In providing a comprehensive national profile of domestic violence courts (DVCs), this study explored how criminal DVCs have evolved, their rationale,...
Clearly the most significant development in the criminal law for Aboriginal people over the last 25 years was the decision by the Supreme Court of Can...
While some of the changes necessary to address the root causes of why Aboriginal people appear before the courts and are sentenced to jail in dispropo...
Recently, there has been a rise in human trafficking across the United States-Mexico border as Mexicans that are smuggled into the United States by co...
Under the COPS funded School-Based Partnerships grant program, law enforcement agencies partnered with schools to address local crime and disorder pro...
The purpose of this project was to examine adolescent sexual assault survivors' help-seeking experiences with the legal and medical systems in two Mid...
The authors argue that recent societal reactions to youth violence can be characterized as a moral panic. They argue that the current moral panic over...
This report presents data analysis on the effects and consequences of violent crime among American Indians. From 1976 to 2001, an estimated 3,738 Amer...
Two key dimensions of the criminal career paradigm include specialization and escalation. Although these topics have generated theoretical and empiric...
The main objective of the assessment is to create a critical analytical analysis, and not to condemn but to improve the juvenile justice system in Bel...
Women have recently made dramatic gains in electoral politics, winning a number of high profile positions of national leadership and a record number o...
Over the past fifteen years Aboriginal justice discourse in Canada has focused on seemingly incommensurable cultural differences between the legal sen...
This is a case study of a small Indigenous community in Guatemala that defied a powerful Canadian mining company by holding a community vote on whethe...
This federally supported report presents the results of a study, conducted by RTI International, examining the prevalence, nature, and reporting of va...
This bulletin presents survey results from the National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV) regarding authorities' knowledge of victim...
This study determined whether there were any differences between reported child sexual abuse cases that originated on New Mexico's tribal lands compar...
This bulletin describes the health and safety risks faced by children who live at or visit clandestine methamphetamine labs. Measures are suggested to...
This bulletin is a companion piece to the OVC monograph Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Recommendations to Improve the Criminal Justice Response to Ch...
Explores in depth the survey results from the National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV) regarding exposure to family violence among...
This report presents background information on and the methodology, findings, and implications of the National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violen...