Intent in Criminal Conspiracy

Concocting Criminal Intent

Latent Classes of Criminal Intent Associated with Criminal Behaviour

Background: This study aimed to examine the number of latent classes of criminal intent that exist among prisoners and to look at the associations with recidivism, number of police arrests, type of offending (robbery, violent offences, murder, and multiple offences), and age. Participants and Procedure: Latent class analysis was used to identify homogeneous subgroups of prisoners based on their...

Detecting Criminal Intent with the Concealed Information Test

Lie detection procedures are typically aimed at determining whether a suspect is lying about a crime committed in the past. Recent threats of terrorism, however, have shifted attention away from solving old cases to preventing future crimes. In the experiment reported in this paper, we investigate whether a specific lie detection test, the Concealed Information Test, can be used to detect crimi...

Conspiracy theories in science.

Conspiracy theories are easy to propagate and difficult to refute. Fortunately, until a decade or so ago, few serious conspiracy theories haunted the natural sciences. More recently, however, conspiracy theories have begun to gain ground and, in some cases, have struck a chord with a public already mistrustful of science and government. Conspiracy theorists—some of them scientifically trained—h...

Conspiracy in bacterial genomes

The rank ordered distribution of the codon usage frequencies for 123 bacteriae is best fitted by a three parameters function that is the sum of a constant, an exponential and a linear term in the rank n. The parameters depend (two parabolically) from the total GC content. The rank ordered distribution of the amino acids is fitted by a straight line. The Shannon entropy computed over all the cod...