Psychology in action: The need for bystander intervention programs to reduce public harms.

The current social climate in America is replete with reports of tragic events that could have been prevented. Our nation seems to be facing an unrelenting stream of problems without solutions. This article introduces a special section on active bystandership, which proposes more optimistic ways forward.

Psychopathic Personality in Early Childhood: A Critical Comment on Lopez-Romero et al. (2021).

A recent article published in the (López-Romero et al., 2021) described the identification of "putative psychopathic personality" in a school cohort of 3-6-year-old children from Spain. This comment offers cautionary considerations of the original article on scientific grounds and critical comments on policy grounds.

A brief history of the criminalization of mental illness.

This article traces the history of the way in which mental disorders were viewed and treated, from before the birth of Christ to the present day. Special attention is paid to the process of deinstitutionalization in the United States and the failure to create an adequately robust community mental health system to care for the people who, in a previous era, might have experienced lifelong hospitalization. As a result, far too many people with serious mental illnesses are living in jails and prisons that are ill-suited and unprepared to meet their needs.