Despite the increased use of criminal profiling by law enforcement agencies, few studies examine factors impacting profile accuracy, and only one has evaluated profiler training. The present study examined the efficacy of profiler training on profile accuracy for sexual homicide offenders. Participants (N = 198) were randomly assigned to the training or control condition. Participants in the training condition learned inductive and deductive profiling techniques for sexual homicide offenders, whereas control participants learned about sexual violence prevention. Results indicated that participants’ self-reported use of combined profiling methods produced more accurate profiles. Differences between gender and training groups were also present. These findings suggest brief psychology-based training can be used to teach police officers and detectives to more accurately identify and apprehend criminals.

This study investigated whether watching crime related television shows affected accuracy of psychological profiles for a sexual homicide offender. The television shows in the study were a fiction drama with a profiling element, a fiction drama without a profiling element, a nonfiction show with a profiling element, a nonfiction show without a profiling element, and a fiction drama with no crime element at all. Participants were 290 college students who watched a television show and then profiled a sexual homicide offender. High self-exposure to crime related television shows and experimental exposure to profiling related television shows were associated with greater accuracy for profiling certain aspects of the offender and/or offense. In addition, gender interacted with crime show viewing for certain types of profile accuracy.

It was observed, that the RT-PICLS code ran by FWKT on the hypnos cluster was producing an unusual amount of system load, according to Ganglia metrics. Since this may point to an IO-problem in the code, this code was analyzed more closely.

It was observed, that the RT-PICLS code ran by FWKT on the hypnos cluster was producing an unusual amount of system load, according to Ganglia metrics. Since this may point to an IO-problem in the code, this code was analyzed more closely.

Följande uppsats har utarbetats i syfte att utreda gällande rätt inom ett nytt och tämligen oreglerat område; marknadsföring på internet genom kanaliserad data. Med hjälp av data från bland annat konsumenternas sökhistorik och personuppgifter kan marknadsföring numera skräddarsys genom att identifiera enskilda konsumenters behov. Detta kallas personprofilering. Genom personprofilering kan betydande steg i konsumentens beslutsprocess begränsas och näringsidkaren kan därigenom anses leda konsumenten till ett köp, vilket kan bädda för illa genomtänkta köpbeslut. Tack vare den information som nu finns tillgänglig för näringsidkarna, har företagen fått ett kunskapsövertag gentemot konsumenterna. Detta gör konsumenterna, som skyddsobjekt, i ännu större behov av rättsligt skydd. I uppsatsen utreds både svensk- och europeisk rätt på området för att kunna göra en bedömning om personprofilering är förenligt med 5 och 6 §§ MFL, god marknadsföringssed, motsvarande artikel 5(2) i direktivet 2005/29/EG om otillbörliga affärsmetoder. Som ett led i detta arbete belyses genomsnittskonsumenten och vad denne kan anses ha för ställning i förhållande till näringsidkaren idag samt huruvida personprofilering kan bedömas inverka manipulativt på konsumenten. I analysen framkommer att personprofilering inte bör betraktas vara i strid med 5 och 6 §§ MFL, med bakgrund av att metoden (1) inte kan anses strida mot god marknadsföringssed med den normgivningen som finns idag, (2) antagligen ej bör anses påverka genomsnittskonsumentens förmåga att fatta ett välgrundat beslut och (3) även om personprofilering skulle bedömas ha ekonomisk effekt, är det inte önskvärt att bedöma en affärsmetod vara otillbörlig utifrån effekten. I praktiken föreligger det dock en risk i att bedöma personprofilering vara förenligt med 5 och 6 §§ MFL, och därför bör en mer omfattande reglering på området eftersträvas.

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Thesis advisor: Eranthie Weerapana / Activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) is a chemical proteomic technique that allows for selective labeling, visualization, and enrichment of the subset of active enzymes in a complex proteome. Given the dominant role of posttranslational modifications in regulating protein function in vivo, ABPP provides a direct readout of activity that is not attained through traditional proteomic methods. The first application of chemical proteomics in C. elegans was used to identify dysregulated serine hydrolase and cysteine-mediated protein activities in the long-lived daf-2 mutant, revealing LBP-3, K02D7.1, and C23H4.2 as novel regulators of lifespan and dauer formation. The tools of ABPP were also utilized in studying protein interactions at the host-pathogen interface of V. cholerae infection, discovering four pathogen-secreted proteases that alter the biochemical composition of the host, decrease the activity of host serine hydrolases, and inhibit bacterial binding by a host-secreted lectin. Lastly, ABPP was used to study the targets of protein arginine deiminases (PADs) using a citrulline-specific activity-based probe (ABP), highlighting its utility in detecting biologically relevant PAD substrates as well as identifying mRNA processing factors as previously unknown targets of PAD. Taken together, these studies demonstrate the ability of ABPP to discover novel protein regulators of physiological and pathological processes. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2016. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Chemistry.

This thesis examines the relationship between the phenomenon of racial profiling in the post-9/11 context and section 15 of the Canadian Charter. More specifically, this thesis exposes and unravels the paradox whereby Canada's equality guarantee lacks potential to control or protect against racial profiling in the ‘war on terror’, despite the fact that especially acute and complex equality concerns are triggered by the practice. Chapter one explores the way in which the debate surrounding racial profiling has shifted and taken on distinctive features post-9/11. These changes to the debate give rise to heightened equality concerns and are complicated by the racialization of religion. Chapter two asks why Canada’s equality provision has been largely invisible in the criminal justice context through examining the conceptual relationship between the nature of the criminal justice system and the logics of section 15. Finally, chapter three addresses, in turn, the shape of racial profiling jurisprudence and the treatment of race and religion under section 15. I conclude with some comments about whether it is always correct to discuss racial profiling in the language of equality. / Graduate

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