Two new journals from Haworth Press.Haworth Press (Binghamton, NY) will begin the publication of the "Journal of Criminal Profiling" with an issue later this year. Annual Subscription rates for the new quarterly title have not yet been set. The new journal will be targeted to attorneys, behavioral and forensic scientists, mental health professionals, law enforcement officers, administrators and related social scientists and is being designed as an outlet for scholarly research and related literature on criminal profiling as part of the forensic sciences The application of scientific knowledge and methodology to legal problems and criminal investigations. Sometimes called simply forensics, forensic science encompasses many different fields of science, including anthropology, biology, chemistry, engineering, genetics, . Haworth said it will carry the latest research and information on criminal investigative analysis, forensic psychology forensic psychology Application of psychology to legal issues, often for the purpose of offering expert testimony in a courtroom. In civil and criminal cases, forensic psychologists may evaluate individuals to determine questions such as competency to stand trial, and psychiatry, crime scene investigation Crime scene investigation may refer to:
Among the topics to be covered are: process and outcome studies on the accuracy of various profiling techniques; studies of criminal offenders to assist crime scene investigators and profilers; equivocal EQUIVOCAL. What has a double sense. 2. In the construction of contracts, it is a general rule that when an expression may be taken in two senses, that shall be preferred which gives it effect. Vide Ambiguity; Construction; Interpretation; and Dig. death analysis; serial crimes and offenders; legal and ethical issues in criminal profiling; inductive inductive 1. eliciting a reaction within an organism. 2. inductive heating a form of radiofrequency hyperthermia that selectively heats muscle, blood and proteinaceous tissue, sparing fat and air-containing tissues. and deductive de·duc·tive adj. 1. Of or based on deduction. 2. Involving or using deduction in reasoning. de·duc profiling techniques; and, common issues that professionals encounter in the field. Also, Haworth has begun the publication of "Journal of Electronic Resources in Law Libraries" with a Spring 2006 issue. An annual subscription to the new quarterly costs $48 for individuals, $300 for institutions/libraries. Targeted to professionals involved in law librarianship including law librarians, practitioners and academics in information science, the journal focuses on the digital resources and services that law libraries provide and the educational opportunities that this technology affords. It features research that affects the kinds of resources available to law libraries and the enhanced services law libraries may provide. Topics to be addressed in the journal include: the creation of electronic legal resources; user interfaces to electronic resources; access to multiple databases; adding value to electronic resources; services provided by law libraries via electronic resources; licensing, acquisition, and collection development issues; and, techniques for encouraging he use of electronic resources in law libraries. |
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