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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Dangerousness"”.
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Perceptions of Sexual Dangerousness: Accurate Identification of Sexual Offenders from Static Photographs
… experience on accuracy of perceptions of sexual dangerousness. Receiving feedback about test trials increased accuracy on future trials at a marginally significant level. Study 2 was designed to determine the importance of specific facial features on these judgments. This study, however, failed …
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Faculty and staff attitudes toward marijuana use and policy: perceptions of dangerousness and legalization
… toward policy and attitudes concerning the dangerousness of marijuana. Further research is recommended to expand on studies focusing on attitudes of faculty and staff, as well as to account for possible differences in attitudes due to varying legalization laws among states.
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Understanding addiction stigma: Examining desired social distance toward addicted individuals
… the relationship between familiarity, perceived dangerousness, fear, and desired social distance towards individuals with substance dependence to alcohol, marijuana, and heroin. This study found that for marijuana and heroin, familiarity had an indirect effect, through perceived dangerousness and …
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On ‘Clear and Present Danger’: The Influence of Firearm Legislation on College Student Perceptions of Mental Illness and Treatment-Seeking Intentions
… public stigma via further associating MI with dangerousness and increasing public preferences for social distance. The present study experimentally investigated whether firearm laws targeting persons with MI who are considered to be a ‘clear and present danger’ to themselves and others can …
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Factors influencing delabeling inconsistency
… achieved educational levels; #3) the degree of dangerousness that the respondent attributes to the ex-deviant; #4) the amount of interaction that the respondent attributes to a total institution (e.g., a prison or a mental hospital) in having completely treated the ex-deviant (e.g., an …
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Labelling people as having personality disorder: Effects upon the attributions and intended behaviours of student mental health nurses.
… groups on the attributions of controllability or dangerousness, the emotional reactions of pity, anger or fear, or the intended behaviours of help and coercion. A significant difference was found between the groups on the social distancing measure, with participants in the schizophrenia group …
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Assessing violent encounters: police use of lethality reporting
… screening questions asked of victims that assess dangerousness. Grounded in the criminological literature on domestic violence (DV), the Maryland Lethality Assessment Protocol (LAP) has been adopted in numerous jurisdictions. More specifically, this risk assessment targets episodes of intimate …
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Μελέτη του προβλήματος των αναγκαστικών νοσηλειών αρρένων ασθενών στο Κ.Θ.Ψ.Π.Τ. και προτάσεις για την αντιμετώπισή του
… to have a significant correlation with the "dangerousness" criteria of the compulsory admissions and readmissions. The results of the study and similar findings elsewhere suggest that the mental hospital should develop a new leading role in the community psychiatry movement, for the purpose …
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Stigmatization of Psychological and Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Effects of Diagnostic Labeling in a Legal Context
… sentencing and facility recommendations, future dangerousness predictions, and defendant controllability and stability attributions. These measures were administered after participants read a vignette describing a crime where the perpetrator varied according to the diagnostic labels: …
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The detention of dangerous severe personality disordered offenders under mental health legislation: legal and ethical issues
… will be on the legality of psychopathologising dangerousness as criteria for detention under English law and under the European Convention of Human Rights. A brief history of detaining dangerous persons will be followed by an examination of previous practice and legal justification for detaining …
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Suicide, lunacy and the asylum in nineteenth-century England
… admission to the asylum and, once admitted, dangerousness and risk continued to dictate the asylum’s handling of suicidal patients. Rather than cure and custody, it was protection and prevention versus control that dominated the asylum’s treatment of suicidal lunatics. Conclusions are drawn …
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Personality, Character Strengths, Empathy, Familiarity and the Stigmatization of Mental Illness
… of stigmatizing attitudes (i.e., perceived dangerousness, personal responsibility attributed, and desired social distance) associated with targets described in vignettes as having a mood disorder (i.e., Major Depressive Disorder), a personality disorder (i.e., Borderline Personality …
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Effects of Different Types of Drinking and Driving PSAs on Persons with Varying Levels of Drinking and Driving Experience
… & Velicer, 1983), and higher perception of dangerousness of DUI were examined as predictors of perceived effectiveness of anti-DUI PSAs, with all of these variables emerging as good predictors of higher perceived effectiveness. Gender differences in perceived effectiveness were examined for …
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Effects of Different Types of Drinking and Driving PSAs on Persons with Varying Levels of Drinking and Driving Experience
… & Velicer, 1983), and higher perception of dangerousness of DUI were examined as predictors of perceived effectiveness of anti-DUI PSAs, with all of these variables emerging as good predictors of higher perceived effectiveness. Gender differences in perceived effectiveness were examined for …
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An Examination of the Relationships Between Stressors, Correctional Burnout, and Job Outcomes
… burnout, and job outcomes. Job demands such as dangerousness and high workload increase burnout and turnover rates while decreasing job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Job resources such as supervisory quality and fairness, staff camaraderie, and high decisional authority reduce the …
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GIUSTIZIA PENALE E DECISIONI ALGORITMICHE PROSPETTIVE DEI RISK ASSESSMENT TOOLS NORDAMERICANI TRA PROGRESSO TECNOLOGICO, INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE E GIUSTO PROCESSO
… that assist judges in assessing the defendant’s dangerousness and likelihood of recidivism. The aim is to take into consideration the advantages of applying these algorithmic tools in some key junctures of criminal proceedings, both in terms of efficiency and objectivity and uniformity of …
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The impact of formal education, specialized training, and offense type on perceptions of employability: Can bias toward hiring a person with a criminal history be mitigated?
… often related to assumptions about a person’s dangerousness, there remain legitimate reasons, such as limited formal education and basic skills, that prevent returning citizens from finding work. Further, previous research suggests that hiring decisions are confounded by offense type, even if …
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Allegiance in International Armed Conflicts: The Role of the Duty of Fidelity in International Humanitarian Law
… outside occupation; and as a presumption of dangerousness for enemy aliens, the required mens rea for desertion, and a vague term to determine connection between belligerent parties and armed groups. This study clarifies the contemporary understanding of allegiance, and confronts the concept …
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