The researchers in this literature review focused mainly on self-reported brain injury in violent offenders as a way to determine the correlation between brain injury and crime. In these studies, individuals were given questionnaires that consisted of inquiries about past TBI, criminal behavior, substance abuse, and other
Pioneered by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck, the developmental theory of crime, integrates sociological, psychological, and economic elements into more multifarious developmental views of crime causality. In an effort to produce a more holistic view of a criminal career, which incorporates its inception, prolongation, and dissolution, social scientist have established developmental theories. When applied specifically to intimate partner violence these theories can provide insight into the behavioral patterns of abusers. Intimate partner violence (IPV), according to the CDC, is “a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner.” This abuse can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats that influence the behavior of another person. Intimate partner violence is a serious problem particularly in the United States because on average, 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States, which sums up to more than 12 million women and men over the course of a year.
There are many fields that fit into this, one of these fields being criminal profiling. The Medical Dictionary (2012) states that criminal profiling is “a brief description of the personality of an individual”. Professionals expand on this by saying that it is “the act of developing a psychological profile of an offender based on the state of the crime scene” (What is Criminal Profiling, 2003). There has been many a debate about whether criminal profiling is a reliable and valid tool to use when trying to catch an offender. For something to be valid it has to assess what it is supposed to assess (Psychology for the VCE student, 2005), therefore personality profiling when in correlation with criminal profiling is a valid tool.
All details are documented, and “intended to guide the exam, evidence collection, and crime lab analysis of findings (Turvey, 2012, p. 167). Gathering information from the victim about the events that may have led up to the crime is another important goal of forensic victimology. By categorizing victim exposure, it can be determined if a victim “contributed to their own victimization” (Turvey, 2012, p. 170). The 13 categories are outlined in Turvey (2012) p. 171-172. Some elements include being female, young, promiscuous, or a minority.
In this speech I am going to tell you about the types of insanity defense that are used in court cases, the process that goes into verifying a criminals sanity, and the issues that come about after a plea is entered. Now I’m going to explain what insanity is and the different types associate with it. The insanity defense plea as defined in law journals is a defense that’s asserted by the accused in a criminal prosecution as a way to avoid liability for a commission of a crime because at the time of the crime the person did not appreciate the nature or quality or wrongfulness of the acts. Cognitive insanity is the most common variation of an insanity defense that goes through the court system. This is where the defendant during the time of the crime suffered from a mental disease that impaired his/her psychological ability to see the wrongfulness of the act they committed.
Mentally Disordered Employees in the Workplace: Should We Be Concerned?" According to the textbook, a mental illness can be defined as a disorder of the mind that is judged by experts to interfere substantially with a person’s ability to cope with life on a daily basis. In order for a person to be a threat or present a danger in the workplace there must be several conditions. The first condition is men who are mentally ill and have a history of at least one violent crime have a very high rate of committing another crime within a year after being released from the mental hospital. People who are diagnosed with schizophrenia are at an increased risk of committing violent crimes and at an even higher risk of committing murder.
The purposes of victims assistance programs and the programs functions as applied to the criminal justice system will also be examined, dissected, and highlighted. Problem-solving courts techniques, and restorative justice techniques will also be highlighted along with the programs effect on the criminal justice
Chris is a 23 year old male who was admitted to the Willows, an acute psychiatric ward for working age adults, in September 2009, appearing to be suffering from psychosis. Chris’ parents had became increasingly concerned when he disclosed that a famous rapper had been communicating with him telepathically, stating that he would soon be contacted and signed to a record label. Due to these delusions, Chris isolated himself from his family, friends and society, and terminated his education at college, effectively putting his life on hold awaiting contact from the rapper. Following his admission to the Willows, Chris was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, a complex disorder of the brain which alters an individual’s thoughts, perception and behaviour (National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, 2003, p.6). The delusions and hallucinations Chris was experiencing were eventually controlled with antipsychotic medication in the form of a depot injection, namely Flupentixol Decanoate, of which Chris received a 50mg dosage every two weeks (British National Formulary, 2009, p.203).
I will also relate my chosen topic to the care planning approach and the Psychosocial, physiological assessment procedure for older adult pain management. My rationale for choosing this topic is as a result of my experience during clinical placement in the older adult unit. I observed that most the older adult resident suffers from different variety of pain.. I was involved in the care of an elderly resident with severe dementia and impaired cognitive skills and unable to communicate his needs verbally. After one week of admission into the ward the client who has been cooperative and stable in mental state suddenly became aggressive, hitting staff and insomnia.
Eighty percent of runaway and homeless girls reported having ever been sexually or physically abused. Thirty-four percent of runaway youth (girls and boys) reported sexual abuse before leaving home and forty-three percent of runaway youth (girls and boys) reported physical abuse before leaving home. ( (1800Runaway.org) Juveniles believe that running away is a better alternative than remaining in an abusive home. A large portion of homeless teens are throwaway teens. Throwaway teens are youth who have been expelled from their homes or abandoned by their caregivers or parents.