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Last week, the American Psychiatric Association issued a press release highlighting an ongoing decline in the recruitment of medical students into the specialty—at a time when the numbers of practising psychiatric professionals in the USA is falling. Various reasons are proposed, including the short-term nature ... Our goal is to promote ethics education in Pennsylvania, across the country, and around the world. We have individuals reading and using our content from ...

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The international pharmaceutical giant took top-prescribing psychiatrists to pricey resorts in Bermuda, Jamaica, Hawaii and other exotic locales where, in between spa services, they could hear speeches from fellow shrinks ...

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We were on something like the 15th round of rummy, and my father was winning decisively. He cracked a wide, toothy grin as he laid his cards on the table. ''That's 321 for BaBa, and 227 for String Bean,'' he said, tallying the ledger we were keeping on a piece of scrap paper. Before he finished writing the numbers, he began a rapid succession of anecdotes about his first car. And his second. And his third. He reached for a magazine to show me the vintage Mustang he said he was planning to b...

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Dueling diagnoses roil trial of Norway killer Breivik
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The Norwegian psychiatrists behind the much-debated report deeming Anders Behring Breivik insane defended their diagnosis in court today, despite mounting evidence that the self-confessed killer was possibly sane and hence criminally punishable for ...
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The possibility that Britain could follow the example of the United States, where the entry of for-profit schools into the market saw many students take on massive amounts of debt, is causing concern.


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Iran says it is willing to lower uranium enrichment levels to end sanctions. But it also set out red lines in PowerPoint presentation at recent Moscow talks.

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The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is pushing to abolish baby 'boxes' where mothers can legally abandon unwanted babies. Social workers argue otherwise.

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Jorge Videla led Argentina's 1976 coup. He and eight others were convicted for stealing babies from 'enemies of the state' during the military junta's rule.



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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Exploring the Reasoning that the United States Holds the Highest Prison Rate

Exploring the Reasoning that the United States Holds the Highest Prison Rate

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Introduction
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Since 1980, there has been a huge growth in the incarcerated population in the United
States according to Seiter (2008). There are several legal issues, which have directly contributed if not caused entirely the explosion of people doing time in correctional facilities in this country. Besides the mindset that confinement is the most effective means of dealing with crime, it seems that the decision in Rhodes v. Chapman by the United States Supreme Court in 1981 was the beginning of this problem. The decision, which stated it was not unconstitutional to house prisoners in housing that is overcrowded, gave the green light to this issue. Other reasons include but are not limited to the increased use of confinement as penal policy, increasing sentence lengths, truth in sentencing, new penology, the war on drugs, and the sentencing reform act of 1984.
Rhodes v. Chapman
Justia (n.d.), reports that in 1981 inmates from an Ohio maximum security correctional institution filed a class action lawsuit which claimed that housing two men in a cell was against their eighth amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment. The court held that because the inmates are out of their cells most of the day that this did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment. This ruling allowed administrations of prisons to double cell inmates which is a good thing because over the next twenty five years the population grew in the correctional system by at least 500 percent as noted by Seitel (2008). This is attributed to several factors that have changed penal policy from the medical model that focused on rehabilitation and reducing recidivism to the model of confinement that we use today.

Increased Use of Confinement as Policy
In the United States, the American people have changed how they view crime. Since 1980 we are more afraid of crime, the media reports violent crime almost daily. We have also become less tolerant of the criminal element in society, and would just as soon lock them up and keep them confined notes Seitel (2008). Some of this is because the public does not generally follow the statistics that show that our crime rates are dropping, and with the media showing the worst of the violent crime daily we tend to believe the worst. When it is time to tell our policy makers what we want, because of this influence and our lack of looking for the facts on our own, we tell them that we want them confined and for longer periods of time (Seitel, 2008).
Sentencing Reform Act of 1984
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (n.d.) reports that the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 was used to toughen the sentencing guidelines for criminals. This legislation was used to establish determinate sentencing, abolish parole at the federal level and reduced the amounts of good time that was given for following the rules in prison. In addition to these guidelines, there were addendums in 1986, 1988, and 1990 as illegal immigration and illicit drug use and sale increased conviction rates in the court system (Federal Bureau of Prisons, n.d.). This type of legislation also established the truth in sentencing guidelines.
Truth in Sentencing and Three Strikes Laws
Truth in sentencing guidelines maintains that an inmate in prison for a violent crime must serve out 85% of the time given at sentencing holds Chen (2000). Three strike laws maintain that habitual offenders receive longer sentences for their crimes. If the offender’s crime was violent, the standard sentence becomes 25 to life on the third strike. What this has managed to cause according to Chen (2000) is more older offenders in prisons past the age of 50, more lifers, and an increase in other types of offenders in intermediate sanction punishments, due to the overcrowding that these laws have caused.
War on Drugs
In addition to the stance on tougher sentencing, reduction of good time, and truth in sentencing and three strike legislation, at the same time in the early 1980’s Ronald Reagan’s Presidency was the time that we as a nation declared a “war on drugs” campaign (Seitel, 2008). The idea is that society’s stance on illicit drugs holds that the problems caused by the use, production, and sale of these substances are not good for our society, communities or families. They bring unnecessary crime along with these factions of the narcotics industry. Seitel (2008) also maintains that according to the Department of Justice, research correlates a compelling relationship between crime and substance use. As drug crimes became more pronounced more federal statutes and mandatory sentencing guidelines were set regarding them. When the mandatory statute for federal narcotics crimes became five or ten year mandatory sentences, the prison population grew to the increased sentencing time.
Conclusion
Since the 1980’s, we have watched our prison population in the United States quadruple in size. This has to do with the change in the penal model from the medical model to the model of increased control that we exercise on our prison population still today according to Seitel (2008). We have become as a society increasingly intolerant and afraid of the criminal element that dwell among us, and the current policy is to keep them more confined for longer periods than we ever have. The justice system accomplishes this by utilizing legislation such as the sentencing act of 1984, three strikes law, mandatory sentencing guidelines, and truth in sentencing guidelines.  
 
References:
Chen, E. (2001). Impact of Three Strikes and Truth in Sentencing on the Volume and Composition of Correctional Populations. Retrieved From: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/187109.pdf
Justia, (n.d.). Rhodes v. Chapman-452 U.S. 337 (1981). Retrieved From: http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/452/337/
Seiter, R.P., (2008). Corrections: An Introduction. Second Edition. Prentice Hall United States

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via behavioral criminology - Google Blog Search by admin on 6/23/12
Q1: Why is it important that criminological inquiry include the perspectives, findings, and methods of the behavioral sciences (e. The University of Maryland's Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice (CCJS) is a national and ...

via behavioral criminology - Google Blog Search by Blanca Gomez on 8/28/11
SOURCES OF DATA FOR RESEARCH AND STUDY OF BEHAVIORAL CRIMINOLOGY.

via behavioral criminology - Google Blog Search by Mark Kleiman on 6/25/12
A variety of concepts from behavioral economics, personality psychology, social psychology, and criminology relate to self-command: locus of control, self-efficacy, impulsivity, hyperbolic discounting, delay of gratification, and ...

via behavioral criminology - Google Blog Search by admin on 6/20/12
Criminology is a relatively recent addition to the realm of education as it is only arose out of the rise of behavioral sciences in the mid 1800′s. Of course the study of the nature, control, and causes of criminal behavior covers ...

via behavioral criminology - Google Blog Search by Mike Nova on 6/25/12
Introduction to the Special Issue: Treatment Considerations for Aggressive Adolescents in Secure Settings | Complex Trauma and Aggression in Secure Juvenile Justice Settings - Behavioral Forensics. Google Reader .

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Who's afraid of the neuroscience of politics? I am.
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Mooney then gave a guest spot to his pal the behavioral psychologist Andrea Kuszewski, who served up a characteristically fiery and entertaining riposte called, “Who's afraid of the neuroscience of politics?”, defending behavioral psychology ...

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A New Look at Women and Organised Crime
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via The Prison Journal recent issues by Morash, M., Jeong, S., Bohmert, M. N., Bush, D. R. on 5/7/12
The one-state case study described in this article assesses imprisoned men’s vulnerability to sexual assault by an inmate before policies were implemented to reduce sexual violence. The cases studied were substantiated in an internal hearing procedure. On average, victims were more recently incarcerated, younger, smaller, and less aggressive than their perpetrators, but many victim-perpetrator pairs deviated from this profile. The strongest predictor of victimization was a history of childhood sexual victimization. Other predictors were race, youth, build, education, and experience with incarceration.

via The Prison Journal recent issues by Gonsalves, V. M., Walsh, K., Scalora, M. J. on 5/7/12
Since the inception of the Prison Rape Elimination Act in 2003, increased attention has been directed toward identifying and eliminating acts of institutional sexual violence. However, few empirical studies have systematically explored risk factors that staff perceive as important when ascertaining risk for prison sexual perpetration and victimization. This study examined ratings from 10 staff for 315 female and 1,842 male inmates screened for admission to correctional facilities in a Midwestern state. Overall, findings indicate that a low proportion of inmates were rated medium–high risk for either perpetration or victimization. In addition, results suggest that staff perceived risk factors for sexual violence somewhat differently for female and male inmates. Furthermore, data revealed that staff considered presentation characteristics more relevant than empirically derived risk factors when determining vulnerability to prison rape. Implications for institutional policy and prison sexual assault screening are discussed.

via The Prison Journal recent issues by Mbuba, J. M. on 5/7/12
The significance of successful completion of a prison term and the eventual release from prison is that it marks not only the end of incarceration, but also the beginning of a second cycle of societal retribution, which inevitably comes, regardless of whether the former offender is reformed or not. The extent of retribution in the second cycle depends upon the offense type and is more pronounced if the offense was a felony, and particularly so if it was sexually-motivated. This study draws from intensive ethnographic interviews with former prison inmates with the aim of estimating the effect of incarceration on their lives while in prison and after release. The study reveals manifest and latent effects of incarceration and finds that further retribution continues upon release when society takes over with vindictiveness that follows the former offenders almost forever. The main policy implications of long-term imprisonment are made, and areas of further research suggested.

via The Prison Journal recent issues by Wilson, J. A., Zozula, C. on 5/7/12
Project Greenlight (GL) was an innovative and intensive prison-based intervention delivered to inmates during the 8-week period immediately prior to their release from prison. Using a relatively rigorous research design, evaluators reported significant negative effects associated with the treatment at one year after release. We reassess the GL intervention over a longer follow-up period and focus on differences by risk level. Findings indicate that although the bulk of the negative effects dissipate compared with one control group, significant negative effects remain when compared with a second. More importantly, however, we find that program effects are differentially distributed by risk level in a counterintuitive direction.

via The Prison Journal recent issues by Mears, D. P., Cochran, J. C. on 5/7/12
More than 735,000 inmates are released from U.S. prisons annually, many of whom have mental and physical health problems that go largely unaddressed during incarceration and on return to society. That has led some scholars and policy makers to imply this is specific to the United States and to call for reducing the health needs–services gap among inmates and ex-prisoners. The goal of this article is to argue that (a) the magnitude of this gap, while likely large, remains unknown, (b) the United States is far from unique in having a needs–services gap, (c) the decision to provide health care to inmates and ex-prisoners constitutes a moral policy decision with potentially profound public health and cost impacts on offenders, their families, and the communities to which they return, and (d) research on health care needs–services gaps among inmate and reentry populations should become a priority for developing cost-effective, evidence-based responses to address such gaps. The article concludes with a discussion of implications for research and policy.

via The Prison Journal recent issues by Bahr, S. J., Masters, A. L., Taylor, B. M. on 5/7/12
The purpose of this article is to review current empirical research on the effectiveness of drug treatment programs, particularly those for prisoners, parolees, and probationers. The authors reviewed empirical research published after the year 2000 that they classified as Level 3 or higher on the Maryland Scale. Participants in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), therapeutic communities, and drug courts had lower rates of drug use and crime than comparable individuals who did not receive treatment. Several different types of pharmacological treatments were associated with a reduced frequency of drug use. Those who received contingency management tended to use drugs less frequently, particularly if they also received cognitive-behavioral therapy. Finally, researchers reported that drug use and crime were lower among individuals whose treatment was followed by an aftercare program. Effective treatment programs tend to (a) focus on high-risk offenders, (b) provide strong inducements to receive treatment, (c) include several different types of interventions simultaneously, (d) provide intensive treatment, and (e) include an aftercare component.

via Men and Masculinities recent issues by Shuttleworth, R., Wedgwood, N., Wilson, N. J. on 6/5/12
A much-cited point by those who study the intersection of gender and disability is that masculinity and disability are in conflict with each other because disability is associated with being dependent and helpless whereas masculinity is associated with being powerful and autonomous, thus creating a lived and embodied dilemma for disabled men. This article maps and critically evaluates the conceptual development of this dilemma of disabled masculinity, tracing how several developments in the fields of disability studies and the critical study of men and masculinities have shaped sociological understandings of disabled masculinity. We suggest that, while social science scholarship has increasingly moved beyond a static understanding and toward a dynamic view of the articulation and interaction between masculinity and disability, there are nevertheless several problems that require attention. The most critical issue conceptually is that the focus of study has been more on masculinity and how it intersects with ‘disability’ as an almost generic category, rather than on how masculinity (or masculinities) intersect(s) differently with various types of impairment. Thus, though there is quite a bit of research on the dilemma of disabled masculinity for men who acquire a physical impairment post-childhood and for groups of men with diverse impairments studied as if they were a homogenous group, less research has been conducted with men who have specific impairments, particularly early-onset, intellectual or degenerative impairments. In this paper we urge researchers to open up the concept of intersectionality to accommodate a range of differences in bodily, cognitive, intellectual and behavioral types (impairments) in their interaction with various masculinities and to show more explicitly how context and life phase contribute to this dynamism.
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via Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health by Birgit Völlm, Nagaraj Konappa on 6/18/12

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Background

A pilot programme for the treatment of individuals with dangerous and severe personality disorder (DSPD) was established in the UK in 2001. A substantial investment had been made into research and evaluation of the initiative, but it is not clear what the outcomes of this research have been.

Aim

This study aimed to review empirical research on the DSPD programme.

Method

We conducted a systematic literature review by using electronic searches of the databases MEDLINE, PsycINFO and EMBASE, complemented by hand searches of key journals and websites.

Results

We identified a total of 29 empirical research papers and three comprehensive research reports. Most studies were concerned with describing the DSPD population and confirmed that the projects targeted high-risk personality disordered offenders. Qualitative research identified a number of concerns regarding stigma, restrictiveness of the environment and indeterminate detention. Organisational enquiries recognised inefficiencies in assessment and treatment delivery. No high-quality trials were carried out of specific treatments or service environments.

Conclusions/implications for practice

The key question – what treatments are effective for high-risk personality disordered offenders – remains unanswered. More time would be needed to fully assess the impact of this programme, and similar future initiatives should allow longer observation periods. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Whether women’s orgasm is an adaptation is arguably the most contentious question in the study of the evolution of human sexuality. Indeed, this question is a veritable litmus test for adaptationism, separating those profoundly impressed with the pervasive and myriad correspondences between organisms’ phenotypes and their conditions of life from those who apply the “onerous concept” of adaptation with more caution, skepticism or suspicion. Yet, the adaptedness of female orgasm is a question whose answer will elucidate mating dynamics in humans and nonhuman primates. There are two broad competing explanations for the evolution of orgasm in women: (1) the mate-choice hypothesis, which states that female orgasm has evolved to function in mate selection and (2) the byproduct hypothesis, which states that female orgasm has no evolutionary function, existing only because women share some early ontogeny with men, in whom orgasm is an adaptation. We review evidence for these hypotheses and identify areas where relevant evidence is lacking. Although additional research is needed before firm conclusions can be drawn, we find that the mate-choice hypothesis receives more support. Specifically, female orgasm appears to have evolved to increase the probability of fertilization from males whose genes would improve offspring fitness.

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  • DOI 10.1007/s10508-012-9967-x
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    • David A. Puts, Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
    • Khytam Dawood, Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
    • Lisa L. M. Welling, Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

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via PRISON NEWS by Staff on 6/29/12

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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Mooney then gave a guest spot to his pal the behavioral psychologist Andrea Kuszewski, who served up a characteristically fiery and entertaining riposte called, “Who's afraid of the neuroscience of politics?”, defending behavioral psychology ...

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Remapping Gang Turf: Math Model Used for Mapping Chimp Territories Applies
Science Daily (press release)
The findings appear online June 25 in Criminology, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the American Society of Criminology, the world's largest society of scholars conducting research on crime. "Maps of gang territories provide police with a ...
Remapping gang turf: Math model shows crimes cluster on borders between rivalsScience Codex

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  • Behavioral Sciences & the Law - pubmed
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - Vol 102, Iss 4
  • Journal of Criminal Justice - ScienceDirect Publication
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Examiner.com


Latest craze a 'zombie' attack video of your home
Examiner.com
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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Alameda County civil grand jury report criticizes county for lax oversight of ...
Contra Costa Times
Jurors also criticized the behavioral health care agency for lax oversight. Both agencies are improving, jurors added, but they still cited "shortcomings" in their 150-page final report released Monday. ... "The public should be concerned about the ...

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"DMH is a drug free workplace. All candidates will be required to pass a mandatory pre employment drug test". Under the supervision of the Clinical Support... From State of South Carolina 27 Jun 2012 07:08:58 GMT View all ...

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White House flexes muscle after SCOTUS immigration ruling, raising debt ceiling
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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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"DMH is a drug-free workplace. All candidates will be required to pass a mandatory pre-employment drug test". Under the supervision of the Clinical.

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Examiner.com


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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Examiner.com


Zimmerman back in court on Friday for second bond hearing
Examiner.com
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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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]

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



Dylan McDermott, sister get needed closure in mother's murder
Examiner.com
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
GovInfoSecurity.com
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 ...

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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
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
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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via behavioral forensics - Google Blog Search by Walla Walla on 6/26/12
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.

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Georgia leaders promise CJ savings, tout drug addicts success
Examiner.com
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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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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