Violence - Legislation & jurisprudence
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Monday, November 23, 2009

When should psychiatrists seek criminal prosecution of assaultive psychiatric inpatients?

30 Jul 2009 This Open Forum commentary reviews the ethical considerations relevant to the question of prosecuting assaultive psychiatric patients, with particular attention to the significance that should be attached to the arguments generated by those ... Read more...

Patient charting. Turning a routine activity into an opportunity for injury prevention.

30 Jul 2009 Injuries can be predicted and prevented. The first step in doing so is gathering data about who was injured and how. Because injury data is based on documentation in patients' medical charts, physicians play an important role in injury prevention. ... Read more...

The consumption of Internet child pornography and violent and sex offending.

12 Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: There is an ongoing debate on whether consumers of child pornography pose a risk for hands-on sex offenses. Up until now, there have been very few studies which have analyzed the association between the consumption of child pornography ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Violence - Legislation & jurisprudence'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Mental illness and violence. 30 Aug 2009
• Enough is enough. 30 Aug 2009
• When should psychiatrists seek criminal prosecution of assaultive psychiatric inpatients? 30 Jul 2009
• Patient charting. Turning a routine activity into an opportunity for injury prevention. 30 Jul 2009
• The consumption of Internet child pornography and violent and sex offending. 12 Jul 2009
• Understanding the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006. 29 Jun 2009
• Recidivistic offending and mortality in alcoholic violent offenders: a prospective follow-up study. 18 May 2009
• Low non-oxidative glucose metabolism and violent offending: an 8-year prospective follow-up study. 13 May 2009
• ["The Appeal of 39", a movement in psychiatry] 29 Apr 2009
• Racial disparities in involuntary outpatient commitment: are they real? 29 Apr 2009
• Mental health crises and public policy: opportunities for change? 29 Apr 2009
• Adding insult to injury?: the untoward impact of requiring more than de minimis injury in an Eighth Amendment excessive force case. 29 Apr 2009
• Marching for science. 29 Apr 2009
• Crossing the line: should the threshold for admission of mentally disordered offenders be lowered? 30 Mar 2009
• The police and section 135(1) of the Mental Health Act 1983. 30 Mar 2009
• Stay safe at work. 30 Mar 2009
• [Forensic medicine and prevention are not contradictions. "Victim medicine" moves into the spotlight] 17 Mar 2009
• [Physical child abuse: suspicious facts and judical implications] 17 Mar 2009
• As the tide turns: the changing HIV/AIDS epidemic and the criminalization of HIV exposure. 27 Feb 2009
• Accepted legal applications of actuarial testing and delinquency interventions: examples of savings in real-life situations. 30 Jan 2009

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Technical information about 'Violence'

Definition: Individual or group aggressive behavior which is socially non-acceptable, turbulent, and often destructive. It is precipitated by frustrations, hostility, prejudices, etc.

Descriptor UI: D014754

Alternative terms: Violence; Atrocities; Assaultive Behavior; Behavior, Assaultive;

Related Mesh Headings: Battered Child Syndrome; Biological Warfare; War; Battered Women;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; ethnology; history; legislation & jurisprudence; prevention & control; psychology; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I01.198.240.856; I01.880.735.900;

Online Note: search ATROCITIES under WAR CRIMES 1966-67

History Note: 70(68); ATROCITIES was heading 1963-67