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 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...
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...
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...
This study examines the attitudes of Latin American women toward justice system equality versus those of Latin American men. Building on recent work o...
A considerable body of research has analyzed the influence of the women’s movement, changes in women’s political representation, and policies promotin...
This article clarifies the origins of the field of transitional justice and its preliminary conceptual boundaries. I argue that the field began to eme...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) and associated global trade laws can be viewed as an incomplete contract. The WTO’s dispute settlement mechanism is...
