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Teenagers may become violent after watching aggressive acts

Witnessing crime or violence may have a bad effect on the very impressionable// teens. These adolescents may feel that it’s ok to be violent and later they become violent too. In a five-year study done by the researchers of Harvard Medical School involving over 1500...

Patients Suffering From Severe Mental Diseases Are At Risk Of Being Crime Victims

...er of the SMI sample had been victims of a violent crime (attempted or completed) in the past year, 11.8 times higher than the NCVS rates; nearly 17 percent of the SMI sample had been victims of completed violence, the authors report. More than 21 percent of persons with SMI had been victims of personal th...

DNA Directory Under Construction For Indian Criminals !

...ling. Every person leaves traces of his DNA at the crime scene. It is the gathering of these traces at a scene of offence that helps investigators in identifying the criminal. It is very important to remember that the witnesses may turn hostile and other circumstantial evidences can be manipulated, but th...

DNA Identity Mix-Up In Bone Marrow Donors, And Miscarriages Of Justice Involved

...place. Forensic scientists had already matched the crime sample to the DNA profile of another person who wa...he small risk of their DNA profile turning up in a crime database if the recipient later commits an offence. Medindia on Bone marrow: Bone marrow is the ...

Drinking Laws 'Fuel Disease' In UK: Expert

...t the potential effects of longer opening hours on crime and disorder, but also its impact on the nation's health. He told Sky News television increasing numbers of people in their 30s were being admitted to hospital with advanced liver disease, particularly women. 'I just cannot accept that any measure...

Police should work as Mental Health Workers

...kers which would help to understand and reduce the crime done by mentally ill persons....

Brain Is More Active While Hiding The Truth, Reveals fMRI Imaging

...present an ideal test that can be used in a court, crime investigation and prevention. The finding could eventually pave way for a rejuvenation of the existing legal system....

Mother And Daughter Suspected to Be Witches, Killed

..., "The people behind the act have confessed to the crime and we would make arrests soon," he said....

Need For Smarter Ways To Identify Fake Drugs & Internet Counterfeiting: WHO

...ld enormous profit and have remained the target of crime gangs. It is predicted that the sale of inappropriate medicines would reach as high as $US75 billion by the end of 2010, approximating to a 92% increase since 2005. ‘People don't die from carrying a fake handbag or wearing a fake T-shirt. They can ...

Rip Off: Care Less about Medicare $90m Fraud Deals?

This is organized crime that is on the brink of milking Medicare. Australi...operation. Police have also unearthed an organized crime cartel impersonating identities and Medicare cards. Federal Human Services Minister Joe Hockey is ...

Female Foeticide Continues To Be On Rise In India

...ing because it has taken the shape of an organised crime and has not remained only a socio-economic problem," Puneet Bedi, activist and practicing gynaecologist, told IANS. He said the problem was spreading rapidly because it remained unchecked, but also because doctors had started acting as criminals wh...

Cyber Sex, No Longer A Fantasy Of The Mind

... Other factors that played a crucial role in cyber crime indulgence were the speed of the Internet connection and sexual orientation. The phenomenon of trying to present a false image on the Internet commonly referred to, as 'misrepresentation' is also responsible for the above-mentioned trend. 'The find...

PHC Doctors Tricked Tribal Women To Undergo Sterilization

...ut taking my consent. The doctors have committed a crime and they should be booked," Umesh said. The issue was brought to the notice of the state government. Acting on behalf of Umesh, the social organisations in a petition to Jharkhand Welfare Minister Ramesh Singh Munda demanded action against the doct...

Knowing spread of AIDS: a crime; urges Chinese lawmaker.

...islature in its annual full session here, “The new crime will be applicable to those HIV carriers or AIDS p... spread of HIV/AIDS could lead to the death of the crime victims, the existing penalties for such offences are obviously too mild to have a deterring effect....

An urgent need for prison reforms: California!

... nation's overreliance on incarceration to control crime is doomed to fail. Spending so much on imprisonment siphons money away from the kind of crime-prevention programs we need. Many incur severe psychological costs as they adapt to the dehumanizing effects of modern prison life. Adverse conditions insid...

Drug Courts In Europe Extended For Three More Years

...during the 1980s, with the aim to cut drug related crime among repeat offenders aged 21 or over by giving detailed drug treatment orders rather than custodial sentences. The courts use drug treatment, testing orders and probation orders as alternatives to custody, with the offenders regularly testing for d...

Gold Nanoparticles Are Good Detectors Biological Toxins

...s they hope would help in aiding investigations at crime scenes. Researchers led by Professor David Russe...ng the detection system to help police officers on crime scene to analyse biological fluids such as sweat that criminals leave behind as there could be a lot...

Rape-Crime against Humanity

...e first time in DRC that rape was categorised as a crime against humanity. This demonstrated that the Congolese justice system had adopted criteria in line with those laid down by the International Criminal Court....

A nod for legal drug trade in Vancouver

...ced into prostitution and to deal with Vancouver's crime and social disorders. In the words of the mayor, "At least three times during my time on council, we have sent the police in to clean up once and for all. He also hasn't seen overwhelming evidence that treatment programs work. I've looked at mandat...

Wide Discrepancies in Services to Victims of Sexual Assault

...ities to address the health consequences of sexual crime is most extreme in the non-SARC services, with many areas relying on the good will of a small number of doctors to provide a comprehensive service under less than ideal circumstances, often with great difficulty and often without a rota. Ideally, a...

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