P olice departments and other law enforcement agencies continually analyze vast amounts of criminal incident data to better understand crime in their jurisdictions, to identify significant changes in crime levels, to plan community and neighborhood responses to crime, to investigate incidents, and to apprehend perpetrators. As the number of crimes increases and as resources—particularly human r...

Currently, there is an increase in the number of environmental violations and damage they cause. The article presents results study legal framework practice law enforcement to determine damage, its scope, possible compensation. objective define powers, functions, roles agencies responsible for enforcing guarantee It studied from bibliographical, analytical, critical review regulation, applying ...

Collaborative network theory can be useful in refining current understanding of criminal networks and aid in understanding their evolution. Drug trafficking organizations that operate in the region directly north of Colombia’s Valle del Cauca department and the “collection agencies” that operate in the Colombian city of Cali have abandoned hierarchical organizational structures and have become ...

SECTION 1001 of the Criminal Code provides criminal sanctions against persons who deal fraudulently with government agencies.1 Although the origin of the statute dates from 1863,2 only recently have Government attorneys made frequent use of its provisions. In United States v. Diogo, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit supplemented the increasing body of judicial interpretation of sectio...

This paper describes an agent-based approach for constructing a model of criminal justice system operations in England and Wales. The primary purpose of the model is to assess the impact of policy variants across the entire criminal justice system. Because of the structure of this system, three separate government departments interact and deliver services. Decisions in one area of the criminal ...

Serial murderers have attracted considerable attention in the popular press and criminal justice field, but scientific literature about these individuals is limited. This article provides an overview, from a psychiatric perspective, of serial sexual homicide, one type of serial killing. Characteristics of this type of murder and of these offenders are discussed. Defining qualities and diagnoses...