Tom Mieczkowski

University of South Florida | USF · Department of Criminology

This study examines the role of several disinhibitors and the distribution of the presence and absence of these disinhibitors in sexual assaults. Four prominent disinhibitors are selected: alcohol use, drug use, anger, and pornography. Three types of sexual assaults are considered: assaults including sexual intrusion/penetration, assaults including...

This study examines what factors may distinguish injury from death in sexual crimes. We suggest that victim characteristics may work in conjunction with the crime context to enhance or reduce a fatal outcome once a sexual assault is underway. Based on a sample of 201 sex offenders who either physically injured or killed their victim, we calculate r...

Circumstances under which a sexual assault takes place and how these circumstances affect offenders’ reactions to victim resistance are not well understood. Previous studies have not thoroughly examined the interactions that take place between situational factors and resistance. Using a combination of logistic regression and Chi-square Automatic In...

The study aimed to examine sex offender characteristics associated with a decision to confess. Based on the analysis of 624 sex offenders, our findings showed that, depending on the type of sex offender, different characteristics are associated with their likelihood of confessing during the police interrogation. Moreover, distinguishing between tho...

In a variety of decision settings when categorical information is the data in hand, the correspondence between an indicator test and a true condition (i.e., an accepted "gold standard") is often assessed by the use of comparison or "truth" tables. The results from such a table can be considered an informational yield and allow a practitioner to ass...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify factors in sex offenders that act to facilitate or inhibit confession to police. Moreover, it aims to assess possible interactions and differences among factors related to confession specifically for child molesters and those who attack adult victims (rapists). Design/methodology/approach The author...

This article examines the conjecture that hair analysis, performed to detect cocaine use or exposure, is biased against African Americans. It does so by comparing the outcomes of 33,928 hair and 105,792 urine samples collected from both African American and white subjects. In making this comparison the analysis seeks to determine if there is a depa...

Purpose. This study applies a Bayes analysis to the probability of a particular STATIC-99 score and its associated re-offence probability with recidivating for a sexual offence. We examine this probability over three time frames: within 5 years; within 10 years; and within 15 years.Methods. This study was conducted using the same data from Hanson a...

The purpose of this article is to compare the differential rate of detection of illicit drugs when using two distinct sample types, hair and urine specimens. The specimens were collected from persons who applied for employment as a truck driver, or were collected from randomly selected currently employed truck drivers. The data is examined for job...

This paper examines violent sexual assaults and the factors associated with those assaults with lethal outcomes. It utilizes a criminal events perspective in conceptualizing the nature of these assaults and divides the event into three domains: victim characteristics, situational characteristics, and crime characteristics. Using a method developed...

This paper examines the hypothesis that cocaine and BE assays of hair demonstrate a putative bias effect for darker color hair samples. Although such an effect has been reported in the literature, no one has examined this claim outside the bounds of simple significance of mean difference. In this paper a large number of black and brown hair samples...

Purpose The purpose of this research is to examine one agency's experience with their early intervention program (EIP), exploring the specifics of the program as well as the characteristics of the officers who were identified by their EIP criteria. Design/methodology/approach Using data from calendar year 2000 that were provided from the Internal...

This manuscript contains a review of the literature concerning violent police behavior. Areas of interest include the history of violent police misconduct, characteristics of the officers and citizens, situational circumstances, theoretical explanations, and an exploration of the various methods for controlling violent police behavior. Suggestions...

The use of drug testing to detect drug use and to screen prospective employees has become commonplace in many occupations, both in the public and private sector. Due to the sensitive nature of their duties, drug testing in law enforcement agencies has become nearly universal, especially as a tool to screen applicants. Despite the fact that many lar...

While a great deal of research concerning the attitudes of adults toward police exists, fewer studies exploring the attitudes of juveniles have been completed Using self report data gathered from middle and high school students enrolled in a public school in the Southeastern United States as a data base, we explore juvenile attitudes toward the pol...

This article presents the results of drug screening done between 1985 and 1999 by a police department in a major eastern American city. Drug testing data is presented for civilians applying for the position of police officer in response to public solicitations, officers-in-training who are tested at the end of a two year training period, and "sworn...

It has been hypothesized that hair color may play a role in the concentration of various drugs of abuse in hair. Several studies have shown that melanin in hair appears to play a binding role for at least some commonly abused drugs. However, these studies have been limited by a number of factors when assessing the clinical significance of a hypothe...

Poice agents have beg to use hair analysis as a drug-screening tool in both officer recruitment and officer monitoring. This has been controversial because of a putative racial bias associated with human hair specimens, especially focused on cocaine. However, little empirical evidence has been offered to substantiate this claim. To asses this issue...

The purpose of this article is to explore the issue of drug use among police officers and police recruits. Data from two large police agencies were used in this analysis. Results of the two most popular drug screens (urinalysis and hair analysis) in the identification of drug-involved individuals, who are either currently employed in or applying fo...

Abstract Background This paper assess the relationship between the quantity of three anti-seizure medications in hair and the color of the analyzed hair, while controlling for the effects of dose, dose duration, and patient age for 140 clinical patients undergoing anti-seizure therapy. Three drugs are assessed: carbamazepine (40 patients), valpro...

Raw patient data for valproic acid analysis of hair and serum.

Raw patient data for carbamazepine analysis of hair and serum.

Raw patient data for phenytoin analysis of hair and serum.

The use of citizen complaints as a valid and reliable measure of actual police behavior has often been criticized. It is the purpose of this study to validate the use of externally generated citizen allegations of misconduct as an indicator of police malpractice by comparing the occurrence of internally generated complaints. Using both the internal...

Citizen complaints filed against a small group of officers of a large police department in the south-eastern USA were used to conduct an examination of repeat offenders and non-repeat offenders. Examines differences between the offenders in the areas of officer characteristics, complaint characteristics and citizen characteristics. Finds that the a...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Wayne State University, 1985. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-209). Photocopy.

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