Utilizing personal values to explain people’s attitudes towards legal norms
Utilizing personal values to explain people’s attitudes towards legal norms European Journal of Criminology, Ahead of Print. The aim of this study is to clarify whether personal values explain delinquents’…
Virginia Man Arrested for Plotting Attacks on D.C.-area Metro Stations with People He Believed to Be Al-Qaeda Members
Virginia Man Arrested for Plotting Attacks on Metro Stations with People He Believed to Be Al-Qaeda Members Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Ashburn, Va., was arrested today for attempting to assist…
Fact Sheet: Move Act
Fact Sheet: Move Act In the past several months, the Department of Justice has worked to aggressively enforce UOCAVA and the MOVE Act in order to ensure that all military…
Clinic Owners and Patient Recruiters Plead Guilty in Detroit-area Diagnostic Testing Fraud Scheme
Clinic Owners and Patient Recruiters Plead Guilty in Detroit-area Diagnostic Testing Fraud Scheme Miami-area residents Emilio and Maria Haber and Detroit-area residents Genna Yates and Darryl Nichols pleaded guilty yesterday…
Attorney General Holder Recognizes DOJ Employees and Others for Their Service at Annual Awards Ceremony
Attorney General Holder Recognizes DOJ Employees and Others for Their Service at Annual Awards Ceremony Attorney General Eric Holder recognizes 303 Department of Justice employees for their distinguished public service…
Security Zone Established Around Deepwater Horizon Wreckage Site
Security Zone Established Around Deepwater Horizon Wreckage Site In response to a motion by the Department of Justice, the District Court in New Orleans has ordered the establishment of a…
To Trust or Distrust?: Unpacking Ethnic Minority Immigrants’ Trust in Police
To Trust or Distrust?: Unpacking Ethnic Minority Immigrants’ Trust in Police AbstractStudies find that immigrants can be less trusting of police than non-immigrants, with immigrants’ views deteriorating as their length…
When and how are lies told? And the role of culture and intentions in intelligence‐gathering interviews
When and how are lies told? And the role of culture and intentions in intelligence‐gathering interviews Purpose Lie‐tellers tend to tell embedded lies within interviews. In the context of intelligence‐gathering…
Context effect and confirmation bias in criminal fact finding
Context effect and confirmation bias in criminal fact finding Purpose Fact finding is an important part of the job of criminal trial judges and juries. In the literature, several potential…
Why Most Gun Control Initiatives Fail before they Begin – a Review of the Toughest Gun Control Law in the Nation: The Unfulfilled Promise of New York’s SAFE Act
Why Most Gun Control Initiatives Fail before they Begin – a Review of the Toughest Gun Control Law in the Nation: The Unfulfilled Promise of New York’s SAFE Act .…
True believers, rational actors, and bad actors: Placing The Prison and the Factory in penal-historiographic context
True believers, rational actors, and bad actors: Placing The Prison and the Factory in penal-historiographic context Punishment &Society, Ahead of Print. Ashley T Rubin Read the syndicated article here
Motherhood, moral authority and the charismatic matriarch in the aftermath of lethal violence
Motherhood, moral authority and the charismatic matriarch in the aftermath of lethal violence Criminology &Criminal Justice, Ahead of Print. Images of maternal suffering are an evocative and powerful means of…