The history of urban policing paints an evolutionary picture describing the various forces that impinged on society's earliest efforts at public policing and led to numerous reforms culminating in what has been termed the professional model of policing. The dynamics of an ever-changing urban society continued to present new challenges to policing and have driven police administrators and politicians to seek new methods of responding to society's criminal element.

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This study seeks to identify a relationship between Rational Choice/Classical thought and resisting arrest among criminal offenders. It seeks also to fill the gap that currently exists with regard to the effects of situational dynamics and police-citizen violence.

This study was conducted in an effort to explore the attitudes and knowledge held by law enforcement officers regarding child maltreatment. This study was completely exploratory in nature, with no hypothesis about the outcome.

This descriptive, statistical survey research design sought to identify factors that motivate individuals to stay crime free after serving time in prison. The purpose of this research study was to examine the factors that played a significant role in recidivism.

Thesis (Ph.D. (Criminology)) -- University of Limpopo, 2016 / Community involvement in ex-offenders’ re-integration is an important issue in efforts to reduce recidivism and to control overcrowding in our correctional facilities. Crime is a social problem which requires society to come together to fight against. The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) introduced Community Corrections Forums (CCFs) with the aim of controlling re-offending by ex-offenders. CCFs were established in each region to bring the community, business and stakeholders together to facilitate rehabilitation and re-integration. This study was conducted in the Limpopo Province, in Vhembe District Municipality within four local municipalities, namely Musina, Makhado, Mutale and Thulamela. A total number of 30 participants were interviewed and all were members of Community Corrections Forums. This was necessitated by the fact that Musina is a very small area which compelled the Department of Correctional Services to combine the two (Musina and Makhado) into one social re-integration entity. This is a qualitative research study where participants were selected through the use of purposive sampling. Participants were selected based on the value they would add to this study in order to achieve objectives. The data collection method of this study was the focus group which comprised by 3 groups of 10 participants each. Thulamela and Mutale local municipalities formed a group with (10) participants each whereas Musina (2) and Makhado (8) formed another. Results indicate that the current situation is not conducive for re-integration to be successful. CCF members raised many factors that need serious redress, namely offenders’ discrimination, lack of forgiveness by members of the community which is fuelled by lack of community awareness due to lack of education of communities by the Department of Correctional Services on reduce space of ex-offenders’ re-integration. The relationship between CCF and DCS raises many questions based on the results. Without a good working relationship between these two offices, the study observed that there would be no successful re-integration policy. Theoretical implications of the investigation based on labelling theory are discussed, together with practical applications for ex-offenders. The latter face daunting barriers to successful re-integration. Successful re-entry requires strong community support networks and comprehensive services by DCS, both of which are lacking in Vhembe District.

Title: Some aspects of low-energy QCD at the precision frontier Author: Tomáš Husek Department/Institute: Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics Supervisor of the doctoral thesis: doc. RNDr. Karol Kampf, Ph.D. Abstract: This thesis concentrates on some low-energy aspects of QCD, namely on those which are connected to the electromagnetic decays of lightest neutral pseudoscalar mesons. Calculations of radiative corrections to neutral pion decays (the Dalitz decay and the rare decay) and a novel model for the pion electro- magnetic transition form factor are subjects discussed in the attached papers, which this work is based on. The associated theoretical aspects including Chiral Perturbation Theory or the large-Nc limit are introduced. We also discuss the complications which arise when the calculations of radiative corrections for η(′) Dalitz decays are performed. Some details about the collaboration with experi- ments which incorporate the calculation of the published corrections are provided. Last but not least, some techniques related to loop integrals are shown. Keywords: Chiral Perturbation Theory, large-Nc limit, radiative corrections, pion electromagnetic transition form factor 1

Title: Theory and application of optical spectroscopic methods for structural molecular studies Author: RNDr. Jana Hudecová Department / Institute: Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry Supervisor of the doctoral thesis: Prof. RNDr. Petr Bouř, DSc. Abstract: In the thesis, methods of the chiroptical spectroscopy (Raman optical activity, electronic and vibrational circular dichroism, circularly polarized luminescence) were utilized to obtain information on structure of chiral molecules. In four main projects, we focused on improving accuracy of quantum-chemical computations used for interpretation of experimental spectra by including anharmonic effects, solvent, molecular flexibility and dynamics. In the first project, the normal mode geometry optimization method was investigated and a suitable frequency limit providing realistic vibrational band broadening was found. Then the ability of harmonic and anharmonic computational approaches to describe the C-H stretching vibrations was explored for three terpene molecules and four spectroscopic methods. In the third project, we estimated the role of dispersion forces and different organic solvents for conformer equilibria and dynamics of cyclic dipeptides containing tryptophan. In the last project, circularly polarized luminiscence spectra, which were...

Mit Hilfe der Dichtefunktionaltheorie wurden magnetische Eigenschaften an 3d Elementen und Legierungen und 5f Verbindungen untersucht. Dabei wurde auf die Wichtigkeit von Orbitalpolarisationskorrekturen eingegangen und diese näher erörtert. Im ersten Anwendungsteil wurden magnetische Momente und die Magnetokristalline Anisotropie Energie an 3d Elementen untersucht. Des Weiteren wurden FeCo Legierungen als mögliche Bestandteile in der Festplattenindustrie diskutiert. Im letzten Abschnitt wurden Uranverbindungen in Hinsicht auf Ihre Orbitalpolarisation untersucht.:1 Introduction 1 2 Theoretical Considerations 5 2.1 Quantum Mechanics Applied to Solids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.2 Density Functional Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.2.1 non-Relativistic DFT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.2.1.1 Hohenberg and Kohn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.2.1.2 Kohn-Sham Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.2.1.3 Local Density Approximation and More . . . . 12 2.2.2 Relativistic DFT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.3 FPLO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.4 Magneto-Crystalline Anisotropy Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.5 Disorder within DFT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3 Orbital Polarisation in DFT 23 3.1 Hund’s Rules in DFT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3.2 An Introduction to OPC and DFT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3.2.1 OPC Brooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3.2.2 OPC Eschrig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 4 Transition Metals 39 4.1 Fe, Co, and Ni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 4.1.1 Calculational Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 4.1.2 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 4.1.3 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 4.2 Fe1−xCox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 4.2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 4.2.2 Fixed Spin Moment Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 4.2.3 Epitaxial Bain Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 4.2.4 Calculational Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 4.2.5 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 4.2.6 LSDA vs. GGA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 4.2.7 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 5 Uranium Compounds 75 5.1 UX, with X = (N, P, As, Sb, O, S, Se, and Te) . . . . . . . . 77 5.1.1 UN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 5.1.2 UX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 5.1.3 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 5.2 UM2, with M = (Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn) 90 5.2.1 Calculational Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 5.2.2 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 5.2.3 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 5.3 UAsSe, USb2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 5.3.1 Calculational Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 5.3.2 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 5.3.3 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 6 Summary and Outlook 101 A Definitions i A.1 Spherical Harmonics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i A.2 Other Definitions Used in Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii B Input Parameters for the Racah Parameter iii B.1 d-Shells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii B.2 f-Shells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v Biblography vi Acknowledgement xxiv Versicherung xxvii