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	<description>Blogging the world of forensic psychology and crime from Kelly McAleer, Psy.D.</description>
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		<title>The Effect of Nature &amp; Nurture on Psychopathy: The Case of James Fallon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I wrote a two-part post about how fMRI and PET scan technology were able to detect differences in the brains of psychopaths compared to non-psychopathic individuals. This area of research has identified that psychopathy has a genetic component, and has even been used in court cases to determine sentencing. Recently, I came across [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/forensic-focus/2010/07/the-effect-of-nature-nurture-on-psychopathy-the-case-of-james-fallon/</link>
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		<title>Sociopathy vs. Psychopathy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My last post drew some comments about the use of the word psychopath when describing Joran van der Sloot, the lead suspect in the Natalie Holloway disappearance, so I wanted to clarify what I am referring to when I use the terms psychopathy or psychopath. The age old debate of psychopathy versus sociopathy is not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/forensic-focus/2010/07/sociopathy-vs-psychopathy/</link>
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		<title>Is Joran van der Sloot a Psychopath?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The media has been abuzz in the last two weeks about the capture of Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch national charged in the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores of Peru. van der Sloot was also a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, an 18-year-old Alabama resident who disappeared on a high school graduation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/forensic-focus/2010/06/is-joran-van-der-sloot-a-psychopath/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Odd Mental Kinks:&#8221; A 1935 Perspective on Psychopathy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another forensic psychology blog featured an article written by Arthur Grahame in 1935. The article was published in the May 1935 edition of Popular Science magazine and discusses psychopathy. It&#8217;s an interesting read, and while some of the information has been disproved, a good portion of the article describes psychopathy within similar constructs of today&#8217;s standards. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/forensic-focus/2010/06/odd-mental-kinks-a-1935-perspective-on-psychopathy/</link>
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		<title>Speak Up for Your Right to Remain Silent? Supreme Court Rules on Miranda Rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In its third Miranda ruling this session, the Supreme Court ruled today that a suspect must &#8220;unambiguously&#8221; state his or her desire to invoke their Miranda rights (referring to the right to remain silent in this case) in order for those rights to be protected. This case came to the Supreme Court after the lower [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/forensic-focus/2010/06/speak-up-for-your-right-to-remain-silent-supreme-court-rules-on-miranda-rights/</link>
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		<title>Serial Killer in the UK: A Modern Day &quot;Ripper&quot; Arrested in England</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Griffiths, a 40-year-old graduate student in criminology, was charged with the murder of three prostitutes from the West Yorkshire area of England. Griffiths is alleged to have killed Suzanne Blamires, Susan Rushworth, and Shelley Armitage within the city&#8217;s red light district in the past 11 months. Griffiths was reportedly conducting research on serial killers, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/forensic-focus/2010/05/serial-killer-in-the-uk-a-modern-day-ripper-arrested-in-england/</link>
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		<title>Supreme Court Rules that Sexually Violent Predators Can Be Imprisoned Indefinitely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week the Supreme Court ruled that &#8220;sexually dangerous&#8221; inmates could be held indefinitely in prison, or civil commitment hospital settings, after their prison terms are complete. The case, decided with a 7-2 ruling, was raised after four men who were deemed sexually dangerous, were held after their prison sentences were over with no end date [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/forensic-focus/2010/05/supreme-court-rules-that-sexually-violent-predators-can-be-imprisoned-indefinitely/</link>
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		<title>A Serial Killer Museum? Inside the FBI&#039;s Evil Minds Research Museum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems a little bizarre, but the FBI has in fact developed a museum dedicated to the research of serial killers. Dubbed the &#8220;Evil Minds Research Museum,&#8221; it focuses on the private artwork, writings, correspondence, and other personal artifacts of serial killers. Located at the FBI training site in Quantico, VA, the museum is in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/forensic-focus/2010/05/a-serial-killer-museum-inside-the-fbis-evil-minds-research-museum/</link>
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		<title>Young Jurors More Compassionate Toward Mentally Ill Offenders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A study presented at the recent British Psychological Society Annual Conference revealed that younger jurors are more lenient and sympathetic to offenders with a mental illness than older jurors. &#8220;The study used two groups of participants (the first aged 18 to 30 and the second 50 plus) who were shown videos of courtroom scenes depicting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/forensic-focus/2010/05/young-jurors-more-compassionate-toward-mentally-ill-offenders/</link>
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		<title>Puppies Behind Bars: Helping Inmates and Veterans Alike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Puppies Behind Bars program, started by Gloria Gilbert Stoga in 1997, began at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York State. Since its inception, it has branched out to include five more correctional facilities in the Northeast. While the Puppies Behind Bars program is probably the most famous of its type (largely thanks to Oprah), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/forensic-focus/2010/04/puppies-behind-bars-helping-inmates-and-veterans-alike/</link>
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