AIMS AND METHOD Assaults in healthcare settings have resulted in a range of national strategies aimed at reducing the incidence of violence. This study aimed to quantify the use of prosecution of assailants as a response, and to examine what other responses were used. The responses to violent incidents in three Northern Ireland psychiatric in-patient units in the year 2003 were ascertained retr...

Crime laboratories play an important prosecution. Yet just how frequently charging, plea negotiations, trial, and role in our criminal justice system by -and effectively-is forensic evisentencing? Is forensic science "overexamining physical evidence in supdence actually used at various stages burdened and underutilized," as port of investigations and subsequent of the criminal justice processsu...

In early nineteenth-century England, there was no professional police force and most prosecutions were private. This paper examines how associations for the prosecution of felons arose to internalize the positive externalities produced by private prosecutions. Drawing upon new historical evidence, it examines how the internal governance and incentive structures of prosecution associations enabl...

The article discusses, in accordance with the Criminal Procedure Law of Georgia, institutions refusing to initiate an investigation, a criminal prosecution, terminating prosecution and file state accusation, similarities differences between them. author presents problems initiation implementation aforementioned procedural practice ways solving is working on doctoral dissertation, title which "T...

Is arrest and prosecution an acceptable response to assault committed by a psychiatric inpatient? The first reported case of such a response was in 1978, and the second not until seven years later. Soon after, an inconclusive debate over the propriety of prosecuting patients, with additional illustrative examples, took place in the psychiatric literature. The present author adds three more case...

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Both state and federal agencies are cracking down on health care professionals who file false Medicare claims, but physicians who make good faith attempts to comply with the law are fairly secure from prosecution, since both criminal and civil penalties must be based on willful or knowing breaches of the law.

BACKGROUND In 2007, 224 persons died in road traffic accidents in Norway. According to the instruction for prosecution, the police should request forensic autopsy in such deaths. The police's adherence to this instruction varies. The aim of this study was to document enforcement of the instruction for prosecution among police districts in two Norwegian counties (North and South Trøndelag). MA...

This paper introduces a new concept called controllable ring signature which is ring signature with additional properties as follow. (1) Anonymous identifica-tion: by an anonymous identification protocol, the real signer can anonymously prove his authorship of the ring signature to the verifier. And this proof is non-transferable. (2) Linkable signature: the real signer can generate an anonymou...