One Size Doesn’t Fit All

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janne E. Gaub ◽  
Natalie Todak ◽  
Michael D. White
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Potential Utility ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Policy And Procedure

Although body-worn cameras (BWCs) have diffused rapidly in law enforcement both in the United States and abroad, questions have emerged regarding the potential utility of BWCs for specialized police units. Given the near-sole focus on patrol during BWC implementation, the role of specialty units in BWC deployment is often overlooked. Further, the advantages, disadvantages, and challenges associated with BWCs may be unique for specialty units compared to patrol, given their differences in mission and operational focus. We explore this issue using qualitative data from 17 focus groups with 72 officers assigned to specialty units in two midsize Western police departments. The findings highlight the importance of carefully considering unit mission when making decisions about BWCs, especially related to policy and procedure.

Filmgoers’ Fingerprints

2021 ◽  
pp. 223-256
Author(s):  
Noah Tsika
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Police Power ◽  
Movie Theaters ◽  
Movie Theater ◽  
Crime Films ◽  
Local Police ◽  
Biometric Information

This chapter focuses on fingerprinting stations, which, from the early 1920s until the late 1950s, were often located in the lobbies of movie theaters and used both in conjunction with crime films and as part of a broader push to collect Americans’ personal biometric information. An increasingly popular component of efforts to normalize civil identification, fingerprinting stations routinely functioned to promote both crime films and local police departments. They also raised alarming questions about the scope of police power in the United States. Fingerprinting stations were naturalized aspects of a cinematic assemblage that served police power, smuggling law enforcement into the local movie theater and making the collection of patrons’ personal biometric information seem continuous both with screen representations and with the wider work of advertising and publicity departments.

scholarly journals Meaning of Family—Professional Partnerships: Japanese Mothers' Perspectives

2005 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maho Kasahara ◽  
Ann P. Turnbull
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Japanese Society ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Culturally Diverse Families ◽  
Japanese Mothers

This study inquired into the meaning of family-professional partnerships from the perspective of Japanese families of children with disabilities. Data were collected from 30 mothers who participated in focus groups and/or interviews in Japan. Qualitative data analysis guided identification of four themes. The study's contributions are discussed in relation to not only Japanese society, but also to the global community including the United States. The study's implications for developing partnerships with culturally diverse families also are discussed.

Application of Fifth Amendment to U.S. Constitution in international context—fear of foreign prosecution as ground for invoking privilege against self-incrimination—relevance of growing international law enforcement cooperation—role of U.S. judiciary in foreign relations

1998 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 759-764
Author(s):  
Bernard H. Oxman ◽  
Diane Marie Amann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
International Law ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Context ◽  
Open Question ◽  
Domestic Law

United States v. Balsys. 118 S.Ct. 2218.U.S. Supreme Court, June 25, 1998.Resolving a long-open question, the U.S. Supreme Court held in this 7-2 decision that a witness in a domestic proceeding may not invoke the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination if the witness fears that the testimony may be used in a prosecution outside the United States. Although grounded in domestic law, the three opinions in Balsys reveal tension between the judiciary's traditional deference to the political branches in foreign relations matters and its concern over the risk that individuals subject to prosecution abroad will suffer deprivation of liberty because of that deference.

The Remains of the Movement: The Role of Legal Support Networks in Leaving Violence While Sustaining Movement Identity

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilda Zwerman ◽  
Patricia Steinhoff
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Defense Committees

This article examines disengagement from political violence and the persistence of a movement identity as concurrent and interrelated processes. Our inquiry is based on long-term qualitative data on 90 individuals associated with twelve underground organizations in the United States and Japan during the 1970s and 1980s. We find that as armed activists face the challenges of arrest and detention, trial, and imprisonment, the network of trial support groups and defense committees that was central to their capacity to engage in violence at the peak of the protest cycle also facilitates the process of disengaging from violence as the cycle declines. The distinctive characteristics of this network (herein referred to as the legal support network or LSN) permit insurgents to retain a movement identity while disengaging from violent activity. The study contributes to a small but expanding literature on post-recruitment dynamics in marginalized, high-risk social movements as well as to research on disengagement from political violence.

Critical Incident Management and Geographically–Based Systems

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 69-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Webb ◽  
David R. Hoffpauir
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
Strong Dependence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Incident Management ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Exciting Field ◽  
Critical Incident Management ◽  
Law Enforcement Management

In the United States there is a strong dependence on decentralized policing services, distributed by thousands of police departments. As a primary police professional development management institute in the United States, the Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas (LEMIT) identified that there existed a paucity of management development opportunities for police command staff engaged in critical incident management. This paper describes how LEMIT met this challenge and became a leading U.S. institute in this exciting field of operation.

scholarly journals Exploring Compassion in U.S. Nurses: Results from an International Research Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdeline Aagard ◽  
Irena Papadopoulos ◽  
Jessica Biles
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Research Study ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Survey ◽  
Compassionate Care ◽  
The Family ◽  
Key Issues

Nurses in the United States value their role in providing compassionate care to their patients, the family and community. This article discusses an international survey that explored key issues of compassion in nursing, specifically qualitative findings from a sample of nurses from the United States of America. Fifteen countries participated in this survey, with a total of 1,323 completed questionnaires. The article presents the background; study methods and analysis; and results and discussion. Qualitative data from the United States nurses revealed the following findings: compassion was defined caring with listening, developing a relationship, alleviating suffering, touch, and going beyond the normal role of the nurse.Findings of this study provide some understanding of the ways in which nurses in the United States provide compassionate care.

Healthcare Antitrust in the United States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Greaney
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Managed Care ◽  
Competition Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Antitrust Law ◽  
Market Structures ◽  
Delicate Balance

This chapter examines the pivotal role of antitrust law in shaping institutional and professional arrangements in American healthcare. Historically, much of what can be broadly classified as “competition policy” in healthcare is found in the application of traditional antitrust principles to the conduct and structure of provider and payer organizations rather than in any sweeping statutory enactments. Although some landmark legislation removed some important barriers to the growth of managed care, the task of dealing with unacceptable practices and problematic market structures has been left to standard antitrust law. The chapter then addresses the interplay of administrative regulation with antitrust law enforcement, noting particularly those areas where the goals of antitrust are in tension with regulation and discussing the doctrinal accommodations made to deal with that problem. It also explores the critical and delicate balance antitrust law must strike in promoting competitively structured markets while taking into account market imperfections and hard-to-measure outcome variables.

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