An Empirical Research Agenda for the Forensic Sciences
An Empirical Research Agenda for the Forensic Sciences After the National Academy of Sciences issued a stunning report in 2009 on the unscientific state of many forensic science subfields, forensic…
Prosecutors and Victims: Why Wrongful Convictions Matter
Prosecutors and Victims: Why Wrongful Convictions Matter Often, discussions of wrongful convictions focus almost entirely on the wrongfully convicted and ignore two important constituencies: prosecutors and crime victims. Both constituencies…
Prohibition, Stare Decisis, and the Lagging Ability of Science to Influence Criminal Procedure
Prohibition, Stare Decisis, and the Lagging Ability of Science to Influence Criminal Procedure Science has revealed that, contrary to longstanding intuitions, eyewitnesses are sometimes mistaken and false confessions do occur.…
Who Could it be Now? Challenging the Reliability of First Time In-Court Identifications After State v. Henderson and State v. Lawson
Who Could it be Now? Challenging the Reliability of First Time In-Court Identifications After State v. Henderson and State v. Lawson Despite the recent advances in assessing the reliability of…
The Chronic Failure to Discipline Prosecutors for Misconduct: Proposals for Reform
The Chronic Failure to Discipline Prosecutors for Misconduct: Proposals for Reform While most prosecutors adhere to the maxim that their primary task is to obtain just results, there are some…
Review of Susan Trevaskes, Policing Serious Crime in China: From 'Strike Hard' to 'Kill Fewer'
Review of Susan Trevaskes, Policing Serious Crime in China: From 'Strike Hard' to 'Kill Fewer' Go to Source
Comparative Criminal Justice (2nd edn.)
Comparative Criminal Justice (2nd edn.) Go to Source
Letizia Paoli, Victoria A. Greenfield and Peter Reuter: The World Heroin Market: Can Supply Be Cut?
Letizia Paoli, Victoria A. Greenfield and Peter Reuter: The World Heroin Market: Can Supply Be Cut? Go to Source
Community Safety Maps for Children in Japan: An Analysis from a Situational Crime Prevention Perspective
Community Safety Maps for Children in Japan: An Analysis from a Situational Crime Prevention Perspective Abstract Recent years have witnessed several major crimes against children both inside, and in the…
China, a Punitive Society?
China, a Punitive Society? Abstract The allegation that punishment is a core element of culture does not seem to explain the rapid changes in attitudes towards the death penalty seen…
Policing a Negotiated World: A Partial Test of Klinger’s Ecological Theory of Policing
Policing a Negotiated World: A Partial Test of Klinger’s Ecological Theory of Policing Abstract Objectives Klinger’s (Criminology 35(2): 277–306, 1997) ecological theory of policing addresses the intersection of environment and…
More Places than Crimes: Implications for Evaluating the Law of Crime Concentration at Place
More Places than Crimes: Implications for Evaluating the Law of Crime Concentration at Place Abstract Objectives The crime and place literature lacks a standard methodology for measuring and reporting crime…