We consider a model of law enforcement where homogenous, risk neutral, and corruptible inspectors are responsible for monitoring …rms’ adoption of pollution prevention technology. A welfare maximizing government can implement appropriate wage policies to prevent collusion, but we …nd that governments characterized by high administrative costs in administrating …nes, or by a low ability to spot ...

The savage Delhi rape of 16 December 2012 was instrumental in generating the Verma Report that framed policies for amending the Criminal Laws related to sexual violence, professionalizing forensic/medical examination of victims, and sensitizing the police, electorate and the educational sectors. Unfortunately, even after a year, the Indian Home Ministry has abysmally failed to implement most re...

The Canadian Special Senate Committee on Illegal Drugs (2003) noted that little ethnographic research had been devoted to exploring why people use marijuana recreationally or the social contexts in which it is used. The purpose of this exploratory qualitative research is to better understand both of these neglected topics through interviews conducted with 41 adult Canadian users between 2005 an...

On leave for a couple of months from the American drug wars, visiting the drug policy, research and treatment networks in Great Britain, France, The Netherlands and Germany. Often I was hot on the heels of delegations of the US Drug Enforcement Agency and Willam Bennett's crew who are waging an aggressive campaign to persuade NATO partners to shift their priorities from the war against communis...

The definition of a counterfeit drug would at firsthand seem relatively simple: “a medicinal product that is produced and sold to deceptively represent its origin, authenticity or effectiveness”.1 However, when we actually consider the differences in terminology used among international providers of health care, it would seem that a legal definition of counterfeit as described in a legal text s...

The investigation of repeat and near-repeat (RNR) patterns of sub-categories of burglary crimes is of great importance to law enforcement since a distinct intervention strategy may be suitable in the application to a different sub-category. In this study, the Knox test is used to investigate the RNR patterns within the data set of three different subcategories of burglary crime in relation to t...

This paper was developed to accompany the Model Policy on Investigating Sexual Assaults developed by the IACP National Law Enforcement Policy Center. The paper provides essential background material and supporting documentation to provide a greater understanding of the developmental philosophy and implementation required for the model policy. It also addresses field investigative procedures and...

The medical profession, like any other form of business, subjects itself to potential antitrust liability when it engages in joint activity designed to affect trade relations. One type of joint activity used by the profession is the influencing of government bodies in order to attain anticompetitive results favorable to physicians. This kind of joint effort in the commercial world is to some ex...

Using data that, to our knowledge, have not been used before for this purpose, we examined 9,231 opposite-sex intimate partner violence (IPV) calls for law enforcement assistance recorded in the Compstat system of a large U.S. city. Although women were the predominant victims, injuries were documented more often for men. Only about 1% of incidents were considered a restraining order violation, ...

This review paper assesses the existing body of knowledge associated with digital forensic investigation process models. To this end, eleven of the existing models are critically reviewed and evaluated against an assessment criteria, namely the Daubert Test, to determine which models have taken the most scientific approach. This review and assessment reveal that the authors of these models have...