This book provides an overview of current analyses and developments
pertaining to the law enforcement and crime. Chapter one analyzes individual
elements of the polygraph examination in pre-employment cases in law
enforcement agencies, and attempts to answer the following questions: How
are existing standards “scientific”? What should be done to raise the level of
quality control in this kind of examinations? Chapter two studies the use of
insects as evidence and as a forensic indicator in law enforcement technology.
Chapter three explores a public health approach to preventing child fatalities.
Chapter four discusses the prospects of the use of prison informers. Chapter
five studies the homicide rates in the U.S. and their correlation with other
publicly available data applying this nonstandard visualization technique; and
a comparison of homicide rates in the U.S. to that of different Latin American
countries is shown. The last chapter is an attempt to show that violence in
American popular culture can be justified, and may even serve the story. The
chapter will focus on depicting concrete scenes from Paul Verhoeven‘s 1987
film Robocop to prove that apart from showing violence, they actually raise
important sociological and psychological matters.