Police and prosecution systems: An evaluation of a police criminal case preparation program

Doctor as criminal: reporting of patient deaths to the police and criminal prosecution of healthcare providers in Japan

BACKGROUND In Japan, medical error leading to patient death is often handled through the criminal rather than civil justice system. However, the number of cases handled through the criminal system and how this has changed in recent years has not previously been described. Our aim was to determine the trend in reports of patient death to the police and the trend in the resulting prosecution of h...

Police overestimation of criminal career homogeneity

Police presumptions about criminal career trajectories have been little studied. The exploratory study reported here involved 42 police staff of varying rank and experience. Participants were asked to complete a questionnaire which asked them to predict the type of offence that an individual was most likely to commit next from a given range of different offending scenarios. The findings suggest...

Police Interviewing of Criminal Suspects: a Historical Perspective

This paper provides an historical overview of the development of police suspect interviewing. The paper highlights how different approaches developed based upon the prevailing needs of the time, from early approaches involving torture and threats, simple question and answer approaches, through to methods incorporating knowledge from the behavioural sciences such as persuasive interviewing. The ...

Evaluation of Police Patrol Patterns

The Desktop Hypercube is an interactive tool designed to help planners improve police services without additional response units (or to maintain a constant level of service with fewer response units). It calculates a number of variables, including travel times, workloads, and preventive patrol frequencies, thus giving planners the information they need to achieve various goals, such as reductio...

Police Role: A Case of Diversity, The