Administered a battery of psychological assessments and collected demographic data from
20 male admissions to a state mental hospital who threatened but did not attempt suicide, 21 …

How might the deconstruction of the legal theory of competence be related to modern
neuropsychological models of cognition? To address this question, we examined retrospectively …

To investigate the relationship between lethal violence and psychosis, the authors
examined symptomatology, neuropsychological functioning, and the nature of perpetrator-victim …

OBJECTIVE: This study attempted to statistically distinguish subgroups of murderers with
mental disorders from among 26 hospitalized men (mean age=34 years) who were committed …

We examined archivally clinical status, neuropsychological functioning, and perpetrator-victim
relationships of 28 adult patients who had committed homicide and had been …

Suicide in jails is a growing public health problem. It is growing because the suicide rate
among young men has increased sharply in the last 20 years and because the recent historic …

Jails and prison populations are unique in the incidence of deliberate self-harm, but the
phenomenon is not well understood. One of the few generally accepted findings about suicidal …

Civil commitment represents a natural field of application for the approach that Professor
David Wexler calls therapeutic jurisprudence. When Wexler wams that mental health law has …

In an interview given during the filming of Masculin F6minin, Godard described the film in
these terms:"[Pierrot le fou] was a show, there was something of a show about it; this one won't …

By contrast with the attention that jail suicide has received in the last decade, suicide among
longer-term prisoners has occasioned little public concern and less scholarly interest. This …