News tagged with criminal justice
National anti-gun violence program largely successful, study finds
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Project Safe Neighborhoods - a community-based policing effort launched in 2001 - has been largely successful in its goal of reducing violent crime, according to an analysis by Michigan State University, the national research ...
Researchers rest their case: TV consumption predicts opinions about criminal justice system
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 28, 2009 |
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People who watch forensic and crime dramas on TV are more likely than non-viewers to have a distorted perception of America's criminal justice system, according to new research from Purdue University.
Medical documentation of injuries is associated with more convictions in adult rapes in South Africa
Oct 13, 2009 |
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A study examining how the South African criminal justice system handles cases of rape shows an association between the medical documentation of ano-genital injuries, the commencement of trials, and convictions in rape cases. ...
Who are you? Mobile ID devices find out using NIST guidelines
Aug 26, 2009 |
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A new publication that recommends best practices for the next generation of portable biometric acquisition devices -- Mobile ID -- has been published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Psychologists offer ways to improve prison environment, reduce violent crime
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 08, 2009 |
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U.S. prisons are too punitive and often fail to rehabilitate, but targeting prisoners' behavior, reducing prison populations and offering job skills could reduce prisoner aggression and prevent recidivism, a researcher told ...
Brain difference in psychopaths identified
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 04, 2009 |
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Professor Declan Murphy and colleagues Dr Michael Craig and Dr Marco Catani from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London have found differences in the brain which may provide a biological explanation ...
Faster, more cost-effective DNA test for crime scenes, disease diagnosis
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Scientists in Japan are reporting development of a faster, less expensive version of the fabled polymerase chain reaction (PCR) a DNA test widely used in criminal investigations, disease diagnosis, biological ...
Kids from juvenile justice system 7 times more likely to commit criminal acts
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 18, 2008 |
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A new study shows that juvenile delinquents sentenced to either a juvenile retreat, probation or unsupervised community service were seven times more likely to commit criminal acts as adults than youngsters from the control ...
