Why facts won’t demolish the conspiracy theories / Spiked, 7 July 2008
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/earticle/5436/
Frank Furedi
“Sometimes it appears as if Western societies have regressed, adopting a medieval attitude towards calamitous acts. Back in the Dark Ages, people regarded accidents, disasters and other acts of misfortune as the work of hidden forces. Accidents did not happen, apparently – they were intentionally caused, either by divine or malevolent forces. Misdeeds were often said to have been caused by people who had been manipulated by ‘evil forces’. This primitive outlook is making a comeback; it informs the way many people make sense of high-profile catastrophes today. Conspiracy theories are pushed forward to explain what happened on 9/11, or why there was such devastation in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.”

Will this man make you happy? / Guardian, 24 June 2008
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/wellbeing/story/0,,2287146,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=society
Stuart Jeffries
"The government's 'happiness tsar', Richard Layard, thinks he knows why we're all so miserable - we're overpaid, over-materialistic and lonely. But, he tells Stuart Jeffries, he has a plan to banish the blues in Britain, once and for all."

Distinguishing Juvenile Homicide From Violent Juvenile Offending
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 52, No. 2, 158-174 (2008)
http://ijo.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/52/2/158?rss=1
Frank DiCataldo ; Meghan Everett
"Juvenile homicide is a social problem that has remained a central focus within juvenile justice research in recent years. Research has attempted to conceptualise adolescent murderers as a clinical category that can be reliably distinguished from their nonhomicidal counterparts. This study examined 33 adolescents adjudicated delinquent or awaiting trial for murder and 38 adolescents who committed violent, nonhomicidal offences to determine whether the two groups differed significantly on family history, early development, delinquency history, mental health, and weapon possession variables. Two key factors did distinguish the homicide group: These adolescents endorsed the greater availability of guns and substance abuse at the time of their commitment offences. The significance of this finding is discussed, and the implications for risk management and policy are reviewed."
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The Effect of Inmates' Self-Reported Childhood and Adolescent Animal Cruelty: Motivations on the Number of Convictions for Adult Violent Interpersonal Crimes
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 52, No. 2, 175-184 (2008)
http://ijo.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/52/2/175?rss=1
Christopher Hensley ; Suzanne E. Tallichet
"Based on a sample of 261 inmates at medium- and maximum-security prisons in a southern state, the present study examines the relationship among several retrospectively reported motives (anger, fun, dislike, and imitation) for animal cruelty and violent crime convictions (assault, rape, and murder). Almost half reported abusing animals out of anger, whereas more than one third did so for fun. Dislike for the animal and imitation were less frequently occurring motives. Participants who abused animals at an earlier age and those who did so out of anger or for fun were more likely to repeat the offense. Regression analyses revealed that abusing an animal out of fun in their youth was the most statistically salient motive for predicting later interpersonal violence as adults."
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Defense Styles of Pedophilic Offenders
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 52, No. 2, 185-195 (2008)
http://ijo.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/52/2/185?rss=1
Martin Drapeau ; Véronique Beretta ; Yves de Roten ; Annett Koerner ; Jean-Nicolas Despland
"This pilot study investigated the defence styles of paedophile sexual offenders. Results showed that paedophiles had a significantly lower overall defensive functioning score than the controls. Paedophiles used significantly fewer obsessional level defences but more major image-distorting and action-level defences. Results also suggested differences in the prevalence of individual defences where paedophiles used more dissociation, displacement, denial, autistic fantasy, splitting of object, projective identification, acting out, and passive aggressive behaviour but less intellectualisation and rationalisation."
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Pervasive Developmental Disorders and Criminal Behaviour: A Case Control Study
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 52, No. 2, 196-205 (2008)
http://ijo.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/52/2/196?rss=1
Svend Erik Mouridsen ; Bente Rich ; Torben Isager ; Niels Jørgen Nedergaard
"The prevalence and pattern of criminal behaviour in a population of 313 former child psychiatric in-patients with pervasive developmental disorders were studied."
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Aggression Control Therapy for Violent Forensic Psychiatric Patients: Method and Clinical Practice
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 52, No. 2, 222-233 (2008)
http://ijo.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/52/2/222?rss=1
Ruud H. J. Hornsveld ; Henk L. I. Nijman ; Clive R. Hollin ; Floor W. Kraaimaat
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Effectiveness of Sex Offender Treatment for Psychopathic Sexual Offenders
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 52, No. 2, 234-245 (2008)
http://ijo.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/52/2/234?rss=1
Dennis M. Doren ; Pamela M. Yates
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Childhood sexual abuse and non-suicidal self-injury: meta-analysis
British Journal of Psychiatry (2008) 192: 166-170
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/192/3/166?etoc
E. David Klonsky and Anne Moyer
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The Relationship between the Maudsley Violence Questionnaire and official recordings of violence in mentally disordered offenders
Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 44, Issue 4, March 2008, Pages 833-841
http://digbig.com/4wjdn
Emma Warnock-Parkes, Gisli Gudjonsson and Julian Walker
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Psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the Buss–Warren Aggression Questionnaire
Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 44, Issue 4, March 2008, Pages 943-953
http://digbig.com/4wjdk
Jnathan P. Maxwell
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The Exploration of subclinical psychopathic subtypes and the relationship with types of aggression
Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 44, Issue 4, March 2008, Pages 821-832
http://digbig.com/4wjdh
Diana Falkenbach, Norman Poythress and Caysyn Creevy
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Effects of personality, interrogation techniques and plausibility in an experimental false confession paradigm
Legal and Criminological Psychology, Volume 13, Number 1, February 2008 , pp. 71-88(18)
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Klaver, Jessica R.; Lee, Zina; Rose, V. Gordon
"The goal of the present study was to investigate the effects of personality variables, interrogation techniques and the plausibility level of an alleged transgression on the experimental elicitation of false confessions."

The Genesis of violent careers
Ethnography, Vol. 8, No. 3, 267-296 (2007)
http://eth.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/3/267
Ferdinand Sutterlüty
"This article discusses the concept of a violent career and demonstrates its explicative value for biographical research and the sociology of crime."
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Sociolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Indications of Behavior Disorders: Analysis of a Prisoner's Discourse
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 52, No. 1, 112-126 (2008)
http://ijo.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/52/1/112?rss=1
Uri Timor ; Joshua M. Weiss
"Human verbal language communicates both manifest and latent messages concerning the speaker's world and behaviour. The authors present a discourse analysis of a prisoner's text and a semantic and morphological analysis of it. This text reflects contempt for the law and its representatives, together with a weak attachment to legitimate society, neutralization of personal responsibility, denial of guilt, and low self-esteem."
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[USA] Concordance Between Adolescent Reports of Childhood Abuse and Child Protective Service Determinations in an At-Risk Sample of Young Adolescents
Child Maltreatment, Vol. 13, No. 1, 14-26 (2008)
http://cmx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/1/14?rss=1
Mark D. Everson ; Jamie B. Smith ; Jon M. Hussey ; Diana English ; Alan J. Litrownik ; Howard Dubowitz ; Richard Thompson ; Elizabeth Dawes Knight ; Desmond K. Runyan
"This study examines the concordance between adolescent reports of abuse and abuse determinations from Child Protective Service (CPS) agencies. It also compares the utility of adolescent reports of abuse, relative to CPS determinations in predicting adolescent psychological adjustment."
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Personality Disorders in a Sample of Paraphilic and Nonparaphilic Child Molesters: A Comparative Study
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 52, No. 1, 21-30 (2008)
http://ijo.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/52/1/21?rss=1
Stefan Bogaerts ; Annelies Daalder ; Stijn Vanheule ; Mattias Desmet ; Frans Leeuw
"This article renders the results of research that investigated personality disorders in a sample of paraphilic and nonparaphilic child molesters. For several child molesters, psychological approaches to the treatment of sexual offending (eg, cognitive—behavioral treatment, psychotherapy in general) are limited and cannot be expected to immediately reduce risk. Interest has been expressed in medical approaches to reduce recidivism, in combination with psychotherapy."
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Examining the Impact of Mixing Child Molesters and Rapists in Group-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Sexual Offenders
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 52, No. 1, 31-45 (2008)
http://ijo.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/52/1/31?rss=1
Leigh Harkins ; Anthony R. Beech
"This study examines the relationship between recidivism rates, therapeutic climate, and composition of offenders in group-based cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT) for sexual offenders."
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A Review of rates, risk factors & methods of self harm among minority ethnic groups in the UK: a systematic review
BMC Public Health 2007, 7:336, 19 November 2007
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/7/336
Kamaldeep Bhui , Kwame McKenzie and Farhat Rasul
"This review finds some ethnic differences in the nature and presentation of self harm. This argues for ethnic specific preventive actions. However, the literature does not comprehensively cover the UK's diverse ethnic groups."
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Intimate Partner Violence and Psychological Health in a Sample of Asian and Caucasian Women: The Roles of Social Support and Coping
Journal of Family Violence, Volume 22, Number 8 / November, 2007, Pages 709-720
http://digbig.com/4wdam
Joohee Lee, Elizabeth C. Pomeroy and Tom M. Bohman
"This study examined the potential mediating effects of social support and coping strategies on the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and psychological outcomes. Ethnic group comparisons indicated differences between Caucasian and Asian women. In the Caucasian group, the level of violence had an indirect effect on psychological outcomes via the mediating variables of perceived social support and passive coping strategies. In contrast, in the Asian group, the direct effect of the level of violence on psychological outcomes was strong and significant, and the mediating roles of these variables were not found. Research implications for practice are delineated."
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