Wildlife Law Enforcement

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...

DISTINGUISHING REAL VS FAKE TIGER PENISES Identification Guides for Wildlife Law Enforcement No. 6

Dried genitalia are an important element of traditional medicine in many cultures around the world. Because genitalia are usually prescribed dried and whole, they are generally recognizable. Preparation for sale of the genitals consists of removal of hair and all or most of the skin. In some cases, the glans penis is altered to attempt replication of the sex organs of iconographically important...

Wanted: Uniform Law Enforcement

Inefficiently Automated Law Enforcement

For some crimes the entire law enforcement process can now be automated. No humans are needed to detect the crime, identify the perpetrator, or impose punishment. While automated systems are cheap and efficient, governments and citizens must look beyond these obvious savings as manual labor is replaced by robots and computers. Inefficiency and indeterminacy have significant value in automated l...

Wildlife DNA forensics — bridging the gap between conservation genetics and law enforcement

Wildlife DNA forensics is an applied field that has emerged from a synthesis of conservation genetic research and forensic genetic practice to meet the increasing need for investigative tools in wildlife law enforcement. This review describes the principal technologies and applications available to wildlife forensic geneticists, focussing on the four most common casework questions: What species...