A British case history is presented of a two-year-old girl who contracted gonorrhea either from incestuous sexual abuse or by indirect means. A police investigation consented to by the child's mother was inconclusive. After the girl had been treated and returned to her family, an informal case conference including physicians, a social worker, and a philosopher examined the issues of police in...

In this article we describe a tool for assisting the investigation of different strategies of agent physical reorganizations. We show how the tool was used in the public safety domain for helping in the study of strategies of preventive policing. An agent society that simulates criminal and police behavior in a geographical region was constructed. In this society, artificial agents representing...

Acquisition of object clitics is one of the more investigated aspects of the largely understudied variety of Modern Greek spoken in the Republic of Cyprus. Previous studies on the acquisition of clitics in Cypriot Greek usually acknowledge that the linguistic reality in Cyprus involves a state of diglossia, where the sociolinguistically ‘high’ Standard Modern Greek co-exists with the ‘low’ Cypr...

Police investigations involve determining whether a crime has been committed, and if so what type of crime, who has committed it and whether there is the evidence to charge the perpetrators. Drawing on fieldwork in Delhi and Mumbai, this paper explores how police investigations unfolded in the specific context of women's deaths by burning in India. In particular, it focuses on the use of discre...

  This paper demonstrates a preliminary investigation of geometry, function and its relation to DFX principles, namely DFM (Design for Manufacturing). This is the starting point for research on the development of an expert system that assesses design goals along DFX principles in a feature-based CAD environment. There is a need for a deeper level of understanding of the relationship between geo...

The manual crime recording and investigation systems in police stations all around the world are generating piles of crime documents which make storage and retrieval of reliable crime information extremely difficult as well as inefficient. Furthermore, investigators of central authorities have to manually search through these documents and communicate between the relevant police stations to obt...

The aim of this article is to discuss the place and role intercultural encounter (IE) in communication education, including foreign language teaching. Firstly, I present IE as a communicative event define it using terms developed by ethnographers speech (communication). Secondly, concepts contained Common European Framework Reference for Languages. Companion Volume with New Descriptors (CEFR 20...

In this paper, a novel approach has been proposed to rank police administration units on the basis of their effective enforcement of crime prevention measures using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Clustering. The proposed approach will offer an effective mechanism not only to rank police administration units but also provide an evaluation tool to monitor the implementation of crime preventi...

A 2-phased experiment assessed the accuracy and completeness of police reports on mock interrogations and their effects on people's perceptions. In Phase 1, 16 experienced officers investigated a mock crime scene, interrogated 2 innocent suspects-1 described by the experimenter as more suspicious than the other-and filed an incident report. All 32 sessions were covertly recorded; the recordings...