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Can you leave your child at home alone?

There’s no law in Australia that states what age you can or can’t leave your child at home alone without supervised care. A parent, family or child minder having care of a child under 12 years old, cannot lawfully leave a child alone for an unreasonable amount of...

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March 5, 2019
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Sydney Criminal Defence and Traffic Lawyers
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Understanding Psychopathic Criminals

Psychopathy is highly correlated with criminal behavior and violence. In Psychopathy: An Important Forensic Concept for the 21st Century, the powerful connection between psychopathy and crime was well articulated Dr. Paul Babiak and his colleagues. The seminal 2012 FBI report states that 15-20 percent of the two million+ prisoners in the U.S., which are 90 percent male, are psychopaths (1). This is not surprising. Egocentrism and the need for power and control of a psychopath are the perfect character traits for...

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April 5, 2018
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Sydney Criminal Defence and Traffic Lawyers
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Why do some people get violent after drinking alcohol?

Why do some people get violent after drinking alcohol? Getting drunk increases the risk for violent behavior, but only for people who have a strong tendency to suppress feelings of anger when sober, a new Scandinavian study suggests. While previous studies have found a link between drinking and aggressive or violent actions, many of these were either performed in a laboratory, which does not necessarily reflect what real-world drunkenness, or based on surveys from a single time period. Studies carried out over a...

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February 28, 2018
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Sydney Criminal Defence and Traffic Lawyers
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