Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law

received the traditional dynamite charge. More research is needed to understand the full effects and parameters of the dynamite ...

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249 ELDERABUSE Although elder abuse is a pervasive and growing prob- lem, much about this topic remains unknown, and inconsisten ...

studies indicated that in 1996, nearly 450,000 adults aged 65 and over were abused and/or neglected in domestic settings, and in ...

included those in which a daughter throws a frying pan at her mother, a daughter threatens to poison her mother’s food, a daught ...

solutions. Some prisons have released nonviolent elderly prisoners; others have released prisoners who are very ill and deemed t ...

accurate descriptions of actions and persons than younger witnesses when their processing resources are depleted, but they can p ...

had made a suspect identification as compared with only 28% of the older age group (aged 40 years plus). There were no differenc ...

euthanasia, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, provided a lethal injection (i.e., euthanasia) to a patient suffering from amyotrophic lateral s ...

The Supreme Court addressed hastened death even more directly in a pair of 1997 cases that challenged existing prohibitions agai ...

proxy, families may debate about whom to appoint to make treatment decisions on the patient’s behalf or disagree about which cou ...

attempting to pick one’s own mother from a lineup), the presence or absence of this warning is of little con- sequence. Hence, a ...

What is the forensic psychological service being requested? What is the risk-benefit analysisfor any recipient or client receiv ...

examined may very well be harmed by the outcome of the forensic psychological examination (consider the losing party in a custod ...

competence should be maintained through ongoing experience, acquisition of knowledge (e.g., reading, continuing education), and/ ...

And it goes almost without saying, that unless the practitioner is candid about all of the above and the entire examination proc ...

Greenberg, S. A., Shuman, D. W., & Meyer, R. (2004). Unmasking forensic diagnosis. International Journal of Law and Psychiat ...

Another class of external correlates of psychopathy comprises psychophysiological and behavioral vari- ables that exhibit reliab ...

White adults from 21 studies were examined in the aggregate (with an overall sample size of 8,890 indi- viduals), no reliable, m ...

Skeem, J. L., Edens, J. F., Camp, J., & Colwell, L. H. (2004). Are there ethnic differences in levels of psychopathy? A meta ...