This article examines the role and impact of Forensic Investigations Unit in fight against fraud, corruption, irregularities, financial misconduct maladministration public sector South Africa. Section 85(b) Public Finance Management Act, 1 1999 (PFMA) requires Minister to craft regulations stipulating matters relating investigations allegations misconduct. The study adopted a qualitative resear...

● ● The analysis identifies a small group of young people described here as ‘prolific offenders’, who accounted for a disproportionate number of offences, including serious offences. This group should be a key target for policy intervention on youth crime. Youth crime policy needs to engage with this group at an early stage as the analysis shows that this group starts to offend earlier compared...

Compliance with law, industry standards, and corporate governance regulations are one of the driving factors for discovering security requirements. This paper aims to incorporate constraints from regulations through security requirements at an early stage of development. Constraints are extracted using a pattern based approach from legal texts of information security laws and policies derived f...

Urban freight deliveries depend strongly on local regulations and policies to guarantee a tidy and efficient flow of goods towards commercial premises. However, the urban freight delivery system in Spain, which is even more complicated due to the urban morphology and driving behavior, also suffers from a combination of negative factors, including uneven regulations, lack of enforcement and obso...

3. Given BW. Latent Fingerprints on Cartridges and Expended Cartridge Casings. Journal of Forensic Sciences 1976;21:587-594. Over the five year time period spanning from 1998 – 2002 there was an approximate 30% increase in firearm associated crime in the UK (as reported by the Metropolitan Police). The Home Office reported that gun crime had increased from a reported 4,903 offences in 1997/8 to...

Abstract— Population characteristics and processes both are the drivers and results of social and economic development processes and outcomes. A community’s population characteristics like age, background, close circle, employment, education, use of drugs, family history, per capita income, locality, housing status etc. are of concern that influences various offences and offence levels in our s...

127 Introduction The latest Home Office crime statistics reveal that in the 12 months to March 2001 there were 5.2 million crimes recorded in England and Wales. During this period there were 37 299 recorded sexual offences, 21% higher than in 1995–1996.1 Further analysis of the sexual offences data reveals that there were 7929 recorded rapes of a female within the 12 months ending March 2001; t...

The current study explores the roles offenders see themselves playing during an offence and their relationship to different crime types. One hundred and twenty incarcerated offenders indicated the narrative roles they acted out whilst committing a specific crime they remembered well. The data were subjected to Smallest Space Analysis (SSA) and four themes were identified: Hero, Professional, Re...

One of the crucial means establishing truth in cases administrative offences is expertise. As evidenced by judicial practice, explanations individuals involved case are quite often contradictory, and only appointing conducting a forensic examination it possible to establish certain circumstances that require use special knowledge, which court must evaluate accordingly. The purpose this study wa...