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The Technoscientific Witness of Rape is the first book to chart the thirty-year history of the sexual assault evidence kit and its role in a criminal justice system that re-victimizes many assault victims in their quest for medical treatment and justice

This qualitative study examined how college science faculty who teach introductory level undergraduate science courses including the fields of chemistry, biology, physics, and earth science, understand and define science and nature of science (NOS). Participants were seventeen science instructors from five different institutions in the northeastern U.S. and all of them were interviewed. Consistent with previous research, the findings revealed that the participants in this study held sophisticated and complex conceptions of NOS. In some instances their views were in line with the views promoted by science philosophers, and in other instances their views were more mixed and naive. Findings show that engaging in scientific inquiry is not enough to ensure informed conceptions of NOS.

"ORBIT is an evidence-based approach to the analysis and training for interviewing high-value detainees by law enforcement, security services and the military. Although its origins reside as far back as 2005 it gained considerable traction after 2012 when the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group, formed in the wake of the Obama Administration in the US funded work for Prof Alison to look at its application in the context of interviews with high value targets. Since then Alison and colleagues have collected the largest corpus of data anywhere in the world of real suspect interviews with terrorist detainees. This book shows what they found - that rapport-based methods work and that coercion, persuasion and threats do not. Outlining the development of their own unique stance on rapport and its influences drawn from humanistic psychology, the authors show, through real life examples and careful analysis the reasons why 'harsh methods' must be rejected and why compassion and understanding work"--

One of the reasons that makes the position of the judiciary valuable is the issue of the implementation of Islamic justice, which we can only achieve by having fair judges with the condition of judicial independence; And this issue is one of the important goals of this research and is of special importance in the current era; And it doubles the need for our attention and research. According to the subject of the research, the method of collecting materials is documentary and library method in such a way that first the desired sources are studied and where necessary, research is done on the material. The research method is descriptive-analytical. First, the required resources are selected from electronic libraries, articles and dissertations, and after studying and separating the required material, based on the inductive method, analytical and necessary filing of the required resources is completed and compiled. This research tries to answer the question: what is the jurisprudential and legal study of the independence, science and ijtihad of judges? And what are the legal jurisprudential bases of judges' independence? What we have reached about the nature of the judge's knowledge in this study is that the expressions in Articles 211 and 212 of the Islamic Penal Code of 1392 indicate that from the legislative point of view, what is the basis for producing knowledge for the judge is evidence and the UAE typically The science is the result of judicial research. Also, the results of the research showed that the expressions in Articles 211 and 212 of the Islamic Penal Code of 1392 indicate that from the legislator's point of view, what is the basis for producing knowledge for the judge is evidence and the UAE is typically knowledgeable as a result of judicial investigation. In the current laws and procedures of the judiciary, the mujtahid of a judge is not considered a necessary condition for holding the position of judge.

SCIENCE INVOLVES THE ACCUMULATION OF KNOWLEDGE, WHICH MEANS NOT ONLY THE FORMULATION OF NEW SENTENCES ABOUT DISCOVERIES BUT ALSO THE REFORMULATION OF EMPIRICALLY FALSIFIED OR THEORETICALLY DISCREDITED OLD SENTENCES. SCIENCE HAS THEREFORE A HISTORY THAT IS MAINLY A CHRONICLE AND INTERPRETATION OF A SERIES OF REFORMULATIONS. IT IS OFTEN ASSERTED THAT POLITICAL SCIENCE HAS NO HISTORY. ALTHOUGH THIS ASSERTION IS PERHAPS MOTIVATED BY A DESIRE TO IDENTIFY POLITICS WITH BELLES LETTRES, IT MAY ALSO HAVE A REASONABLE FOUNDATION, IN THAT POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS MAY CHANGE FASTER THAN KNOWLEDGE CAN BE ACCUMULATED. TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER PROPOSITIONS ABOUT EVANESCENT INSTITUTIONS CAN BE SCIENTIFICALLY FALSIFIED AND REFORMULATED, I EXAMINE IN THIS ESSAY THE HISTORY OF THE RECENT AND NOT WHOLLY ACCEPTED REVISIONS OF THE PROPOSITIONS COLLECTIVELY CALLED DUVERGER'S LAW: THAT THE PLURALITY RULE FOR SELECTING THE WINNER OF ELECTIONS FAVORS THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM. THE BODY OF THE ESSAY PRESENTS THE DISCOVERY, REVISION, TESTING, AND REFORMULATION OF SENTENCES IN THIS SERIES IN ORDER TO DEMONSTRATE THAT IN AT LEAST ONE INSTANCE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE, KNOWLEDGE HAS BEEN ACCUMULATED AND A HISTORY EXISTS.

This paper proposes a new measure of public expenditure force that policy makers and budget analysts should track in detail over time in routine fiscal monitoring. The paper suggests that adopting the measure will not only warn policy makers of possible impending fiscal pressures, but will help them to differentiate between those budgetary pressures that are temporary and those that may require reforms. The main utility of the expenditure force measure will be in country fiscal analysis. Measuring force across the entire budget allows practitioners to monitor and decompose the micro drivers of public spending pressure, watch out for rapidly expanding spending lines, and identify priorities for reform before these pressures lead to macro fiscal problems. Yet by its construct, spending force is internationally comparable, and independent of expenditure levels or spending types. This could allow global monitoring comparisons and global research into the drivers of public spending force across particular types of country characteristics and economic conditions. In time, and as more data become available, researchers can use the force measure to compare and contrast the dynamics of expenditure types across countries. For example the measure can be used to explore what gives some spending types an initial impulse; whether underlying factors cause different public spending categories to grow faster than average, or to accelerate over time; and what successful countries have done to manage rising force without damaging public services. Since force seems to be a decent predictor of fiscal episodes, it is suggested that "speed limits" for spending might be a feasible component of fiscal rules.

This address stresses the importance of the study of lawmaking. Three advantages in particular are emphasized: lawmaking is the core decision-making process in a democracy, its study offers an opportunity for Americanists to overcome concentrations on a single institution, and it provides a basis for comparative analysis. The discussion focuses on statute making as a primary phase of lawmaking. Four concepts—iteration, inquiry, speculation, and declaration—are identified as key, unexplored characteristics of statute making that hold substantial promise for research.

To understand our current world crises, it is essential to study the origins of the systems and institutions we now take for granted. This book takes a novel approach to charting intellectual, scientific and philosophical histories alongside the development of the international legal order by studying the philosophy and theology of the Scientific Revolution and its impact on European natural law, political liberalism and political economy. Starting from analysis of the work of Thomas Hobbes, Robert Boyle and John Locke on natural law, the author incorporates a holistic approach that encompasses global legal matters beyond the foundational matters of treaties and diplomacy. The monograph promotes a sustainable transformation of international law in the context of related philosophy, history and theology. Tackling issues such as nature, money, necessities, human nature, secularism and epistemology, which underlie natural lawyers' thinking, Associate Professor García-Salmones explains their enduring relevance for international legal studies today.

The article analyzes the basic provisions of the draft federal law "On science, technology and innovation activities in the Russian Federation" related to research and innovation infrastructure. The author presents a comparative analysis of the draft law and the norms of the current federal legislation and other normative acts regulating research and innovation infrastructure. The main methods of the research are comparative, technical, analytical and descriptive. In comparison with the current laws, the draft law gives a fuller description of the research infrastructure, in particular, the definitions of its main objects and components (research equipment, scientific collection, unique scientific installation, core facility, megascience installation, fund to support science, etc.). However, there is still no systematic approach to the issue: the draft law doesn't contain neither the definitions of the research infrastructure and its structural features, nor the precise formulation of the relationship between research and innovation infrastructure. All these gaps don't allow obtaining a single interpretation of the research infrastructure, and is a significant disadvantage of the bill. In its further development, the author also recommends taking into account the foreign experience, especially in regulating scientific collections. For example, it is necessary to consider enshrining scientific collections as bioresource centers to provide an opportunity for their subsequent integration with international databases. The article considers the novel about the core facility as an independent legal entity. In addition, the need for creation of the Registry of core shared research facilities, which is stated in the bill, is questionable, given that the web-portal "Research infrastructure of the Russian Federation" (http://ckp-rf.ru) has been successfully operating since 2011. The latest contains information not only about the core facilities, but also unique scientific installations, as well as the results of their ...