State and Municipal Services: Law Enforcement Issues

Stress and law enforcers: testing the relationship between law enforcement work stressors and health-related issues

Stigma is recognized as a potential barrier to seeking help for a mental health disorder. The present study assessed college students' perceived benefits and barriers to obtaining mental health treatment and stigma-related attitudes via a four-page survey. A total of 682 students at one Midwestern university participated in the study. Findings indicated that females perceived a greater number o...

Accelerated Information Sharing for Law Enforcement (AISLE) Using Web Services

Information sharing is the defining principle for public safety and Web Services is the technology best positioned to facilitate sharing and lower costs. The National Law Enforcement Telecommunication System (NLETS) provides a network for criminal justice information exchange throughout North America. NLETS is defining new standards based upon XML and Web Services under the Accelerated Informat...

Traffic law enforcement and safety.

State Management Issues and Grid Services

Defining the ways for components around the world to collaborate with each other to execute applications over the internet is one of the biggest challenges for computer scientists and engineers. Recent development on Web/Grid services have achieved some success and showed very promising future. However, there still exist several open issues, such as state management. In this paper, we analyze t...

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...