Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States


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Scores of talented and dedicated people serve the forensic science community, performing vitally important work. However, they are often constrained by lack of adequate resources, sound policies, and national support. It is clear that change and advancements, both systematic and scientific, are needed in a number of forensic science disciplines to ensure the reliability of work, establish enforceable standards, and promote best practices with consistent application. Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward provides a detailed plan for addressing these needs and suggests the creation of a new government entity, the National Institute of Forensic Science, to establish and enforce standards within the forensic science community. The benefits of improving and regulating the forensic science disciplines are clear: assisting law enforcement officials, enhancing homeland security, and reducing the risk of wrongful conviction and exoneration. Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States gives a full account of what is needed to advance the forensic science disciplines, including upgrading of systems and organizational structures, better training, widespread adoption of uniform and enforceable best practices, and mandatory certification and accreditation programs. While this book provides an essential call-to-action for congress and policy makers, it also serves as a vital tool for law enforcement agencies, criminal prosecutors and attorneys, and forensic science educators.













China And The World Trade Organization: A Legal Perspective


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This book examines, from the legal perspective, China's process of WTO accession, its commitments to the accession, the implications of such commitments for its trade and legal systems, and its efforts toward WTO compliance. It also discusses the issue of the capacity of the evolving Chinese legal system for ensuring compliance. In particular, the book probes into the trade and legal systems at the turn of the accession and evaluates selected trade and legal issues, including intellectual property, foreign investment law and settlement of trade disputes.




Undergraduate Guide: Two-Year Colleges 2011


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Peterson's Two-Year Colleges 2011 includes information on nearly 2,000 accredited two-year undergraduate institutions in the United States and Canada, as well as some international schools. It also includes scores of detailed two-page descriptions written by admissions personnel. College-bound students and their parents can research two-year colleges and universities for information on campus setting, enrollment, majors, expenses, student-faculty ratio, application deadline, and contact information. SELLING POINTS: Helpful articles on what you need to know about two-year colleges: advice on transferring and returning to school for adult students; how to survive standardized tests; what international students need to know about admission to U.S. colleges; and how to manage paying for college State-by-state summary table allows comparison of institutions by a variety of characteristics, including enrollment, application requirements, types of financial aid available, and numbers of sports and majors offered Informative data profiles for nearly 2,000 institutions, listed alphabetically by state (and followed by other countries) with facts and figures on majors, academic programs, student life, standardized tests, financial aid, and applying and contact information Exclusive two-page in-depth descriptions written by college administrators for Peterson's Indexes offering valuable information on associate degree programs at two-year colleges and four-year colleges-easy to search alphabetically




Legal Analytics


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Legal Analytics: The Future of Analytics in Law navigates the crisscrossing of intelligent technology and the legal field in building up a new landscape of transformation. Legal automation navigation is multidimensional, wherein it intends to construct streamline communication, approval, and management of legal tasks. The evolving environment of technology has emphasized the need for better automation in the legal field from time to time, although legal scholars took long to embrace information revolution of the legal field. • Describes the historical development of law and automation. • Analyzes the challenges and opportunities in law and automation. • Studies the current research and development in the convergence of law, artificial intelligence, and legal analytics. • Explores the recent emerging trends and technologies that are used by various legal systems globally for crime prediction and prevention. • Examines the applicability of legal analytics in forensic investigation. • Investigates the impact of legal analytics tools and techniques in judicial decision making. • Analyzes deep learning techniques and their scope in accelerating legal analytics in developed and developing countries. • Provides an in-depth analysis of implementation, challenges, and issues in society related to legal analytics. This book is primarily aimed at graduates and postgraduates in law and technology, computer science, and information technology. Legal practitioners and academicians will also find this book helpful.




Black Enterprise


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BLACK ENTERPRISE is the ultimate source for wealth creation for African American professionals, entrepreneurs and corporate executives. Every month, BLACK ENTERPRISE delivers timely, useful information on careers, small business and personal finance.




Congressional Record


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