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Violence
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do not share these articles to sensationalize what has transpired, but to
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A
preliminary study of individuals with autistic spectrum disorders in three
special hospitals in England by Dougal Julian Hare - Clinical
Psychologist, NAS; Judith Gould - Clinical Director, NAS; Richard Mills -
Director - NAS Services, and Lorna Wing - Consultant Psychiatrist, NAS.
*This work was carried out when working for the National Autistic Society
at the Centre for Social and Communication Disorders, Elliot House,
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Abuse as it Affects
People with Asperger's Syndrome and Autism |
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Abuse victims
trapped in violent cycle by Maureen Boyle |
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Arrest For
Seizure-Related Behavior  |
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Asperger’s Syndrome in
Forensic Settings by Daniel C. Murrie, Janet I. Warren, Marianne
Kristiansson, and Park E. Dietz |
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Autism group paedophile 'disgust'
- The National Autistic Society says it is "shocked and disgusted" at the
case of a paedophile jailed for child pornography offences. Anthony Peter
Luckwill, 31, from Carmarthen, was jailed for a total of 25 months at
Swansea Crown Court. Luckwill attached himself to a local branch of an
autism support group, claiming to suffer from Asperger's syndrome, and set
up a website. The society said trust "was abused in the most appalling way".
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'AUTISTIC' L.I.
MAN ATTACKS SIS: POLICE - A Long Island man with severe mental
problems attacked his sister with a baseball bat after she told him he would
have to move out of her house, police said yesterday. Richard Simmons,
42, who suffers from Asperger's Syndrome, a disorder similar to autism, was
being held without bail on attempted murder charges. "He became very upset
because he has a hard time adjusting to change," said Suffolk Detective Lt.
Gerard Gigante by the New York Post |
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Autistic teenager accused of assault / Clovis boy faces charge
that he attacked teacher - A criminal case against a Clovis High School teen
with Asperger's disorder is raising alarm among autism experts in California
who say that such prosecution sets a dangerous precedent by Erin Kennedy |
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Avoiding and Dealing With Conflict University of Illinois Cooperative
Extension (1994) |
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Bail over attempted abduction of girl, 8 by Glenis Green - Case
involving Luke Hartnell Worland, 23, of
Tewantin, dx. with AS. May 11, 2005
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Bestseller helps parents fight accusations of child abuse - Novel has
shed light on Asperger's Syndrome but families still find themselves under
investigation. |
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Billy Cottrell - Innocent, Guilty or Duped? - Trial In Motion. Get
the latest updates. |
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Bullying American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2003) |
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Bullying by school kids gets lawmakers'
attention by Erin Madigam |
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Bullying: What Educators Can Do About It Penn State University
Cooperative Extension |
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Childhood Aggression: Where Does It Come From? How Can It Be Managed?
by DeBord, Karen |
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Childhood Exposure to Media Violence Predicts Young Adult Aggressive
Behavior, According to a New 15-year Study - American Psychological
Association (March 9, 2003) |
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Conference to
focus on autism, abuse allegations at state facil - Ford, director of
the Cape Girardeau Association for Retarded Citizens, has organized a
statewide conference in Cape Girardeau this weekend at the Drury Lodge. The
conference will be book-ended by emotional topics surrounding recent abuse
allegations at a St. Louis habilitation center and the theory that mercury
in vaccines is the cause for autism by Bob Miller |
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Deaf man killed over noise - A BLIND man was
jailed for eight years today for killing a deaf man by slashing his throat
because he was enraged by the noise coming from his stereo and television by
correspondents in Brisbane |
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Entering the weird world of Bob Durst by New York Daily News - Crime File
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Exorcist guilty. Jurors found Ray
Hemphill guilty of felony child abuse
Friday in the case of an 8-year-old
autistic boy who was killed during an
exorcism.
This was covered by Court TV.
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EX-NURSE: Depression Drove Me to Kill -
A former nurse told investigators in a recorded
interview last year that depression drove him to kill as many as 40 patients
over a 16-year period by the Associated Press |
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Genes Explain Why Some Kids Grow Up to Be Violent, Abusive - Science
Journal by SHARON BEGLEY |
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Getting to the root of a
teen's anger by
MercuryNews.com |
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Helping Young
Children Cope with Anger by Sherry Jones |
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How to Stop Bullies by Dan Grover |
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Interview
With Polly Mitchell - CNN Larry King Live - April 7, 2004 [transcript] |
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LET'S ALL REPORT AUTISM RESPONSIBLY - I CAN still vividly remember the
instant on April 26, 1999, when my wife, Kate, came sombrely into my study
and said: "There's been some bad news. Jill Dando's been shot." |
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Life in prison - Handyman pleads
guilty in Tradd Street killing in bid
to avoid death penalty by Herb Frazier
- "Brown takes medications for bipolar
disorder. He also suffers from a rare
brain disorder called Asperger's
Syndrome, which prevents him from
understanding the social significance
of his words and behavior,
psychiatrist Morgan told the judge." |
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Living with Asperger's by Maxine Aston and Ruth Forrester |
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Man admits to making poison ricin - "Alberg has been diagnosed with
depression and a form of autism called Asperger's Disorder, which can
include severe impairment in social interaction and abnormally intense
preoccupations," by the Associated Press |
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Mental Health Crisis: More Violent Patients -
Those who know
murder suspect Richard Lentino tell Eyewitness News his bi-polar disorder
made him a violent person. It's a trait, which is becoming prominent in the
Valley by Brian Allen |
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Mom files
suit over son's death on bus - "The mother of a Perry Meridian High
School freshman killed last fall while he was riding on a school bus filed a
lawsuit Friday seeking $300,000 in damages. ..."You send them to school
thinking they're going to be safe, they're going on the bus, they're going
to be safe," Garcia said in an interview. "They're not," by Vic Ryckaert |
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Mother charged with girl's death - Court orders her held without bond -
"...According to district
court records, Drayton suffers from bi-polar disorder, but has not taken any
medication for the disorder in the last four months because she says she is
pregnant," by Dawn Jones |
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Mom's
sleuthing helped find missing daughter - "Fourteen-year-old Kylie Taylor
is home and the man who is alleged to have held her captive and tortured her
for the past two weeks is in jail, thanks largely to her mother's sleuthing.
...Kylie is sometimes voluntarily sent to a foster home. Her mother said
Kylie has Asperger syndrome, a mild form of autism, and is bipolar. She was
at the foster home for a few days while she adjusted to new medication,
Farnam said," by Margaret Ellis |
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Neo-Nazi rented
from Orthodox Jew - "Landlord, a labor camp survivor, surprised by
hate material found in apartment. "...The older Lloyd said his son had
been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, a neurobiological disorder that is
a high-functioning form of autism. Persons with the disorder show marked
deficiencies in social skills, have difficulties with transitions or
changes, and prefer sameness, according to information on a University of
Delaware Internet site named Online Asperger Syndrome Information and
Support," by Steve Levin |
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Partner
Abuse as Pertains to People on the Autism Spectrum |
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Police:
Autism ward workers should stand trial for abuse - Police are expected
to recommend that 11 staff members of the Eitanim Mental Hospital in
Jerusalem stand trial on charges of abusing patients in the hospital's now
closed autism ward by Jonathan Lis and Ran Reznik, Haaretz Correspondents |
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Power
play: The good, the bad and the ugly. by Reschke, Kathy |
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PRACTICE OF EXCLUSION RAMPANT AMONG TEENS, SOUTH BAY STUDY FINDS by Joyce
Gemperlein - an article on bullying. |
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Rape of an Autistic Woman filed - "A former employee of a residential
treatment program in Santa Barbara was in custody Tuesday on suspicion of
raping and impregnating a woman suffering from severe autism. Darren
Boyer Thomas, a former night supervisor at Devereux, was being held in Santa
Barbara County Jail in lieu of $60,000 bail, according to Sgt. Chris Pappas
of the Sheriff's Department. Detectives collected a DNA sample from Thomas
that matched the profile from the victim's unborn child, Pappas said," by
the Lompoc Record |
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Rapist avoids jail due to Asperger's
- A 27-year-old Adelaide man who
pleaded guilty to rape has avoided
prison, after a judge ruled jail would
be too harsh for him because of his
mental condition. |
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Resolution on the Maltreatment of
Children with Disabilities
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Robert Durst
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Part I - Mystery Of Robert Durst - New York real estate heir Robert
Durst says he killed his neighbor in self-defense. His not-guilty
verdict was a shocker. But some think there may be victims in his past.
Durst is diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. 48 Hours CBS News |
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Part II: The Mystery Of Robert Durst / 48 Hours CBS News |
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Durst Acquitted - Durst juror Chris Lovell describes how the
verdict was reached on Nov. 12, 2003 |
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N.Y. millionaire Durst not guilty of murder / Jurors say
dismemberment was irrelevant - "Jurors who on Tuesday acquitted
eccentric New York millionaire Robert Durst in the killing of his
71-year-old neighbor, Morris Black, said they had to put aside the
defendant's admission he dismembered Black's body and then fled because
it was not part of the question they were told to decide, by the Law
Center at CNN.com |
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ROBERT DURST - MILLIONAIRE MURDERER - "In
the end, accused millionaire murderer Robert Durst was done in by a
chicken salad sandwich on pumpernickel. On October 9, 2001, with more
than $500 in his pocket, he decided to steal a sandwich, a newspaper and
a Band-Aid from a supermarket in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania. He was
caught by security guards who called the police. A routine background
check on Durst revealed that the odd-looking 58-year-old shoplifter was
wanted for a mutilation murder in Texas, was a prime suspect in another
murder in Los Angeles, and was also wanted for questioning in the 1982
disappearance of his first wife in New York,"
by Crime Library |
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The Mysteries of Robert Durst
- Latest News by CourtTv.com |
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The Trial of Robert Durst
- "Complete Daily
News coverage of the trial of Robert Durst, a member of a
multibillion-dollar New York real estate family who was charged in
October 2002 in the death of his neighbor, Morris Black. He was found
innocent by a Galveston County jury on November 11, 2003," by the Daily
News. |
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'She's No Angel, She's A
Witch' -
The family of a mother wants her locked up so
she can't kill again. ...But Curry claims her murderous behavior was due to
an over-prescription of the drug Adderall to treat her Attention Deficit
Disorder. She was sent to Eastern State Hospital and then was released to a
halfway house 3 years later by Keith Eldridge |
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Should Health Professionals Screen All
Women for Domestic Violence? /
Background to the debate: The US and
Canadian task forces on preventive
health recently declared that there is
not enough evidence to recommend for
or against routine universal screening
of women for domestic violence. Yet
some experts argue that routine
enquiry is justified by Ann Taket, C.
Nadine Wathen, Harriet MacMillan |
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Should we be
mad about movie madness?
- How mental illness is
portrayed in films is a hot
topic by Daily News |
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Special controls on teen killer set to
stay in place - In its ruling, the
family court concluded on the basis of
a report compiled by experts that the
boy suffers from Asperger's syndrome,
a disorder that prevents him from
successfully interacting with people
by the Japan Times |
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Special education teacher accused of sex abuse
- A special education teacher at a Belen Elementary school is behind bars,
charged with sexually abusing a student, and police say the child has
indicated there are more victims. Detectives are looking into the
possibility that 38-year-old Michael Jaramillo may have targeted multiple
children at Central Elementary School in Belen by KRQE News 1 |
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Statement Concerning
the Retraction of a Recent Domestic Violence Article Letter / FAAAS
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The articles A chronological list of the articles produced by The
Standard-Times of New Bedford, Ma. following six months of investigating
domestic violence. |
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The decision of the Lord Chief Justice of tariff in the case of Tahir
Malik in accordance with the Practice Direction dated 27 July 2000 (The
Times 9 August 2000). |
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THE INVISIBLE VICTIMS (an update
of an article originally published in Prosecutor’s Brief: the California
District Attorneys Associations Quarterly Journal) Daniel D. Sorensen
August 9, 2002 |
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The Tragic
death of Rosie May Storrie (UK) - media coverage |
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Things For You to Do to Avoid Violence Center for Disease Control -
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Victimization of Girls in
American Society Eisert, D., & Jensen, M. K. (2003)
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Violent Marriages May Make Violent
Children -
Violence at Home Linked to Fire
Setting and Animal Cruelty by Kids by
Jennifer Warner |
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Virtual
Violence by Lopes, Marilyn |
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What
Goes In Must Come Out: Children's Media Violence Consumption at Home and
Aggressive Behaviors at School by Buchanan, Audrey; Douglas A.
Gentile, Ph.D; David A. Nelson, Ph.D.; David A. Walsh, Ph.D., et al.
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White
supremacist admits killing girlfriend - "Lloyd is the son of Dr. Jon
Lloyd, a Pittsburgh surgeon, and his wife, Jacqueline. The Lloyds did not
return calls this week. But in an interview with the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette in 2001, Lloyd's father said his son had Asperger Syndrome, a
high functioning form of autism," by Jonathan D. Silver and Cindi Lash |
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