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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"police investigation"”.
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What hidden lies : a novel
… with a tightly constructed plot involving a police investigation, a range of suspects, planted clues, red herrings and a surprise ending. But the novel also seeks to use this accessible literary form to examine deeper issues, such as the formative influences of time and place upon the …
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Intimate Partner Violence Victimology: Factors Affecting Victim Engagement with the Police and Criminal Justice System
… an examination of victim engagement with the police investigation of domestic abuse. Notwithstanding the huge efforts being made in tackling the problem by police forces across the UK, national inspections still find that the services provided to victims are “not good enough” (HMIC, 2014, …
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After the Snow: The Oakland County Child Murders and the Search for the Killer
… This thesis chronicles the unsolved case and the police investigation that began in 1976 and seems close to a successful conclusion in the spring of 2009. Over the course of the last two-and-a-half years, I have conducted lengthy interviews with Cathy King, the sister of one of the victims, and …
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Hope and Struggle in the Policed Inner-City: Black Criminalization and Racial Capitalism in Philadelphia, 1914-1978
… African Americans to the North, Philadelphia’s police department, journalists, and city officials used news media to disseminate crime narratives laced with statistics and racial stereotypes of “black invasions,” “urban neighborhood jungles,” “roving black gangs,” and the “culture of poverty” to …
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Reinforcement learning for trading dialogue agents in non-cooperative negotiations
… applications, such as on automated debating, police investigation, games, and education.
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Police training in sexual assault response: Comparison of approaches
The literature abounds with criticism of negative police attitudes and behavior toward sexual assault victims, and a number of authors have responded with calls for improved training in this area. Unfortunately, very few such programs are described in the literature and almost none are …
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Child Sexual Abuse and Co-offending in the UK: An Empirical Examination of Characteristics, Crime Commission Processes, and Network Structures
… using two strategies. In the first strategy, police investigation files and structured police interviews relating to five cases of network-based CSE are used to reconstruct and explore the structures and mechanisms underlying offender and victim networks. This is accomplished using social …
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Featural and holistic processing in facial composite construction: the role of cognitive style and processing sets
… eyewitnesses may be required to assist a police investigation by constructing a facial composite of the perpetrator of the crime with the help of a police operator. A large body of research has investigated the utility of composite construction systems and the ways in which they are …
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The cognitive interview: New procedures to enhance witnesses' statements and evaluate report accuracy
… reports can determine the success of a police investigation or forensic assessment (Fisher, 2010). However, witnesses’ reports rarely fully correspond with what happened or even with what witnesses memorized (Paulo, Albuquerque, & Bull, 2013). Among other social and communicative …
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Managing child sexual exploitation material offenders: an exploration of investigative process, offending practise and a paraphilic profiling methodology for users of peer-to-peer systems
Since the advent of the internet, investigations and convictions for the crime of online child sexual offending have risen steadily. While police investigation and associated management activities in this area have increased, the relationship that exists between online child sex offending, contact …
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L’enquête policière d’homicide. Examen des facteurs d’élucidation des homicides en Algérie
… par l’appréciation, positive ou négative, de la police à l’endroit de certaines personnes par rapport à leurs attributs sociodémographiques (âge, sexe, race) ou leur appartenance à un statut social déterminé. Les adeptes de l’approche non discrétionnaire suggèrent pour leur part qu’en raison de …
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Voordele van die pre–forensiese evaluering as deel van die forensiese ondersoekproses rakende seksuele misbruik van 'n kind
… children were reported to the South African Police Service (SAPS) since 2010. Another 49 550 serious crimes against children were reported during 2012/2013 at the SAPS (Meiring, 2013:7). The concept of child sexual abuse only became publically known in the seventies. Since then intense …
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Incremental learning for large-scale stream data and its application to cybersecurity
… or missing cars, the victims would rely on the police investigation. But now, as easy as uploading a notification about the loss on Facebook and spread the news among Facebook users, there are more people are able to help in the search. Despite the advantages that can be obtained using these …