The contribution of forensic science to crime analysis and investigation: forensic intelligence

The debate in forensic science concentrates on issues such as standardisation, accreditation and de-contextualisation, in a legal and economical context, in order to ensure the scientific objectivity and efficiency that must guide the process of collecting, analysing, interpreting and reporting forensic evidence. At the same time, it is recognised that forensic case data is still poorly integrated into the investigation and the crime analysis process, despite evidence of its great potential in various situations and studies. A change of attitude is needed in order to accept an extended role for forensic science that goes beyond the production of evidence for the court. To stimulate and guide this development, a long-term intensive modelling activity of the investigative and crime analysis process that crosses the boundaries of different disciplines has been initiated. A framework that fully integrates forensic case data shows through examples the capital accumulated that may be put to use systematically.     

Reaching Migrants in Survey Research: The Use of the Global Positioning System to Reduce Coverage Bias in China

Mingming Shen Department of Political Science, School of Government, 416 Library Building, Peking University, Beijing, China 100871 e-mail: shenmm{at}rcccpku.org List-based samples are often biased because of coverage errors.The problem is especially acute in societies where the levelof internal migration is high and where record keeping on thepopulation is not reliable. We propose a solution based on spatialsampling that overcomes the inability to reach migrants in traditionalarea samples based on household lists. A comparison betweena traditional study and our sample of Beijing demonstrates thatcoverage bias is greatly reduced. The successful incorporationof mobile urban residents has important substantive effects,in both univariate and multivariate analyses of public opiniondata.     

Public Health and the Regulatory State

Public health has moved from the public good component of health to everything related to health and, then, to everything related to society. If we take public health in its wide, total, social sense, it presumably explains or justifies much of the regulatory state. Virtually all state activities contribute directly or indirectly to some citizens’ “physical, mental and social well-being” (as the World Health Organization’s definition says). Public health requires social engineering, which cannot be achieved without controlling the lifestyles that the Philosopher King doesn’t like. Controlling lifestyles cannot be done without regulating the businesses that would allow people to satisfy their sinful preferences, and without preventing these people from circumventing the controls through black markets or other violations of government regulation.     

法国合宪性审查的五十年

目次一、宪法委员会的设立二、提请审查主体的扩大三、宪法委员会职权的扩大四、宪法委员会判决的权威五、宪法委员会与法官的对话六、结语一、宪法委员会的设立1.这可以是一个哲学思考的主题:在法国大革命之后必须等待一个半