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Detection Avoidance in Homicides: Debates, Explanations and
Responses presents theory and research on how offenders avoid
detection and the challenges and opportunities these efforts pose
to investigators. From a scholarly perspective, the book presents a
continuing history of research on detection avoidance by offenders,
discusses the features of complex death investigations involving
detection avoidance, and critiques the current frameworks used for
conceptualizing these behaviors. Dr. Ferguson focuses on the key
debates in the literature, argues for collaborations between
researchers and practitioners to remedy siloing, and explores the
reality of detection avoidance in homicides as complex and
multifaceted. While detection avoidance behaviors have the
potential to negatively impact sudden death investigations and
frustrate criminal investigations specifically, their use also
creates broader problems. These include many problematic effects on
family members of the deceased, police officers, police agencies
and the communities they serve. Offenders choosing to use detection
avoidance behaviors challenges the efficient use of public
resources, puts at risk the successful adjudication of homicides,
and creates a public safety issue. The book explains detection
avoidance using learning, situational, individual and gender-based
theories, including proposing whether it may be a form of coercive
control used by intimate partner abusers. Finally, how detection
avoidance by offenders is recognized and responded to in sudden
death investigations is addressed, with specific reference to
useful examples of policy reform implemented by various police
agencies internationally. Providing research and theory to explain
detection avoidance and best practice for responding to it, this
book will be of great interest to students and scholars of
criminology, forensic science and psychology. It will also be
useful to professionals working with homicide offenders.
Detection Avoidance in Homicides: Debates, Explanations and
Responses presents theory and research on how offenders avoid
detection and the challenges and opportunities these efforts pose
to investigators. From a scholarly perspective, the book presents a
continuing history of research on detection avoidance by offenders,
discusses the features of complex death investigations involving
detection avoidance, and critiques the current frameworks used for
conceptualizing these behaviors. Dr. Ferguson focuses on the key
debates in the literature, argues for collaborations between
researchers and practitioners to remedy siloing, and explores the
reality of detection avoidance in homicides as complex and
multifaceted. While detection avoidance behaviors have the
potential to negatively impact sudden death investigations and
frustrate criminal investigations specifically, their use also
creates broader problems. These include many problematic effects on
family members of the deceased, police officers, police agencies
and the communities they serve. Offenders choosing to use detection
avoidance behaviors challenges the efficient use of public
resources, puts at risk the successful adjudication of homicides,
and creates a public safety issue. The book explains detection
avoidance using learning, situational, individual and gender-based
theories, including proposing whether it may be a form of coercive
control used by intimate partner abusers. Finally, how detection
avoidance by offenders is recognized and responded to in sudden
death investigations is addressed, with specific reference to
useful examples of policy reform implemented by various police
agencies internationally. Providing research and theory to explain
detection avoidance and best practice for responding to it, this
book will be of great interest to students and scholars of
criminology, forensic science and psychology. It will also be
useful to professionals working with homicide offenders.
The principal statute addressing air quality concerns, the Clean
Air Act was first enacted in 1955, with major revisions in 1970,
1977, and 1990 and is addressed in the first part of this book.
Congressional actions on air quality issues have been dominated
since 2011 by efforts particularly in the Houseto change the
Environmental Protection Agencys (EPAs) authority to promulgate or
implement new emission control requirements. EPAs regulations on
greenhouse gas emissions from electric power plants and from oil
and gas industry sources have been of particular interest, as have
the agencys efforts to revise ambient air quality standards for
ozone. The 115th Congress and the Trump Administration are
reviewing some of these regulations, with the possibility of their
modification or repeal. On October 23, 2015, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) published its final Clean Power Plan rule
(Rule) to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs),
specifically carbon dioxide (CO2), from existing fossil fuel-fired
power plants. The aim of the Rule, according to EPA, is to help
protect human health and the environment from the impacts of
climate change. The Clean Power Plan would require states to submit
plans to achieve state-specific CO2 goals reflecting emission
performance rates or emission levels for predominantly coal- and
gas-fired power plants, with a series of interim goals culminating
in final goals by 2030.
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