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Transparency or Map‐Washing? Digital Geospatial Visualisation Tools in the Palm Oil Industry
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We introduce the notion of map‐washing and ask whether digital geospatial visualisation (DGV) tools distort information or provide greater supply chain transparency. Map‐washing explains a process of disclosing spatial information that has little or no value to the intended users, but rather creates, conforms to or distorts a particular ...
Rory Padfield +5 more
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Statistical Models in Forensic Voice Comparison [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 This chapter describes a number of signal-processing and statistical-modeling techniques that are commonly used to calculate likelihood ratios in human-supervised automatic approaches to forensic voice comparison. Techniques described include mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) feature extraction, Gaussian mixture model - universal background ...
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Regulation of Sexual Behavior and Health in German Prisons and Forensic Psychiatric Hospitals
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Individuals housed in prisons or forensic hospitals experience significant restrictions on their sexual rights. There is a lack of data on how sexual behavior and sexual health of institutionalized persons are managed and to what extent they are based on shared guidelines or decisions of the individual staff.
Hanna H. Hanss +3 more
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Development of China′s forensic science in statistics: 2005-2016
Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine, 2018 In today′s scientific fact-finding, forensic science bears the responsibility of ascertaining authenticity and restoring the truth. With the acceleration of China′s internationalization and judicial reforms, forensic science has begun to play a prominent
Xu Wang +3 more
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Relative Impact of Underreporting and Desistance on the Dark Figure of Sexual Recidivism
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sexual recidivism rates based on arrests or convictions underestimate actual reoffending due to underreporting. A previous Monte Carlo simulation estimated actual recidivism rates under various reporting and conviction assumptions but did not account for desistance—the decreasing likelihood of reoffending over time.
Nicholas Scurich, Richard S. John
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Egyptian Journal of Forensic SciencesThis manuscript explores the importance of an evidence-based education system in forensic education and its implications for improving forensic training and practice.
Debesh Nilendu
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Investigating the General Public\u27s Perceptions of Bias in Forensic Science [PDF]
, 2020 In recent years, the place of forensic science in the courtroom has been reevaluated. Past research has shown that bias found in forensic science disciplines makes its way into the court system and that pre-judgement expectations influence individuals ...
Riley, Sarah
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Forensic Medicine And Forensic Sciences in Portugal
The Bulletin of Legal Medicine, 2009 The first legal texts to contain any rules relating forensic medicine expertises in Portugal date back to the 16th century. But the qualitative leap that actually allowed Portuguese Forensic Medicine to develop, bringing it to the stage where it is today, only occurred three centuries later, in the 19th century. Indeed, the first university teaching of
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Pareto principle is based on the concept that roughly 80% of outcomes are generated by 20% of inputs, efforts, or contributors within a group. Using a national sample of U.S. prison inmates, we examined various percentile rankings of self‐reported institutional misconduct to determine how much disorder is created behind bars by the most ...
Mark A. Morgan +3 more
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Retraction of a peer reviewed article suggests ongoing problems with Australian forensic science
Forensic Science International: Synergy, 2021 We describe events arising from the case of Joby Rowe, convicted of the homicide of his three month old daughter, and explore what they illustrate about systemic problems in the forensic science community in Australia.
Chris Brook +3 more
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