Harm associated with consumption of alcohol on licensed premises is an issue of community concern. Interventions to reinforce responsible sale of alcohol such as server training and accords between licensees, police and health advocates are well known. However, while generally supported by police and licensees as 'a good thing', evaluations demonstrating that they reduce alcohol-related harm ar...

This article examines the relationship of police and child protective services (CPS) coinvolvement to the outcomes of child maltreatment investigations. It reviews practice and empirical literature and conducts a secondary analysis of a national CPS data set. Most sources argue that coordination of the two agencies improves investigations and benefits children and families. Yet, sources also re...

With deinstitutionalization and the influx into the community of persons with severe mental illness, the police have become frontline professionals who manage these persons when they are in crisis. This article examines and comments on the issues raised by this phenomenon as it affects both the law enforcement and mental health systems. Two common-law principles provide the rationale for the po...

Until a few decades ago, the police were mainly a reactive bureaucratic organization that moved from one criminal event to the next, according to the degree to which the outside world required its services. Since then the police have abandoned the emphasis on law enforcement with regards to petty crime and public order. More recently the police have developed community policing as an important ...

INTRODUCTION Worldwide, people who use drugs (PWUD) are among the populations at highest risk for HIV infection. In China, PWUD are primarily sentenced to compulsory detainment centres, in which access to healthcare, including HIV treatment and prevention services, is limited or non-existent. In 2008, China's 2008 Anti-Drug Law encouraged the development and use of community-based drug dependen...

In October of 2007, the Supreme Court of Canada issued its ruling in Hill v. Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Services Board, a case in which the Court addressed the legitimacy of a tort for negligent police investigation. The holding by a majority of six Justices recognized the tort of negligent police investigation at Canadian law. As such, Canada is now one of the only common law countries...

According to community policing advocates, police agencies should implement a variety of important organizational changes. These changes are supposed to occur in a number of different substantive domains, including the culture, behavior, and structure of police organizations. This paper examines the evidence for change in just one of these domains: formal organizational structure. Based on conc...

And for visualization in general, we can distinguish two approaches: extrinsic and intrinsic [1]. In the former, we map agent properties to size, shape, texture, and color; in the latter, we map inter-agent relations to spatial distance. Consider, for example, the picture in Figure 1 showing a courtroom with the accused guarded by military police. The extrinsic approach allows us to identify tw...

This study explored the effectiveness of a novel technique for police departments to support their officers and promote wellness: use service dogs. We evaluated officer perceptions in two mid-sized, municipal that have wellness programs with dog is permanently assigned full-time handler: Groton Naugatuck, Connecticut. assessed six factors believed influence including: operational organizational...

Objectives Citizen complaints are considered by policing researchers as an indicator of police misconduct, and a proxy police-community relations. Nevertheless, US EU-based studies tend to focus on sustained reported official agencies officer-based correlates. Using the case Carabineros, Chilean militarized force, this study examines (a) latent topics contained in large set against digital plat...