579 Search Results for Forensic Science
Autopsy
The word autopsy originates in the Greek term 'autopsia', which means "to observe from a first person perspective." An autopsy is a post-mortem examination process involving a surgeon investigating a corpse with the purpose of determining th Continue Reading...
Finance and Accounting Application that provides finance and accounting operations require all the possible computer security measures to be adopted. In this case, two patterns call for an incident response plan:
The company's computer networks and Continue Reading...
a-to-C equation (Action-to-Characteristics)
The a-to-C equation: The profiling debate
The A-to-C equation (actions-to-characteristics) model is a critical component of investigative psychology, without which effective police investigating would be Continue Reading...
Intellectual Functioning
Your IQ
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
Stanford -- Binet Intelligence Scales
Analysis of Wechsler Adult Intelligence and Stanford -- Binet Intelligence
Present use of Stanford -- Binet Intelligence and Wechsler Adult Continue Reading...
committed to achieving my goal of becoming an accountant. I will do everything in my power to ensure that I achieve the educational background necessary to become an accountant. I will also ensure that I learn the ethical and moral roles associated Continue Reading...
Legislation and standards affecting IT auditing
The Audit Quality Forum was established with the primary purpose of reinforcing confidence in financial reporting. Statutory auditing promotes confidence because auditors are likely to give external an Continue Reading...
individual is someone who has a distinct personality of his/her own that differentiates him from a group or class of people. This individual has a distinguishing intelligence level, achievement abilities and aptitude. As far as intelligence is conce Continue Reading...
Biomarkers of Childhood Trauma
Description
DNA sequencing has proven itself both reliable and valid in determining whether a person was involved in a crime or not and Mehta and colleagues (2013) have begun to extend a similar forensic approach in Continue Reading...
The need to document and classify such behavior as obsessive can lead to misdiagnosis and unlawful prosecution. The human condition itself is very psychopathic if one is to equivocate this word with an affinity for the abnormal. Human and natural e Continue Reading...
Comair Flight 5191: Case Study in Fatigue
Aviation Safety: Fatigue
Comair Flight 5191: A Case Study in Fatigue
Comair Flight 5191: A Case Study in Fatigue
Comair Flight 5191 came to a disastrous end in 2006 when the flight crew attempted to take Continue Reading...
Countermeasures and Neutralization of Weapons of Mass Destruction
At this intricate turn of the 21st century, one of the most pertinent issues at hand is that of national and international security. Humanity has come a long way in augmenting the val Continue Reading...
School Shootings by Adults or Juveniles
[Criminal Justice]
The increased number of school shooting incidents in America during the last two decades has gained public attention. Authorities are very much concerned regarding how to control these trag Continue Reading...
Prison Punishment
Should Prison be Punitive or Rehabilitation in Nature?
A question that has existed since the beginnings of the modern prison system has been that of whether prison should be an unbearable punishment for an action committed, or reh Continue Reading...
To implement this algorithm, it is essential to simulate locking of what the books mentions as an item X that has been transcribed by transaction T
until T
is either committed or aborted. This algorithm is not what would turn into deadlock, for th Continue Reading...
A virtualized environment also meets the requirement of offsite backup storage and geographical compliance requirements.
Virtualization is also important to an organization with a mobile workforce because it enhances data concentration hence posing Continue Reading...
These individuals are at risk of either confessing to crimes they did not commit or otherwise compromising their rights by virtue of inappropriate police interrogation techniques (Gudjonsson, 2003), a fact that has increasingly been recognized by th Continue Reading...
Death Penalty
An on-going Debate on Ethics and Morality
The debate on whether the death penalty, or capital punishment, should be utilized in the United States is best seen in the varied laws that exist within each state. For this reason, many stat Continue Reading...
Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
Death sentence
Are you innocent until proven guilty?
The constitution of the U.S.A. has the provision of being treated as though one is innocent until the due process of the law takes its course and one is prov Continue Reading...
Wicca Animal Use
Shelley Rabinovitch has asserted that modern Wiccans see themselves as part of a world that includes all living beings in Nature (69), which generally prevents exploitative 'use.' This is not universal, but animal abuse would probab Continue Reading...
Labeling white collar crime is a mystery. A shared misapprehension of white collar crime is that, like pornography, it is hard to describe, however a lot of people would recognize it when they understood it. The only thing concerning white collar cr Continue Reading...
Trepanning in archeological and historical societies and what these surgeries tell us about the biological/medical beliefs of the people who did them
Trepanning is the procedure to create the whole in the skull of a human being. This procedure has h Continue Reading...
Orbitofrontal Cortex and the Serial Killer
According to Portales, "what lies behind the eyes" of the serial killer "is the key to his psychopathy." The orbitofrontal cortex is the neural region directly behind the eyes and is the last to develop. P Continue Reading...
Death Penalty
There are many situations and concerns in the world that require using ethical thought. There are many issues we read about an learn about when we have to ask ourselves what we believe in. Which side do we take on euthanasia or aborti Continue Reading...
Stockholm Syndrome
"Men, when they receive good from whence they expect evil, feel the more indebted to their benefactor." ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Stockholm syndrome is a psychological condition in which those who are held captive learn to sympathize Continue Reading...
Despite these constraints, GPS-enabled tracking systems stand to promote public safety. In this regard, Schwabe and his associates report, "Better technology for offender tracking has the potential to increase public safety by making information on Continue Reading...
The lack of onsite training and motivation is not a problem anymore as terrorists get to watch videos of dangerous activities (destroying helicopters, beheading soldiers etc.) and read digitized letters of suicide bombers. Google earth is a software Continue Reading...
The company should then establish clear procedures with regard to reporting of cases and the way they are handled, this can be done by establishing a competent body to handle this issue. The last step is enforcement of the policy, when all this is d Continue Reading...
The WRITE initiative was a collaborative approach that drew upon industry, state, local governments as well as the EPA's Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory with the overall goal of developing more effective pollution prevention technologies that Continue Reading...
Perhaps the most reasonable objection to physician-assisted suicide relates to the subjective element of quality of life and the degree to which that perception (on the part of the patient) is susceptible to temporary influence, such as from clinica Continue Reading...
e., males and females per nurse specialty).
Variables & Measures
Variables for the study are as follows: workload management, work environment, burnout rate, and job satisfaction. In addition to these variables, instruments gauging the level of Continue Reading...
e. height, weight, age, race, etc.), in connection with the investigation of specific criminal activity, that information allows authorities to narrow the search for individuals who match those identifying characteristics. The process is perfectly lo Continue Reading...
Niehaus, Joseph. (2000). Investigative Forensic Hypnosis. New York: CRC Press.
178 pgs.
This heavily-researched book by Joseph Niehaus explores a number of areas related to the use of hypnosis in the courtroom. Although hypnosis has come under mu Continue Reading...
Therefore, even staunch proponents of capital punishment share the concern that it be (1) imposed only where extreme punishment is appropriate to the nature of the crime, and (2) applied in a manner that does not cause unnecessary pain or prolonged Continue Reading...
(iv) misconduct by the police or unintentional mistake, together with the application of suggestive identification procedures, pressuring of a confession or inculpatory declaration by a suspect, not carrying out other channels of investigation follo Continue Reading...
When one looks at the occurrence of recidivism in offenders who have partaken in treatment programs varying from organic programs to those geared to more social and emotional support programs, it becomes clear that recidivism of sexual re-offense is Continue Reading...
That is if no successful intervention takes place. Campson and Laub go on to say that:
We further hypothesize that the concentration of racial poverty and inequality will exert macrolevel effects on punitive forms of social control that are larger Continue Reading...
.." therefore the ADF "will work from a 'whole of government' approach and often in collation with other countries and militaries to provide the outcomes that are needed to meet modern security challenges." (Cosgrove, 2005; p. 3) Cosgrove relates tha Continue Reading...
Better still, don't let it happen. (para. 61)
In the United States, citizens take a dim view of unbridled police powers. They were condemnatory of Samuel a. Alito, a young U.S. President Ronald Reagan administration lawyer, and Supreme Court nomine Continue Reading...
other values
Moral character, that is, having courage, being persistent, dismissing distractions and so on in pursuit of the goal.
These are attempts to define ethics by describing actions, and fairly specific constellations of actions at that. Fr Continue Reading...
In order to quantify the security of a relationship, Ainsworth and her colleagues designed this system of 'Strange situation' for evaluating individual differences in children with particular emphasis on responses to several series of separations an Continue Reading...