Month: October 2025

Prof. Mark Noaln1, Dr Peita Richards, Dr John Gaffey 1 Charles Sturt University Biography: Professor Mark Nolan* is a Professor at Charles Sturt University, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia. He is an interdisciplinary academic trained in law and social psychology (with...

Acts of extreme violence perpetrated by lone offenders have become increasingly common in liberal democracies over the past 20 years. Some describe these acts as ideologically motivated, while others attribute them to mental disorder or criminal intent. This has led...

Our contemporary chronic crisis in mental healthcare is generally attributed to a simple failure to fund services to the degree required (“the whinge”). In this presentation, jointly developed with a fellow forensic psychiatrist Dr Calum Smith, I argue that underfunding...