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...
This federally supported report presents the results of a study, conducted by RTI International, examining the prevalence, nature, and reporting of va...
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...
This report examines the problem of commercial sexual exploitation of children and the response to the problem through intervention and prevention pro...
Professionals who serve domestic violence survivors must understand the consumer law problems survivors face. This screening tool provides an overview...
This report provides data from the National Crime Victimization Survey and the Uniform Crime Reports to summarize levels and rates of violent and prop...
Document reviews the current policy vacuum of the legalobligations and expectations of schools to monitor and supervise onlinediscourse, while balanci...
The Salvadoran and Guatemalan cases correspond to a new model of public security that is widely shared across Latin America. The more localized proces...
Using the case of post-war El Salvador, this article first argues that justice and security are tremendously important for the survivability and every...
Over the past two decades, the number of lawsuits filed against multinational corporate entities for environmental degradation and human rights abuses...
In the past decade 21 countries have adopted gender quota laws that require between 20% and 50% of all legislative candidates to be women. What explai...
Document advocates for governmental intervention in planting more trees as it would be an cost-effective energy conservation measure for some electric...
Two recent research programs-one on the sources of democratic consolidation and another on the causes and consequences of violent conflict—have tended...
The increase in juvenile violence in Argentina since the 1990s results from a combination of economic and socio-structural change and the reinstatemen...
A considerable body of research has analyzed the influence of the women’s movement, changes in women’s political representation, and policies promotin...
This paper asks why women politicians tend to do worse in SMD districts than in their PR counterparts, even with gender quotas. Mexico is an excellent...
Despite many and important changes that have taken place in Mexican society in recent decades, women still face several obstacles to enjoy- ing their ...
