scholarly journals Sexual Homicide and Its Investigation: New Perspectives to Improve Police Practices

2021 ◽  
pp. 235-251
Author(s):  
Julien Chopin ◽  
Eric Beauregard

1967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Medalie ◽  
Leonard Zeitz ◽  
Brian Paddock
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Author(s):  
Cheryl Allsop

This chapter considers the development of, and growing interest in, cold case reviews, distinguishing between the instrumental and symbolic politics which surround their development. What becomes clear in this chapter is that the rise in interest can be attributed to a number of individual and interlocking events, including changes in police legitimacy, the introduction of a number of police reforms, and initiatives resulting in changes to police practices, pressure from victims’ rights groups for more attention from the criminal justice system, and advances in scientific techniques and technologies with increasing uses found for them. The chapter briefly considers the political background to cold case reviews, and how this connects with the broader politics of policing along with the instrumental politics of maintaining major crime review teams and the symbolic politics which helps to justify expenditure in cold case reviews.



2020 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 101728
Author(s):  
Jonathan James ◽  
Tamsin Higgs ◽  
Stephanie Langevin


2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 1129-1141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac T. Van Patten ◽  
Paul Q. Delhauer


1994 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Reid Meloy ◽  
Carl B. Gacono ◽  
Lynne Kenney
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2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-100
Author(s):  
R. I. Mawby ◽  
I. Brabcová ◽  
E. Koubová

Police structures and everyday practices in Central and Eastern Europe have changed dramatically in recent years, but changes have varied both in terms of the countries involved and in terms of the particular feature of the police system under review. This paper focuses on one city, Prague, and considers the ways in which the police deal with crime victims, specifically victims of burglary. The findings are compared with an earlier study in Poland, Hungary, Germany and England. The police are the main agency with which burglary victims are involved, and the service they provide is important, not least because clear-up rates are low. It was, therefore, reassuring to find that victims were generally positive about the way the police dealt with their cases. This is very different from the situation in Poland, where victims were far more critical. However, those victims who were most affected or worried about crime were least positive, suggesting that there is a link between perceptions of police work and perceptions of the crime situation. A comparison between the Czech Republic and Poland also suggests that relatively minor changes to police practices may improve victims' experiences and thereby their evaluation of police work.





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