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...
Nelson Lund's article is entitled The Rehnquist Court's Pragmatic Approach to Civil Rights.' I raise three questions about his analysis, two of which ...
Hard times can inspire new ways of thinking about old problems. State courts today have ample reasons for questioning the continued viability of tradi...
Este trabalho apresenta as múltiplas orientações oferecidas pela doutrina especializada no Direito Internacional para identificação do costume interna...
Victims of crime often have many questions about the criminal justice system and their involvement in it. Victims may want to know the status of aninv...
This report explores the current budgeting and staffing process and the problems arising from it--striking productivity declines, rapidly rising costs...
Folleto explicativo de la institución francesa encargada del control de constitucionalidad de leyes. El informe presenta la composición, la designació...
Starting in the 1980s, and acceleration through the 1990s, international financial institutions (IFIs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and deve...
The Judicial Integrity Principles (JIP) represent high priority consensus principles and emerging best practices found in virtually all global and reg...
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...
Latin America has undergone a revolutionary political transformation during the last decade as many countries moved from military rule to democratic g...
This report considers the work of the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) in Mexico, established asa result of a Presidential Accord in November 2001 to...
The public perception of civil and commercial justice in the Chilean courts is notfavorable. Common criticisms include concerns with an antiquated cod...
