Twitter has become a popular data source as a surrogate for monitoring and detecting events. Targeted domains such as crime, election, and social unrest require the creation of algorithms capable of detecting events pertinent to these domains. Due to the unstructured language, short-length messages, dynamics, and heterogeneity typical of Twitter data streams, it is technically difficult and lab...

Thirteen years ago the authoritarian regime in Brazil came to an end and the civilian transition government was installed. Three years later the Constitution of 1988 was promulgated with the most comprehensive and specific bill of rights in Brazilian political history. Today, despite the democratic guarantees in effect since then, the country is still ravaged by systemic violence in which the a...

Dentistry has much to offer law enforcement in the detection and solution of crime or in civil proceedings. Forensic dental fieldwork requires an interdisciplinary knowledge of dental science and forensic science. Most often the role of the forensic odontologist is to establish a person's identity. Teeth, with their physiologic variations, pathoses and effects of therapy, record information tha...

The law regulates addiction in two primary ways: by limiting access to controlled substances and by criminal and civil law doctrines pertaining to addicts. This chapter first addresses the basic definitional and conceptual issues concerning addiction. Then it turns to the justification of substance regulation in the USA and public policy issues. It suggests that the right to use substances recr...

BACKGROUND: Coping strategies have, in some countries, become so prevalent that it has been widely assumed that the very notion of civil services ethos has completely - and possibly irreversibly - disappeared. This paper describes the importance and the nature of pilfering of drugs by health staff in Mozambique and Cape Verde, as perceived by health professionals from these countries. Their opi...

This article explores police discretionary practices associated with circumventing crime recording rules (NCRS), utilising doorstep crimes against elderly victims as the context (distraction burglary, fraud and attempts). research examines 68 ‘rogue trader’ incidents from classified systems, a focus group CEnTSA trading standards officers 31 questionnaires 26 England Wales Force Intelligence Br...

The purpose of this study is to find out and analyze the process investigating criminal acts fraud in recruitment civil servants at Pacitan Police Resort. To factors causing occurrence against acceptance Candidates for Civil Servants Resort Police. This used an empirical juridical approach, with descriptive analysis research specifications. data was secondary data. method collection obtained fr...

An intertemporal general equilibrium model of criminal behavior is used to analyze the effect on crime of changing policy parameters. The policy parameters are the length of the prison term, the severity of punishment, and the amount of police resources. The number of crimes in society can be decomposed into an incentive part, an incarceration part, and a crime competition part. The magnitudes ...

In today’s security conscious environment, the primary concern of security professionals and police departments is to protect the lives and property of citizens. Any act that causes loss of lives and harms people is called as crime. Crime analysis, a part of criminology, is a task that includes exploring and detecting crimes and their relationships with criminals. Presently there are several cr...

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