Following the collapse of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, constitutional designers codified rules establishi...
This note presents a survey of the main issues discussed in the literature on judicial legitimacy from a sociological perspective. It focuses on the f...
Five countries in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Brazil, and Mexico -- demonstrate arange of practices and ideas that fall along a conti...
This monograph details the Multnomah County (Portland, OR) District Attorney’s community prosecution unit and provides statistical data to support the...
For more than 10 years researchers have speculated on how a restorative justice system might be configured. But with the growing activity by governmen...
This is a document published by the Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL) which examines how governments accross the hemisphere have fared in u...
Esta monografía analiza la Administración de Justicia en Bolivia en un contexto de transición a gobierno democrático después de un prolongado período ...
Staff from Vera’s Center on Sentencing and Corrections and Cost-Benefit Analysis Unit developed a methodology to calculate the taxpayer cost of prison...
The role played by the American law school dean is markedly different than that played by deans at law schools elsewhere in the world. American deans ...
In the last two decades, violent crime rates in Latin America have increased exponentially. Though this is one of the most significant recent develop...
Chile’s misuse of the label of terrorism should not shield the government from accountability for human rights violations against the indigenous Mapuc...
The Network Program of the private nonprofit Episcopal Social Services provides therapeutic community services within New York State correctional and ...
The document summarizes the structure of the court system in the State of New York: it also covers topics like state disability accomodations, alterna...
Document aims to address the importance of creating a policy package for environmental stewardship by analyzing the main issues in the intersection be...
Document covers the question of inequality within the region of Latin America and Caribbean and attempts to find solutions by clearly identifying the ...
This report evaluates adult drug courts in New York State, one of a handful of states that is engaged in a coordinated effort to institutionalize dru...
On behalf of the Judicial Council of California, we are pleased to present this operationalplan for achieving the goals set for California’s judicial ...
Reseña:The Turkish democratic experience is sometimes considered a potential modelfor transformations underway in the Arab world. In this context, it ...
This document develops two main arguments, which the author uses to elaborate discussions of theinclusion of women judges in the area of judicial admi...
Moral codes survive only if they are constantly taught and practiced. Rules are kept by convention, habit and selfinterest, and, to a large extent, be...
