What is educational inquiry? Educators and scholars draw upon data from many sources and on different subjects to illuminate current issues and trends in educational institutions. These subjects may include data from demography‚ health‚ education‚ culture and environment as well as government institutions and national databases. Educators and scholars use various research methods to collect‚ analyse and critique their findings to support or refute the topic of inquiry they are undertaking. Many
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What is Appreciative Inquiry? By Bliss Browne‚ Imagine Chicago Appreciative inquiry is an approach to organizational and community development that has been used successfully worldwide to cultivate hope‚ build capacity‚ unleash collective appreciation and imagination‚ and bring about positive change. It is based on the simple idea that human beings move in the direction of what we ask about. When groups query human problems and conflicts‚ they often inadvertently magnify the very problems
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Offender profiling is only a part of criminal investigative analysis and is not treated as a single entity of investigation‚ instead as part of an interrelated behavioural investigation. However‚ this technique is not widely used in Australia‚ as there are only four members of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship (ICIAF) that work in conjunction with the police‚ mostly within the serial cases of a violent/sexual nature‚ it is widely used in America possibly due to their higher
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Profiling in Criminal Investigation The use of psychology in the criminal justice field is not a new idea. Just think of the many films and television series which employ profiling for its entertainment value: Silence of the Lambs‚ Criminal Minds‚ Law and Order‚ the Mentalist‚ and Perception—to name a few. With this glorified view of psychology in criminal investigations‚ it seems impossible that the real science behind the myth would be anything other than psychic intuition. However‚ there is
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When most people think of a hypnotist‚ they may think of someone similar to a magician. Someone putting on an act for viewer’s entertainment. Hypnosis is used in many different ways other than just pure entertainment. Hypnosis is used in many professions‚ including criminal investigation. By Webster’s definition hypnosis is‚ “A trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject.” Research shows that hypnosis is the equivalent to
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Comparison of Three Methods of Sociological Inquiry: Experiments‚ Surveys‚ and Field Research 18 May 2013 Introduction All sociological inquiries begin with a question‚ whether they result in a small survey distributed to a couple of dozen people‚ or in a major experiment involving hundreds of subjects. In either case‚ the research will entail a careful process that involves designing a research plan before embarking on the actual research effort. For the results of the inquiry to have any real
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What are the differences between Inquiry and Investigation? Inquiry: According to sec-4(k) of CrPC‚1898-Inquiry includes every inquiry other than a trial conducted under this Code by a Magistrate or Court. Section 159 of the Code empowers a Magistrate on receipt of a police report under Section 157‚ Cr.P.C. to hold a preliminary inquiry in order to ascertain whether an offence has been committed and‚ if so‚ whether any persons should be put upon their trial. In cases triable by the court of sessions
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perimeter‚ making the scene smaller or larger. The whole purpose of setting up a perimeter around a crime scene is to protect potential evidence within. The third step in a criminal investigation is initiating a preliminary survey. This step is basically an initial walk through of a crime scene. What investigators are looking for in this step is obvious evidence. This stage can be different for each type of crime scene. For an indoor crime scene the investigator will be looking for an entry
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The importance and relevance of chain of custody to criminal investigations and judicial outcomes Chain of custody is defined by Saferstein (2015)‚ as a sequential documentation‚ that shows custody‚ control‚ analysis‚ handling and the nature of physical or electrical evidence. Chain of custody is a model that is utilised by the police during criminal investigations to demonstrate that the evidence has been handled in a manner that does not destroy the integrity of the evidence (Houck & Siegel‚
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Crime Scene Investigation Summer Crouch Indiana Business College Mr. Walker 12/10/2008 History “The history of crime scene investigation includes criminology. Criminology is a field of social sciences that study crime and criminal behavior that cause social phenomena with direct impacts on society. As a result of the efforts to understand this‚ researchers from other academic fields for example anthropology‚ psychiatry‚ medicine
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