Book review: Jinee Lokaneeta, The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogation in India

Logic, Truth and Inquiry (Book Review)

Policing guns and youth violence.

To combat the epidemic of youth gun violence in the 1980s and 1990s, law enforcement agencies across the United States adopted a variety of innovative strategies. This article presents case studies of eight cities' efforts to police gun crime. Some cities emphasized police-citizen partnerships to address youth violence, whereas others focused on aggressive enforcement against youth suspected of...

Book Review Elizabethan London and Scientific Practice

The jewel house is a nuanced analysis of the community of gardeners, instrument makers, engineers, alchemists and mathematics teachers in Elizabethan London whose empirical practices, Harkness argues, ‘set the stage for the Scientific Revolution’ via the practice of what she terms vernacular ‘science’. Although her employment of the term ‘science’ may seem an anachronism, she demonstrates that ...

Policing Domestic Violence: the Problem-solving Paradigm

Policing domestic violence is the most scientifically developed application of the problem-solving paradigm. Its current state reveals many basic challenges to the paradigm as a tool for crime prevention. While there has been great progress in adopting the goal of preventing domestic violence, there has been less understanding and use of the paradigm's methods for accomplishing that goal. Almos...

Truth and Scientific Change