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Cawelti, John G. "Detecting the Detective." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 12, no. 3 (January 1999): 44–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08957699909598067.
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Lim, Woo-Seob, Wan-Seob Lim, and Hee-Kyun Park. "A Study on the Guarantee of Detective's Right to Secretly Follow: Focusing on the Stalking Punishment Act and the Case of Japan." Korean Society of Private Security 22, no. 1 (March 30, 2023): 91–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.56603/jksps.2023.22.1.91.
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Since the revision of the 「Credit Information Use and Protection Act (hereinafter referred to as the Credit Information Act)」 in 2020, private detective work has been legally allowed in South Korea. However, the boundary between legal and illegal acts is ambiguous in private detective activities as related laws that specify the scope of the private detective's work have not been enacted. In addition, since the 「Stalking Crime Punishment Act (hereinafter referred to as the Stalking Punishment Act)」 took effect in October 2021, there have been cases in which private detectives who performed their duties through tailing techniques were punished for stalking crimes, so it is urgent to come up with related measures. This study points out the problem that even the follow-up and subsequent acts of private detectives within the scope of work can be a stalking crime. To search for solutions, this study analyzed the Japanese cases that implement the 「Act on Appropriateness of Private Detective Business (hereinafter referred to as the Japanese Detective Business Act)」 and the 「Act on the Regulation of Stalker Acts (hereinafter referred to as the Stalker Regulation Act)」. Based on this, this study reviewed the relationship between the 「Private Detective Business Management Bill (hereinafter referred to as the Detective Business Bill) pending in the National Assembly and the 「Stalking Punishment Act」 and suggested ways to improve the Private Detective Business Bill.
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Zavorina, O. P., and O. V. Fomin. "Activities of Detective Units in the National Police of Ukraine: Current Status and Perspectives." Law and Safety 81, no. 2 (July 2, 2021): 149–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.32631/pb.2021.2.20.
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Ukrainian law enforcement agencies are undergoing a long-term transformation from a system of punitive law enforcement agencies to European-style law enforcement agencies, which should focus on providing services to the population and respecting human rights. One of the areas of the reform was the introduction of the Detective project in the National Police of Ukraine.
It should be noted that detective work in Ukraine is a new type of professional activity. However, it should be noted that legal regulation of detective work of both civil servants (law enforcement detectives) and private detectives is absent in Ukraine, although in many countries around the world private detective work is legalized and benefits society. The adoption of the Law "On Private Detective Activity" will allow to establish proper state control over this type of activity at the legislative level and will legalize private detective activity, which is actually carried out, is in demand and recognized by society.
However, there is an indisputable opinion in Ukraine that law enforcement activities can be performed exclusively by state structures. And the introduction and operation of private detectives will put an end to the state monopoly in this direction. However, there are also positive points: first of all, several thousand private detective agencies and private detectives must come out of the shadow, pay taxes, report to the police about criminal offenses that are being prepared or committed, provide intelligence, etc.
Based on the above, we conclude that legislative regulation of such activities is required for the full work of police and private detectives, including amendments to the Criminal Procedural Code of Ukraine, the Law of Ukraine "On Investigative Activities", departmental orders and instructions, in particular, to the Instruction on the organization of interaction of pre-trial investigative agencies with other agencies and units of the National Police of Ukraine in preventing criminal offenses. detection and investigation, approved by the order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine dated from July 7, 2017, No. 575.
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Dvojmoč, Miha, Andrej Sotlar, and Vanja Erčulj. "Private Detective Activity in Slovenia – Organisation Matters." DANUBE 14, no. 2 (June 1, 2023): 119–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/danb-2023-0008.
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Abstract A private detective in Slovenia may perform detective activities as an independent profession or on the basis of an employment relationship for a natural or legal person with a registered private detective activity (ZDD-1, 2011). Private detectives completed a questionnaire when they attended the annual training in June 2018 – almost half of Slovenian private detectives participated in the survey. The study results show that almost half of self-employed private detectives investigate more drug abuse at work and abuse of competition clauses, while private detective agencies conduct more civil, legal, and administrative proceedings than other organisational forms. Some private detectives do not perform private detective tasks as their main activity, but as a secondary activity, and those individuals for whom private detective work is their primary/main profession mostly deliver packages, write reports and collect debtors’ data on behalf of their clients.
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Jin, Yu Jae. "Detective Novels by Japanese Residents of Joseon: Detective Novels without Detectives." Korean Journal of Japanology 104 (August 30, 2015): 171–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.15532/kaja.2015.08.104.171.
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Kosovets, M. V. "THE ROLE OF PROSODY IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STRATEGY OF DIRECT QUESTIONING IN THE DETECTIVE’S SPEECH IN FILM DISCOURSE." Writings in Romance-Germanic Philology, no. 2(51) (December 19, 2023): 102–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2307-4604.2023.2(51).296824.
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The article reports on the results of experimental phonetic research aimed at identifying the prosodic characteristics of utterances manifesting the strategy of direct questioning. To unveil the prosody of direct questioning, utterances used by a police detective and an amateur detective in detective film discourse have been analysed. It has been established that tone frequency, or melodic component of prosody, is helpful in differentiating of the communicative tactics, since it has turned out to be the most varied component according to the results of auditory analysis. The results of the instrumental analysis of the police detective’s speech and the amateur detective’s speech have shown that the widest frequency range marks the communicative tactic of clarification in the police detective’s speech, and the communicative tactic of a demand to speak to the point / interruption in the amateur detective’s speech. The narrowest frequency range is characteristic of the communicative tactic of a direct questioning in the police detective’s speech and the tactic of clarification in the amateur detective’s speech. On the whole, the frequency range of the utterances manifesting communicative tactics in the amateur detective’s speech has turned out to be wider compared to those in the police detective’s speech. The analysis of the localization of the frequency maxima in different parts of sense-groups uttered by both detectives has shown that the localization fluctuations of the frequency maxima are insignificant and denote expressive coloring of the most important lexemes in the speech of both detectives.
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Cho, Sang Hyun. "A study on the scope of work of detectives through Delphi Survey." Korean Society of Private Security 23, no. 2 (June 30, 2024): 139–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.56603/jksps.2024.23.2.139.
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The detective system is a common system in OECD member countries, but it is not easy to find in Korea because the detective system is legally prohibited. However, with the revision of the 「Act on Use and Protection of Credit Information」 in 2020, detectives are now able to engage in commercial activities. Even though profit-making activities have become possible, in reality, no laws related to detectives have been enacted, and discussions about what kind of work detectives should perform are constantly being raised. Accordingly, this study sought to verify the tasks that detectives must perform through a Delphi survey. Delphi research can be said to be the most appropriate research method because it can predict problematic areas and future trends in detective work. In this study, major issues related to the work of detectives and the introduction of the detective system were identified among eight people. As a result of the study, the main task of a detective was to identify the whereabouts of children and adolescents who ran away from home and missing persons, and additional tasks such as factual investigation were presented as additional tasks. In addition, it was suggested that the detective system should be operated under a permission system, with the National Police Agency as the subject of management and supervision, nationally recognized qualifications as the qualification, and a training period of about 3 to 6 months entrusted by the National Police Agency. Based on these results, we attempted to suggest a policy direction for the detective system.
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Bubnova, A. S. "French Philological Detective as a New Subgenre of Criminal Literature (by the Example of F. Vargas Novels)." Nauchnyi dialog, no. 3 (March 30, 2020): 207–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2020-3-207-220.
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The novelty of this study is in the fact that for the first time the characteristic features of the new detective subgenre, the philological detective, are described. The material for the study was the cycle of novels by the French author F. Vargas. The main reasons for the emergence of a philological detective story as a subgenre are revealed. They include a paradoxical combination of canonicity and variability, the ability to adapt to the reader’s expectations, the desire for originality and time features. It is proved that, unlike other detective subgenres, genre-forming components in the philological detective affect and change not the content, but the form, namely, the language material. The French philological detective by F. Vargas is compared with his chronological predecessor, the ironic detective by F. Dar. The idea is expressed that in ironic detectives the linguistic component does not affect the development of the plot and is secondary to it, while in the philological detective story the linguistic component is embedded in the plot and comes to the fore. A brief explanation of the characteristic features of the new subgenre is given: bilingualism, word-creation, author’s neologisms, barbarism, a rich vocabulary of heroes. The opinion is expressed that the above traits are enough to distinguish philological detectives into a separate category.
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Frantsuz, A. J., and B. O. Nosenko. "CURRENT STATE AND PROSPECTS OF PRIVATE DETECTIVE ACTIVITY IN UKRAINE." Legal Bulletin 76, no. 6 (December 15, 2022): 67–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.31732/2708-339x-2022-06-67-72.
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Arguments in favor of the introduction of the institute of private detective activity in Ukraine, its formation and development at the present stage are given. The necessity of legislative regulation of issues of private detective (search) activity in the context of cooperation with law enforcement agencies, in particular with units of the National Police of Ukraine, is determined. The author's definition of private detective activity is presented, which is proposed to be defined as allowed by the National Police of Ukraine professional business activities of private detectives and private detective companies (agencies) to provide clients with detective services to protect their legal rights and interests on the grounds and in the manner prescribed by law. It is noted that the author's interpretation provides for the inclusion in the definition of the term that characterizes private detective activity as one of the types of business activities, as such activities are carried out on a contractual basis, profit and should be taxable under current Ukrainian legislation. Ways of cooperation between subjects of private detective (search) activity and divisions of the National Police of Ukraine are also offered. It is noted that the basis for effective cooperation between the subjects of private detective (investigative) activities and state law enforcement agencies should be the exchange of information regulated by law. This will allow not only to carry out separate (independent) activities, but also to carry out joint planning and joint measures to prevent offenses. The author notes that the most promising cooperation between private detectives and operational search units of the National Police may be in the field of search for missing persons, including children. However, in such cooperation, private detectives may have certain advantages. Compared to police officers, private detectives themselves determine the size of their workload, which will contribute to the greatest focus on a particular case. Also, the provision of paid services will promote a conscientious attitude to the assigned duties, as the amount of monetary remuneration of a private detective may vary depending on the results of his work. The author presents arguments in favor of granting supervisory powers in the field of private detective work to the internal affairs bodies of Ukraine.
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Whitley, John S. "Pudd'nhead Wilson: Mark Twain and the Limits of Detection." Journal of American Studies 21, no. 1 (April 1987): 55–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875800005491.
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My starting point is two related critical judgments. In a recent essay on the detective fiction of Ross Macdonald, Eric Mottram suggests that an important point in the history of such fiction is reached in Mark Twain's play The Amateur Detective (1877) and his short story “A Double-Barrelled Detective Story” (1902), parodies of the literary process of detection where “Twain demolishes the man-hunt plot and the Sherlock Holmes plot of aristocratic ratiocinative powers derived from Poe's Chevalier Auguste Dupin”. A quarter of a century before this, Leslie A. Fiedler came to the conclusion that Twain's most extensive treatment of detective work, Pudd'nhead Wilson, was “an anti-detective story, more like The Brothers Karamazov than The Innocence of Father Brown, its function to expose communal guilt.” The purpose of this essay will be to show how the process of detection was cited in Twain's writings throughout his career, usually but by no means inevitably in a parodic manner, and that Pudd'nhead Wilson needs to be understood as a serious, indeed, tragic parody of the detective story, one which turned most of Twain's models on their heads in order to demonstrate that a supposedly successful detective dénouement (what Fiedler elsewhere describes as “Pudd'nhead's book – a success story”) is deliberately allowed to work against its normal function in a detective novel.
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Huang, Jing Lian, Zhuo Wang, and Juan Li. "The E-Derivative and Completeness on Circuit Error-Detection System of Differential Equations." Applied Mechanics and Materials 643 (September 2014): 283–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.643.283.
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Through discuss the relations of e-derivative, derivative and logical functions, we propose e-derivative differential equations detective method of circuit error. We gives the theorems and proved theoretically that circuit error-detection system, which combines with e-derivative differential equations detective method and derivative differential equations detective method is having completeness, this system is able to detect all the circuit error. At the same time, we explain that the corresponding principles of the circuit error-detection system, and reveals the relationship between the circuit error and the function data (value). Finally, we give detection examples for all possible detected cases. For the present error-detection system only with derivative differential equations detective method, the circuit error-detection system which we proposed make up the deficiency and defect of the original system, which can not be detected for many circuit error and is do not know the reasons. We construct a complete circuit error-detection system.
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Stoecklein, Mary. "Native Narratives, Mystery Writing, and the Osage Oil Murders: Examining Mean Spirit and The Osage Rose." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 42, no. 3 (July 1, 2018): 137–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.42.3.stoecklein.
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Through analysis of two debut novels, Linda Hogan's Pulitzer-Prize-nominated murdermystery Mean Spirit 1990 and Tom Holm's private eye detective story The Osage Rose 2008, this article considers what Native-authored mystery fiction has to offer in terms of self-representation of Indigenous history and culture. Paying particular attention to detective fiction genre elements—such as the novels' openings, the detectives, the forms of detection, and the resolution—shows how Hogan and Holm employ the mystery genre to present Native narratives about the Osage oil murders, and, given their ability to reach wide audiences, how such narratives ultimately provide broader understandings of Indigenous history and culture.
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Zaleckis, Romualdas. "UNUSED POSSIBILITIES OF DETECTIVE ACTIVITIES." Administrative and Criminal Justice 2, no. 79 (June 30, 2017): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/acj.v2i79.2807.
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Legal regulation of Lithuanian, Latvian, Russian private detectives activities provide additional opportunities for private detectives to create added value in their practice. Special laws of the countries in question that regulate their activities, give private detectives exclusive rights to provide detective services, therefore activities of other entities in this field is considered unlawful, and carries administrative and criminal liability. Another important statutory regulatory aspect of detective activities is that detectives can be recognized by law, within certain boundaries, to legally collect information about another persons private life, which is completely forbidden for any other private individual and collecting another person's private information, caries criminal and civil liability. And so the legislator has strictly limited the amount of entities that can provide services within the scope of detective activities and the content they are allowed to handle. The author presents two types of services as an example: the search of a debtor and his assets, a person's solvency and reliability evaluation. It is recommendable to employ educational measures to expand market demand for legal services that only detectives have the right to provide.
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Bettaglio, Marina. "Locuras detectivescas en La detective miope de Rosa Ribás." RAUDEM. Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres 3 (May 23, 2017): 157. http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/raudem.v3i0.625.
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Resumen: En La detective miope la escritora española Rosa Ribás lleva a cabo una inversión paródica de las normas de la literatura detectivesca al crear una investigadora privada recién salida de una institución psiquiátrica. A diferencia de los métodos deductivos empleados por eminentes detectives del siglo XIX, Irene Ricart subvierte las leyes de la lógica al resolver el enigma del brutal asesinato del que fueron víctimas su esposo y su hija. Mientras su vista se va deteriorando progresivamente, esta detective tan peculiar logra desenmascarar a los culpables del doble asesinato y acabar con los asesinos en una trama circular marcada por la locura. Questioning Rationality in Rosa Ribas’ La detective miope Abstract: In La detective miope, Spanish writer Rosa Ribás carries out a parodic inversion of the norms of detective fiction by giving voice to a private investigator, who has been recently released from a mental institution. Contrary to the deductive methods employed by eminent 19th century detectives, Ribás nearsighted private eye Irene Ricart subverts every law of logic to solve the enigma of her daughter and husband’s brutal killing. As her eyesight deteriorates, this unconventional detective unmasks a network of criminal activities, kills the killers and ends full circle in the same clinic where she originally was at the beginning of the novel.
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KOSOVETS, Marharyta V. "COMMUNICATIVE TACTICS MANIFESTING SELF-PRESENTATION STRATEGY IN ENGLISH DETECTIVE DISCOURSE." Мова, no. 37 (July 13, 2022): 89–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2307-4558.2022.37.261457.
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The present article reports on the study of the communicative strategy of self-presentation and the communicative tactics that manifest it in detective discourse. The analysis is based on the data from English detective novels. The object of the study is the characters’ speech: the detective’s interrogation of witnesses and suspects. The scope of the study is the communicative tactics of self-presentation as the means of influencing the suspect in order to obtain the necessary information to solve the crime. The purpose is cognitive and pragmatic analysis of the communicative tactics applied by the detectives to obtain the necessary information to solve a crime. The investigation is based on the general and special linguistic methods : synthesis and analysis, method of observation, descriptive method, pragmatic and linguistic method, analysis of contextual interpretation. The main results of the study. The cognitive and pragmatic analysis of the detective’s strategic plan has resulted in our own classification of communicative tactics and strategies applied by the detective during the interrogation of witnesses and suspects. It has been established that one of the major communicative strategies used by the detective is self-presentation. Self-presentation is realized by the following communicative tactics: tactics of distancing, solidarity, belonging to a certain group. Each of these tactics is manifested by certain lexical, morphological and syntactic means of the English language. The perspective for further research is seen in the comprehensive study of the linguistic mechanisms of manipulative impact on the recipient in fiction.
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Frantsuz, A. J., and Y. K. Tupichenko. "ORGANISATIONAL AND LEGAL BASIS OF PRIVATE DETECTIVES IN POLAND AN UKRAINE." Legal Bulletin 76, no. 6 (December 15, 2022): 54–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.31732/2708-339x-2022-06-54-59.
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institutional crisis, destruction of anti-corruption legislation and loss of trust in law enforcement agencies - stimulates the development of non-governmental organizations and the emergence of individuals, protect private property, ensure personal safety, protect the lives and health of citizens. These include security agencies, bodyguards and private detectives. The lack of legal regulation of detective activity in Ukraine is a very big legal problem that separates us from the modern European world. The desire of the current government to maintain control over law enforcement agencies and the weak implementation of law enforcement and investigative activities - contributes to the active development of crime in Ukraine. This forces Ukrainian scientists and lawyers to study international experience for the effective implementation of the institute of detective work, in accordance with current international law. The activities of private detectives in European countries - is ensured by the right of citizens of these countries to protect their constitutional rights. Also, in the territory of the European Union, the activities of private detectives are legal and clearly spelled out in law. Legal regulation of private detective work is a very difficult issue. It is difficult to create adequate legal conditions when it comes to the authority of some people - to obtain information about third parties without their consent and knowledge. Therefore, the legislator of a modern European country must find a fine line between personal freedom, the right to privacy and the minimum rights of a person engaged in private detective work. This is necessary for the detective to be able to perform his duties efficiently and reliably. Today in Ukraine there are no laws that would clearly regulate private detective work. However, services that show signs of private detective work are still provided by individuals and agencies. If you look at the sections of ads on the Internet, you can find many suggestions for the provision of detective services.
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Kim, Young Gyu, and Dong Wook Kang. "The Introduction and Efficient Operation Method of Drone Detectives in Detective Work." Korean Society of Private Security 22, no. 5 (December 31, 2023): 335–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.56603/jksps.2023.22.5.335.
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As a drone is a representative cyber system of leading the 4th Industrial Revolution, the drone is being used even in areas that are difficult for humans to carry out. Accordingly, the application of drone to the detective field will bring about the large contribution to solving the problems such as the investigation into the public interest infringement related to social safety and public safety, as the search for a missing child, a missing person, a runaway, etc. and as the enterprise security management. Hence, The purpose of this study was to suggest ways to introduce and operate drones in detective activities.
Unlike helicopter, the drone is low in maintenance expenses and can be operated freely even at night when it's hard to get a view, and can do its function not only as one living observer but also as an investigator in detective activities. Also, drones can be said to have high proof value by vividly filming the scene.
In order for this drone to be introduced in a detective field, it is urgent to enact a detective law, first of all. And there is a need to prepare for a legal measure in which the state can manage and supervise detective services. In addition, the detective work should be determined the scope of work to the extent that it clarifies its limits and responsibilities. Thus, the negative perception of detective services must be dispelled. The authorized qualification of detective is needed to systematically perform the detective's work. On top of this, to be operated the drone detective, a legislative discussion needs to be made constantly in order to prevent and respond to the drone crime, the invasion of privacy, and the safety accident.
This study can be said to be meaningful as a cornerstone data for the development of the drone industry as well as the development of detective and private security work at a time when there is constant discussion about the enactment of the detective law.
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Kaliuha, Karina. "ON THE CURRENT STATE OF DETECTIVE ACTIVITY IN UKRAINE (SUBSTANTIATION OF THE POSSIBILITY AND EXPEDIENCY OF DETECTIVE ACTIVITY IN UKRAINE)." Criminalistics and Forensics, no. 67 (August 9, 2022): 236–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.33994/kndise.2022.67.25.
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The article deals with the current state of detective activity in Ukraine. The state and private sectors of detective activity in Ukraine have been investigated; possibilities and expediency of its legalization and functioning. A number of bills on the legalization of detective activity were considered; prerequisites for using such services; considered, so to speak – the prototypes of such activities. The experience of foreign countries and the developments of existing Ukrainian agencies are illustrated. The significance of the peculiarities of this type of law enforcement activity is highlighted, its individuality and common practice (like any other type of economic activity) are noted simultaneously. Preliminary conclusions are made about the state of its functioning and the prospects for further development and ways of improving detective activity in Ukraine and the like are outlined. The future Law should clearly define the subject of detective activity. The principles of providing detective services should be: confidentiality, decency, informing the client about the real prospects of the investigation. The information basis (databases) of detective activity should be outlined: for example, access to the register of individuals and legal entities engaged in entrepreneurial activity; access to separate databases (MIA). Thus, at the pre-trial stage of the investigation, it is necessary to give the opportunity to as many subjects as possible (including detective agencies) – the opportunity to investigate information about the crime and information already received about the crime committed. Such detective agencies are designed to fill the existing gaps in the implementation by other participants of pre-trial proceedings (in particular, defenders) of effective means, methods, and techniques of research. The means (methods, techniques) with the help of which information about the crimes committed are collected. In our opinion, detective activity has its own separate goals and objectives, its own object and subjects of activity; its own tools that will make detective work as effective and independent as possible, etc. The functions and tasks of private detectives and private detective agencies should be almost the same as those of law enforcement agencies. When citizens, for some personal reasons, cannot apply to these bodies, their functions will be taken over by private detective agencies. Key words: detective work, detective firms, detective agencies, detective services, journalistic activity, police authorities, entrepreneurial activity, law enforcement activity, private security activity, security firms, searches.
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Robinson, M. Michelle. "White Gothic and Black Detection in Edgar Allan Poe and Barbara Neely." Poe Studies 56, no. 1 (2023): 63–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/poe.2023.a909582.
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ABSTRACT: This essay argues that Barbara Neely reconfigures tropes and dramatic elements that appeared in Edgar Allan Poe's gothic and detective tales to formulate a Black, feminist, working-class detective fiction. In Blanche on the Lam (1992) and Blanche Passes Go (2000), Neely relocates the moral decay and material degeneration of aristocratic estates that Poe depicts in works like "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Black Cat" to the town of Farleigh, North Carolina. There, she reframes the gothic landscape as one designed to safeguard the power of White elites, disavow histories of Black enslavement and servitude, and imperil her protagonist, a Black domestic worker and amateur detective named Blanche White. Neely also reconceives the powers of detection Poe depicts in his Dupin mysteries from the social and economic vantage point of her working-class Black protagonist, for whom detecting is a form of agency and a means of defense against the violence that domestic workers face. In availing herself of Poe's literary materials, Neely reveals patterns of criminality that are sustained by White wealth in the US South, while underscoring the role of detection as an instrument of working-class resistance.
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Mlačnik, Primož. "From Minor Literature to Neoliberal Noir: The Detective Novels of Sergej Verč." Caietele Echinox 43 (December 1, 2022): 77–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.04.
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"In this article, we analyze the politics of representation in the detective tetralogy (1991- 2009) of the late Slovenian and Triestinian writer Sergej Verč. Addressing several aspects of Verč’s primary literary semiotic device of schizophrenia, we trace a simultaneous literary and chronological shift from minor literature to neoliberal noir. We expose the fundamental representational ambiguity by analyzing the detective triad (murder-victim-criminal), the fetishization of detective clues, the erotization of detection, and the underlying binary oppositions. Verč’s detective novels critique the Slovenian capitalist transition but also reproduce culturally conservative representations of gender, sexuality, and family."
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Kosovets, Marharyta V. "A STRATEGY OF POSITIVE EMOTIONAL INFLUENCE IN THE SPEECH OF A POLICE DETECTIVE." Мова, no. 40 (November 14, 2023): 70–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2307-4558.2023.40.300480.
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The present article reports on the analysis of the communicative strategy of positive emotional influence in the speech of the detective — the hero of English language detective discourse. The object of the paper is the speech episodes, in which the detective interrogates witnesses and suspects. The purpose of the paper is cognitive pragmatic analysis of the contexts in which the communicative strategy of positive emotional influence is actualized, as well as the communicative tactics that manifest it in the speech of the detective. The investigation is based on the general and special linguistic methods: synthesis and analysis, method of observation, descriptive method, pragmatic and linguistic method, cognitive method, analysis of contextual interpretation. The cognitive-pragmatic analysis of the strategic speech behavior of the police detective — the protagonist of the detective discourse — has shown that the strategy of positive emotional impact is realized in the detective’s speech by the following communicative tactics: promise, request, reassurance, forgiveness, compassion, gratitude, reproach and mitigation. These tactics have been singled out and interpreted. These communicative tactics enable the detective to create favorable and friendly atmosphere and achieve the desired result: sincerity of the witnesses, especially those who used to conceal the information, lied, or refused to cooperate. As a result, a witness or a suspect tells the information necessary for the investigation and the culprit is found. The perspective for further research is seen in the analysis of the detective’s inner speech that unveils his communicative intentions.
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Đukić, Siniša, and Ladin Gostimirović. "Training and education of detectives: (Real) need or mere formality." Nauka, bezbednost, policija 29, no. 2 (2024): 151–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/nabepo29-49685.
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This paper examines the issue of training and education of detectives as one of the prerequisites for high-quality and efficient performance of detective work. It is considered that the training should be, to the greatest extent possible, adapted to specific jobs and areas of detective work. Also, training should be part of the overall process of integrating detectives into the security system, that is, the private security sector. The concepts of detective training differ from country to country in terms of the content and structure of the program, duration, organization of implementation or non-implementation, which all together makes it very difficult to compare the results. There is no absolute standardization in this area, as well as relevant research on this topic and related areas. In this regard, the authors emphasize that detective training is an insufficiently researched issue that should be given much more attention. For the purposes of this paper, a comparative legal analysis of the legal regulations and by-laws that treat the models of detective training in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the surrounding countries - the Republic of Serbia, Montenegro and the Republic of Croatia - was performed. Based on the analysis, it can be concluded that different systems of training and education of candidates are in force, from the classic model where the curriculum is implemented according to the subject-modular concept, to mentoring work and internship practice. The aim of this work is to encourage a more comprehensive study of the training and education of detectives and to propose more adequate models suitable for the current time and the detective field of work.
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Cook, Trevor. "‘What's the story?’ Unravelling the Plot of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep." Crime Fiction Studies 4, no. 2 (September 2023): 195–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cfs.2023.0098.
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Critics have long approached Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep as a poorly plotted tale that requires rescuing not only from the teller but also from the text and the author who created it, which for Pierre Bayard is the proper function of ‘detective criticism.’ His hermeneutics of suspicion privileges absences that justify critical intervention. For Bayard, the critic's solution to a mystery is always superior to anything a fictional detective might offer. However, in the case of The Big Sleep, critics would do better to proceed like actual detectives and attend to the evidence presented in a criminal investigation, which for Chandler is the proper definition of ‘detective criticism.’ His first book was meant to move readers away from the fantasy of romance, wherein the detective models the practice of criticism, toward the realism of the novel, wherein critics must adopt the methods of a detective to unravel the plot.
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Devdiuk, Ivanna, and Tetiana Huliak. "TRANSFORMATION OF THE FEMALE DETECTIVE IMAGE IN THE19thAND 20thCENTURIES ENGLISH FEMALE DETECTIVE PROSE." Fìlologìčnì traktati 14, no. 1 (2022): 27–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/ftrk.2022.14(1)-3.
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The article deals with the peculiarities of the image of the female detective in the English female detective prose of the 19thand 20thcenturies. We have traced the changes in theportrayal of the female detective in English literature and singled out the factors which influenced them. First of all, every writer’s experience and life conditions make an impact on the construction of their images. It is obvious that S.Hopley couldn’t but work secretly as her creator C.Crowe wrote detective using the other name. It was the trend of the nineteenth century. In the first part of the twentieth century, women started to obtain different professions alongside men. A.Christie and D.Sayers had an opportunity to be not only writers but even theoreticians of the genre. That is why Miss Marple and H.Vane were able to show their achievements together with men. And the second part of the twentieth century presented women with total freedom. So, we can read about Sharon McCone who is a successful private detective. The second important fact is the situation in the society which for sure is reflected in the realistic literary works and can be easily noticed in the behaviour of the characters. And the last efficient thing is the plot of the story because it dictates the actions which sometimes do not depend on the personality.The article analyzes the characteristic features of the female detectives belonging to three stages of detective development: detective classics(until the early twentieth century), detective modernism(1910–the 1970s), and detective postmodernism(after the1970s).The female detective of detective classics is clever and kind but lacks self-confidence and support. Detectivemodernism shows us an intelligent, smart, very brave, and attentive detective. The woman detective of the postmodern period is smart, courageous, emotional, and hard-working. Thus, we have suggested the canonic image of the female detective. She has a sharp mind, a very high level of knowledge, a sense of responsibility, a strong wish to work, and a little time for her personal life. This woman is pretty, careful, witty, and ready to investigate at any time
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Liu, Yu, Zhen Dong Ran, Shen Liu, Na Na Li, and Xue Qiang Tang. "The Detection of Road Roughness Based on MEMS Inertial Sensor." Applied Mechanics and Materials 310 (February 2013): 552–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.310.552.
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Propose a detective method of road roughness based on MEMS inertial sensor. This detective method utilizes a unit integrated MEMS inertial sensors and GPS module to perceive the information of road and then achieve the detection of road roughness. Firstly, establish the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) to process the collecting information of acceleration and gyroscope, extract the abnormal events of road. Secondly, use a Concept-Based data clustering model (CBDCM) to achieve the feature description and extraction of various abnormal events. Finally, utilize the position information supplied by GPS to locate the detected road potholes, achieve the detection and supervision of road roughness. Combined with the designed system to conduct test, the experimental result indicates the Fall-out ratio and Omission ratio of pothole events about this detective method is 7.4% and 5.3%, it indicates that the detective method has a high practical value.
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KOVALIK, B. "THE BASIC MODEL FOR DETECTING AND DISCLOSING CRIMES (ON THE EXAMPLE FOR INTERNET FRAUDS)." Vestnik of Polotsk State University Part D Economic and legal sciences, no. 2 (June 14, 2024): 59–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.52928/2070-1632-2024-67-2-59-62.
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The article substantiates the feasibility of solving such tasks of detective activities as the detection and disclosure of crimes through the application of the situational modeling method, which is considered within the framework of the doctrine on detective methodology. Based on the study and analysis of existing theoretical positions, as well as the analysis of views from various scholars, the author proposes a basic model of an algorithm for detecting and disclosing crimes, examined through the example of internet fraud. The content of each element of the proposed model is disclosed. The model includes sequential stages from the identification and analysis of initial data to the formation of operational search versions and the planning of specific actions. According to the author, this approach will systematize the process of detecting and disclosing crimes, as well as enhance its effectiveness.
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Braterska-Dron, Maryna. "THE SOVIET DETECTIVE FILM: HISTORY OF CREATION AND FEATURES OF THE GENRE." Bulletin of Mariupol State University. Series: Philosophy, culture studies, sociology 10, no. 20 (2020): 40–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.34079/2226-2830-2020-10-20-40-49.
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The article is devoted to the issue of formation and development of the detective genre on the Soviet cinema screen. Detective is one of the favorite genres of the mass audience. It came from literature in the intriguing story of the American writer Edgar Allan Poe — “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841). It is there that the author formulates the main features of the detective genre. The detective shows a person “strained to the limit” of his mental and physical capabilities. Another peculiarity of the detective is an appeal to the logical capabilities of the recipient. Cinema has turned its attention to the detective since its early years. The founder of this genre was the French director V. Jasset, who directed a series about detective Nick Carter in 1908-1909. “The Rumyantsev Case” (1955) is considered to be the first Soviet detective movie. Probably, this film laid the foundation of the Soviet detective film: psychologically in-depth image of the protagonist, that often weakened the plot, dramaturgical content of other characters, including negative, understanding and desire to support a missteped person, emphasized the moral aspect. The times of the “Khrushchev Thaw” especially accentuated the problem of choosing between the official law of society and the human individual conscience. In 1966, the film “Beware of the Car” was released. It was probably one of the latest outbreaks of the “thaw” era in a desperate desire to defend one’s dreams and ideals, to adjust the system by conscience. The end of the 1960s was marked by the coming of the so-called “Stagnation”. Cinematographers, like tightrope walkers, balance on a thin and sometimes dangerous line between the laws of the genre and the efforts of editors (they were also ideological censorship), because the Soviet detective had to not only entertain but also educate both aesthetically and morally, because no one is allowed to break the law, the thief will always be found and punished. Cinema, as it could, delighted its viewers with not frequent, but such desired detectives. In the late 1960s, purely Soviet detectives appeared: “The Master of the Taiga”, “Village Detective”, and their sequels. In the 1970s, everyone’s favorite series, “Investigations Held by ZnaToKi”; a trilogy about our Commissioner Maigret – Colonel Zorin (“The Return of Saint Luke”, “The Black Prince”, “The Colonel Zorin’s Hypothesis”), appeared on television. Ukrainian film studios also did its part in the development of the detective genre: “Born to a Revolution”, “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed”, “The Man in the Courtyard”, “Criminal Inspector”, “Inspector Losev”, “Criminal Investigation Weekdays”, “Vertical Race” and others. The Soviet film detective had its disadvantages, but it also had its advantages. There was not much blood, brutal killings, loud shootings, and breathtaking persecution. However, there were psychologically filled, interesting images with their history, life experience, faith in man, though a kind of naive, but sincere attempts to correct it, to help in difficulties.
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Mitkina, Evgenia I. "“The Detective World” Magazine and Its Role in the Formation of a Chinese Detective." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies 14, no. 4 (2022): 742–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2022.412.
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The beginning of the 20th century in China became the flourishing of literary creativity, at the same time a huge number of translations appeared, among which translations of works in the detective genre were especially popular. Later, many translators began to write detective stories, and that was the mark of the beginning of the Chinese detective’s formation. The publishers could not ignore such a huge interest of readers. At first they published detective stories in newspaper’s pages or appendixes, and then a journal entirely devoted to the works of the detective genre — The Detective World (Zhentan shijie, 侦探 世界) was finally founded in 1923. In the development of the journal, two periods are clearly distinguished: from 1 to 12 and from 13 to 24 issues, this division is associated with a change in the composition of the editorial board and, accordingly, editorial policy. From the 13th issue of the magazine, new headings were opened, contests were held. It housed the works of not only masters of the genre, but also those who had just started to try themselves in the detective genre. Moreover, the magazine began to publish not only works of fiction, but also articles on the theory of the detective genre, in which writers and translators tried to comprehend and systematize this genre. Despite the fact that only 24 issues were published in one year, The Detective World magazine became a noticeable phenomenon in the literary life of the country in the 1920s and an important milestone in the development and popularization of the detective genre in China.
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Bilius, Mindaugas. "The Right to Privacy and Private Detective Activities in Lithuania." Baltic Journal of Law & Politics 5, no. 2 (December 1, 2012): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10076-012-0008-9.
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ABSTRACT Private detectives have been providing their services in Lithuania for about a decade; however, only now has the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania started to discuss whether it is expedient and necessary to regulate the activities of private detectives by means of a separate law. One of the goals of a separate legal regulation of private detective activities is the protection of human rights, particularly the right to privacy. This article examines the provisions of national and international legislative acts related to the private life of a person, and assesses the opportunities of a private detective to provide private detective services without prejudice to the provisions of applicable legislative acts. The article concludes that a private detective is not an authorized (public) authority and there is no possibility to assess in each case whether the interests of a person using the services of private detectives are more important than those of other persons, which would allow for violating their rights to private life. The limits of an individual’s right to privacy can only be narrowed by a particular person, giving consent to making public the details of his/her private life. It is the only opportunity for a private detective to gather information related to the private life of a citizen. Currently applicable legislative acts in Lithuania do not provide for opportunities for private subjects to collect personal data without that person’s consent. This right is granted only to public authorities and with the court’s permission
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Pervushin, Nikolay S. "Fear of Chaos: Sociological Interpretation of Demand for Detective Genre." Chelovek 33, no. 1 (2022): 139. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s023620070019079-3.
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The essay offers a sociological analysis of the origin and popularity of the detective genre. There are many explanations for the phenomenon of the popularity of the detective genre, but they do not answer the question why the genre became relevant in the middle of the 19th century and remains so until now. Its genesis and role are interpreted in the middle and late 19th century and in the modern world. The moment when the detective genre emerged approximately coincides with the birth of classical sociological theories. Both sociology and the new literary genre are reflections on the changes that took place in the 19th century. The detective reflects current social problems and new technologies. The classic detective contains many typical features of positivist, functionalist, Weber and Marxist discourses. The essence of detective discourse is built into the ideas of faith in the scientific method and the morality of order, criticism of the capitalistic social system and the possibility of understanding social actions and motivation of different characters. The demand for a detective today is crucially connected with the rapid technological and social changes that take place today, and the Future Shock caused by them, described by Alvin Toffler. The pace of technological change is noticeably ahead of human adaptation to a new social reality. A person is forced to somehow endure or overcome this severe state for the psyche. Reading detective stories creates a short-term illusion of the possibility of mitigating and overcoming the Future Shock. However, reading or viewing a detective story does not provide a real chance to adapt to the liquid modernity.Such an important psychotherapeutic function is unique among literary and movie genres, so it can be predicted that detectives, despite the skepticism of many critics and intellectuals, will remain in demand and relevant in the future.
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Hajdu, Péter. "The Case of Mór Jókai and the Detective Story." Hungarian Cultural Studies 10 (September 6, 2017): 133–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2017.300.
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While from the viewpoint of typology it is often stated that the genre of detective fiction originated with the work of Edgar Allan Poe, this statement can be challenged from the standpoint of literary or reception history. Several recent histories of detective fiction emphasize the importance of employing a wider generic view, yet they hardly expand their perspective beyond English literary traditions. This paper examines how the usual, theorized requirement for detective fiction concerning the work’s exclusive focus on the crime committed and its detection was not characteristic of nineteenth-century detective stories written in Central Europe. Even though the detective story pattern is recognizable in Mór Jókai’s short story, “A három királyok csillaga” [‘The Star of the Magi’], it does not dominate the entire depiction, but rather represents one strand woven into a tragic love story as well as the history of national resistance, aspects bearing equal significance in this very sophisticated work.
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Mofokeng, Jacob Tseko. "Exploration on what constitutes an effective detective in South Africa." International Journal of Social Science Research and Review 5, no. 6 (August 11, 2022): 334–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.47814/ijssrr.v5i6.321.
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The purpose of this article is to contribute to the knowledge on the police detective's work practices, and account on how police general detectives view their performance and understanding regarding what skills needed to handle variety of general cases in their line of duty. The research question that directed this study is what constitutes an effective general police detective? To address this question, this study followed a qualitative ethnographic methodology with fifteen (15) general detectives. Social constructivism, utilising a purposive sampling was deemed appropriate for the nature of this study. The results produced four (4) themes that indicate that detectives' sensemaking of casework take place through two (2) principal practices: a concluding practice and supporting practice. Furthermore, the findings show that detectives' work is highly social and procedural. This suggests that detectives' work practice is of a social nature and that contacts between police investigators or detectives are important to take into account in the organisation of an investigative department.
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Portilho, Carla. "A Japanese-American Sam Spade: The Metaphysical Detective in Death in Little Tokyo, by Dale Furutani." American, British and Canadian Studies Journal 28, no. 1 (June 27, 2017): 39–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/abcsj-2017-0003.
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AbstractThe aim of this essay is to discuss the legacy of the roman noir in contemporary detective fiction produced outside the hegemonic center of power, here represented by the novel Death in Little Tokyo (1996), written by Japanese-American author Dale Furutani. Starting from the concept of the metaphysical detective (Haycraft 76; Holquist 153-156), characterized by deep questioning about narrative, interpretation, subjectivity, the nature of reality and the limits of knowledge, this article proposes a discussion about how these literary works, which at first sight represent a traditionally Anglo-American genre, constitute narratives that aim to rescue the memory, history and culture of marginalized communities. Typical of late modernity detective fiction, the metaphysical detective has none of the positivistic detective’s certainties, as he does not share in his Cartesian notion of totality, being presented instead as a successor of the hardboiled detective of the roman noir. In this article I intend to analyze the paths chosen by the author and discuss how his re-reading of the roman noir dialogues with the texts of hegemonic noire detective fiction, inscribing them in literary tradition and subverting them at the same time.
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Hart, Kevin. "Criminal Bodies in Popular Victorian and Modernist Detective Fiction." Victorian Popular Fictions Journal 5, no. 1 (July 3, 2023): 73–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.46911/wayw2876.
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This paper will examine the representation of the criminal body in detective fiction from the popular Victorian story magazine The Strand in its relationship to modernist experimental fiction which draws on the detective genre. Offering a broad survey of the Sherlock Holmes and other detective stories published in the first fourteen years of The Strand (1891-1904), the paper will argue that the period’s theories of criminal anthropology and hereditary criminality are consistently called into question in the popular magazine, suggesting that late-Victorian detective fiction was ambivalent toward theories of biologically determined criminality and was alive to problems of racial and class prejudice, corruption, and misidentification in criminal detection. Moving from the popular press to the canon, the paper will then make a claim for reading literary texts like G. K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare and Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale alongside the classic detective fiction of the popular press. To understand these novels in their engagements with classic detective fiction is to reconceptualize the notion of a neat divide between the period’s genres of fiction and to reach for a broader frame of literary responses to early criminology.
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Kupferschmidt, Kai. "Death detective." Science 371, no. 6528 (January 28, 2021): 454–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.371.6528.454.
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Mason, Mary-Claire. "Detective work." Nursing Standard 24, no. 7 (October 21, 2009): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/ns.24.7.21.s26.
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Diwan, Amer, William M. Waite, and Michele H. Jackson. "PL-detective." ACM SIGCSE Bulletin 36, no. 1 (March 2004): 80–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1028174.971330.
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Cox, J. Randolph. "Paperback Detective." Primary Sources & Original Works 4, no. 1-2 (February 7, 1997): 119–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j269v04n01_10.
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Diwan, Amer, William M. Waite, Michele H. Jackson, and Jacob Dickerson. "PL-detective." Journal on Educational Resources in Computing 4, no. 4 (December 2004): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1086339.1086340.
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Burns, Ted M. "Detective Work." Neurology Now 11, no. 5 (2015): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.nnn.0000472888.83506.fe.
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Diwan, Amer, Michele H. Jackson, William M. Waite, and Jacob Dickerson. "PL-detective." ACM SIGCSE Bulletin 37, no. 1 (February 23, 2005): 221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1047124.1047423.
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Jiménez-Fernández, Gracia. "Detective Questions." Intervention in School and Clinic 51, no. 1 (April 3, 2015): 45–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1053451215577477.
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Bonvallet, Paul. "Detective work." Nature Chemistry 5, no. 6 (May 22, 2013): 441. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1665.
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Cienciala, Anna M. "Detective work." Cahiers du monde russe 40, no. 1-2 (January 1, 1999): 251–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/monderusse.13.
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Aaron, Stephen. "Detective Story." Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews 34, no. 11 (November 1989): 1043. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/030768.
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Hacking, Ian. "Statistical detective." Nature 405, no. 6786 (June 2000): 513. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/35014698.
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Derrig, Anne. "Unsteady Detective." American Book Review 33, no. 1 (2011): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/abr.2011.0174.
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B, Sophie. "Electricity Detective." Scientific American 321, no. 1 (July 2019): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0719-20a.
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Dechêne, Antoine. "Detective Storyworlds: Longmire, True Detective, and La trêve." Crime Fiction Studies 1, no. 1 (March 2020): 41–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cfs.2020.0006.
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This paper addresses one question: What makes detective series popular today? In the past, scholars have responded that the genre is mainly focused on plot, to the point of becoming a narrative prototype. This approach explains why detective fiction appears to be more limited in its proliferation across media than other genres such as fantasy or science fiction. If plot is the dominant feature of the genre, and plot somehow works against proliferation, then why are we still producing and consuming so many detective series? Following Marie-Laure Ryan, I wish to argue that a shift from plot to worldbuilding has occurred in detective fiction. This shift follows the evolution of narrative theory which in the last decades had to expand to other disciplines and media. In the same way that narratology embraced the new concept of ‘world,’ popular series have adopted its potential to proliferate, an aptitude that is now truly part of its aesthetics and poetics. I want to describe and understand the increasingly important role played by storyworlds in detective fiction so as to better apprehend how popular series are made in our cultural era of mass media production.
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Sukovata, Viktoriya. "Detectives of Agathe Christie as a philosophy of everydayness: a postmodernist analysis." Bulletin of Mariupol State University. Series: Philosophy, culture studies, sociology 10, no. 19 (2020): 13–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.34079/2226-2830-2020-10-19-13-21.
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The article is devoted to the study of the detective genre as a model of philosophical cognition of the world and a system of cultural values. The goal of the article is to study how the attitude to the detective genre evolved in the academic discussions of the 20th century: transformation of status of the detective from an “entertainment genre” to the object of the philosophical reflection was the result of evolution of the philosophical paradigms from semiotics and postpositivism in the Modern epoch to postmodernism and theories of everyday thinking in the Postmodern epoch. The actuality of the article is due to insufficient study of the epistemology of the detective in the contemporary Cultural studies. The research methods of the article are based on the "archeology of knowledge" by M. Foucault and the cultural-semiotic approaches of R. Barthes and U. Eco. Author argues that although both detectives of A. Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie belong to the intellectual type of detective, they are based on different epistemological images of the world. Author of the article investigates the epistemological paradigms which the base in the detective stories of A. Conan Doyle and in the novels of Agatha Christie. The author analyzes the methodological approaches to the detective genre in the works of the leading theorists of the 20th century, including V. Shklovsky, M. Bakhtin, Z. Krakauer, U. Eco, and others. The author proposes to consider the modern detectives not only as the entertaining genre, but as a way to know various different forms of culture and traditions. The author notices that Finnish philosopher J. Hintikka has created a tradition of using the stories on Sherlock Holmes as an explanatory model of the principles of operation of artificial intelligence systems which goes back to Aristotle's logic. As a rule, the detectives in Agate Christie’s novels represent not formal logic (which prevailed in the stories about Sherlock Holmes), but searches of criminal through intuition, own life experience, knowledge of people and their typical behavior (habitués). Recognition of a criminal or a victim in the novels of Christie occurs through knowing the lifestyle of a person which becomes a source of the formation of his / her “idea”, his motives, desires and disappointments, which lead to certain decisions and actions. There concludes that A. Christie's detectives were based on the ideas of the philosophy of “everyday social thinking” (by A. Schütz) as the epistemological and culturosophical model. The author argues that the detectives of A. Conan Doyle and A. Christie are determined by different philosophical paradigms which represent the different epochs.