Tag: Mental Health

Films like Joker invite us to question the line between reality and fiction. Do such films reflect social conditions or do they, in the end, help create them?

The intriguing case of French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru and how police misinterpreted a crucial piece of evidence allowing the secrets it contained to remain untold.

If you commit a crime while involuntarily intoxicated through legally prescribed drugs, can you and should you be held criminally responsible for your actions? In relevant cases, these are the ...

Is there really a relationship between prescribed antidepressants and a higher risk of committing murder? A research study from Finland studied 959 offenders to find out.

Research from the University of Missouri suggests that genetic explanations for criminal behavior have no mitigating effect on a jury. Environmental explanations they say, show an offender as a victim ...

An in-depth look at criminal behaviour and the introduction of insanity as a defence in 19th century Victorian Britain. Author David Vaughan provides excellent reference material on the topic alongside ...

The Joseph Christopher case is explored by author Catherine Pelonero illustrating serial murder encased in mental illness and the complex issue of justice.

A new research study has explored stalking behaviours and how they can lead to the murder of a victim highlighting the prevalence of obsession and fixation.

A new intervention reduces criminal convictions, jail time, and hospitalizations by roughly 50 percent among people with severe mental illness.

A violent injury makes you more vulnerable to future mental health problems, and repeated exposure to violence increases the risk of PTSD.

Violent acts such as the mass shooting carried out by Norwegian Anders Breivik are not always the result of insanity, but of extreme overvalued belief.

New research from Iowa State University is one of the first studies to explore offenders who display very real thoughts of murder.