Psychiatry, Psychology and Law articles from March 2008

Psychiatry, Psychology and Law archives from March 2008

Employers' duties for reasonably foreseeable psychiatric injuries: Hegarty v. Queensland Ambulance Service.
March 1, 2008... Psychiatric injury, or mental harm, is readily foreseeable in some circumstances for emergency services personnel who are regularly exposed to traumatic incidents. However, it is far from straightforward to identify what appellate decisions...

A therapeutic jurisprudence approach to dealing with coercion in the mental health system.
March 1, 2008... This article describes the approach of therapeutic jurisprudence, an interdisciplinary form of legal scholarship that has a law reform agenda. It then illustrates the approach by applying it to the question of when coercion might be appropriate...

Assessment of financial competence.(Australia)
March 1, 2008... The decision as to whether an individual requires an administrator to manage some or all of his or her financial affairs is ultimately a legal decision. According to Australian law, this decision must be in the best interests of the individual,...

Juvenile persistent offender, primary group deficiency and persistent offending into adulthood: qualitative analysis.(Australia)
March 1, 2008... Few longitudinal studies have examined the principal determinants of long-term persistent offending, and even fewer studies have examined this issue using qualitative data. This study explores characteristics of the psychosocial construct of...

Why is my voice so easily recognized in identity parades? Influence of first impressions on voice identification.
March 1, 2008... This study examines people's first impressions of voices of various ethnic origin and recognizability from identification line-ups. It was hypothesized that voices that were easily recognized would be perceived more negatively than less...

Knowledge of eyewitness identification issues: survey of public defenders in New South Wales.
March 1, 2008... Under the Evidence Act (Cth, 1995, NSW, 1995, Tas, 2001) the admissibility of expert evidence is determined not only by the qualifications and experience of the expert, but also by the probative value of the testimony itself. These criteria...

Lie detection in litigation: science or prejudice? (Australia)
March 1, 2008... Lies are an indispensable part of daily life, permeating all aspects of people's communications and relationships. Given the seriousness and possible grave outcomes of litigation, it is expected that dishonesty is present, if not prevalent, in...

Detecting deception in police investigations: implications for false confessions.(Australia)
March 1, 2008... A great deal of psychological research suggests that fact finders are unable to successfully distinguish truths from lies at levels significantly greater than chance. This article addresses the shortcomings in deception detection accuracy in...

Ethnicity, attributions for offending behaviour, and judgments of responsibility and severity of sentence.(Western Australia)
March 1, 2008... An attribution model was used to explore whether a male offender's ethnicity impacted on how responsible he was judged to be for his offending behaviour in a sample drawn from the Perth metropolitan community in Western Australia and how severe...

Judging nursing practice: implications of habeas corpus rulings for mental health nurses in New Zealand.
March 1, 2008... The Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992 (NZ) introduced a number of statutory roles now undertaken by mental health nurses. One of these roles is that of Duly Authorized Officer (DAO). The DAO is responsible for the...

Mental harm as an instrument of public policy.(Australia)
March 1, 2008... Since 1992, several thousand children and adults have been hem in Australia's immigration detention centres. The detention environment has created a quagmire of human tragedy. It has exacerbated pre-existing trauma and precipitated preventable...

Children, sexual abuse and suggestibility: what laypeople think they know and what the literature tells us.(Australia)
March 1, 2008... This article summarizes the extensive research literature on laypeople's and jurors' beliefs about children's memory, suggestibility and responses to child sexual abuse. In particular, it discusses the extent and types of misconceptions held by...

The concept of diminished responsibility in supranational criminal law (psychiatric approach).
March 1, 2008... The Concept of Diminished Responsibility in Supranational Criminal Law (Psychiatric Approach) M. Goreta Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Psihijatrijska Bolnica Vrapce, Zagreb, 2007, pb 109pp Mental incapacity defences in...