Navotas Peace & Order Council best in metro.
The Navotas Peace and Order Council has won the Best Municipal Peace and Order Council (POC) citation for Metro Manila for 2002 and will represent the National Capital Region (NCR) in the nationwide search on the municipal level category. Luz Hinola, the DILG Municipal Local Government Operations...

Crime state rankings 2008; crime across America.
9780872899292 Crime state rankings 2008; crime across America. Ed. by Kathleen O'Leary Morgan and Scott Morgan. CQ Press 2008 537 pages $65.00 Paperback State fact finder series HV6025 For...

Countermajoritarian hero or zero? Rethinking the Warren Court's role in the criminal procedure revolution.
Our courts were entrusted with the responsibility of judicial review, in large part, to protect individuals and minorities in their fundamental rights against abridgement by both government and majorities. (1) When we think about judicial review, we tend to envision the Supreme Court as a "countermajoritarian hero,"...

Protection from protection: section 1983 and the ADA's implications for devising a race-conscious police misconduct statute.
"In the dome the prisoner waited ... shackled to inertia by a great chain of years." (1) --Henry Dumas, black-American author slain by a police officer in a case of "mistaken identity" INTRODUCTION Henry Dumas was no prophet; he merely illustrated what was...

Crime State Rankings 2005: Crime in the 50 United States.
HV6025 0-7401-0944-8 Crime state rankings 2005; crime in the 50 United States. Title main entry. Ed. by Kathleen O'Leary Morgan and Scott Morgan. Morgan Quitno Press, [c]2005 506 p. $56.95 (pa) This reference compares the...

Commercial crime control and the electronic monitoring of offenders in England and Wales.
SINCE THE 1980s, THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT HAS ACTIVELY PROMOTED THE ROLE OF the private security industry within the criminal justice system. Privately run prisons, young offender institutions, and secure training centers for children aged 12 to 17 years old are now acknowledged components of the criminal justice landscape. Added...

Against Mandatory Minimums.
Drug sentencing run amok. Mr. DiIulio is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and was recently appointed Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania. There is a conservative crime-control case to be made for repealing mandatory- minimum...

Hidden intersections: research on race, crime, and criminal justice in Canada.
ABSTRACT/RESUME The issue of race and crime is one of the most controversial topics in Canada. This paper begins by exploring various theoretical models that have attempted to explain why some racial minority groups appear to be over-represented in official crime statistics. An effort is made to...

Officer down: characteristics of cop killings.
According to the most recent research data available from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, an average of 1.7 million non-fatal, violent victimizations occurred in the United States workplace every year between 1993 and 1999 (Duhart, 2001). This figure represents 18% of all violent crime during that period. Along with...

Three strikes: can we return to rationality?
I. Introduction California's widely publicized "Three Strikes"(1) legislation was the culmination of over a decade of "get tough on crime" legislation.(2) The story surrounding Three Strikes is symptomatic of the excesses of our nation's crime prevention policy during the 1980s and 1990s. Despite a threefold...