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Criminal Responsibility Scale: Development and Validation of a Psychometric Tool Structured in Clinical Vignettes for Criminal Responsibility Assessments in Brazil

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
Criminal responsibility assessment is undertaken by psychologists or psychiatrists to assess offenders' legal capacities, which vary among countries or regional legislations.
Leonardo Fernandez Meyer, Cláudia Cristina Studart Leal, Alexandre de Almeida Souza Omena, Katia Mecler, Alexandre Martins Valença   +4 more
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How do I pardon thee?: The effects of relationship type, account type, and gender on offence-specific forgiveness

Cogent Psychology, 2023
We employed a Bayesian analysis to compare offence-specific forgiveness in supportive versus ambivalent relationships. We also investigated offender accounts to assess their effect on forgiveness.
Robert D. Ridge, Gregory L. Busath, Brian G. Mead, Ariana Hedges-Muncy   +3 more
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Constructing hope: a multi-agency programme model for young sex offenders living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa [PDF]

, 2007
Many young sex offenders in South Africa have HIV/AIDS. This fact both complicates and underlines the importance of delivering effective multi-agency sex offender programmes to these individuals.
Boer, Douglas Pieter, Dosio, Dario
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Hijacking the Host Clock: A Nematode Effector Antagonizes Soybean Circadian Defense and Translation Control

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Soybean employs its circadian clock, governed by GmCCA1, to rhythmically defend against soybean cyst nematodes. The pathogen retaliates by secreting the effector Hg4E02, which hijacks the clock to suppress defense and co‐opt the host's translation machinery for nutrient acquisition.
Xingwei Wang, Yufeng Xu, Yanfei Hu, Lijun Cao, Ru Jiang, Changtian Chen, Rick Masonbrink, Thomas Maier, Yuchen Tu, Yabo Shi, Enhui Liu, Lingan Kong, Chan Guo, Wei Zhao, Peng Shi, Wenzhen Du, Andrew Severin, Thomas Baum, Deliang Peng, Huan Peng, Mian Zhou, Wei Wang   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

High Risk, High Dose?—Pharmacotherapeutic Prescription Patterns of Offender and Non-Offender Patients with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder

Biomedicines, 2022
Compared to acute or community settings, forensic psychiatric settings, in general, have been reported to make greater use of antipsychotic polypharmacy and/or high dose pharmacotherapy, including overdosing.
Lena Machetanz, Moritz Philipp Günther, Steffen Lau, Johannes Kirchebner   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ethical and practical concerns regarding the current status of sex offender risk assessment [PDF]

, 2008
Risk assessment strategies are becoming more complex and accurate, but remain problematic in terms of how such instruments are promoted and used. Currently, many people doing risk assessments of sex offenders are using actuarial (statistical) tests ...
Boer, Douglas Pieter
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Synergistic Probe Combining Lysosome Anchoring and Tumor Defense System Targeting for Precise Tumor Visualization

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A new generation of high‐precision fluorescent probes based on the lysosomal characteristics in tumor metabolic reprogramming and overexpressed tumor markers. The probe (CN‐D‐GGT) selectively label cancer cells in co‐culture systems and distinguish tumor lesions from inflamedand normal tissues in vivo, enabling precise tumor imaging.
Yang Shen, Jiawei Li, Ruixi Yi, Ling Shi, Wei Li, Sulai Liu, Lin Yuan   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crime and Punishment: A Rethink

Philosophies, 2023
Incarceration remains the foremost form of sentence for serious crimes in Western democracies. At the same time, the management of prisons and of the prison population has become a major real-world challenge, with growing concerns about overcrowding, the
Ognjen Arandjelović
doaj   +1 more source

Mobility and distance decay at the aggregated and individual level [PDF]

, 2010
Most crimes are committed near to where the offender lives; this has been observed both at the aggregate and at the offender level. At the aggregate level, as the distance increases there is a decline in the number of offences committed, and initially ...
Van Daele, Stijn
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Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
wiley   +1 more source