Landpower, defined here as "the ability -- by threat, force, or occupation -- to exploit control over land, resources, and people", offers policy-m...

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,...

SYN(Student Youth Network) is a media organisation run by people between the ages of 12 and 26. In this 'coming of age' story, Ellie Rennie follows...

The Limits of State Action, by "Germany's greatest philosopher of freedom," as F. A. Hayek called him, has an exuberance and attention to principle...

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

Demographic challenges posed by the growing elderly population and demands for greater public commitment to home and community-based care for perso...

Florida has the largest proportion of elderly in the nation- 2.8 million persons are over age 65, representing 17.6% of its total population. The d...

Illinois is the fifth largest state in the country with 12.4 million people in 2000; the population increased by almost 9% or about one million peo...

Oregon is a recognized leader in home and community-based care and has more than 20 years of experience in moving long-term care clients from insti...

Long-term care issues have high prominence among state officials in Pennsylvania as a result of its large elderly population and concern about the ...

Ten percent of the Texas population is 65 and older. The state has a large, rapidly growing elderly population, estimated to reach 4.4 million, or ...

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...

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'...

The cover illustration of Mafia: Penge & politik på Sicilien 1950-1994 represents a picture of Antonio Salvo. Salvo was a Mafioso, but he did n...

The US Sentencing Commission defines mandatory minimum sentencing provisions as "statutory provisions requiring the imposition of at least a specif...

The federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) outlaws the possession, cultivation, or distribution of marijuana except for authorised research. Twent...

Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug across the world, including in the United States. The federal government prohibits the manufacture...