Acoustical Signature of Some Hand Guns Commonly Employed in Law Enforcement

Law Enforcement; a Function of Criminal Liability or Civil Liability

Despite the fact that in investigations and legal writings enough consideration has been paid to the founding principles and rules governing civil and criminal liability as well as damages of crime, the legal or disciplinary responsibility accompanying these two types of legal responsibilities has not been taken seriously into account and the people involved it - in particular, the authorities ...

Second-hand smoke in restaurants after enforcement of a health promotion law in Japan.

Environmental tobacco smoke, called herein second-hand smoke (SHS) has been shown to cause adverse respiratory, cardiovascular, and carcinogenic effects and affect fetal development and reproduction. Although restrictions and bans on smoking in public places are common in many countries, Japan did not, until recently, have such restrictions and bans. On May 1, 2003, Japan passed a Health Promot...

Psychotherapy as law enforcement.

Legal doctrines do not stand still, but instead evolve and tend to grow and to spawn what law school academicians fondly term progeny. Tarasoff is no exception. In an expanding list of court decisions, psychiatric patients are being convicted of crimes by virtue of actions by their psychiatrists or psychotherapists purportedly based on the duty to warn. One recent case has featured surreptitiou...

Military involvement in law enforcement

Law enforcement is not a task usually undertaken by military forces, at least within domestic legal contexts. Conversely, maintaining or restoring security within dysfunctional or ‘post-conflict’ areas of operation is a role commonly undertaken by them. Within these latter operations, the skill sets and highly calibrated application of force that are commonly associated with police forces in th...

Conservation Law Enforcement in Michigan