Traumatic Brain Injury among Indiana State Prisoners

Research on traumatic brain injury among inmates has focused on comparing the rate of traumatic brain injury among offenders to the general population, but also how best to screen for traumatic brain injury among this population. This study administered the short version of the Ohio State University Traumatic Brain Injury Identification Method to all male inmates admitted into Indiana state prisons were screened for a month (N = 831). Results indicate that 35.7% of the inmates reported experiencing a traumatic brain injury during their lifetime and that these inmates were more likely to have a psychiatric disorder and a prior period of incarceration than those without. Logistic regression analysis finds that a traumatic brain injury predicts the likelihood of prior incarceration net of age, race, education, and psychiatric disorder. This study suggests that brief instruments can be successfully implemented into prison screenings to help divert inmates into needed treatment.     

国有控股、参股公司国家工作人员的司法认定

国家作为股东之一的国有控股、参股公司中工作人员利用职务进行的经济犯罪如何定罪取决于犯罪人的主体身份,对国有控股、参股公司国家工作人员的司法认定是当前司法实践中面临的一个崭新课题。本文从当前的刑法理论及司法实践经验出发,对如何认定国有控股、参股公司的性质及如何认定国有控股、参股公司中国家工作人员进行了论述,并对在司法实践中处理该类案件中要注意的几个问题作了一些探讨。     

Review of A. V. Obolonskii and V. D. Rudashevskii's the Methodology of Systems Research on Problems of State Administration

The monograph under review is devoted essentially to general questions of the systems approach and systems methodology and to their interpretation with respect to the field of state administration. In this area the authors have arrived at some new findings of scholarly and practical interest. But the main feature of the book is its bringing the general principles of the systems approach to a level of concreteness at which its effective application at the level of a branch of state administration is possible. There are as yet few similar studies in Soviet legal literature.     

国有公司犯罪若干疑难问题研究

我国现行刑法将第165-168条的犯罪主体限定为国有公司、企业、事业单位的有关人员的规定是不科学的,使国有控股或者参股的股份公司中国有资产的保护处于空白状态.国有单位或行政事业单位违反法律、行政法规,滥用职权而乱收费、乱罚款、乱摊派所得的款项,应认定为国有资产.贪污受贿犯罪既遂后,行为人对赃款赃物的处分不能从贪污受贿数额中扣除,而只能用作从轻量刑的情节之一予以考虑.国企改制中隐匿国有资产投入新公司行为应认定为私分国有资产罪.     

Pedicide revisited. The slaughter continues

Pedicide, a reliable indicator of interpersonal violence and severe child abuse, has risen in Cuyahoga County (Metropolitan Cleveland), Ohio, U.S.A., over the past quarter of a century, paralleling or exceeding the increase in adult homicide. However, neonaticides have decreased, a phenomenon mirroring a marked fall in fatal maternal criminal abortions. As previously noted, modalities of lethal violence in pedicide are significantly determined by victim age. An increasing proportion of pedicide victims, like their adult counterparts, have been killed by firearms. Pedicide victims are much apt to be killed by close relatives than are adult homicide victims. Similarly, perpetrators of pedicide are much more likely to commit suicide than are their adult-slaying counterparts. Fatally "battered" children, the victims of multiple, metasynchronous traumata, represent a significant fraction (22%) of the overall pedicide population and constitute a segment of the victims with a potential for being saved by intervention. Overall, pedicide remains a challenge to our profession and a threat to society as a whole.     

University visitor revisited. Part 2

The House of Lords not convinced by the New Zealand innovation

     

Approval of Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerator State Plan for designated facilities and pollutants: Indiana. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Direct final rule

EPA is approving Indiana's State Plan for Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators (HMIWI), submitted on September 30, 1999. The State Plan adopts and implements the Emissions Guidelines (EG) applicable to existing HMIWIs. This approval means that EPA finds the State Plan meets Clean Air Act (Act) requirements. Once effective, this approval makes the State Plan federally enforceable.