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Avoid Major Investigative TrapsWhat causes competent and dedicated investigators to make avoidable mistakes, jeopardizing the successful resolution of their cases? Authored by a 21-year police veteran and university research professor, Criminal Investigative Failures comprehensively defines and discusses the causes and problems most common to failed investigations. More importantly, it outlines realistic strategies for avoiding investigative pitfalls.Illuminated with case studies, this practical resource examines three main reaso

This article is a follow-up to a 2019 analysis that applied Bayesian probability techniques to the search for a missing hiker in Joshua Tree National Park. In February 2022, that hiker was found. Here, we compare the location of his remains with the results of our prediction model and discuss further implications for optimizing wilderness search and rescue. KEY WORDS: Wilderness Search and Rescue, Lost Persons, Bayesian Analysis, Resource Optimization

Wilderness search and rescue operations function under critical time pressures and resource constraints. For optimal deployment, personnel must be assigned to prioritized search areas following some form of probability map. Incident commanders often have to generate such maps from different sources of information, some of which may be incomplete or imperfect. Here, we use a case study of the search for a lost person in Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California to illustrate how various types of evidence – previous search tracks and a cell phone tower ping – can be integrated, using Bayes' theorem, into an optimal probability search map. KEY WORDS: Wilderness Search and Rescue, Lost Persons, Bayesian Analysis, Resource Optimization

Through close textual analysis, we examine three South Park episodes to elucidate how they problematize stigmatizing representations and disabling attitudes toward people with physical and cognitive impairments. Using outrageous humor and apparently harmless animation that centers children, the creators expose inconsistencies and injustices typical of the public's responses to disability by contrasting the humanity of disabled persons with cultural assumptions and constructions about them. South Park highlights the pity, charity, and symbolic trope discourses that prevail in mainstream U. S. culture. If the show's general audience can overcome the initial shock value of the language used and positions taken, South Park challenges taken-for-granted and often destructive ways we relate to our environment and our neighbors. In an atmosphere of political correctness that buries representations of difference, South Park stands out as an original, critical voice prompting its audience to question and rethink how our society constructs the social identities of disabled people.

1. Introduction: Whither Postcolonialism? From Concepts via Methodologies to Scholarly Activisms -- I. Conceptual Vigilance -- 2. Postcolonial Utopianism: Unlocking the Future -- 3. Alternative Episteme: Thinkers from the Global South -- 4. Bibliodiversity: Denationalizing and Defrancophonizing Francophonie -- II. Triangulated Methodologies -- 5. Brotherhoods of the Sea: Comparative History, Minor Solidarity, and Transoceanic Empathy -- 6. Queer Forensic Traces and 3D Testimony: New Methodologies for 'Messy-Thinking and Writing' of Apartheid-Era Crimes in the Digital Humanities -- 7. "Energise!": Postcolonial Studies during the Autumn of the System -- III. Scholarly Activisms -- 8. Postcolonial Theory and Activist Interventions at Ethnology Museums -- 9. Scholarship in Solidarity? Researching Namibian-German Memory Politics in the Aftermath of Colonial Genocide -- 10. The Violence of History: Decolonizing Visual Culture In and Out of the Museum.