Thirty-two sex offenders, 48 criminally versatile offenders, and 34 nonaggressive offenders referred by youth courts for mental health assessments in Toronto, Canada between 1994 and 1997 were compared on measures of childhood conduct problems, current behavioral adjustment, antisocial attitudes and ...
Self-defense is a common defense for crimes involving assault or homicide. This defense asserts that the defendant acted in self-defense and only used force to protect themselves from harm. Self-defense can only be used if the defendant reasonably believed that they were in imminent danger of h...
Children ≥9 years and Adolescents <15 years:2-dose series: IM: 0.5 mL at 0, and 6 to 12 months. Administer first dose at age 11 to 12 years; patients with any history of sexual abuse or assault, vaccination should be started at 9 years of age. ...
Another category of guns is the Assault Rifle, which has been classically used by the military in warfare. These guns can be semiautomatic or fully automatic and often will shoot out several bursts of shots with one trigger pull. According to the U.S. army, an assault weapon is defined as...
We use the k-means non-parametric cluster analysis technique considering eight crime types: assault, burglary, robbery, theft, theft of vehicle, theft from vehicle, other, and total crime.RESULTS The overall results for the individual crime types versus overall crime are similar: crime is highly...
Few studies have examined characteristics and correlates of females who display assaultive behaviours towards their intimate partners. Personality disorders, anger responses, type of violence perpetrated, and post-traumatic stress reactions in female perpetrated intimate violence are important factors in diagno...
To obtain a U visa, the victim’s application must be certified by a law enforcement agency. Like recipients of T visas (see above), an applicant for a U visa must also agree to help investigate and prosecute people who commit certain crimes, such as kidnapping, sexual assault, and ...
The injuries are most often associated with sports, assault, falls and jobsite accidents. However, in rare cases, this form can also develop after intraocular surgery, such ascataract surgery. This is due to an autoimmune reaction that some patients experience after the surgery. ...
In approximately 50% of the assaults, children had been a witness (Health Canada, 20018). According to the General Social Survey, 20% of Aboriginal men and women reported being assaulted by a spouse in a 5-year period as compared with 7% of the non-Aboriginal population (Health Canada, ...
NATIONAL UNIONSNational unions are composed of the various local unions that they have chartered. Some unions have locals in Canada and therefore call themselvesinternationalunions. However, the termsinternational unionandnational unionare generally used interchangeably. ...