Staff from Vera’s Center on Sentencing and Corrections and Cost-Benefit Analysis Unit developed a methodology to calculate the taxpayer cost of prison...
The purpose of this article is to provide a systemic overview of the present state of the development of the international judiciary. It is by no mean...
Document reports the rapidly growing trend of massive incarceration and discusses potential reason for the high prison and jail rates for the current ...
In this article we will explore the process of legal reform which has begun to transform the administration of justice in Chile. Responding to a long...
In the post-War era, international law became a talisman for the protection of individuals from governmental abuse. Such was the success of this human...
Following the collapse of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, constitutional designers codified rules establishi...
This paper supplies a description of the sources of evidence law in Canada, and the history of reform to that law before turning to a discussion of th...
Relatively little empirical research on the protection of human rights considers the significance of legal rules and institutions. This article examin...
This monograph details the Multnomah County (Portland, OR) District Attorney’s community prosecution unit and provides statistical data to support the...
Ever since the promulgation of the Constitution in 1917, the right to vote in Mexico has been understood legally as a privilege for certain citizens, ...
Although a substantial body of research suggests that the discretion of actors in the criminal justice system is important, there is disagreement in t...
The frequent gap between de jure and de facto arrangements within South American judicial systems suggest that an institutional focus is not enough to...
Two studies test the hypothesis that trust, neutrality, and standing influence procedural justice because of their relation to resource motives as wel...
Corruption is a serious threat to democracy. It weakens and eventually destroys the moral foundation of the political system. By altering the notion ...
The focus of this paper is the experience of countries that have made changes to the public prosecutor’s office as part of procedure system reforms. I...
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) are specialists in one of the most well-known fields within the arena of forensic nursing. However, many SANEs ...
This document addresses just the traditional pretrial diversion and specialty treatment court programs that do not require a guilty plea as the price ...