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Glucose metabolism and recidivism of severe violent crimes in alcohol intoxications

It is commonly known that alcoholism and alcohol intoxications are connected with severe violent crimes such as homicides. For instance, in Finland even 80 per cent of these crimes happen in alcohol intoxications. It has not, however, been clear why only a minority of alcoholics in intoxications b...

Schizophrenia does not increase risk of violent crime

In the debate surrounding violent crimes referred to as "acts of madness" or the like, it is often assumed that the violence is a direct result of the perpetrator's mental illness. Previous research suggests that people with schizophrenia, a major psychotic disorder, are at higher risk for violent...

CSI: Mayo Clinic Researchers Find Television Shows Inaccurately Portray Violent Crime

VIDEO ALERT: Additional audio and video resources, including excerpts from an interview with Dr. Lineberry describing the research, are available on the Mayo Clinic News Blog . SAN FRANCISCO, May 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Researchers at Mayo Clinic compared two popular televisio...

Detecting Potentially Violent Behavior in the Workplace

CNN - March 11 - At least 10 people were killed Tuesday in a shooting spree that spanned two small southern Alabama towns, state officials confirmed. The gunman, who turned the gun on himself and the wife and child of a sheriff's deputy, were among those killed. Orange County ...

Mental Illness Doesn't Predict Violent Behavior

Even when combined with substance abuse, psychiatric woes rank low as risk factor, study finds MONDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Mental illness alone is not a predictor of future violent behavior, but mental illness combined with substance abuse or dependence does increase the risk, a...

Study: Most young violent offenders in two NYC neighborhoods have seen someone killed

COLUMBUS, Ohio More than three-quarters of young violent offenders interviewed in two poverty-stricken New York City neighborhoods had seen someone die in a violent incident, a new study reveals. About half of them (51 percent) had been shot themselves and 78 percent said they had a close frie...

Less Exposure to Violent Media Makes Youths Less Aggressive

Study found they were less likely to bully others, get into fights WEDNESDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Children and young teens with only minimal exposure to violent entertainment in the media are far less likely to engage in aggressive behavior, a new survey suggests. "We're loo...

Many Kids Under 15 Watch Violent Movies

In some cases, parents encourage the habit, U.S. survey shows MONDAY, Aug. 4 (HealthDay News) -- A large proportion of American adolescents are getting early and regular exposure to violent movies, a new survey reveals. The poll suggests that almost 13 percent of the nation's estim...

CNA/NNOC: RNs Condemn Violent Service Union Attack at Michigan Event

Hundreds of SEIU Staff Bused in to Smash Into Meeting to Attack RNs and Break Up Conference on Union Democracy DEARBORN, Mich., April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee tonight condemned a brutal assault by busloads of purp...

Legal Aid Provides Access to Justice for Victims of Violent Crime

National Crime Victims' Rights Week is April 13-19 AUSTIN, Texas, April 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Every day throughout Texas, victims of domestic violence and other violent crimes are struggling to regain control of their lives. In addition to dealing with the emotional trauma of the exper...

This is your brain on violent media

NEW YORK Violence is a frequent occurrence in television shows and movies, but can watching it make you behave differently? Although research has shown some correlation between exposure to media violence and real-life violent behavior, there has been little direct neuroscientific...

Nurses Protest Violent Tactics Against Picketers

Sunday Car Fire Sabotage Is Latest Attack on Striking Nurses BECKLEY, W.Va., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The nearly 700 striking nurses at Appalachian Regional Health Care (ARH), represented by the Kentucky and West Virginia Nurses Associations/United American Nurses, AFL-CIO, are spe...

Watching Violent TV at Pre-School Age Linked to Aggression in Young Boys

TV-Related Anti-Social Behaviors Found in Boys, Not Girls SEATTLE, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Watching violent television programs between the ages of 2 and 5 years of age is clearly linked to aggressive and anti-social behaviors in boys when they reach age 7 to 9, according to a new ...

M-rated Violent Video Games Most Popular Among Young Teens

M-rated bloody gory video and computer games are most popular among young teens, according to a new study. M-rated games are actually meant for ages 17 and above, but the study suggests that middle-school children play them frequently to release their anger. The study was conducted...

Potentially Violent Individuals can Be Identified by STAMP System

A researcher who spent nearly 300 hours observing patients in an accident and emergency department has developed a method for identifying possible flashpoints , according to the latest Journal of Advanced Nursing. Lauretta Luck, who carried out her research at the University of Western Sydne...

Younger and Violent Sex Offenders on the Rise

An Associated Press review of national statistics found that the courts are seeing a number of sex offence cases involving the young. There is a dramatic rise in cases by these Juvenile offenders. Some psychologists blame the increase in numbers 40 percent over two decades on a society satu...

Impatient hospital? Violent patients will pay heavily, rules hospital

An instant fine will be levied to patients who behave in an unbecoming manner, and will need to cough up ￡80 fines- a trailblazing move by an NHS hospital to punish patients// that disrupt hospital environment with their offensive behavior. The Royal Bolton hospital in Greater Manchester wil...

Fish Oils Supplements Could Cool Violent Children

Fish oil supplements could help cool and control the anger of children with behavioural problems, says a new study. Researchers studied behavioural // problems and emotional difficulties, including autism of 28 boys (10 to 16 years old) studying at Eaton Hall Special School in Norwich and found th...

Newer Antidepressants May Trigger Violent Behavior

David Healy and David Menkes from Cardiff University in Britain and Andrew Herxheimer from the Cochrane Centre say in a new study// that the newer antidepressants trigger violent behavior in people who use them. People who used GlaxoSmithKline’s antidepressant Paxil were twice as likely to exp...

Fuel Price Hike Triggers Violent Protests In Nepal

Fuel price hikes in Nepal have irked student organizations who came out on the streets to protest this move in Katmandu//. The protestors blocked roads and stoned vehicles and burnt tyres on the streets. They also demanded the resignation of the commerce minister. The population of Nepal is furious...

Alcohol Intoxication Triggers Violent Behaviour

A new study at the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden reveals shocking results that all the people who had consumed alcohol behaved violently. This study had infact supported the already confirmed notion that alcohol incites violent// behaviour. The study included 133 violent offenders out of which ...

Parents Should Beware of Violent Video Games

Children who playing video games and use violent moves such as karate kicks can make them aggressive, says a US study. The study by Kevin Kieffer and Jessica Nicoll of Saint Leo University, Florida, shows there's a strong link between 'shoot 'em up' video games // and how children and adolesc...

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 children and teenagers have...

Low Cholesterol Linked to Severe Depression and Violent Behavior in Men

It is not high levels of cholesterol but low levels that are making news. Recent reports are indicating that Low levels of Cholesterol maybe linked to depression and violent behavior. A new study shows that men with relatively low cholesterol levels were up to seven times more likely to report sym...

New Study Measures Benefits of More Involved Fathers

...nia counties: Yuba, Tulare, Contra Costa, Santa Cruz and San Luis Obispo. The researchers note in their paper that the factors that contribute to more violent behavior in the home are exacerbated when families experience greater economic stress, as they do today, making this research especially timely and re...

Gloomy Days Dim Cognitive Powers of the Depressed

...d more research and investigation." Prior studies have demonstrated a strong link between SAD and other forms of depression, and even with rates of violent murders, suicides and aggressive behavior. Depression tends to become more pronounced in darker months, while aggressive behaviors tend to escalate in...

Humanitas Designated as Approved Provider by California Board of Registered Nursing for Continuing Education Course Credit and Units

... In 2000, 48 percent of all nonfatal injuries from violent acts against workers occurred in the health care s... slightly a one in 100 chance of being victim of a violent crime while nurses face nearly double the risk. We...for more training on methods to identify potential violent outbursts and strategies to diffuse them," said Wa...

More Than Half of Emergency Department Nurses Have Been Physically Assaulted at Work, New Study Finds

...igher in facilities that had barriers to reporting violent incidents. Among those barriers are: the perception that reporting violent incidents might have a negative effect on customer...ping clear and consistent procedures for reporting violent incidents. Providing access to medical care ...

Joint Committee on Judiciary Holds July 14 Hearing On Bill to Increase Criminal Penalties for Assaulting Nurses

... Battery on Health Care Providers, recognizes and addresses a growing crisis in the health and safety of RNs and other health professionals who suffer violent assaults at a rate 12 times higher than other industries. In a 2004 survey of Massachusetts nurses, 50 percent indicated they had been punched at leas...

National Trauma Institute Announces 15th Annual Trauma Symposium in San Antonio, August 31-September 1

...is at epidemic levels in the United States, many Americans don't automatically associate trauma's myriad causes -- including car accidents, fires, and violent acts -- as one comprehensive category. Each year, trauma accounts for 37 million emergency department visits and 2.6 million hospital admissions...

Death Penalty and Mental Illness: Families of Victims Speak out at National Convention; 'Double Tragedies' Report Released

...ublic debate about the death penalty and how to respond in the aftermath of violent crime, these are the voices that need to be heard." "Most people with...ness are not violent," said NAMI executive director Mike Fitzpatrick. "When violent tragedies occur they are exceptional -- because something has gone terribly...

Sexist jokes favor the mental mechanisms that justify violence against women

...okes were much more tolerant with male battering than those who had not, this is, that this kind of humour favours the mental mechanisms tolerant with violent behaviour towards women. However, the researchers warn those individuals affected by sexist humour showed a previous tendency to tolerate violence aga...

Afghani children suffering from post-traumatic stress

...tter education, immediate mental health interventions and treatment after a violent conflict, and humanitarian assistance for trauma-affected populations in re... urgent than ever to understand risk factors and consequences of decades of violent conflict, and to develop adequate intervention and prevention strategies. ...

Domestic Violence Expert Comments on Chris Brown Plea Deal

...sual outcome in a case like this. Despite what was apparently an extremely violent assault, it was a first offense. We are glad the charge remained a felony,... how quickly it can escalate, how badly youth like Mr. Brown who grow up in violent homes need intervention, and how urgently victims need services. "Vi...

Provocative New Nonfiction Addresses Spiritual Destiny

...funeral rituals. . . . Why take over control without physical violence? . . . Physical violence attracts physical violence; a violent environment can only lead to confusion and chaos; the result would be that the people that we were trying to liberate from spiritual t...

Traumatic brain injury caused by exposure to explosive blast presents critical challenge

... prepared by a group of authors led by Geoffrey Ling, program officer overseeing the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Preventing violent Explosive Neurotrauma (PREVENT) blast research program, and colleagues from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (Bethesda, MD), D...

Almost Quarter of Suicides Involve Intoxication

...e of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report . To reach its conclusions, Crosby's team used data from 17 states, sourced from the National violent Death Reporting System for the years 2005 and 2006. They studied the relationship between alcohol and suicide in different racial/ethnic groups. Th...

Playing video games for better, not worse

... of studies have documented a relationship between violent video games and aggressive behaviors," said lead a...archers found a strong correlation between playing violent video games and hurting others. But the study also...n contrast to the downward spiral that occurs with violent video gaming and aggressive behavior," said Bushma...

Boys May Feel a Genetic Pull Toward Gangs

...d neighborhoods and lack of opportunity are usually blamed for boys joining violent street gangs. But a new study finds that the urge to join gangs might lie, ... in gangs than boys without the variant, but they tend to be among the most violent members. Boys with the MAOA variant are also more likely to get into fig...

Center on Media and Child Health Launches "Ask the Mediatrician"

...ood filmmaker Dr. Michael Rich helps navigate the new media age. Boston, MA (Vocus) June 11, 2009 -- From cyberbullying and violent video games to social networking and sexting, parents are overwhelmed by the new media environment and how it affects their children. To help parents ...