A comparative assessment of the successes and failures of the judicial reform efforts of El Salvador and Brazil in the 1980’s produces striking result...
On February 4, 2010, Innocence Project client Freddie Peacock became the 250th person exonerated through DNA testing in the United States. The Innocen...
Hard times can inspire new ways of thinking about old problems. State courts today have ample reasons for questioning the continued viability of tradi...
Criminal justice researchers have studied caseload size to determine whether smaller caseloads improve probation outcomes. With exceptions, the findin...
This publication is designed to provide practitioners and researchers with a new approach to evaluating their programs. With the new initiatives that ...
A Police Organizational Model for Crime Reduction: Institutionalizing Problem Solving, Analysis, and Accountability presents a new and comprehensive o...
Building Our Way Out of Crime: The Transformative Power of Police-Community Developer Partnerships describes and analyzes innovative efforts in commun...
In this article the author compares recent efforts in Bolivia and Colombia to implement constitutionally mandated regimes of legal pluralism, and iden...
This article asserts that the United States has a functioning alternative dispute resolution (ADR) system that works under the shadow of the law. This...
In the United States, ADR generally works as an alternative to the judiciary within the framework of the legal system, operating under what has been d...
Drawing on the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative’s (ABA ROLI’s) 20 years of experience providing technical legal assistance to promote t...
The spread of competition laws in Latin America has been accompanied, as in Central and Eastern Europe, by warnings against over-enforcement, and in p...
Few Supreme Court decisions have engendered as much uncertainty in state and federal courts as Blakely v. Washington. This report, the second in a ser...
Previous studies have found that changes in crime can be significantly explained by disparities and changes in income as well as educational availabi...
New York City Criminal Justice Agency (CJA) functions as New York City’s pretrial services program. In June 2003, based on several years of research a...
Reseña:The United Nations has endorsed the essential importance of an independentjudiciary by its adoption of the Basic Principles on the Independence...
A recent study in Mexico by the United Nations Human Rights Commission found that the lack of structure regarding the training in and practice of law ...
This problem-solving tool summarizes knowledge about information gathering and analysis techniques that might assist police at any of the four main st...
These guidelines establish policy and provide guidance to be followed by U.S. Department of Justice personnel in their interactions with crime victims...
This document sets guidelines for US DOJ employees when they are working with victims and witnesses of crimes. These guidelines were first set in 1982...
