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Disciplinary Patterns And Complaint System Of The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Scott Eric Hutter Jan 2009

Disciplinary Patterns And Complaint System Of The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Scott Eric Hutter

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis will analyze the disciplinary patterns and the complaint system of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD). It reveals if there is significance when multiple officers engage in improper acts as opposed to when a single officer engages in the same acts. The study will identify the most common types of accusations filed against sworn personnel, what ranks are most commonly involved (i.e. deputy, sergeant, etc.), and what assignments (i.e. patrol) incur the most investigations.


Detection Of Deception In Criminal Defendents: Treatment Or Trial?, Loran Noelle Bounds Jan 2009

Detection Of Deception In Criminal Defendents: Treatment Or Trial?, Loran Noelle Bounds

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study is to determine how to detect whether a person is faking a mental illness. An area that is often malingered is insanity, where criminal defendents will fake that they are mentally ill as to avoid imprisonment or the death penalty. The death penalty is one of the most difficult defenses to raise and is rarely successful.