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What are the Prospects of 3D Profiling Systems Applied to Firearms and Toolmark Identification?
, 2010 This paper details a comparative pilot study of 3D (three dimensional) imaging technologies for potential application in forensic firearms and toolmark identification; as such it reviews the most up-to-date profiling systems.
Allsop, DF +11 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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The use of firearms in intimate murder-suicide in Australia and New Zealand
, 2001 Although murder-suicide is relatively rare, the number of events per year is fairly constant and often occurs in the context of intimate or family relations.
Barnes, Jo
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Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Forensic ballistics is essential in analyzing evidence from firearm use in criminal investigations, with gunshot residue (GSR) detection providing key information about the firearm and shooting conditions. Traditional methods like spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) have limitations in sensitivity, cost, and accessibility ...
Paulo Tonin +2 more
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Perceptions of armed policing: barriers and motivations to becoming an eAuthorised Firearms Officer [PDF]
, 2019 Police constabularies in England and Wales are under increased scrutiny to ensure diversity and representation across all aspects of policing business. Armed policing, however,has historically been understood a an exclusive,highly masculine and dangerous
Joe Simon
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Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Discourse around drug policy presents a stark contrast between policing and harm reduction models, sparking debates on the state's regulatory versus protective role. Canada is an ideal case to study drug policy models due to its global recognition as a leader in harm reduction alongside continued reliance on policing of drugs.
Taylor Domingos
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Firearms Instant Check System bullet-in
, 2017 Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in ...
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Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract We investigate how the affordances of an online context shape the processes of social learning. Using a dataset of more than 11,000 posts from the fraud subdread on the dark web forum Dread, we examine how affordances of platform governance, connectivity, anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, and limited oversight influence the components ...
Fangzhou Wang, Timothy Dickinson
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Critical ethnography: investigating practice in police firearms training
, 2018 This research case study examines how critical ethnography was used during a research project in the context of Police firearms training. I first set out the background to the project and how my colleagues and I became involved in a collaborative way.
Christian Beighton, Beighton, C.
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