In the post-War era, international law became a talisman for the protection of individuals from governmental abuse. Such was the success of this human...
Human Rights Watch believes New York City can go a long way toward addressing the economic inequities of the present bail system by providing supervis...
The Supervision of Federal Defendants, Monograph 111 sets national policy for the supervision of federal defendants. Its purposes are (1) to establish...
This paper examines public opinion data to assess public concern about ordinary crime and the effect of this concern on satisfaction with democracy. I...
Report published by Amnesty International which states that the US administration’s actions since 11 September 2001 threaten to erode international la...
The article is born of my experience teaching American-style trial advocacy to over 15 groups of Latin American lawyers coming from countries in trans...
In this article we will explore the process of legal reform which has begun to transform the administration of justice in Chile. Responding to a long...
‘Informal Institutionalisation’ (O’Donnell, 1996), or the prevalence of informal rules and norms over the formal institutions of political regimes (Me...
In the United States we are locking up more adults and juveniles than ever before. In 1980, state andfederal prison populations combined totaled under...
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...
