Recent mass killings, such as those in Newtown, Connecticut, and Aurora, Colorado, have brought new attention to mass killings in the United States. This article examines 323 mass killings taking place between January 1, 2006, and October 4, 2016, to assess how they are distributed over time. In particular, we find that they appear to be uniformly distributed over time, which suggests that thei...

This paper analyses how central‐local relations shape environmental enforcement in China. It does so by seeking to understand how existing decentralized structures as well as recent trends towards centralization relate to temporal and geographical variation in enforcement since 1999‐2011. The paper finds that enforcement over time has become stricter and more frequent, however without yet match...

The U.S. Department of Justice released the first national guide for collecting and preserving eyewitness evidence in October 1999. Scientific psychology played a large role in making a case for these procedural guidelines as well as in setting a scientific foundation for the guidelines, and eyewitness researchers directly participated in writing them. The authors describe how eyewitness resear...

Abstract Discrimination law primarily relies on individual enforcement for addressing discrimination at work; yet those who are most impacted by likely the least able to enforce their rights. The question then becomes: what role should play in law? Can we effectively abandon as part of legislative model? Drawing a mixed method, multi-year comparative study age UK, Australia and Sweden, this pap...

The unjustifiable abuse of children in the holding general elections is a form violation at campaign stage. Involving or citizens who do not have right to vote political activities decisions, because same be free from any activities. This writing aims analyze forms and offer concept diversion as protection against child General Election. research method this paper using type normative-empirical...

Given the pervasiveness of illicit pornography on the Internet, pedophiles can easily and quickly access the objects of their sexual preferences, utilizing the unlimited potential of the Internet to lure an unprecedented number of victims. Meanwhile, unrestrained access to supposedly prohibited sites also makes it possible for law enforcement authorities to conduct sting operations designed to ...

Elder abuse forensic centers present a new model of multidisciplinary collaboration on elder abuse cases. The "clients" of a forensic center are Adult Protective Services (APS), law enforcement, and the Long-term Care Ombudsman. Centers take the basic multidisciplinary team model and add a geriatrician and a psychologist. Additionally, forensic center team members make home visits with APS and ...

Algorithms for computing several classes of models for disjunctive normal databases are presented. We show how to eeciently compute minimal, restricted minimal, perfect, and stable models. The common feature of the advanced algorithms is that they are based on augmenting a model generating procedure with a set of hypotheses to guide its search for acceptable models and/or to interpret negation ...