MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'criminality'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:01:48 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4992747&cid=t_290940_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fscanning-for-juvenile-delinquency.html – Impulsiveness in youth is not a criminal offence, although if it reaches into the realm of delinquency it can quickly become so. Researchers in the US are using functional magnetic resonance imaging to see whether the brains of young offenders differ in some behavioural way from those of non-criminals. Seemingly, they do in terms of the communication between regions associated with motor control and self control. I asked lead researcher Benjamin Shannon of WUSTL to explain the findings. “We scanned 107 incarcerated juveniles, between the ages of 14-18,” he told me. “We then compared the results in that population to a group of 95 individuals from the community between the ages of 7 and 31. We saw that the pattern of brain activity associated with impulsivity in t... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4992747 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:10:11 +0100 4992747 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3538181&cid=t_290940_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F06%2Fthe-racialized-situation-of-vandalism-and-crime%2F Here is another segment from John Quinones excellent ABC 20/20 series titled “What Would You Do?” — a series that, in essence, conducts situationist experiments through hidden-camera scenarios (in consultation with renowned social psychologist John Dovidio). * * * * * * * * * To review a sample of related Situationist posts, see “Journalists as Social Psychologists & Social Psychologists as Entertainers,” “The Situation of Bystanders,” “The Situation of Racial Profiling,” “The Situation of Black and White,” “He’s a Banana-Eating Monkey, but I’m Not a Racist,” “The Legal Situation of the Underclass,” “Why Race May Influence Us Even When We “Know” It Doesn’t,” “Jennifer Eberhardt’s “Pol... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3538181 Thu, 06 May 2010 04:14:33 +0100 3538181 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2995773&cid=t_290940_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F11%2F16%2Fare-we-racially-color-blind-yet%2F This study shows that these transference errors may be more likely in cross-race identifications. Ouch. That means that when it comes to eye-witness identification, whites are twice as likely to mis-identify a black person than a white person. Obviously, this sort of high error rate has significant ramifications for trials and the use of eye-witness accounts. With lower accuracy comes a higher likelihood of error and identifying someone as the perpetrator of a crime when, in fact, they were not. As the researchers noted, context is especially important. “When making an identification, witnesses must not only remember whether they have ever seen a specific individual, but also in what circumstance they encountered that individual.” Just because you recognize a face doesn’... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2995773 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:50:01 +0100 2995773 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2934768&cid=t_290940_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F10%2F27%2Fpatient-stabs-doctor-shot-dead-at-bipolar-clinic%2F A patient being seen at the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Bipolar Clinic and Research Program attacked his physician today, stabbing her with a knife during a treatment session according to Boston Police. The incident occurred in an office building nearby the main Mass. General building, where the hospital leases space for the Bipolar Clinic: After at least one gunshot echoed on the fifth floor, two nurses from [a neighboring] office went to treat the patient, who had apparently been shot in the head by the security guard [...] “During the course of the stabbing incident, an off-duty security officer who was armed interceded,” [Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis] said. “He produced a weapon and ordered the suspect to drop the knife. When the suspect did not co... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2934768 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:38:36 +0100 2934768 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1788630&cid=t_290940_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F09%2Fif-its-good-enough-for-animal.html This is a disturbing turn of events. I noted to myself, but did not bring it up here, that a UK jury acquitted vandals who attacked a coal plant because it felt that fighting global warming justified their lawlessness.I bring it up now because it turns out that result was helped to be brought about by James Hanson, the NASA scientist and apple of Al Gore's eye, who testified for the defense. From the NRO article, byline Henry Payne:Hansen's controversial turn stems from testimony he gave this month in a London criminal trial against Greenpeace supporters who were accused of defacing--at a cost of $60,000 in property damage-- Kingsnorth, an English coal plant. Hansen testified in support of the defense's assertion that the Greenpeace members had a "lawful excuse" because they were acting to... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1788630 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:43:00 +0100 1788630