Since the early 1980s, there has been a historically unprecedented increase in the federal prison population. Some of the growth is attributable to...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for "the most serious ...

Revenue from the illegal drug industry provides international drug trafficking organisations with the resources to evade and compete with law enfor...

The 2015 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report is an annual report by the Department of State to Congress prepared in accordance with the...

Book & DVD. The 2011 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) is a report by the Department of State to Congress prepared in acc...

Researchers, community organisations and government agencies, including Child Support Enforcement agencies, are seeking effective strategies to mak...

This book explores the issues of crime, aging and criminal justice and their relationship to pensions, prisons, offenders, and victimisation. The b...

Motivation, persistence and perseverance are the distinct traits of determined and dedicated individuals who can make things happen. It's always po...

In the autumn of 1888 the streets of London were streets of terror. The cause -- a series of mysterious and apparently motiveless murders. Respecta...

Psychologists in different tributaries of the discipline have long been preoccupied with aspects of ‘Justice', but none previously has addressed th...

Criminal justice professionals and the media have noted the rise of juvenile crime rates nationwide and a growing surge in youth violence. This in ...

Crime and the family is sometimes popularly blamed on the family, with poor parenting, lack of discipline and family breakdown often associated wit...

This book presents a detailed and comprehensive critical analysis of evidence on adolescent research from leading international scholars. It explor...

Administering justice to juvenile offenders has largely been the domain of the states, and as a result of this the laws that pertain to juvenile of...

For corrections officer Gordon Cruse, the youths he supervised were more than juvenile offenders. They were unique individuals with their own circu...

Scandal and corruption, drugs and pirates, triads and flower boats; the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and the Communist take-over of Canton. Pet...

Fingerprints have provided a valuable method of personal identification in forensic science and criminal investigations for over 100 years. Fingerp...

Firearms are one of the leading causes of deaths for law enforcement officers feloniously killed in the line of duty. Since FY1999, Congress has pr...

The popular media is rife with examples of scientists delivering the telling evidence in a police investigation or court case. Often the computer w...

Waller, a professor of criminology, challenges the conventional practices of law enforcement in reacting to crime. He presents scientific research,...

On 4 August 1892, an elderly couple living in Fall River, Massachusetts were slaughtered with a hatchet. Their daughter, Lizzie was accused of the ...

Our nation's schools should be safe havens for teaching and learning, free of crime and violence. Any instance of crime or violence at school not o...

Many Western countries now use electronic monitoring (EM) of some offenders as an alternative to more traditional forms of punishments such as impr...

Salvo was a Mafioso, but he did not traffic in narcotics, he did not run weapons, he did not kill anyone and he did not take part in the 'ordinary'...