Bureau of HIV, STD, & Hepatitis Quarterly Newsletter, April-August 2011, Vol. 2

This newsletter of the Bureau of HIV, STD, and Hepatitis. The idea of the newsletter was to improve communication between the bureau and those who are delivering HIV, STD, and hepatitis prevention, surveillance, and care programs across the state. More specifically, we would like to use the newsletter as a vehicle through which we can improve prevention and care services in Iowa. We will try to do this by describing the services and programs we fund, and by reflecting on data that we collect to help prevention and care providers make decisions on policies, unmet needs, and service gaps in the state. At the same time, we will try to keep you abreast of new programs, resources, and policies that may affect the work that you do and the lives of those living with or affected by HIV, STDs, and viral hepatitis.

Intelligence-led crime scene processing. Part I : Forensic intelligence.

Forensic science is generally defined as the application of science to address questions related to the law. Too often, this view restricts the contribution of science to one single process which eventually aims at bringing individuals to court while minimising risk of miscarriage of justice. In order to go beyond this paradigm, we propose to refocus the attention towards traces themselves, as remnants of a criminal activity, and their information content. We postulate that traces contribute effectively to a wide variety of other informational processes that support decision making inmany situations. In particular, they inform actors of new policing strategies who place the treatment of information and intelligence at the centre of their systems. This contribution of forensic science to these security oriented models is still not well identified and captured. In order to create the best condition for the development of forensic intelligence, we suggest a framework that connects forensic science to intelligence-led policing (part I). Crime scene attendance and processing can be envisaged within this view. This approach gives indications abouthowto structure knowledge used by crime scene examiners in their effective practice (part II).

A juridical-practical framework for the investigation of crimes against granting of public housing services

The public service enterprises are victims of crimes and felonies which may reduce their capacity to perform their functions. These enterprises expend much money and effort in order to prevent those criminal behaviors. For this reason they ask from the authorities more efficient measures against crime; however, such enterprises may feel that they are not being given sufficient importance and/or remedies in dealing with such crime. The aim paper of this is not to study the problem from de substantive criminal law point of view. Rather, this paper’s goal is to study the Colombia’s Rules of Criminal Procedure, which regulate the investigation of this kind of crime. The article will look particularly at the competency of the relevant authorities at the investigative stages. Finally, it will make some recommendations regarding a proper route towards the investigation of these criminal behaviors.

Accident or homicide - virtual crime scene reconstruction using 3D methods

The analysis and reconstruction of forensically relevant events, such as traffic accidents, criminal assaults and homicides are based on external and internal morphological findings of the injured or deceased person. For this approach high-tech methods are gaining increasing importance in forensic investigations. The non-contact optical 3D digitising system GOM ATOS is applied as a suitable tool for whole body surface and wound documentation and analysis in order to identify injury-causing instruments and to reconstruct the course of event. In addition to the surface documentation, cross-sectional imaging methods deliver medical internal findings of the body. These 3D data are fused into a whole body model of the deceased. Additional to the findings of the bodies, the injury inflicting instruments and incident scene is documented in 3D. The 3D data of the incident scene, generated by 3D laser scanning and photogrammetry, is also included into the reconstruction. Two cases illustrate the methods. In the fist case a man was shot in his bedroom and the main question was, if the offender shot the man intentionally or accidentally, as he declared. In the second case a woman was hit by a car, driving backwards into a garage. It was unclear if the driver drove backwards once or twice, which would indicate that he willingly injured and killed the woman. With this work, we demonstrate how 3D documentation, data merging and animation enable to answer reconstructive questions regarding the dynamic development of patterned injuries, and how this leads to a real data based reconstruction of the course of event.

Migrant child welfare : a state of the field study of child welfare services for migrant children and their families who are in-stream, home based, or settled-out : executive summary /

"Performed under Contract No. HEW-105-76-1140."

Migrant child welfare : a state of the field study of child welfare services for migrant children and their families who are in-stream, home based, or settled-out : final report /

Performed under contract no. HEW-105-76-1140, National Center for Child Advocacy and prepared by members of InterAmerica Research Associates.

Report of the librarian of the Bureau of education for the year ended June 30, 1908-.

Mode of access: Internet.

Occupational employment survey booklet of definitions : educational services.

"BLS-2877 182."

Occupational employment survey booklet of definitions : business services.

"OMB no. 1220-0130."

College of Education, Bureau of Research and Service: history, functions, activities.

"Publications by the Bureau of Research and Service, 1947-1949": p. 16. "Publications of the staff of the Bureau of Research and Service, September 1947-July 1950": p. 18-20.

Results of tests on 25 bureau of ships - RCA developmental Williams memory tubes - type C73376B /

"April 29, 1953"

Bulletin series - Bureau of Economic and Business Research.

Mode of access: Internet.

Census tract location guide; Detroit standard metropolitan statistical area (1960 census tracts and population from the U.S. Bureau of the census)

Mode of access: Internet.

A methodology for the selection of interactive computer services /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-42).

Annual report - Bureau of Health Facilities.

Mode of access: Internet.