Police and the Policed: Language Power Relations on Margins of Global South by Danielle Watson (2019)Palgrave Macmillan, xiii + 138 pp

ANALYSIS: Glendale's Community Police PartnerShip (COPPS) team conducted a comprehensive survey. Residents and business owners complained of blocked sidewalks and the harassment of pedestrians by laborers waiting for work. Laborers used nearby buildings and parking lots as public bathrooms and left trash on the sidewalks, streets, and gutters. COPPS officers and concerned community members deve...

The European Stroke Organisation held its first European Stroke Science Workshop in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (December 15–17, 2011). Stroke experts based in Europe were invited to present and discuss their current research. The scope of the workshop was to review the most recent findings of selected topics in stroke, to exchange ideas, to stimulate new research, and to enhance collaborat...

An essential activity in managing an emergency is planning, preparation, and training for it. The harmful consequences can be diminished if accurate safety metrics are incorporated before. This leads to the simulation of an emergency event which is required to devise a roadmap, evaluate the effectiveness of numerous possible scenarios and thereby mitigate the damages significantly. An agent-bas...

BACKGROUND Given limited research evidence for community-based alcohol interventions, this study examines the intervention preferences of rural communities and alcohol professionals, and factors that influence their choices. METHOD Community preferences were identified by a survey of randomly selected individuals across 20 regional Australian communities. The preferences of alcohol profession...

Abandoning an earlier pretense that research misconduct is too rare to matter, the scientific community is trying to figure out how to minimize and police it. Could broadening the definition be the key?

We examine consensual and coercive police–citizen relations in São Paulo, Brazil. According to procedural justice theory, popular legitimacy operates as part of a virtuous circle, whereby normatively appropriate police behavior encourages people self-regulate, which then reduces the need for forms social control. But can be so easily disentangled city many fear crime, where ability use force of...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Forensic Res Criminol Int J 2015, 1(3): 00013 sufficient attention from the scientific community.” In the opinion of this writer, this perception is reality in far too many jurisdictions but it is not only the fault of the scientific community. Prosecutors, police departments, investigators, and forensic scientists all share responsibility for this ...