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Fort Bragg shooting follows extensive crime fears
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Radell Smith, Atlanta Crime Examiner. Radell Smith possesses a formal education in behavioral forensics as well as successful experience in the field of profiling unsolved homicides. Subscribe · RSS Feed · Become an Examiner ...

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Bees Shed Light On Human Sweet Perception and Metabolic Disorders
Science Daily (press release)
"From this study, we realized we can take advantage of honey bees in understanding how food-related behaviors interact with internal metabolism, as well as how to manipulate these food-related behaviors in order to control metabolic disorders," added ...

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Zimmerman back in court on Friday for second bond hearing
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Radell Smith, Criminal Profiles Examiner. Radell Smith possesses a formal education in behavioral forensics as well as successful experience in the field of profiling unsolved homicides. Subscribe · RSS Feed · Become an Examiner ...

via behavioral forensics - Google News on 6/29/12

The Olympics: Users must protect their own cyberspace
Infosecurity Magazine
Most will remember the 7/7 London attacks, where one bomb detonated within a London bus. Now the buses have been fitted with their own form of 'behavioral analysis' technology that will detect a bus behaving “erratically — something that might happen ...

via pubmed: "behav sci law"[jour... by Vincent GM, Guy LS, Gershenson BG, McCabe P on 6/30/12
Does Risk Assessment Make a Difference? Results of Implementing the SAVRY in Juvenile Probation.
Behav Sci Law. 2012 Jun 29;
Authors: Vincent GM, Guy LS, Gershenson BG, McCabe P
Abstract
An effective approach to reducing recidivism is, first, to identify a youth's risk of reoffending and then to match the intensity of interventions to that risk level. This pre-post quasi-experimental, prospective study compared 247 (pre) with 217 (post) adjudicated youths to examine the implementation of the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY) and its effects on case management practices in Louisiana's Caddo parish probation office. The results indicated that placement rates dropped by 50%, use of maximum levels of supervision dropped by almost 30%, and use of community services decreased except for high-risk youths, but only after the SAVRY was properly implemented. This shift towards more appropriate allocation of resources that are matched to risk level occurred without a significant increase in reoffending. The implications for implementation and for use of risk/needs assessment in juvenile probation are discussed. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
PMID: 22745028 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Dylan McDermott, sister get needed closure in mother's murder
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Radell Smith, Criminal Profiles Examiner. Radell Smith possesses a formal education in behavioral forensics as well as successful experience in the field of profiling unsolved homicides. Subscribe · RSS Feed · Become an Examiner ...

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Janesville School District lists retirements, resignations
Janesville Gazette
Harding began working in Janesville in 2001, teaching students with emotional and behavioral disabilities at Edison Middle School. She then moved to Marshall Middle .... Pakes coached forensics for nine years. -- Patricia Piek-Groth retires after 19 ...

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Developing Situational Awareness
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In this case, network security analysts need to combine behavioral data about malicious artifacts with the network traffic flow data to understand malicious activity across the network. "Without combining relevant data sets impacting the network ...

via behavioral forensics - Google Blog Search by Greg Laden on 6/29/12
SMM Race Exhibit Panel addressing the common misconception that a forensic anthropologist can look at a skull and accurately attribute "race. ... Anthropology (199), Cannibalism (4), Language (20), Language phylogeny (3), Archaeology (116 ), Origin of Agriculture (19), Atheism (212), Aves (birds) (129), Behavioral Biology (127), Naturalistic Fallacy (6), Nature-Nurture (12), Sex Differences (46), Trivers-Willard (11), Biogeography (30), Books (135), Books-Birds (29) ...

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Rational Retention Integrates Catelas
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Catelas Early Case Intelligence leverages a unique combination of technologies, based on social network analysis and behavioral analytics, called Relationships Forensics. This allows Catelas to identify the key people and uncover the hot documents in a ...

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forensic use a knowledge involving economic theories , business information , financial credit reporting methods, sales along with auditing requirements and procedures, data supervision & electronic breakthrough , evidence ...

via pubmed: "behav sci law"[jour... by Perrault RT, Paiva-Salisbury M, Vincent GM on 6/29/12
Probation Officers' Perceptions of Youths' Risk of Reoffending and Use of Risk Assessment in Case Management.
Behav Sci Law. 2012 Jun 28;
Authors: Perrault RT, Paiva-Salisbury M, Vincent GM
Abstract
Juvenile probation officers (JPOs) are required to make numerous decisions about the case management of young offenders on a daily basis. This multi-site study examined JPOs' (N = 64) perceptions of the typical youth's risk of reoffending before implementation of a risk/needs assessment (RNA) tool, and their self-reported, case management decision-making after implementation of an RNA tool. Results indicated that JPOs tended to overestimate the likely base rates of reoffending while RNA tool estimates were more accurate. Further, most JPOs appeared to be making service referral and placement decisions commensurate with youths' risk levels, regardless of whether they claimed to use the RNA tool in their decisions. Variability in application of risk to case management practices was more a function of the probation office than of the specific JPO. Implications for use of risk assessment in juvenile probation are discussed. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
PMID: 22740174 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

via Behavioral Sciences & the Law by Gina M. Vincent, Laura S. Guy, Bernice G. Gershenson, Patrick McCabe on 6/29/12
An effective approach to reducing recidivism is, first, to identify a youth's risk of reoffending and then to match the intensity of interventions to that risk level. This pre–post quasi-experimental, prospective study compared 247 (pre) with 217 (post) adjudicated youths to examine the implementation of the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY) and its effects on case management practices in Louisiana's Caddo parish probation office. The results indicated that placement rates dropped by 50%, use of maximum levels of supervision dropped by almost 30%, and use of community services decreased except for high-risk youths, but only after the SAVRY was properly implemented. This shift towards more appropriate allocation of resources that are matched to risk level occurred without a significant increase in reoffending. The implications for implementation and for use of risk/needs assessment in juvenile probation are discussed. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

via behavioral forensics - Google News on 6/28/12

Georgia leaders promise CJ savings, tout drug addicts success
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Radell Smith, Atlanta Crime Examiner. Radell Smith possesses a formal education in behavioral forensics as well as successful experience in the field of profiling unsolved homicides. Subscribe · RSS Feed · Become an Examiner ...

via behavioral forensics - Google News on 6/28/12

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Effective in Combatting Anxiety Disorders, Study ...
Science Daily (press release)
Whether it is a phobia like a fear of flying, public speaking or spiders, or a diagnosis such as obsessive compulsive disorder, new research finds patients suffering from anxiety disorders showed the most improvement when treated with cognitive ...

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Publication year: 2012
Source:Journal of Criminal Justice, Volume 40, Issue 4



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Date of Earliest Animal Life Reset by 30 Million Years
Science Daily (press release)
Zoology · Agriculture and Food · Behavioral Science · Fossils & Ruins · Fossils · Dinosaurs · Origin of Life · Reference · Trace fossil · Fossil · Sponge · Evolution of the horse. The discovery was made by U of A geologists Ernesto Pecoits and Natalie ...

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Turning Skin Cells Into Brain Cells: Huntington's Disease in a Dish
Science Daily (press release)
"Having these cells will allow us to screen for therapeutics in a way we haven't been able to before in Huntington's disease," saysChristopher A. Ross, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, neurology, pharmacology and ...

via behavioral forensics - Google News on 6/27/12

30-year-old cold case reopened in Brantford
Toronto Star
The force's forensics unit spent last week searching it. No human remains were found, but police ... Police are relying on advances in forensic sciences and information from locals who lived in the area at the time to find answers. Police couldn't say ...

via behavioral forensics - Google News on 6/28/12

Toronto Star
Man arrested after woman, dog shot at Scarborough home
Toronto Star
Wednesday morning, with 10 police cruisers on scene at 9:30 a.m., including a forensics unit. Carol Danilko said she saw the dog bleeding from its neck and foaming at the mouth. She said it was walking very slowly but didn't seem panicked. Heather ...

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As a senior corrections officer at the Federal Detention Center, Richard Spisak had a predilection for preying on inmates, using his position to coerce male inmates into having oral sex with him, federal prosecutors said.

He even went so far as to reorganize his office, strategically aligning filing cabinets and placing papers — including prison rules and regulations — on the windows to block the view of the chair that he told one inmate would be his "assigned chair."

Spisak, 33, of Warminster, was sentenced to 32 months in a federal lockup Thursday for forcing a male inmate identified as J.W. to perform oral sex on him in January 2010. U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond ordered that Spisak, who had been free under house arrest with electronic monitoring, be taken from the courtroom in handcuffs.


Diamond, who found that Spisak also had "inappropriate sexual contact" with two other male inmates, said the former correction officer's conduct was "appalling." The sentence was twice what the high end of the sentencing guidelines recommended.

Spisak pleaded guilty in March to one count of engaging in a sexual act with a ward.

J.W. testified that after he had been transferred to the FDC in 2009, Spisak saw him every day the corrections officer worked and repeatedly "made advances" on him and threatened him if he didn't cooperate with Spisak's sexual demands.

On Jan. 5, 2010, J.W. said Spisak took him into his office and said he would set off his body alarm and tell authorities J.W. tried to assault him unless he performed oral sex.

According to court testimony, J.W. spit onto his own T-shirt after Spisak ejaculated then covered it with his overalls. DNA tests subsequently matched the stained shirt to Spisak. More

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In addition to outlining the state of play, Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry presents a coherent and unified approach across the different debates, characterized by a rejection of reductionism and an emphasis on the ineliminability of uncodified skilled judgement.

The first part, Values, outlines the debate about whether diagnosis of mental illness is essentially value-laden and argues that the prospects for reducing illness or disease to plainly factual matters are poor. It also explains the important role of skilled contextual judgement, rather than a principles-based deduction, in ethical judgement.

The second part, Meanings, examines the central role of understanding and a shared first person perspective, both against attempts to reduce meaning to basic information-processing mechanisms and to explain away the difficulties of understanding psychopathology in recent models of delusion.

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An articulate, informed, and lucid exploration of the nature of madness, the Mad Pride movement, and ultimately what it is like to be deemed “mad” by society. Seth Farber’s extensive interviews with leaders of the Mad Pride movement are particularly engaging and memorable. ~ Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic:Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Seth Farber has dedicated his decades of professional life to not merely destigmatizing “mental illness,” but to giving us an all-inclusive, spiritual perspective on the evolution of consciousness that will, hopefully, end the iatrogenic suffering caused to so many in “the doctor’s (iatro’s) efforts to heal.” The existence of this book is, in itself, uplifting; its many cogent insights will surely inspire similarly dedicated readers to further this great humanitarian work. ~ Stuart Sovatsky, PhD, Words from the Soul: Time, East/West Spirituality, and Psychotherapeutic Narrative


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Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry is a concise introduction to the growing field of philosophy of psychiatry. Divided into three main aspects of psychiatric clinical judgement, values, meanings and facts, it examines the key debates about mental health care, and the philosophical ideas and tools needed to assess those debates, in six chapters.

In addition to outlining the state of play, Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry presents a coherent and unified approach across the different debates, characterized by a rejection of reductionism and an emphasis on the ineliminability of uncodified skilled judgement.

The first part, Values, outlines the debate about whether diagnosis of mental illness is essentially value-laden and argues that the prospects for reducing illness or disease to plainly factual matters are poor. It also explains the important role of skilled contextual judgement, rather than a principles-based deduction, in ethical judgement.

The second part, Meanings, examines the central role of understanding and a shared first person perspective, both against attempts to reduce meaning to basic information-processing mechanisms and to explain away the difficulties of understanding psychopathology in recent models of delusion.

The third part, Facts, shows the importance of uncodified clinical judgements, both in assessing the validity of psychiatric taxonomy and in the application of Evidence Based Medicine. Despite advances in the codifaction of practice and operationalism of diagnosis, an element of judgement remains in the assessment both of what, at one level, is good evidence for diagnosis and treatment and what, at a higher level, is good evidence for the validity of classification overall.

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Dr. Isay, a psychiatrist, won a pitched battle to persuade his own profession to stop treating homosexuality as a disease.

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Is mass murderer Anders Breivik sane or insane? Forensic psychiatry has been under scrutiny during his court case, which heard closing arguments last week. Per Helge Måseide reports from Oslo.

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For many non-Americans, the intense struggle between Barack Obama, an elected President who signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law in 2010, and an unelected Supreme Court, which has been deliberating on the constitutional legality of the Act, has been puzzling. Irrespective of the Court's decision, which is an important but still small footnote to a dispute that will likely continue to divide Americans, the more troubling question is why one of the most scientifically and culturally advanced nations of the world has been so reticent about embracing universal health coverage? Some critics have argued that Presidents Clinton and Obama, strenuous advocates for extending health coverage, focused too much on the economics of healthcare.

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Letter to a Young Psychiatrist
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Prisoner numbers rise as 8000 in Scottish jails on an average day
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The number of people in Scotland's prisons has risen to more than 8000. There were 8178 inmates on an average day in 2011-2012, an increase of four per cent on the previous year.
Report reveals prisoners at record high as crime in Scotland is at lowest ...Scotsman
Number of prisoners in Scotland's jails reaches record levels, new figures showScottish Daily Record
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New rule protects prisoners' rights
China Daily
Chinese police will face punishments ranging from demotion to dismissal if they are found to have abused inmates or aided in the mistreatment of prisoners.
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HRANA and Zamaneh: Political prisoner Arjang Davoodi, 59, who has been in prison since 2003, was transferred from Rajaee Shahr Prison to the Intelligence Ministry's Ward 209 at Evin Prison on Wednesday night. Earlier in the afternoon, prison ...

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Goal: To ensure that a mother who physically abused her infant daughter receives mental health treatment instead of a jail sentence. Twenty-year-old Kellie Park is being held in prison in West Haven, Connecticut after she ...

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By Josh Jarman The Columbus Dispatch FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ohio — An officer at the Franklin County Juvenile Detention Center has resigned amid allegations he had sexual contact with an inmate. Todd M. Watson, 36, of Reynoldsburg, resigned from his job as a juvenile detention officer on June 4, about a month after an investigation began into allegations that he touched a female inmate inappropriately ...

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Judge spearheads effort for mental health court
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An Aspen judge on Friday convened a meeting of officials from the legal, medical, law enforcement and community service sectors to talk about setting up a new court system to handle repeat offenders who have mental health issues. ... The system ...

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Psychological test ordered for teen
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Friday morning a judge signed an order that 17-year-old Destiny Coulson should be sent to the state "center for Forensic Psychology" in Ypsilanti, Mich. Coulson's attorney says he thinks she is not competent to stand trial and filed a motion Friday ...

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Killer faces assessment to decide length of jail term
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Mr MacLeod added: “This was his one and only foray into the world of prostitution. Mr Rodak would be extremely unlikely to put himself in such situations again.” He suggested that the ... The judge appointed Rajan Darjee, consultant forensic ...

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The Olympics: Users must protect their own cyberspace
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Prisons director accused of unfairness
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Early Formation of GABAergic Synapses Governs the Development of Adult-Born Neurons in the Olfactory Bulb.
J Neurosci. 2012 Jun 27;32(26):9103-9115
Authors: Pallotto M, Nissant A, Fritschy JM, Rudolph U, Sassoè-Pognetto M, Panzanelli P, Lledo PM
Abstract
In mammals, olfactory bulb granule cells (GCs) are generated throughout life in the subventricular zone. GABAergic inputs onto newborn neurons likely regulate their maturation, but the details of this process remain still elusive. Here, we investigated the differentiation, synaptic integration, and survival of adult-born GCs when their afferent GABAergic inputs are challenged by conditional gene targeting. Migrating GC precursors were targeted with Cre-eGFP-expressing lentiviral vectors in mice with a floxed gene encoding the GABA(A) receptor α2-subunit (i.e., Gabra2). Ablation of the α2-subunit did not affect GC survival but dramatically delayed their maturation. We found a reduction in postsynaptic α2-subunit and gephyrin clusters accompanied by a decrease in the frequency and amplitude of GABAergic postsynaptic currents beginning ∼14 d post-injection (dpi). In addition, mutant cells exhibited altered dendritic branching and spine density. Spine loss appeared with mislocation of glutamatergic synapses on dendritic shafts and a reduction of spontaneous glutamatergic postsynaptic currents, underscoring the relevance of afferent GABAergic transmission for a proper synaptic integration of newborn GCs. To test the role of GABAergic signaling during much early stages of GC maturation, we used a genetic strategy to selectively inactivate Gabra2 in precursor cells of the subventricular zone. In these mice, labeling of newborn GCs with eGFP lentiviruses revealed similar morphological alterations as seen on delayed Gabra2 inactivation in migrating neuroblasts, with reduced dendritic branching and spine density at 7 dpi. Collectively, these results emphasize the critical role of GABAergic synaptic signaling for structural maturation of adult-born GCs and formation of glutamatergic synapses.
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Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2012 Jun 29;
Authors: Kesic D, Thomas SD, Ogloff JR
Abstract
PURPOSE: To examine the estimated rates of mental disorders and associated situational characteristics in people involved in nonfatal use of force incidents with police in VIC, Australia. METHODS: A random sample of 4,267 cases between 1995 and 2008 from a dedicated police Use of Force Register were linked with the state-wide public mental health database and a police contacts database. Rates of ICD 9 and ICD 10 mental disorders recorded on the public mental health database were examined, as well as rates of criminal offending and the characteristics of force used by both parties. RESULTS: More than a third of people on whom the police resorted to using force (n = 1,621, 38 %) had a history of mental disorder. Significant overrepresentations of the estimated prevalence of psychosis [12.5 %, OR = 9.03, 95 % CI (7.41, 11.01), p < 0.001] and schizophrenia [9.1 %, OR = 9.73, 95 % CI (7.59, 12.47) p < 0.001] were found. Those diagnosed with mental disorders were 1.52 times more likely to use or threaten to use weapons on police, even after taking into account age, sex, substances intoxication and violent behaviour [95 % CI (1.23, 1.91), p < 0.001]; however, they were no more likely to injure or be injured by police than those without a recorded history of mental disorder. There was a noted trend for police to use, or threaten to use, weapons on people with a history of psychosis (other than schizophrenia) [OR = 1.40, 95 % CI (1.11, 1.78), p = 0.005]. CONCLUSIONS: Psychoses and schizophrenia are dramatically overrepresented in cases where police resort to using force. Situational characteristics evident in the encounters are suggestive of a sub-group of people with mental disorders presenting with aggressive and otherwise problematic behaviours coupled with histories of criminal offending; this presents significant ongoing challenges for the police.
PMID: 22744175 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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