This study examines law enforcement dilemmas in child pornography possession investigations in which no offender was arrested. A mail survey of US law enforcement agencies identified a sample of Internet child pornography possession cases where no arrest was made. Telephone surveys with law enforcement investigators were used to collect casespecific data and information on dilemmas in these inv...

Cyber-crime is a growing problem, but the ability of Indiana law enforcement agencies to investigate and successfully prosecute criminals for these crimes is unclear. While law enforcement agencies have been conducting these investigations for many years, the previously published needs assessments all indicated that state and local law enforcement did not have the training, tools, or staff to e...

We compare investigations by the SEC with securities fraud class action filings involving public companies. Using actions with both an SEC investigation and a class action as our baseline, we compare SEC‐only investigations with class action‐only lawsuits. We find evidence that the stock market reacts more negatively to the class actions relative to SEC investigations. We also find that institu...

Investigations conducted by law enforcement agencies depend on information that is obtained from a variety of sources, internal and external to the organization. Considering that investigations frequently span multiple jurisdictions and government agencies with varying objectives and powers, assessing and ensuring compliance with their policies and the legal framework is challenging. We present...

The biological attacks with powders containing Bacillus anthracis sent through the mail during September and October 2001 led to unprecedented public health and law enforcement investigations, which involved thousands of investigators from federal, state, and local agencies. Following recognition of the first cases of anthrax in Florida in early October 2001, investigators from the Centers for ...

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 31 (2003): 684–700. © 2003 by the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. ince at least the mid-1970s, public health and law enforcement officials have conducted joint or parallel investigations of both health problems possibly associated with criminal intent and crimes having particular health dimensions. However, the anthrax and other terrorist attacks o...

n their article “Collaboration between Public Health and Law Enforcement: New Paradigms and Partnerships for Bioterrorism Planning and Response,” Butler et al. present a valuable introduction to the practical problems of coordinating public health and criminal law investigations (1). While this problem is not new in public health, the events of September 11, 2001, have given it a special urgenc...