scholarly journals Criminal court ordered assessments in France and Canada: a comparison

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastien S Prat ◽  
Noemie Praud ◽  
Lauren Barney
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Psychiatry ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
The Other ◽  
Scientific Concepts ◽  
Letter To The Editor ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Justice Systems

In this Letter to the Editor, we aim to compare the Canadian and the French forensic psychiatry system. Comparing both systems is interesting because France is considered as one of the oldest modern justice systems, and many of the forensic concept are inherited from it or its European neighbours. On the other hand, Canada is one of the countries where the modern forensic psychiatry is born, implementing the actual scientific concepts of criminology. Although the overall goal of the Justicer system and Forensic Psychiatry is the same in both countries, the theoritecal and practical differences help each professional to reflect on their own practice in their jurisdiction.

Letter to the Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 94 (5) ◽  
pp. 777-778
Author(s):  
Yvonne D. Senturia ◽  
Katherine Kaufer Christoffel ◽  
Mark Donovan
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pediatric Practice ◽  
Letter To The Editor ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Causes Of Violence

In response to Dr Blackman: Dr Blackman's letter confuses several distinct issues: 1) gun exposure of children seen in pediatric practices, 2) teen gun use, 3) the root causes of violence (eg, poverty), and 4) his model of "a stable and moral family environment." Our paper addresses only the first issue. Guns in the homes of pediatric practice attenders are not the cause of all of society's ills, nor of all gun violence. On the other hand, guns in the home are a proven hazard,1-4 which pediatric counseling may help to reduce.

Letter to the Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-315
Author(s):  
Anthony Brickman
Keyword(s):  
Skin Test ◽  
Neutralizing Antibody ◽  
Hospital Ward ◽  
The Other ◽  
Letter To The Editor ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Seronegative Individual ◽  
Stay Hospital

The mumps neutralizing antibody titration as performed in our laboratory accurately predicts susceptibility to mumps. No patient with a titer of 1:2 or greater has subsequently become infected. When a group of children was exposed to mumps on a long-stay hospital ward, every seronegative individual subsequently excreted virus, developed parotitis, or both.1 On the other hand we know of numerous skin test positive individuals who went on to develop mumps. The results of our study indicate that placebo reactions cannot account for all of the discrepancies in the mumps skin test.

scholarly journals Narcissism: Groundwork for Sectarian Misdemeanors

2020 ◽  
pp. 08-16
Author(s):  
Saeed Shoja Shafti
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Forensic Psychiatry ◽  
The Other ◽  
Violent Crimes ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
State Of Mind

In DSM-5, the sector of ‘Other Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention’, has discussed about cults. The said section covers all conditions and problems that are a focus of clinical attention or that may otherwise affect the diagnosis, course, prognosis, or treatment of a patient's mental disorder. While cults are usually led by charismatic leaders, who offer acceptance and guidance to troubled followers, cult followers are strongly controlled and forced to dissolve commitment to family and others to serve the cult leader's directives and personal needs. On the other hand, there were many cult leaders, who have been convicted of violent or non-violent crimes, as a commander or committer, before, during or after their period as a cult leader. While many bio-psycho-social factors involve in the grouping and formation of sects or cults, numerous dynamics, too, may prepare the group’s state of mind for perpetrating crime. Among a number of conceivable historical, cultural, or radical causes, while psychopathy, at all times, have had a firm position in forensic psychiatry, narcissism, whether as a primary trait or as a misleadingly stirred quality, have been generally over looked. Interrelationship between narcissism and psychopathy, from one hand, and the scarce set of circumstances, on the other hand, may create a situation, full of mix-ups, which can be continued melancholically and hazardously. In the present article, the likely role of narcissism, among numerous mechanisms that may involve in establishment of sectarian misbehavior, will be discussed in more detail. Keywords: Cult; Sect; Narcissism; Psychopathy; Crime

Forensic Psychiatry and Psychopathology: An Amendment in Contemporary Period

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saeed Shoja Shafti
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Forensic Psychiatry ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Paranoid Ideation ◽  
Other Hand

: As stated by Jaspers, a delusion is a deviant assessment of reality that is irredeemably believed. Therefore, while the delusions are apprehended with the uncommon verdict and are not open to rationality, their irrationality or wrongness is obvious to other persons. While Norman Cameron’s pseudo-community, a supposed community of conspirators, was a historical description of conditions that promote the development of delusional disorders, modern technology and advancement of new communicative tools, like smartphone, hidden camera, satellite, internet, and stealthy or scheming tricks or setups, like double-crossing and masquerading scenarios, stressful circumstances, furtive or hectic arrangements, creating a scene to deceive, hack, or tampering, have brought about the possibility of a conspiracy by prejudiced or inimical people, which may amplify the conceivable diagnostic faults by the perplexity of circumstances. On the other hand, it is the duty of forensic and clinical psychiatrists to guess or discover any kind of deceptive entrapment or simulation. In the present article, the said eccentricities, which may have been accelerated by modern technology, have been discussed briefly, especially with respect to paranoia and paranoid ideation. Moreover, some clarifications for better demarcation of the discussed problem and modification of operational definitions in the realm of psychopathology have been suggested. Certainly, ample watchfulness by a clinical or forensic psychiatrist for neutralizing a thinkable intrigue is an apposite performance for improving civil rights and preventing preventable slips.

Letter To The Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 715-715
Author(s):  
John P. Lintermans ◽  
Victorine Seyhnaeve
Keyword(s):  
Pulmonary Tuberculosis ◽  
Tuberculous Meningitis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Specific Therapy ◽  
Letter To The Editor ◽  
Other Hand

Drs. Lintermans and Seyhnaeve commented as follows: We agree with Drs. Morris and Phillis Steiner that the use of corticosteroids on our reported case1 might have contributed to the development of tuberculous meningitis 3½ months after the initiation of specific therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis. The fact that the infecting organism was isoniazid resistant seems to substantiate this possibility. On the other hand, documented cases of tuberculous meningitis, due to isoniazid susceptible organisms, developing during the course of chemotherapy (including isoniazid) for pulmonary tuberculosis have been described.2-4

Secondary Measures

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Pattison
Keyword(s):  
International Criminal Court ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
Humanitarian Assistance ◽  
The Other ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Buck Passing

This chapter considers measures that often aim to tackle mass atrocities and external aggression as a secondary aim. It focuses on three measures: actions by the International Criminal Court (ICC), (2) accepting refugees, and (3) humanitarian assistance. The chapter examines the question of whether we should frame these measures as major policy options to tackle mass atrocities and serious external aggression. On the one hand, it argues that international criminal prosecutions by the ICC should be seen as a central part of the toolkit for responses to mass atrocities. This is despite worries about its politicization and linking it to R2P. On the other hand, it argues that we should not view accepting refugees and humanitarian aid as part of the R2P toolkit, in large part due to worries about buck-passing.

Präzision und Kontingenz

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-444
Author(s):  
Stefan Müller ◽  
Christian Nerowski
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Educational Science ◽  
Scientific Concepts ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

Abstract Precision and Contingency. An Area of Tension in the Assignment of Scientific Concepts Given the fact that the scientific discourse on education is based on educational- scientific concepts, it is surprising that the methodology of the assignment of these concepts is hardly addressed and reflected. This article raises a tension of the requirements of concepts in educational science between precision, accuracy and exactness on the one hand; and contingency, openness, and dynamics on the other hand. In this article we reject attempts to resolve the tension to only one side, which would mean to give preference to either precision or contingency and neglect the other side. In contrast we sketch a model for the assignment of educational-scientific concepts that unites both sides of the tension: If precision is understood as a requirement for the concept as a product, and the consideration of contingency is understood as a requirement for the process of the assignment, it is possible to assign concepts that both are precise and consider their contingency.

Interlude

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula Renz
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Scientific Concepts ◽  
Natural Entities ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

This interlude compares the role that the physical digression plays in the Ethics with the function of physics or neuropsychology in contemporary philosophy of mind. It is argued that, unlike in many contemporary approaches, Spinoza does not pursue a reductionist strategy. Instead, the introduction of the physical digression has two very specific functions. On the one hand, it serves as a model that allows Spinoza to conceptualize differences between specific minds, albeit in a preliminary manner. On the other hand, in support of his introduction of the concept of common notions, the digression also justifies his later claim that, by means of coining scientific concepts, humans are able to form adequate ideas of the properties of natural entities.

scholarly journals Letter to the editor

1940 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-96
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Scientific Society ◽  
Letter To The Editor ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Literary Reputation ◽  
Scientific Periodical ◽  
Publica Tions ◽  
Author Note

I hope that you will allow me to record my protest against the re/ publication of Mr Wilfred Trotter’s letter to Times in the November issue of Notes and Records. I realize that Notes and Records is not a scientific periodical, that its circulation is mainly among Fellows and that we must not judge it quite by the standards which we should apply to the Transactions or Proceedings. But the representative scientific society of the country will preserve its dignity best by keeping even its ‘ semi/official * publica/ tions free from ‘ propaganda.’ Sentences such as those printed on p. 174, lines 16 to 26, seem to be (even if the sentiments expressed in them be justifiable) unworthy both of the dignity of the Society and the literary reputation of their author. [Note.—A letter on somewhat similar lines has been received from D r L. F. Richardson; on the other hand several Fellows have expressed their satisfaction that the article was reprinted.—E d .]

scholarly journals Study of students' mental images effect on learning chemistry

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-62
Author(s):  
Rasol Abdullah Mirzaie ◽  
Masoumeh Shahmohammadi ◽  
Amrollah Kouhi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
First Grade ◽  
The Other ◽  
Scientific Concepts ◽  
Mental Images ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Learning Chemistry

It is clear that use of images has effect on teaching the chemistry concepts. In classrooms, some examples which are used for simplifying and understanding the material better are in macroscopic dimension and students do not understand particles such as atoms, molecules and ions well. In order to help them understand these concepts in macroscopic dimension, illustration is used. In illustration, students can reflect different concepts of chemistry which have learnt during teaching. One of the illustration methods is to use painting art, as one can determine the extent to which they have understood from chemistry concepts and relationship among different areas of the sciences, society and technology by studying paintings of these students. The Aim of this research is to determine through their paintings whether students have understood the taught concepts in chemistry of the first grade of high school in IRAN or not. These chemistry subjects include water, atmosphere, minerals and fuel. After teaching the above topics, the students were asked to select a subject at their will and paint about it. This research has been performed in two separate cities in IRAN but it has been implemented in equal age groups and it was specified that different places of residence had effects on selection of painting subject. Our experience showed that use of this method led to deep learning in the students and provided the opportunity for them to express their beliefs in scientific concepts in their own way and language. On the other hand, teacher performs a kind of continual evaluation in this way and understands students’ misconceptions and tries to remove these errors before beginning new subject. This method is interesting for students so that most of them mentioned that painting the chemistry was new and interesting experience.

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