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Student Stalking Of Faculty: Impact And Prevalence

February 10, 2019August 22, 2017 by admin

I. Introduction.

In October of 2002, three nursing professors at the University of Arizona were killed by a despondent student who claimed, in a suicide letter, he murdered the professors for giving him failing grades (Lenckus, 2002). In the year prior to this attack, these nursing professors were repeatedly harassed and stalked by this student J.Haase, personal communication, June 20, 2007 . Fortunately, not all such incidents result in murder, as exemplified by the charges filed against a student at the University of Maryland at College Park for threatening a professor with a handgun in an attempt to manipulate the professor into providing him an A Schneider and Basinger, 1998. More recently, a former graduate student at Loyola University attempted to burn his professor’s house down in response to having received a failing grade (Collins, 2006). In the year prior to setting the fires, the student had made repeated...

No, Donald Trump, there’s nothing ‘fishy’ about Vince Foster’s suicide

December 18, 2018August 22, 2017 by admin

Donald Trump “called theories of possible foul play ‘very serious’ and the circumstances of [Vince] Foster’s death ‘very fishy.’”

— “Trump escalates attack on Bill Clinton,” The Washington Post, May 24, 2016

Donald Trump appears intent on dredging up every last bit of every Clinton controversy, including the 1993 death of the Clintons’ close personal friend, White House deputy counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr.

Foster “had intimate knowledge of what was going on,” Trump told The Washington Post. “He knew everything that was going on, and then all of a sudden he committed suicide.” The presumptive GOP presidential nominee said, “I don’t know enough to really discuss it” but “I will say there are people who continue to bring it up because they think it was absolutely a murder.”

Effective Preparation For Examining A Pathologist In A Homicide Case

February 13, 2019August 22, 2017 by admin

Introduction

In 2008, the government of the province of Ontario (Canada) established a Commission tasked with ‘The Inquiry Into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario’: The Inquiry’s mandate was to conduct a systematic review and an assessment of the policies, procedures, practices, accountability and oversight mechanisms, quality control measures, and institutional arrangements of pediatric forensic pathology in Ontario from 1981 to 2001 as they relate to its practice and use in investigations and criminal proceedings. The Commissioner was asked to make recommendations to address systemic failings and restore and enhance public confidence in pediatric forensic pathology in Ontario.

The Goudge Inquiry [Stephen Goudge was the appointed Commissioner] was made necessary by the revelation that a physician who had been conducting pediatric autopsies in the province had been providing opinions based on reported findings that, in several cases that when reviewed, proved unsustainable. A succinct example, discussed in the archives related to the Inquiry, was a case in...

Whitewater: The Foster Report

December 18, 2018August 21, 2017 by admin

Whitewater: The Foster Report

This is the full text of the report on the 1993 death of White House counsel Vincent W. Foster, Jr., compiled by Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr. After an exhaustive three-year investigation, Starr reaffirmed that Foster's death was a suicide. This file does not contain the report's footnotes or appendix. Read the Oct. 11, 1997 Post story about the report's findings.

Homicide By Necessity

March 8, 2022August 21, 2017 by admin

Introduction

In phiosophy we sometimes consider the question, put by way of hypothesis, of how we should act in the midst of a calamity, disaster, or other danger, if it is apparent that we can save our own life only by the destruction of another’s. We can hardly imagine that such a question would have much practical importance, or that a court would ever need to rule upon conduct under such circumstances, or, for that matter, that we would ever personally encounter an ordeal in which we face a dilemma between self-sacrifice and the sacrifice of another.

In fact, there have been numerous instances of homicide by necessity, some of which have resulted in murder or manslaughter convictions, and others which have passed quietly into history with no action taken by the authorities. This topic, homicide by necessity, refers to the killing of innocents in order to produce a greater good or avert a greater...

Philosopher’s Toolkit: The Trolley Problem

December 18, 2018August 21, 2017 by admin

Thought Experiments. Philosophers often engage in 'thought experiments'. They describe hypothetical situations, sometimes realistic and sometimes fantastical, and then ask about our 'intuitions' regarding the case. 'Intuition' is a key term in modern philosophical methods though philosophers disagree about what they are and what their significance is. I will here just take them to be your thoughtful judgments about various things.

Why would philosophers do this? Oddly, though this procedure is very common, there is no general agreement on what these thought experiments show or why they are valuable. But there is general agreement that we can use these thought experiments to help test what we really believe about various things. Here is one sort of use of the thought experiment. Suppose you say 'I believe such and such', where 'such and such' refers to a general principle of some kind. I wonder whether you really do believe that general principle...

Cultural Differences In Responses To Real-life And Hypothetical Trolley Problems

December 18, 2018August 21, 2017 by admin

Trolley problems have been used in the development of moral theory and the psychological study of moral judgments and behavior. Most of this research has focused on people from the West, with implicit assumptions that moral intuitions should generalize and that moral psychology is universal. However, cultural differences may be associated with differences in moral judgments and behavior. We operationalized a trolley problem in the laboratory, with economic incentives and real-life consequences, and compared British and Chinese samples on moral behavior and judgment. We found that Chinese participants were less willing to sacrifice one person to save five others, and less likely to consider such an action to be right. In a second study using three scenarios, including the standard scenario where lives are threatened by an on-coming train, fewer Chinese than British participants were willing to take action and sacrifice one to save five, and this cultural difference was more...

Crime Pattern Definitions for Tactical Analysis

February 16, 2019August 20, 2017 by admin

Introduction

The identification and tactical analysis of crime patterns is a primary responsibility of crime analysts at police agencies around the world. Every day, analysts query and mine data in an effort to link cases by key factors and disseminate information about known and newly-discovered patterns to fellow police personnel. This analysis improves the safety of communities by facilitating police response which can, in turn, prevent and reduce crime. While the pattern identification process is reasonably standardized, there is a diversity of perspective on what constitutes a crime pattern. Unfortunately, the profession lacks a common language, and the terms “crime pattern,” “crime series,” “hot spot,” “crime trend,” and “crime problem” are often used interchangeably. Therefore, the goals of this white paper are to 1) standardize the definition of a crime pattern, 2) differentiate pattern types, and 3) define and illustrate each of the different pattern types. This delineation of standardized and practical...

Moving the Work of Criminal Investigators Towards Crime Control

February 13, 2019August 20, 2017 by admin

Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety

This is one in a series of papers that will be published as a result of the Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety. Harvard’s Executive Sessions are a convening of individuals of independent standing who take joint responsibility for rethinking and improving society’s responses to an issue. Members are selected based on their experiences, their reputation for thoughtfulness and their potential for helping to disseminate the work of the Session. In the early 1980s, an Executive Session on Policing helped resolve many law enforcement issues of the day. It produced a number of papers and concepts that revolutionized policing. Thirty years later, law enforcement has changed and NIJ and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government are again collaborating to help resolve law enforcement issues of the day. Learn more about the Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety at:...

Seeing Beyond the Surface: Understanding and Tracking Fraudulent Cyber Activities

February 13, 2019August 20, 2017 by admin

Abstract

The malaise of electronic spam mail that solicit illicit partnership using bogus business proposals (popularly called 419 mails) remained unabated on the internet despite concerted efforts. In addition to these are the emergence and prevalence of phishing scams that use social engineering tactics to obtain online access codes such as credit card number, ATM pin numbers, bank account details, social security number and other personal information[22]. In an age where dependence on electronic transaction is on the increase, the web security community will have to devise more pragmatic measures to make the cyberspace safe from these demeaning ills. Understanding the perpetrators of internet crimes and their mode of operation is a basis for any meaningful effort towards stemming these crimes. This paper discusses the nature of the criminals engaged in fraudulent cyberspace activities with special emphasis on the Nigeria 419 scam mails. Based on a qualitative analysis and...

Liability of Broadcasting Station for Extemporaneous Defamation by One Not in Employ of Station

February 16, 2019August 20, 2017 by admin

DEFAMATION-LIABILITY OF BROADCASTING STATION FOR EXTEMPORANEOUS

DEFAMATION BY ONE NOT IN EMPLOY OF STATION

Defendant broadcasting company leased its facilities to an advertising corporation which hired a performer to speak on a series of programs sponsored by another company. Defendant approved a prepared script and a rehearsal of the program. During the actual broadcast the performer made an extemporaneous remark upon which plaintiff brought action in trespass for defamation. Held, defendant not liable. Summit Hotel Co. v. National Broadcasting Co. (Pa. 1939), 8 A. (2d) 302. The principal case presents for the first time the question of liability of a broadcaster for an alleged defamation not in the script, made on an unprivileged occasion, 1 by one not the agent of the broadcaster. 2 One previous case declared radio defamation to be libel and the station responsible in damages where the defamatory remarks appeared in a prepared script available for inspection. 3 In this case and three...

Victimology

December 18, 2018August 20, 2017 by admin

THE DEVELOPMENT OF VICTIMOLOGY

The second half of the twentieth century saw the development of social concern, protest, activism, intervention, legal, political, and social services reform, research, and teaching about victims of crime. In some countries, the victim movement became an important separate political force leading to substantial reforms in many fields. It is particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world that the movement began and flourished, expanding eventually to other parts of the world. In the United States, the victim movement began in the 1970s. The women’s movement, inspired by the civil rights movement, was one of its primary moving forces. Another was the social concern about the dramatic increase in crime rates in the United States. Conservatives and right-of-center activists and politicians pointed out that the system of constitutional protections in the United States favored the suspect and the convicted criminal while it trampled on the needs of...

Offender and Offense Characteristics of a Nonrandom Sample of Adolescent Mass Murderers

February 13, 2019August 20, 2017 by admin

ABSTRACT

Objective: The authors conducted a descriptive, archival study of adolescent ($19 years of age) mass murderek-subjects who intentionally killed three or more victims in one event-to identify demographic, clinical, and forensic characteristics. Method: A nonrandom sample of convenience of adolescent mass murderers was utilized. Reaulta: Thirty-four subjects, acting alone or in pairs, committed 27 mess murders between 1958 and 1999.The sample conslsted of males with a median age of 17. A majority were described as'loners" and abused alcohol or drugs; almost half were bullied by others, preoccupied with violent fantasy, and violent by history. Although 23% had a documenled psychiatric history, only 6% were judged to have been psychotic at the time of the mass murder. Depressive symptoms and hlstorlcal antisocial behaviors were predominant. There was a precipitating event In most cases--usually a perceived failure In love or schod4nd most subjects made threatening statements regarding the mass murder to third partles...

Missing White Woman Syndrome: An Empirical Analysis of Race and Gender Disparities in Online News Coverage of Missing Persons

February 17, 2019August 19, 2017 by admin

INTRODUCTION

On Sunday morning, November 3, 2013, Aaron Hubbard went to church. It was the last time his family would see him alive. A few hours later, Chicago police received a report that Hubbard had been kidnapped. According to witnesses, Hubbard, a seventeen-year-old high school student, was attacked and thrown into a truck that quickly drove away. After eight days of searching, police found Hubbard’s decomposing body in an abandoned building not far from where the abduction had occurred. A handful of short news stories documented the story in Hubbard’s hometown of Chicago, but the case received no coverage on a regional or national scale. Three months earlier, in August, California native Hannah Anderson disappeared, triggering a massive manhunt for her and her alleged kidnapper. The incident sparked a media firestorm, with news agencies across the country covering the sixteen-year-old’s disappearance. Local and national media outlets tracked the investigation, with CNN.com alone .

KIMT Channel 3

December 18, 2018August 19, 2017 by admin

KIMT is a television station in Mason City, IA that serves the Rochester - Mason City - Austin television market. The station runs programming from the CBS network and identifies itself as "News Channel 3". KIMT is a digital full-power television station that operates with 100 kilowatts of power and is owned by Media General.

Network Television Broadcasting during U.S. Crises: Its Evolution, Execution, and Effects

February 8, 2019August 18, 2017 by admin

Abstract

The Kennedy assassination and September 11, 2001: these were the beginnings of two distinctive catastrophic events in U.S. history, both of which were captured by network news stations. The purpose of this research was to determine how and why broadcast production decisions were made during such crises. Six qualitative interviews were conducted with news producers and reporters. These subjective narratives were used to analyze the overall patterns of decision-making at a television station during a catastrophic event. Analyzing techniques involved 1) the identification of production themes within each station and 2) the comparison of these themes to other interviewee accounts. Snowball sampling was used to gather quantitative statistics regarding viewer’s opinions on a station’s coverage of an iconic event. The sample consisted of 200 viewers across the country. This research found the qualities valued when the stations broke the news of a crisis, as well as determining factors in viewers’