Judges sentence under psychological conditions that the law does little to specify. Two of those conditions involve trauma: the defendant’s trauma history, which may be offered as mitigating evidence, and the sentencing judge’s own accumulated exposure to accounts of violence and harm. This paper asks whether sustained contemplative practice, meaning meditation and mindfulness training...
Time series analysis was used to test the hypothesis that Merseyside crime rate was reduced by a group practising Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme. Previous research suggests that a phase transition to increased orderliness u evidenced by reduced crime rate should occur when the group size approaches the square root of 1% of the total population. Analysis...