In providing a comprehensive national profile of domestic violence courts (DVCs), this study explored how criminal DVCs have evolved, their rationale,...
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...
Document discusses the judicial issues of adoption for homosexuals and the argument for and against the issue reaching deep into the deep legal aspect...
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...
Women have recently made dramatic gains in electoral politics, winning a number of high profile positions of national leadership and a record number o...
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...
Since 1989, OVC's Children's Justice Act grant program has provided funds and technical assistance to help AI/AN communities to better handle serious ...
This paper leverages a highly detailed, public monitoring system for decisions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) to test a model of ...
This study presents the methodology and findings of a study that examined the size, characteristics, needs, and geographic spread of commercially sexu...
This report presents the methodology and findings of a formative, participatory evaluation of New York City’s demonstration project of the Coalition t...
