Law-Enforcement Practice: Specifics of Meaning-Making

Specifics of Imaging Practice

As the individual titles make evident, this conference reflects the use of images drawn from a composite of interests and backgrounds. And there is certainly much going on in imaging, whether it is yet another site on the Internet showing pictures, more institutions exploring how to move their visual collections into electronic form, or the crafting of new analytic and interpretative applicatio...

Making Pilgrimages, Meaning and Practice in Shikoku

Information Technology in the Practice of Law Enforcement

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In February 2001, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department began the rollout of a “mobile” information system that will eventually enable all information relating to incident reports, arrests, and investigations to be collected, distributed, and managed in a paperless, wireless environment. The system, dubbed Knowledge-Based Community Oriented Policing System (KBCOPS), bega...

Law Enforcement; a Function of Criminal Liability or Civil Liability

Despite the fact that in investigations and legal writings enough consideration has been paid to the founding principles and rules governing civil and criminal liability as well as damages of crime, the legal or disciplinary responsibility accompanying these two types of legal responsibilities has not been taken seriously into account and the people involved it - in particular, the authorities ...

Psychotherapy as law enforcement.

Legal doctrines do not stand still, but instead evolve and tend to grow and to spawn what law school academicians fondly term progeny. Tarasoff is no exception. In an expanding list of court decisions, psychiatric patients are being convicted of crimes by virtue of actions by their psychiatrists or psychotherapists purportedly based on the duty to warn. One recent case has featured surreptitiou...