scholarly journals A METODOLOGIA INVESTIGATIVA POLICIAL CONTEMPORÂNEA EM DISCUSSÃO

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 94-112
Author(s):  
Yasmine Caroline Viana Soares ◽  
Thiago Henrique Costa Silva
Keyword(s):  
Theory Building

Diante do universo de informações e do desafio em determinar quais são relevantes, é necessário refletir sobre a atuação policial na atualidade, principalmente na investigação de crimes complexos. Portanto, o objetivo do artigo é discutir a metodologia da investigação policial, alicerçada em fontes de conhecimento de Inteligência Policial (Análise de Vínculo) e da Análise Criminal (especialmente a Tática). Adotou-se uma abordagem indutiva, por meio da revisão crítica da literatura e da metodologia Theory Building from cases. Para tanto, analisou-se um complexo caso de crime contra a ordem tributária investigado pela Polícia Civil goiana, destacando a metodologia da Análise Criminal adotada e o papel do analista para a prestação de um serviço público de qualidade. Concluiu-se que a procedimentalização da atividade do analista criminal contribuiria diretamente para a maior eficiência do trabalho investigativo policial.

Can a Theory of Suicide Predict All “Suicides” in the Elderly?

Crisis ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoon A. Leenaars
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Comprehensive Model ◽  
Suicide Notes ◽  
Psychiatric Study

Summary: Older adults consistently have the highest rates of suicide in most societies. Despite the paucity of studies until recently, research has shown that suicides in later life are best understood as a multidimensional event. An especially neglected area of research is the psychological/psychiatric study of personality factors in the event. This paper outlines one comprehensive model of suicide and then raises the question: Is such a psychiatric/psychological theory applicable to all suicides in the elderly? To address the question, I discuss the case of Sigmund Freud; raise the topic of suicide and/or dignified death in the terminally ill; and examine suicide notes of the both terminally ill and nonterminally ill elderly. I conclude that, indeed, greater study and theory building are needed into the “suicides” of the elderly, including those who are terminally ill.

Contributions of Contemporary Political Science to an Understanding of the Common Good

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.J. Matthew Carnes
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Scientific Theory ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
Politics And Government ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common ◽  
Nature And Society

The transformation of political science in recent decades opens the door for a new but so far poorly cultivated examination of the common good. Four significant “turns” characterize the modern study of politics and government. Each is rooted in the discipline’s increased emphasis on empirical rigor, with its attendant scientific theory-building, measurement, and hypothesis testing. Together, these new orientations allow political science to enrich our understanding of causality, our basic definitions of the common good, and our view of human nature and society. In particular, the chapter suggests that traditional descriptions of the common good in Catholic theology have been overly irenic and not sufficiently appreciative of the role of contention in daily life, on both a national and international scale.

Challenges in the Empirical Study of Global Governance Legitimacy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Political Communities

This commentary discusses three challenges for the promising and ambitious research agenda outlined in the volume. First, it interrogates the volume’s attempts to differentiate political communities of legitimation, which may vary widely in composition, power, and relevance across institutions and geographies, with important implications not only for who matters, but also for what gets legitimated, and with what consequences. Second, it examines avenues to overcome possible trade-offs from gains in empirical tractability achieved through the volume’s focus on actor beliefs and strategies. One such trade-off is less attention to evolving norms and cultural factors that may underpin actors’ expectations about what legitimacy requires. Third, it addresses the challenge of theory building that can link legitimacy sources, (de)legitimation practices, audiences, and consequences of legitimacy across different types of institutions.

How rural immersion training influences rural work orientation of medical students: Theory building through realist evaluation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Amie Bingham ◽  
Belinda O’Sullivan ◽  
Danielle Couch ◽  
Samuel Cresser ◽  
Matthew McGrail ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Realist Evaluation ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Work Orientation ◽  
Immersion Training ◽  
Rural Work

scholarly journals How Computational Modeling Can Force Theory Building in Psychological Science

2021 ◽  
pp. 174569162097058
Author(s):  
Olivia Guest ◽  
Andrea E. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Computational Modeling ◽  
Computational Model ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Formal Modeling ◽  
Inference Process ◽  
Experimental Practice ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Scientific Inference ◽  
And Behaviors

Psychology endeavors to develop theories of human capacities and behaviors on the basis of a variety of methodologies and dependent measures. We argue that one of the most divisive factors in psychological science is whether researchers choose to use computational modeling of theories (over and above data) during the scientific-inference process. Modeling is undervalued yet holds promise for advancing psychological science. The inherent demands of computational modeling guide us toward better science by forcing us to conceptually analyze, specify, and formalize intuitions that otherwise remain unexamined—what we dub open theory. Constraining our inference process through modeling enables us to build explanatory and predictive theories. Here, we present scientific inference in psychology as a path function in which each step shapes the next. Computational modeling can constrain these steps, thus advancing scientific inference over and above the stewardship of experimental practice (e.g., preregistration). If psychology continues to eschew computational modeling, we predict more replicability crises and persistent failure at coherent theory building. This is because without formal modeling we lack open and transparent theorizing. We also explain how to formalize, specify, and implement a computational model, emphasizing that the advantages of modeling can be achieved by anyone with benefit to all.

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