of people with ASD because scores are distorted by the fluctuating effects of ASD.

The Stanford-Binet comes closer to isolating

fluid reasoning and provide for a report on that aspect of intelligence in addition to crystallised reasoning reflected in the Verbal and Non-Verbal lQs

But the most useful tool to assess fluid reasoning or innate intern^— the Raven's Progressive Matrices and this tool will produce a much higher  estimate of general IQ than do the other tests.

My psychometric experts says in his conclusion.

"The research-based statements presented in paragraphs 1.1, 1.4, 2.14, and 2.17 clearly indicate no single IQ score can be taken as indicative of an individual possessing a clinical diagnosis or symptoms which also manifest themselves in particular kinds of intellectual deficit. Paragraph 2.17 is especially relevant here as it shows that the calculation of IQ scores in the lower tail of an ability distribution is not trustworthy. Therefore, attempting to put confidence intervals around any such score, where the interval estimates are based upon “error” derived from ‘normal’ range IQ scores is a meaningless operation, as the score itself in these lower ranges is no longer to be considered a veridical estimate of IQ, let alone any estimate of error which is applicable to such cases. As Silverman et al (2010) point out, no clinically-accepted estimates of ‘measurement’ error currently exist."

Hooray! Good luck!

Thank you, Ms. Crittenden for the very useful answer you provided.

The Stingray "intercepts" (18 USC 2510(4) "electronic communications" (18 USC 2510(12).  Katz added, the reasonable expectation of privacy test to the common-law trespassory test.  This reasonable expectation of privacy protects people even when they operate in public spaces.  Thus, we have to ask, 1) was there an actual (subjective) expectation of privacy that location information was private, and 2) that the expectation that it was private one that society is prepared to recognize as reasonable.

You can argue both sides, but keep in mind that third party doctrine is about accessing information that has been turned over to third parties, i.e. phone records.  The Stingray does more; it intercepts "electronic communications" and gleans information (location) that reasonable people might expect to keep private.  Where you are is a private matter (not a government interest) despite the fact that you may be in the public sphere.  Thus, I do not believe that third party doctrine is appropriate and a warrant is needed to use a Stingray.  A note on my previous comment, it is unsettled in many states, so police still use it and some deny even having Stingray devices, i.e. some states in the northeast.    

I know that in prisons for Youth in Germany are a lot of consumers of extremely violent medias, espaciallly in PC Games, horrorfilms and so on. On the other site it is fact that extremly violent medias are an important factor for becoming delinquent. Therefor I would recomment to take as one of impotant variables he consumption of media violence in prison.

I wish You good luck for Your important step

Dr. Rudolf H. Weiß

Media- and Intelligence Psychology

Hi -- I don't have any pointers or at-hand references; but I am interested in where your framing-assumptions, and where you are headed with this.

If you're game, let's open up a channel of communication.

email: drcameronperry@gmail.com

Good luck with your research!

Ellis

Ok thank you, I will be looking at U.S. v. Lambis and the reasoning behind it.

Dr. Murphy, are u allowed to critique a draft for a proposed regulation?

It is very possible that I did not correctly understand the question so I have to beg pardon if my following words are falling the real signification of the question. If it would means the possibility to acquire  informations to be used in a research or in a medical anamnestic investigation by a third person, even he/she could have a very intimate relationship as in case of a sexual partner, where in any case the full reciprocal knowledge is not necessarily so sure, the received informations always deal reported data, whose exactness would depend on  a real true communication to the referring partner and on his/her real full understanding of what communicated, and consequently informations of doubtful usefulness in the two above hypothesized conditions. With all my  humble apologies in case of my rough misunderstanding.   

I advise you to write to your colleague in private. Not sure the person will see the message here.

thank you! I will send it to them.

Anna-Lee

Dear Elena,

My Doctoral Thesis was about the criminological profile of forest arsonist in Spain. This is the link http://eprints.ucm.es/37600/1/T37195.pdf

Also, you can check my profile because I,ve got published previos investigation about the same thematic.

As you can check the fires commited by pyromaniacs are very few. 

I will be happy to answer you if you have any questions.

Andres 

See the work of John Edens regarding the lack of relationship between psychopathy and prison behavior.

I am looking for a low and high cutoff score/algorithm for PTSD. 

A helpful starting point might be a standard textbook on psychometrics and the validation of new measures, such as Nunnally, J.C. & Bernstein, I. H. (1994). Psychometric Theory. New York: McGraw Hill. 

There are several attitude specific measures that are well-validated, including the Criminal Sentiments Scale, Measures of Criminal Attitudes and Associates, and Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles.

A few examples of citations:

Mills, J. F., Kroner, D. G., & Hemmati, T. (2004). The Measures of Criminal Attitudes and Associates (MCAA) The Prediction of General and Violent Recidivism. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 31(6), 717-733.

Simourd, D. J. (1997). The Criminal Sentiments Scale-Modified and Pride in Delinquency Scale: Psychometric Properties and Construct Validity of Two Measures of Criminal Attitudes. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 24(1), 52-70.

Walters, G. D. (2002). The Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) A Review and Meta-Analysis. Assessment, 9(3), 278-291.

Here it is an online program calculating CR:

Our work with juvenile offenders shows the opposite (see attached). We did find that self-reported maltreatment did not significantly predict recidivism when substantiated maltreatment (child welfare system investigations) were included (see "crossover" paper attached). There has been a limited amount of work on substantiated vs. unsubstantiated abuse. Widom's "cycle of violence" however has been widely supported across a range of samples and offending measures. Good luck in your research.

Your statistical analysis should be driven by your research question. Depending on the question (hypothesis) that you would like to address, different approaches might be appropriate. Can you provide more information about your predictions?

Dear Barbara, your study is timely indeed. The growing popularity of body art, reports of increasing hostility between communities and police agencies and the need to harness complexities instead of 'fixing' them have definitely contributed to ongoing dynamics and changes in the tattoo/law enforcement rhetoric. Some agencies are opting for more flexibility with some views that point toward the rapport building potential of body art. I am not able to point out specific research studies, however, you may want to reach out to some law enforcement officers and groups on LinkedIn. I am certain you will get a response for participation in your study or be furnished with other sources of information. Best wishes!

Try this: MMPI-2 Authors @ University of Minnesota Press Consultants

As fellow U of Minnesota alumni both of these authors have been receptive to me in the past in answering similar questions re the MMPI 2. Try reaching out to them for the data you seek Yossef S. Ben-Porath is a professor of psychology at Kent State University and Auke Tellegen is a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Minnesota.

I agree the PCL-R is a great conduit to how the MMPI 2 and the PCL-R have been  used in testing for the MMPI 2's validity scales.

Influence tactics and communication tactics in Fig. 2 in this paper touch upon this issue:

Hausken, K. (1997), “Game-theoretic and Behavioral Negotiation Theory,” Group Decision and Negotiation 6, 6, 509-527

I can think of a couple of issues - first is that the density of street lights is probably also correlated with many other things as well, possibly including "pro-social" behavior such as cleaning stoops, picking up litter, and so on. Certainly lighting reduces the fear of crime (The 1970s review by Tien is still very relevant to the question: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/47011NCJRS.pdf), but as mentioned it also sometimes is necessary to commit crime. (Criminals need task lighting, too!)

Because street lighting density is also linked to general population density, and probably other factors that may be linked to safety/crime-related environmental factors such as vegetation, sidewalks, road medians, bus shelters, trash cans, and so on, it is important to try to include as many of these factors in your regression modeling as possible to try to isolate what lighting may be doing versus the combination of lighting, high population density and other things. You still have the issue that correlation does not imply causality, but if you can account for as many of the other factors as possible, you can at least begin to make a case for causality.

A rather far-out parallel that also comes to mind is the fact that dementia patients in nursing homes sometimes become more agitated when they do not have strong patterns of light during the day followed by darkness at night. While it seems far fetched to guess that individuals who commit antisocial behaviors suffer from dementia, perhaps there is something about reduced circadian light-dark patterns that makes us more irritable or even more antisocial?

In Canada, criminal responsibility is defined by the person's capacity to understand what they were doing was (morally or legally) wrong and to be in control of their actions. The legal defense is to refute criminal responsibility on account of mental disorder, resulting in the status of Not Criminally Responsible on account of Mental Disorder (NCRMD).

Note that it's not simply a question of whether someone has a mental disorder or not. The defense requires that the mental disorder affected the person's criminal responsibility. As a hypothetical example, having a diagnosis of schizophrenia and repeated hospitalizations as a result is not sufficient evidence; the defense requires that symptoms account for the criminal behavior, such as a delusion that the victim of an assault was trying to control one's mind, and thus the act was one of self-defense.

We recently published a series of open-access articles on our large-scale study of persons found NCRMD in Canada -- the National Trajectory Project -- in the March 2015 issue of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. You can find the link below. 

The purpose behind my question is that my brother, who had been sexually abused by a neighbor boy, also sexually abused his daughters.  It didn't help that he had two marriages that failed and left him stranded in the bedroom.  As much as he hated his attraction to young girls and child porn, he would resort back to it.  This landed him in prison.  I also believe that he was bipolar which could have been a factor in this equation.

In our research on mentally disordered offenders, we have both conducted literature reviews as suggested above and also have collected data on female offenders, comparing them to male offenders on various measures to address questions such as their similarity and difference in risk factors for recidivism, recidivism rates, and clinical/social profiles (e.g., psychiatric diagnoses, symptoms, trajectory in hospital and beyond). 

For an example, see the following article (available open access) from the National Trajectory Project; the other articles are also open access.

I appreciate your insight and have built my dissertation around expected resistance and even psychological reactance, based on field observations.  Therefore, what you suggest and describe are expected, and in fact, what I am gleaning from preliminary data analysis.  I appreciate your commentary and familiarity with the topic.   EBP has its obvious merits, but as many things "we" jump into, we may have somewhat put a cart before the horse.  No matter how sensible EBP may sound, it has little to no benefit without acceptance and implementation.

I would recommend the Book "Tell Me More" which summarized such research.

Dear Ellen, 

Some papers on the issue:

You can count me to the people advicing against post-hoc power analyses. Such analyses are non-sensical. But here is a link, nonetheless ;) :

The R-package "pROC" can do this.

This is an add-on package for "R" (just in case you don't know; it's a very powerful, useful, and free statistics software).

Acadmically I endorse the first answer fully.However,as far as the analysis of circumstantial evidence in judicial verdict is concerned,Supreme court of India laid down as far back as in 1952 that there is no doubt that conviction can be based solely on circumstantial evidence but it should be tested by the touch stone of law relating to circumstantial evidence. state of Haryana V.Jagir Singh,2003 Cri.LJ,5054(SC) AND State of MadhyaPradesh V.Sanjay Rai,2004,Cri.LJ,2007(sc)

Yes, of course.  Thank you for your interest.

The association between child abuse and domestic violence is very strong.  Consideration should be given to both when assessing perpetrators of child abuse. I am not aware of an instrument for assessing perpetrators of child abuse but there are many factors that have been associated with the perpetration of child abuse and of domestic violence. Perpetrator risk factors for child abuse and domestic violence include unemployment, young age, having a drug, alcohol or gambling problem, being excessively controlling, being extremely jealous, having a serious mental health problem or borderline personality disorder, use of violence inside and outside the home, past assault history, conduct disorders and physical aggression during childhood amongst males, access to guns or lethal means, threats to kill, cruelty to pets. Other risk factors for child abuse include mother's very young age, rejection of the child, shaking a baby, serious mental health problems amongst the primary care giver, maternal stress, and co-occurring domestic violence. Severe parental conflict and impending parental separation have also been identified as risks. The risk of perpetration increases with a history of power assertive punishment as a child, witnessing men's domestic violence as a male, and child contact disputes.  A common precipitating factor for a child's death involving young male perpetrators is being left to care for a crying baby.

Adding to the previous good responses, dissociation, as Béatrice has mentioned, may also contribute to memory disturbances. There are, at least, two explanations for that.

Merckelbach, H., Horselenberg, R., & Schmidt, H. (2002). Modeling the connection between self-reported trauma and dissociation in astudent sample. Personality Personality and Individual Differences, 32(4), 695- 705.

Merckelbach, H., & Jelicic, M. (2004). Dissociative symptoms are related to endorsement of vague trauma items. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 45, 70–75.

Merckelbach, H., Muris, P., Rassin, E., & Horselenberg, R. (2000). Dissociative experiences and interrogative suggestibility in college students. Personality and Individual Differences, 29, 1133–1140.

van der Kloet, D., Merckelbach, H., Giesbrecht, T., & Lynn, S. J. (2012). Fragmented sleep, fragmented mind: The role of sleep in dissociative symptoms. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7(2), 159–175. doi:10.1177/1745691612437597

I wrote a brief 'intro' to issues of Eyewitness Identification a few weeks ago and found the following papers enlightening:

Forgive the lack of full citations, I've linked the papers below. I've also attached my short article for interest.

Would lack of empathy hold merit with regard to and holding and/or controlling for other  significant variables. We found in our study - that lack of impulsive control along with low SES also was associated with violence and delinquency

Yes, the genetic component in aggression can also be explained by flight and fright response

Go into the VA sites under Government and they have most of the scales, guidelines if differently written for different states. I foulnd this under the Government guildelines about Mississippi. I hope this will help you. Good luck. Lorri A ten item form, Miss-10, is available. (Hyer et al., 1991). M-PTSD-DS is an adapted version appropriate for Desert Storm War Zone personnel. Also, a parallel version exists for administration to spouses/partners (Taft et al., 1999).

Dear Rafael,

J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs. 2001 Feb;8(1):25-32.

Something special: forensic psychiatric nursing.

Martin T

Abstract

In this paper the claims that forensic psychiatric nursing has achieved the status of a specialist area of nursing are refuted. An examination of the literature demonstrates that specialist knowledge and skills have not been documented. It is suggested that three requirements are necessary if forensic psychiatric nurses wish to achieve specialty status. Forensic nurses have to consolidate their role in the containment and care of patients, they have to return to the nurse-patient relationship as the foundation of psychiatric nursing practice, then, within that relationship, nurses must expand their practice to include dealing with offence issues.

Pieter, you asked if a forensic mental health patient can decide on his use of brothels/prostitutes, but the subsequent postings deal with the question Should a forensic mental health patient use brothels/prostitutes?  Your own posting outlines some key considerations, particularly the patient's original offense, and the status of dynamic risk items.  Clearly someone who has been charged with a violent, sexual offense should not be encouraged to use brothels/prostitutes.

The goals of therapy are another important consideration.  But this raises a fundamental therapeutic issue: to what extent should our therapy be designed to impose our moral values on our patients?  This becomes apparent when your question about a patient's cognitive abilities -- can he decide -- is seen to be, in fact, a question about the patient's behaviour -- should he use.

Thank you Robert Louden and Dr J-F for such helpful responses!

It is great you are working diligently to develop a good study.

It is wrong to use a copyrighted instrument without paying for it, or otherwise getting approval. Whether any of us agree that this copyright/commercial idea is "right" or "wrong" morally is not relevant; the law is already in place. 

Often, developers will allow a grad student to use an instrument for free, or low-cost, possibly a flat fee.

Along with asking PAR if you can do this, you could also write the developers of the instrument and see if you can get approval from them. They may have an agreement with the publisher to do this at their discretion. If you get permission, note this in your ethics application, and you can save and upload/submit an email with that info with your ethics application. 

Thank you for the responses. I was able to get the document from Dr. Tutty!