Persistent Harassment: Targets and Perpetrators Among Young Adults

In Portugal, stalking has recently been recognized as a crime. This study used an online survey to ask 3,367 college students about their experiences of persistent harassment and targets’ and perpetrators’ perceptions of fear and conduct legitimacy. Targets (34.5%) typically mentioned that they had experienced a frightening experience but considered it to have been wrong but not very serious. Perpetrators (8.9%) mostly perceived that their targets had not experienced fear and judged their own conduct to have been normal. Ordinal logistic regressions indicated that intimate partner stalking, targets’ fear, and threatening and violent behaviors predicted less conduct legitimization for both targets and perpetrators.     

Lip print enhancement: review

Lip print(LP)evidence can be an essential tool for human forensics.LPs have conventionally been developed using substances such as lysochrome dyes,fluorescent dyes,indigo dye,aluminium powder,and silver metallic powder.However,techniques for LP enhancement from various substrates are currently inconsistent and lack standardisation in practice.This review summarises current knowledge on the physical and chemical techniques of LP enhancement,identifies limitations,and provides suggestions for future research on practical applications of cheiloscopy as a forensic tool in criminal justice.     

含硒型牛副伤寒活疫苗免疫持续期的试验

用 2批含硒型牛副伤寒活疫苗 (2 0 0 10 1,2 0 0 2 0 1)分别免疫牦牛 ,在免疫后第 7、30、6 0和90d采血 ,进行了血硒含量及血清抗体的检测。结果显示 ,这 2批疫苗免疫牦牛后 ,血硒浓度在0 .0 5 μg/mL以上可维持 90d ,第 7d可产生坚强的免疫应答。在免疫后 6个月和 13个月攻毒 ,均产生 10 0 %的保护。试验表明 ,含硒型牛副伤寒活疫苗对牦牛的免疫保护持续期至少为 12个月。     

保持艰苦奋斗政治本色承担建设小康社会历史重任

艰苦奋斗精神是中国共产党人的优良传统和政治本色。艰苦奋斗是党的基本经验之一 ,是我们取得新民主主义革命胜利、进行社会主义革命和建设、不断前进的强大精神力量 ,是由党的基本纲领、党的性质和党的宗旨所决定的 ,是同人民群众保持血肉联系的重要法宝 ,是保持党的先进性、使党立于不败之地的思想保障和思想脊梁。艰苦奋斗关系到中华民族的生存、发展、自立、自强。我们必须始终保持艰苦奋斗的政治本色 ,承担起全面建设小康社会、实现中华民族伟大复兴的历史任务。     

商业贿赂犯罪长效控制机制思考

商业贿赂是中国社会转型时期经济腐败现象最为重要的形式之一。我国为治理商业贿赂而全面启动的专项斗争产生了积极的效果。然而，构建于传统的、以“二元论”企业角色观为基础。以作为受贿主体的国家工作人员为规制重点的商业贿赂犯罪控制模式。并未切中商业贿赂犯罪“上游犯罪”之根本。具有一定的局限性。以“一元论”企业角色观为基础，以企业社会责任为视角，以作为行贿主体的企业及其工作人员为规制重点，提出商业贿赂治理新思路，并以此构建中国反商业贿赂长效机制，可以弥补传统治理商业贿赂思路的局限性。     

Rapid and nondestructive analysis of lipstick on different substrates using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and chemometrics

Lipstick can be an important piece of evidence in crimes like murders, rapes, and suicides. Due to its prevalence, it can be an important corroborative evidence in crime reconstruction. The analysis of such evidence can provide an evidentiary link between the suspect, the victim, object, or the crime scene. We report the use of nondestructive ATR-FTIR spectroscopy combined with chemometrics for the classification of 10 brands of lipsticks with nine samples each. Chemometric method of partial least square-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) has been employed to interpret the data and classify the samples into their respective classes. The PLS-DA model provides an AUC figure above 0.99 in all brands except one; for which it is slightly less at 0.94. We have also tested the traces of these lipstick samples on different substrates treating them as unknowns in the already trained PLS-DA model. 100% of the samples on nine substrates viz. a cotton, nylon, plastic, dry tissue, denim (blue jeans), wet tissue, nitrile gloves, white paper, and polyester were correctly attributed to their source brand. In conclusion, the results suggest that ATR-FTIR combined with the chemometrics is a rapid, nondestructive, and accurate method for the discrimination and source attribution of lipstick. This study has potential for use in actual forensic casework conditions.     

Verbal Ability and Persistent Offending: A Race-specific Test of Moffitt’s Theory

Theoretical questions linger over the applicability of the verbal ability model to African-Americans and the social control theory hypothesis that educational failure mediates the effect of verbal ability on offending patterns. Accordingly, this paper investigates whether verbal ability distinguishes between offending groups within the context of Moffitt’s developmental taxonomy. Questions are addressed with longitudinal data spanning childhood through young-adulthood from an ongoing national panel, and multinomial and hierarchical Poisson models (overdispersed). In multinomial models, low verbal ability predicts membership in a life-course-persistent-oriented group relative to an adolescent-limited-oriented group. Hierarchical models indicate that verbal ability is associated with arrest outcomes among White and African-American subjects, with effects consistently operating through educational attainment (high school dropout). The results support Moffitt’s hypothesis that verbal deficits distinguish adolescent-limited- and life-course-persistent-oriented groups within race, as well as the social control model of verbal ability.     

BrowStExPlus: A Tool to Aggregate IndexedDB Artifacts for Forensic Analysis

As the Internet and World Wide Web have rapidly evolved and revolutionized the applications in everyday life, it is a demanding challenge for investigators to keep up with the emerging technologies for forensic analyses. Investigating web browser usages for criminal activities, also known as web browser forensics, is a significant part of digital forensics as crucial browsing information of the suspect can be discovered. Particularly, in this study, an emerging web storage technology, called IndexedDB, is examined. Characteristics of IndexedDB technology in five major web browsers under three major operating systems are scrutinized. Also, top 15 US websites ranked by Alexa are investigated for their data storage in IndexedDB. User screen names, ids, and records of conversations, permissions, and image locations are some of the data found in IndexedDB. Furthermore, BrowStEx, a proof‐of‐concept tool previously developed, is extended and cultivated into BrowStExPlus, with which aggregating IndexedDB artifacts is demonstrated.     

口蹄疫病毒持续感染的研究进展

从口蹄疫病毒和其宿主两个方面综合阐述了口蹄疫病毒持续感染形成的原因,旨在为进一步阐明口蹄疫病毒持续感染的机理和降低持续感染对口蹄疫防控存在的威胁提供理论依据。     

胸背部外伤致持续性植物状态案例分析

在现有的法医学文献中,多将持续性植物状态（persistent vegetative state,PVS）作为颅脑损伤的并发症进行介绍。但在法医学鉴定实践中,非颅脑损伤所致的PVS并非少见。另一方面,目前通用的法医学鉴定标准中,只有《道路交通事故受伤人员评定》将PVS明确列为评残条文,并归入“颅脑、脊髓及周围神经损伤致”项内。由于上述两方面原因,PVS、特别是非颅脑损伤所致PVS的损伤程度、伤残等级的评定均成为鉴定难点。在实际检案中．可以结合PVS的病因和病理机制、临床表现及法医学检查特点加以综合分析,进而作出损伤程度、伤残等级的评定。