Accommodating the Expressive Function of Victim Impact Statements: The Scope for Victims’ Voices in Dutch Courtrooms
Accommodating the Expressive Function of Victim Impact Statements: The Scope for Victims’ Voices in Dutch Courtrooms AbstractThe expressive function of victim impact statements (VISs) enables victims to have a voice…
Laws of Deliberation: From Audaciousness to Prudence … and back
Laws of Deliberation: From Audaciousness to Prudence ... and back Abstract From the perspective of a political philosophy of law, this essay explores the rich encounter of the thoughts of…
Predictors of Treatment Attrition as Indicators for Program Improvement not Offender Shortcomings: A Study of Sex Offender Treatment Attrition
Predictors of Treatment Attrition as Indicators for Program Improvement not Offender Shortcomings: A Study of Sex Offender Treatment Attrition Abstract This study classified potential attrition predictors under the domains of…
Disentangling the Effects of Bounding and Mobility on Reports of Criminal Victimization
Disentangling the Effects of Bounding and Mobility on Reports of Criminal Victimization Replacement respondents who move into NCVS households after the initial bounding interview can introduce measurement error since their…
Effects of face-to-face restorative justice on victims of crime in four randomized, controlled trials
Effects of face-to-face restorative justice on victims of crime in four randomized, controlled trials Abstract The growing use of restorative justice provides a major opportunity for experimental criminology and evidence-based…
An Application of Attachment Theory to Court-Mandated Batterers
An Application of Attachment Theory to Court-Mandated Batterers Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate levels of interpersonal dependency, an indicator of insecure attachment in adulthood, among batterers…
Department of Justice Releases Report to Congress on Indian Country Investigations and Prosecutions
Department of Justice Releases Report to Congress on Indian Country Investigations and Prosecutions The Department of Justice released today a report to Congress entitled Indian Country Investigations and Prosecutions which…
Alabama Resident Pleads Guilty in Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme
Alabama Resident Pleads Guilty in Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme Bridgette Rivers, a resident of Montgomery, Ala., pleaded guilty to her involvement in a conspiracy to use stolen identities to…
Louisiana Correctional Officer Pleads Guilty to Covering up Assault on an Inmate
Louisiana Correctional Officer Pleads Guilty to Covering up Assault on an Inmate A former correctional officer with the Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP) in Angola, La., pleaded guilty today before District…
Former Puerto Rico Police Officers Convicted of Extorting a Defendant for $50,000
Former Puerto Rico Police Officers Convicted of Extorting a Defendant for $50,000 Two former police officers with the Police of Puerto Rico were convicted of attempting to extort a commonwealth…
Former Navy Reservist Pleads Guilty to Sexual Exploitation of Multiple Minors to Produce Child Pornography
Former Navy Reservist Pleads Guilty to Sexual Exploitation of Multiple Minors to Produce Child Pornography Anthony K. Mastrogiovanni, 30, of Crofton, Md., pleaded guilty today to the sexual exploitation of…
Two Virginia Businessmen Sentenced for Illegally Reimbursing Campaign Contributions
Two Virginia Businessmen Sentenced for Illegally Reimbursing Campaign Contributions William P. Danielczyk Jr. was sentenced today to 28 months in prison and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine for illegally…