Introduction This paper will review and assess the proposed impact of the Thompson Valley Police Service (TVPS) Commissioner’s decision to remove completion or partial completion of tertiary education for aspiring police recruit applicants, as well as the removal of psychological testing from the selection process,...
There are many theories available to criminologists to help explain, measure and attempt to understand criminal behaviour and the occurrence of crimes. This essay will take an in-depth look at one of these theories, the bio-behavioural reward dominance theory and seek to apply this to...
This is an open letter written to a sitting member of parliament on the topic of marriage equality for an assignment entitled ‘Engaging with Politics’ from January 2017 Dear Prime Minister I am writing to you today as I was saddened to recently read that...
Every few years it seems that police reform is yet again a heated topic in some region of the world. In 2014, the then police commissioner for Western Australia wrote about creating a better future in policing through police reform (O’Callaghan, 2014). In the United...
Fear of crime victimisation is generally influenced by a broad range of demographic, social, geographical and historical metrics. To find out whether those members of our society who are the most fearful of crime are also the most likely to become victims of crime, we...
In today’s modern society, with the rise of digital media platforms, increased news cycles and fast paced media consumption, we are now more exposed to media than at any point in our history. A recent report from the Reuters Institute (Reuters Institute for the Study...
Introduction The Australian Government’s Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report (AIHW, 2015) includes data from over 1,000 prison entrants from all states and territories across the country. It states 49% of the prisoners surveyed reported that they have or have been told by a...
This is a minor essay written for University of Pennsylvania’s course ‘Revolutionary Ideas: Utility, Justice, Equality, Freedom’ on the Harm Principle One answer to the question of why we should have a State, comes from John Stuart Mill, that the state improves human welfare by...
Below is an excerpt from an internal paper I wrote in 2013 for N3V Games How the iOS App Charts Work The Apple iOS App Charts rankings are influenced by the following factors: Rolling Download Count per 24 Hours Download Figures for the Previous 72 Hours Daily...
Getting ready to take flight Missed a step? Catch up here: Part I, II, III, IV. Welcome Part V of my custom thunderhawk gunship project. The major progress this week has been completing the basic body frame. You can see in the image below that...
A View From The Top Missed a step? Catch up on part I, part II, or part III. Welcome to part IV of my custom Thunderhawk Gunship project. When I cut the roof pieces together, I used a Citadel Razor Saw, which didn’t work. The...
Drowning in a Sea of Bitz Missed a step? Catch up on part I, or part II. Part III begins with an update on green stuffing the framework – the major focus at this point. I’ve mixed up a darker batch and started to build...
Not Quite A Stormbird, More Than A Stormraven Missed part I? Read it here Part I of my Custom Thunderhawk Gunship project finished with the basis of the hull being completed. And what looked like the capability to lift itself off the ground, which was...
In the Beginning the Emperor… I started this project because as soon as I read about the famed gunship of the Adeptus Astartes, I knew that I wanted one. The price tag associated with buying one from Forgeworld however, is another story. Especially once you read...
