Quality Management in Forensic Disciplines- Juniper Publishers

The security challenges that today’s environment is facing on a daily basis are innumerable. In fact, these are setting new standards for objective evidence and appealing certain specific competencies that should be always based on quality management. With the technological advancements made in the past century, forensic disciplines and resources had made a quantum leap in providing and reporting results to various stakeholders and floors which were beneficial and significant to criminal justice systems and also to societies which forensic experts have to be ethically accountable in their end investigations. This brought certain specific opportunities for improvement in various areas. On top of the agenda, quality assurance and quality control in our lines of expertise. Two scenarios that one can write volumes about these significant and ethical matters. However, by opting for these measures one can entertain a quality management system reducing or eventually eradicate errors and misunderstandings. By initiating certain management tools such as six-sigma and Ishikawa diagrams, one would start building a total quality management approach for a sustainable forensic setting. It is high time for forensic departments and institutions to continue its development by achieving certifications from national accredited bodies pertaining to different and significant standards depending on their tests and analysis being done in their premises. This will create an accountable and ethical atmosphere which the main stakeholders will benefit from.

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Societal Acceptance of Crime 8 Rape: Blaming Victims and Excusing the Behavior of the Offender-Juiper Publishers

This article is my professional opinion in response to the major cases of rape and alleged police misconduct against criminals. As a forensic psychologist of over 28 years, educator and researcher, and a respected author, I have had enough. Societal ignorance has gotten out-of-control! We, as a society, appear to be lowering the threshold of accountability. We hold some offenders less accountable for their actions than others, despite the same crimes being committed. And what is this lower accountability based on: often ignorance, wealth, and race, rather than on facts. I will speak to the issues of objectification of women, rape, and the role of alcohol in violent crimes. I will also address the issue of respecting law enforcement and holding criminals accountable for their own behavior rather than blaming those who have to respond to the criminal's behavior. One important fact to remember is that sociopaths (environmentally created psychopath) and psychopaths (biologically created) lack conscience and care little if any for the safety or rights of others. Despite this, however, they still know right from wrong- they simply do not care!

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