On the heels of the coming into force of an important legislative reform of civil procedure on January 1, 2003, questions are being asked: Are we on t...
Based upon the responses to a 2003 survey, APRI selected three prosecutorial offices for an in-depth study on what local prosecutors were doing to mee...
Provides state, regional, and local authorities with the information necessary for developing and improving AMBER Alert initiatives and procedures. (...
Describes the public information officer’s (PIO’s) job responsibilities and provides tips to maximize the PIO’s effectiveness before, during, and afte...
Document is an accumulation of data results over the course November 2008-2011 relating to the subject of energy conservation, waste reduction, and at...
This article presents an empirical assessment of the impact of negotiated rulemaking on two of its principal goals: reducing overall rulemaking time a...
The report highlights some of the winners of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Community Policing Award. Included are brief descriptio...
This NIJ Preview concludes that victims' views on the effectiveness of protection orders vary with how accessible the courts are for victims and how w...
Does the conventional wisdom about the relationships between economic, cultural, and political party variables and democracy stand up in the Latin Ame...
The current crime crisis in Mexico and Central America has captured domestic and international headlines. The region is now infamous for some of the h...
How can states with weak and politicized bureaucracies enforce labor and environmental regulations? Through a study of subnational variation in Argent...
This Note will examine the postjudgment procedures available to a creditor who seeks to enforce a money judgment against personal property owned by th...
In the rapidly changing global marketplace, Latin American countries face increased pressures to prevent environmental pollution as they struggle to b...
Today, despite the many achievements in bringing about a more rational pretrial justice system – or, more likely, because of these achievements – the ...
This paper is one of a series of economic performance assessments prepared for the EGAT Bureau to provide USAID missions and regional bureaus with a c...
Document was produced to provide a possible solution that would pursue social social and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean witho...
The criteria for the existence of the rule of law include abstract, universal legal norms; limited government that itself is subject to law; constitut...
This paper discusses participatory budgeting as a learning process, with an analysis of two cases of participatory budgeting in Lima, Peru. Peru is th...
This study testers the generalizability of agenda-setting theory in less developed democracies by analyzing data on public opinion, television news co...
