Avaliação psicológica e prognóstico de comportamento desviante numa corporação militar Psychological evaluation and prognosis of deviant behaviour in a military corporation

Este trabalho é um relatório de pesquisa documental realizada numa corporação policial militar, na qual o exame psicológico é utilizado no processo seletivo. Pela análise dos registros da referida corporação, foram identificados os casos de desvio de comportamento praticados por policiais contra-indicados ou indicados com restrições com base no exame psicológico e admitidos por ordem judicial ou por falta de contingente no período compreendido entre 1994 e 2002. Foram confrontados os desvios cometidos com o resultado do exame psicológico realizado por ocasião do processo seletivo e contatou-se que entre os policiais militares de conduta desviante há uma significativa incidência de contra-indicados no exame psicológico, que foram admitidos. A pesquisa oferece ao comando da corporação e ao Ministério Público argumentos reforçadores da utilização do exame psicológico como recurso destinado ao prognóstico de comportamento desviante.The present work is a report of a documental research which was carried out in a military corporation, where a psychological examination is used as part of the selection of the admission process. Based upon the analysis of records of the aforementioned corporation, the research identified the cases of deviant behaviour of police officers who were contraindicated or indicated with restrictions for the police work, according to the results of the psychological examinations, being admitted into the police force by means of judicial order or lack of contingent in the period between 1994 e 2002. Such deviations of behaviour were confronted with the result of the psychological examination which was carried out then and it was observed that, among military police officers whose behaviour was deviant, there is a significant incidence of contraindicated people in the psychological examination who happened to be admitted into the police force. The research offers the local police authority and the Department of Justice arguments strengthening the use of the psychological examination as a means of providing prognosis of the deviant behaviour

Characterisation of microbial attack on archaeological bone

As part of an EU funded project to investigate the factors influencing bone preservation in the archaeological record, more than 250 bones from 41 archaeological sites in five countries spanning four climatic regions were studied for diagenetic alteration. Sites were selected to cover a range of environmental conditions and archaeological contexts. Microscopic and physical (mercury intrusion porosimetry) analyses of these bones revealed that the majority (68%) had suffered microbial attack. Furthermore, significant differences were found between animal and human bone in both the state of preservation and the type of microbial attack present. These differences in preservation might result from differences in early taphonomy of the bones. © 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved