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A R Yung - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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self reported rates of Criminal offending and victimization in young people at risk for psychosis
Schizophrenia Research, 2015Co-Authors: R. Purcell, Nick Glozier, G. Paul Amminger, Susan Harrigan, A R YungAbstract:A significant relationship exists between experiencing psychosis and both engaging in Criminal offending and being a victim of crime. A substantial proportion of violence and offending occurs during the first episode of psychosis, but it is unclear whether such behaviour is also evident in the earlier pre-psychotic stage of illness. As part of a prospective study of young people who were seeking help for mental health problems, we enquired about participants' experiences of being charged and/or convicted of a Criminal Offence and being a victim of crime. This paper uses cross-sectional baseline data to compare the rates of these forensic outcomes in participants at-risk of psychosis (n=271) with those not at-risk (n=440). Univariate logistic regression showed that the at-risk for psychosis group was significantly more likely than the not at-risk participants to report having been charged by police (11.1% vs 5.9%; p=.015) and convicted by the courts (4.4% vs. 1.6%; p=0.028) with a non-violent Offence, as well as to have been convicted of any Criminal Offence (6.3% vs. 3.0%; p=0.037). The at-risk were also more likely to report having been a victim of crime (23.7% vs 14.0%; p=.002), particularly violent victimization (16.5% vs 8.2%; p=.001). In multivariate logistic regression analyses, being at-risk for psychosis remained a significant predictor of three of the four outcome measures after controlling for other known covariates such as gender, age, substance misuse and unemployment. This is the first study to demonstrate that, relative to their non-psychotic help-seeking counterparts, young people at-risk for psychosis are at higher risk of forensic outcomes, particularly violent crime victimization. Language: en
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Self reported rates of Criminal offending and victimization in young people at-risk for psychosis.
Schizophrenia research, 2015Co-Authors: R. Purcell, Nick Glozier, G. Paul Amminger, Susan Harrigan, A R YungAbstract:A significant relationship exists between experiencing psychosis and both engaging in Criminal offending and being a victim of crime. A substantial proportion of violence and offending occurs during the first episode of psychosis, but it is unclear whether such behaviour is also evident in the earlier pre-psychotic stage of illness. As part of a prospective study of young people who were seeking help for mental health problems, we enquired about participants' experiences of being charged and/or convicted of a Criminal Offence and being a victim of crime. This paper uses cross-sectional baseline data to compare the rates of these forensic outcomes in participants at-risk of psychosis (n=271) with those not at-risk (n=440). Univariate logistic regression showed that the at-risk for psychosis group was significantly more likely than the not at-risk participants to report having been charged by police (11.1% vs 5.9%; p=.015) and convicted by the courts (4.4% vs. 1.6%; p=0.028) with a non-violent Offence, as well as to have been convicted of any Criminal Offence (6.3% vs. 3.0%; p=0.037). The at-risk were also more likely to report having been a victim of crime (23.7% vs 14.0%; p=.002), particularly violent victimization (16.5% vs 8.2%; p=.001). In multivariate logistic regression analyses, being at-risk for psychosis remained a significant predictor of three of the four outcome measures after controlling for other known covariates such as gender, age, substance misuse and unemployment. This is the first study to demonstrate that, relative to their non-psychotic help-seeking counterparts, young people at-risk for psychosis are at higher risk of forensic outcomes, particularly violent crime victimization.
B Karger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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self inflicted gunshot injury simulating a Criminal Offence
Forensic Science International, 2009Co-Authors: Tony Fracasso, L Lohrer, B KargerAbstract:An extraordinary case of a young woman with a gunshot wound to her left hand is presented. A typical near-contact entrance wound at the palm of the hand, extensive soft tissue destruction including nerve and vessel injury and a large stellate exit wound at the back of the hand were diagnosed and surgically treated. The woman initially stated that she had tried to repulse the pistol when a man shot her from close-range, which is consistent with the injury findings. After questioned thoroughly, however, she confessed self-infliction using a 8 mm blank pistol. This case demonstrates that a self-inflicted injury simulating a Criminal Offence can be present even if very atypical features such as the use of a firearm and mutilating or defence-like injuries clearly speak against it.
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unusual self inflicted injuries simulating a Criminal Offence
International Journal of Legal Medicine, 1997Co-Authors: B Karger, A Duchesne, C Ortmann, B BrinkmannAbstract:A total of 14 cases with self-inflicted injuries intended to simulate a Criminal Offence are reported. Typical characteristics of self-infliction such as superficiality, localisation at the anterior aspect, parallel course or avoidance of areas with high sensitivity to pain are substantiated by most of the cases analysed. However, the majority of cases also comprised atypical features including large hematomas of the extremities, a gaping cut wound, lip laceration, hematoma of the eyelids, concussion of the brain, large burn injuries and signs of bonding. Therefore, atypical injuries, which are either found in isolation or in combination with typical injury patterns, cannot exclude self-infliction. Initially, most "victims" did not intend to report the matter to the police but the persons whose affection was to be obtained made the report. Psychopathological motivations are predominant but rational motives such as attempted insurance fraud also occur.
Clare Dyer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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east kent trust pleads guilty to Criminal Offence of unsafe care over baby s death
BMJ, 2021Co-Authors: Clare DyerAbstract:A hospital trust has pleaded guilty to the Criminal Offence of failing to provide safe care and treatment for a newborn baby and his mother, in the first such prosecution of an acute NHS trust. East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust admitted at Folkestone magistrates court to providing unsafe care to Harry Richford, who died a week after his emergency delivery in 2017 at Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, and to his mother, Sarah. The trust will be sentenced at a later date. The prosecution by the Care Quality Commission under …
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fgm surgeons who do cosmetic genital surgery may risk prosecution
BMJ, 2019Co-Authors: Clare DyerAbstract:Surgeons who perform cosmetic genital operations such as labiaplasty should take steps to ensure that they are not risking prosecution for female genital mutilation, in the light of new guidance from the Crown Prosecution Service.1 Increasingly popular “designer vagina” operations are likely “in theory” to fall under the definition of female genital mutilation, which was first made a Criminal Offence in 1985, the CPS has said, because they involve excising labial tissue. In 2003 the Female Genital Mutilation Act increased the maximum penalty for female genital mutilation to 14 years in prison. The guidance for crown prosecutors outlines factors to be weighed up in deciding …
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law on gross negligence manslaughter is flawed says leading medical lawyer
BMJ, 2018Co-Authors: Clare DyerAbstract:The law on gross negligence manslaughter (GNM) is flawed because, unlike other areas of law, it asks a jury to decide what is or is not a Criminal Offence, the leading medical lawyer Robert Francis told members of parliament. Francis, who chaired the inquiry into poor care at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, was giving evidence to the Commons Health and Social Care Committee, which is looking at the law on GNM in the wake of the case of the trainee paediatrician Hadiza Bawa-Garba. She was convicted of manslaughter after the death of six year old Jack Adcock from sepsis. A medical practitioners’ tribunal suspended her from the medical register for 12 months, but the General Medical Council appealed to the …
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repeated failure to report female genital mutilation should be a Criminal Offence mps say
BMJ, 2016Co-Authors: Clare DyerAbstract:An influential committee of MPs has called for harsher penalties, beyond the existing professional disciplinary sanctions, against health professionals who do not report cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) to police.1 In its latest report on FGM, the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee repeated its predecessor committee’s call in a 2014 report to make intentional or repeated failures to report such abuse a Criminal Offence.2 Although …
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child of mother who drank excessively was not victim of crime court rules
BMJ, 2014Co-Authors: Clare DyerAbstract:A 7 year old girl with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder is not entitled to a payout under the UK’s government funded Criminal injuries compensation scheme, three Court of Appeal judges have ruled. Lawyers for the girl, “CP,” argued that she was a victim of a violent crime when her mother’s grossly excessive drinking during pregnancy left her with learning, developmental, and behaviour problems.1 The judges ruled unanimously that “a mother who is pregnant and who drinks to excess despite knowledge of the potential harmful consequences to the child of doing so is not guilty of a Criminal Offence …
R. Purcell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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self reported rates of Criminal offending and victimization in young people at risk for psychosis
Schizophrenia Research, 2015Co-Authors: R. Purcell, Nick Glozier, G. Paul Amminger, Susan Harrigan, A R YungAbstract:A significant relationship exists between experiencing psychosis and both engaging in Criminal offending and being a victim of crime. A substantial proportion of violence and offending occurs during the first episode of psychosis, but it is unclear whether such behaviour is also evident in the earlier pre-psychotic stage of illness. As part of a prospective study of young people who were seeking help for mental health problems, we enquired about participants' experiences of being charged and/or convicted of a Criminal Offence and being a victim of crime. This paper uses cross-sectional baseline data to compare the rates of these forensic outcomes in participants at-risk of psychosis (n=271) with those not at-risk (n=440). Univariate logistic regression showed that the at-risk for psychosis group was significantly more likely than the not at-risk participants to report having been charged by police (11.1% vs 5.9%; p=.015) and convicted by the courts (4.4% vs. 1.6%; p=0.028) with a non-violent Offence, as well as to have been convicted of any Criminal Offence (6.3% vs. 3.0%; p=0.037). The at-risk were also more likely to report having been a victim of crime (23.7% vs 14.0%; p=.002), particularly violent victimization (16.5% vs 8.2%; p=.001). In multivariate logistic regression analyses, being at-risk for psychosis remained a significant predictor of three of the four outcome measures after controlling for other known covariates such as gender, age, substance misuse and unemployment. This is the first study to demonstrate that, relative to their non-psychotic help-seeking counterparts, young people at-risk for psychosis are at higher risk of forensic outcomes, particularly violent crime victimization. Language: en
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Self reported rates of Criminal offending and victimization in young people at-risk for psychosis.
Schizophrenia research, 2015Co-Authors: R. Purcell, Nick Glozier, G. Paul Amminger, Susan Harrigan, A R YungAbstract:A significant relationship exists between experiencing psychosis and both engaging in Criminal offending and being a victim of crime. A substantial proportion of violence and offending occurs during the first episode of psychosis, but it is unclear whether such behaviour is also evident in the earlier pre-psychotic stage of illness. As part of a prospective study of young people who were seeking help for mental health problems, we enquired about participants' experiences of being charged and/or convicted of a Criminal Offence and being a victim of crime. This paper uses cross-sectional baseline data to compare the rates of these forensic outcomes in participants at-risk of psychosis (n=271) with those not at-risk (n=440). Univariate logistic regression showed that the at-risk for psychosis group was significantly more likely than the not at-risk participants to report having been charged by police (11.1% vs 5.9%; p=.015) and convicted by the courts (4.4% vs. 1.6%; p=0.028) with a non-violent Offence, as well as to have been convicted of any Criminal Offence (6.3% vs. 3.0%; p=0.037). The at-risk were also more likely to report having been a victim of crime (23.7% vs 14.0%; p=.002), particularly violent victimization (16.5% vs 8.2%; p=.001). In multivariate logistic regression analyses, being at-risk for psychosis remained a significant predictor of three of the four outcome measures after controlling for other known covariates such as gender, age, substance misuse and unemployment. This is the first study to demonstrate that, relative to their non-psychotic help-seeking counterparts, young people at-risk for psychosis are at higher risk of forensic outcomes, particularly violent crime victimization.
Caroline De Costa - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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knowledge of current abortion law and views on abortion law reform a community survey of nsw residents
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2019Co-Authors: Alexandra Barratt, Kevin Mcgeechan, Kirsten I Black, Julie Hamblin, Caroline De CostaAbstract:Objective: To report results of a community survey of NSW residents' knowledge of current abortion law and views on abortion law reform. Methods: A total of 1,015 men and women participated. Recruitment and questionnaires were completed anonymously online using survey panel sampling. Results: Seventy-six per cent of respondents were unaware that abortion remains a Criminal Offence in the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) and 73% thought it should be deCriminalised and regulated as a healthcare service. Support for deCriminalisation was consistent across genders, age groups, residents of metropolitan/regional and rural areas and levels of education. Support was strong for women seeking abortion to be protected from harassment (89%) and for protester exclusion zones around clinics (81%), with support for these measures significantly stronger among regional/rural residents than Sydney-based respondents. Conclusions: Abortion law in NSW is out of step with contemporary community views. Residents are largely unaware that it remains a Criminal Offence and, when informed, support deCriminalisation. There is strong support for legal changes to protect women from harassment and to provide protester exclusion zones around abortion clinics. Implications for public health: Abortion law reform would reduce current inequities of access, be democratic and support women's autonomy and reproductive rights.
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manufacturing mental illness and lawful abortion doctors attitudes to abortion law and practice in new south wales and queensland
Journal of law and medicine, 2013Co-Authors: Heather Douglas, Kirsten I Black, Caroline De CostaAbstract:Around one-quarter of Australian women will have an abortion during their lifetime but access is affected by the way health care providers interpret the law about abortion. In Queensland and New South Wales abortion is a Criminal Offence although it is defensible in certain circumstances. Drawing on interviews with 22 doctors who provide abortion services to women in New South Wales and Queensland, this article examines doctors' responses to two common scenarios in which women may request an abortion. The two scenarios discussed in this article are a request for a first trimester abortion in circumstances where the woman does not feel ready to have a baby; and a request for abortion in the second trimester where the fetus has been diagnosed with an abnormality. This article explores doctors' understanding of the law related to the provision of abortion in these two States and their views about the effect of the law on their practice.
