This study used item response theory (IRT) to examine the extent to which criminal justice facilities and community-based agencies are using evidence-based substance abuse treatment practices (EBPs), which EBPs are most commonly used, and how EBPs cluster together. The study used data collected from wardens, justice administrators, and treatment directors as part of the National Criminal Justic...

The peculiarities for the formation of methodology investigating criminal offenses against authority state agencies in field law enforcement activity have been highlighted. It has established that specified group includes: 1) interference activities a officer; 2) threat murder, bodily injury or destruction damage to property generally dangerous manner respect an official his relatives citizen p...

This article aims at analysing the differences between European countries in the obstacles ex-offenders face due to having a criminal record. First, a comparative analytical framework is introduced that takes into account all the different elements that can lead to exclusion from the labour market by the dissemination of criminal record information. This model brings together social norms (macr...

The permeation of technology into our daily lives has resulted in new types of criminal activity and new ways of committing old crimes. As with traditional crime, fundamental to the apprehension of offenders that have adopted technology, is the ability to identify the magnitude of the incident, assess its importance and response in a timely and appropriate manner. Over the past decade many auth...

Construction of the Linked Dataset: The primary data for this analysis are restricted-use data collected by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and made available to researchers via the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. 1 Using the restricted-use dyadic linking files provided by BJS, we link case records across agencies as they go through the criminal justice process, enabling us to...

Both state and federal agencies are cracking down on health care professionals who file false Medicare claims, but physicians who make good faith attempts to comply with the law are fairly secure from prosecution, since both criminal and civil penalties must be based on willful or knowing breaches of the law.

Globalization, the ubiquity of mobile communications and the rise of the web have all expanded the environment in which organized criminal entities are conducting their illicit activities, and as a result the environment that law enforcement agencies have to police. This paper triangulates the capability of open-source data analytics, ontological knowledge representation and the wider notion of...

This presentation will discuss the need for national-level organizational strategies to effectively combat cyber security threats and cybercrime. In many countries, new agencies have been established and/or new roles have been allotted to existing agencies to cope with the needs for cyber security or fighting against cybercrime. The two pillars of organizational structure and functions (i.e., s...