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This research developed a pro forma document for use in police rape investigations in South Africa. The immediate context for the research is the alarmingly high incidence of rape in South Africa. The rape statistics vary to an extent, largely due to the fact that a large proportion of the rapes that occur in South Africa are not reported to the police. These statistics expose the limited success of the South African Police Services (SAPS) in terms of investigating rape cases in this country, as well as the public perception of the effectiveness of the South African Police Services in this regard as evidenced by the non or under-reporting of rape in South Africa. The pro forma document is an investigative tool designed to standardise and systematise rape investigations by providing set guidelines for obtaining the essential information about each rape case. This is a prerequisite for Tender profiling, which involves predicting the relationship between offence and offender variables. Profiling can only be successful if the investigator obtains all the information about a crime. Hence the pro forma document, as an investigative instrument designed to access essential information about a crime, is a key requirement for the development of informed and accurate profiles of offenders. As a standardised form, the document will allow for systematic and thorough rape investigations in South Africa. The researcher employed the qualitative methodology of action research. This entailed involving the participants in all stages of the research process. The data was collected by means of focus group interviews with detectives from the Serious and Violent Crimes Unit and the Child Protection Unit in Grahamstown. Additional sources of data were various investigative documents that originated from a number of different countries. Analysis of the data followed a number of procedural steps specifically suggested for focus group interview research and involved a process of coding. The codes identified during the analysis provided the foundation for the items that were included in the pro forma document. In keeping with the action research approach, the participants were caned upon to evaluate the progress of the research after the initial data collection and analysis were completed, and a draft version of the pro forma document had been compiled. This feedback provided another source of data which contained suggestions for amendments to the pro forma document which the researcher implemented. The research process was hindered to a certain extent by the unpredictable nature of police work which influenced the data gathering procedure. This could point to a possible limitation of the research. Furthermore, the aim of the research was to develop a pro forma document for use in rape investigations in South Africa. This aim did not encompass marketing the document. Herein lies another possible limitation of the research in that the document has not yet been used and tested in real cases. A discussion of the research process includes issues involved in practically implementing the pro forma document in rape investigations.

The study evaluated the questions used in a polygraph test. It focused on criminal investigative tests (also referred to as “criminal specific tests”), those tests conducted when a criminal offence has been committed and the in-test phase questions (those test questions asked to address what is under investigation). To conduct a successful criminal investigative polygraph test, it is important that polygraphists be familiar with the types of questions used in a polygraph test and how they should be formulated for more effective outcomes. The recognition of these questions and how they are formulated is of utmost importance as it determines the success of the criminal investigative polygraph test. / Police Practice / M.Tech. (Forensic Investigation)

Orientador: Maria Filomena Gregori / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T16:04:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nadai_Larissa_M.pdf: 2236038 bytes, checksum: 0e9f1016294470f9fa42bb6f86578995 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Esta dissertação tem por objetivo investigar os documentos oficiais produzidos pela Delegacia de Defesa da Mulher (DDM) de Campinas, em casos de estupro e atentado violento ao pudor ocorridos nos anos de 2004 e 2005. Por meio de uma etnografia desses documentos, busquei entender as formas narrativas e burocráticas pelas quais esses atos são transformados em crimes e busquei também a compreensão de como a sexualidade passa a ser campo de intervenção da polícia civil especializada de Campinas. Objetivando delinear as formas pelas quais os inquéritos policiais são produzidos, essa pesquisa tem como cerne os procedimentos de escrita utilizados por essas profissionais, sejam esses ofícios, requisições, relatórios, laudos, termos de declaração e Boletins de Ocorrências. Essas formas de narrar evidenciam não só as convenções narrativas que servem de anteparo para a escrita, mas também os mecanismos pelos quais o trabalho policial é executado. Assim, seja por meio de uma escrita técnica próxima aos expedientes detetivescos, seja por meio de uma forma de escrever sensível e empática ao sofrimento das crianças ou ainda por aquela forma que coloca em suspensão o que é dito em casos de crimes envoltos em conflitos infrafamiliares, é a arte de escrever o ofício policial que ganhará destaque nessa dissertação. Entretanto, também insígnias, carimbos e assinaturas que percorrem os inquéritos policiais são fundamentais nesta pesquisa, pois colocam em evidência as tramas institucionais nas quais a polícia especializada de Campinas está imersa. Sem dúvida, é mediante papéis e por intermédio deles que a polícia se comunica com instituições tais como Fórum Criminal, Instituto Médico Legal e Instituto de Criminalística da cidade. Mas, é também por meio desses mesmos papéis que a DDM comunica estupros e atentados violento ao pudor ao Judiciário. Nas páginas desta dissertação enredaremos nas histórias de mulheres como Marcelas, Joanas, Madalenas e Martas, bem como com os abusos de menores como Anas, Carolinas, Julianas e Lucas. É por meio delas que homens como João, Ricardo, Valmir, Antônio, José, Gilberto e Aldair entram nos meandros burocráticos da polícia civil como autores, averiguados ou indiciados / Abstract: This dissertation aims to investigate the official documents produced by the Women's Police Stations (DDM) in Campinas in cases of rape and indecent assault occurred in 2004 and 2005. Through an ethnography of those documents I sought to understand the narrative and bureaucratic form by the way these acts are transformed into crimes and also to understand how sexuality becomes a specialized Civilian Police interventional field in Campinas. Aiming to outline the ways in which police investigations are produced, the heart of this research is in the written procedures used by professionals. These are letters, requests, reports, findings, terms of statements and Occurrences Reports. These forms of narrative show up the narrative conventions that serve as foundation for the writing and also the mechanisms by which police work is performed. Therefore, either through a technical writing next to detective tasks either by a sensitive and empathetic way of writing about children's suffering or by the one who puts in suspension what is said in cases of crimes wrapped in infrafamiliares conflicts, the art of writing the police's office that will gain prominence in this dissertation. However, there are badges, stamps and signatures that cross the police investigations and are also essential in this research because they put in evidence the plots in which the institutional specialized police Campinas is immersed. Undoubtedly it's by papers and through them that the police communicate with institutions such as Criminal Forum of Campinas, Institute of Forensic Medicine and Institute of Criminology of the city.But it is also through these same roles that the DDM communicates rapes and violent assaults to the judiciary. In the pages of this dissertation we are enmeshed in the stories of women like Marcelas, Joanas, Madalenas e Martas, as well as the abuse's stories of minors as Anas, Carolinas, Julianas and Lucas. It is through them that men like João, Ricardo, Valmir, Antonio, José, Gilberto and Aldair enter into the bureaucratic intricacies of the Civilian Police as investigated or indicted authors / Mestrado / Antropologia Social / Mestre em Antropologia Social