The paper discusses the basic principles of criminal procedure as set out in draft new Criminal Procedure Code. author also presents work recodification commission on these principles. He mentions problems connected with their expression text code and systematic arrangement. Two are examined detail. Concerning principle legality, he considers discretionary powers prosecutor method controlling c...

The Milwaukee Hoimicide Review Commission (MHRC) is a multi-level, multi-disciplinary, and multiagency homicide review process aimed at reducing the occurrence of homicides in Milwaukee. Based on the public health approach to violence reduction, the MHRC has 3 goals: (1) to gain a better understanding of homicide through strategic problem analysis, (2) to develop innovative, effective responses...

This paper focuses on finding spatial and temporal criminal hotspots. It analyses two different real-world crimes datasets for Denver, CO and Los Angeles, CA and provides a comparison between the two datasets through a statistical analysis supported by several graphs. Then, it clarifies how we conducted Apriori algorithm to produce interesting frequent patterns for criminal hotspots. In additio...

Border and transportation security is a critical part of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) national strategy. DHS strategy calls for the creation of “smart borders” where information from local, state, federal, and international sources can be combined to support risk-based management tools for border-management agencies. Sharing cross-jurisdictional law enforcement data is important ...

This bulletin presents a typology of sexting episodes based on a review of over 550 cases obtained from a national sur‐ vey of law enforcement agencies. The cases all involved " youth‐produced sexual images, " defined as images of minors created by minors that could qualify as child pornography under applicable criminal statutes. The episodes could be broadly divided into two categories, which ...

Enhanced information sharing among criminal justice agencies is a critical concern and a goal of much IT investment. Understanding agencies’ capabilities to achieve this goal is central to successful planning and investments, but indeed a difficult endeavor. The difficulty rests in part on the multiple and divergent theory frames for describing and understanding capability. This paper proposes ...

Although contingency management (CM) approaches are among the most promising methods for initiating drug abstinence (S. T. Higgins, S. M. Alessi, & R. L. Dantona, 2002; S. T. Higgins, S. H. Heil, & J. P. Lussier, 2004), adoption and implementation of CM protocols into treatment programs are both challenging and infrequent. In criminal justice agencies, where roughly 70% of clients report substa...

Towards next generation, Criminal activity in virtual worlds is becoming a major problem for law enforcement agencies. Virtual communities such as Second Life will be quickly becoming the next frontier of cybercrime. Even now a day’s Forensic investigators are becoming interested in being able to accurately and automatically track people in virtual communities. Mostly in the multimedia context,...

Police agencies have been collecting increasing amount of information to better understand patterns in criminal activity. Recently there is a new trend on using the data collected to predict where and when crime will occur. Crime prediction is greatly beneficial because if it is done accurately, police practitioner would be able to allocate resources to the geographic areas most at risk for cri...

Factors predicting the behavior change of drug-using detainees were investigated in detainees in two penitentiaries in The Netherlands. Subjects attended either a standard program or a Drug-Free Detention Program (DFDP) and were assessed at the beginning of detention, at release/transfer, and at 2 years after the end of detention. Predictors of postprogram contact with treatment agencies and ch...