Clark cop charged with teen assault; Alleged sex acts occurred in N.J.
Byline: Scott J. Croteau WORCESTER - A Clark University campus police officer, who also works as a police officer in Berlin, is facing sexual assault charges in New Jersey for allegedly inappropriately touching and fondling a teenage girl last year at his family's New Jersey home. ...

International bounty hunter ride-along: should U.K. thrill seekers be permitted to pay to experience a week in the life of a U.S. bounty hunter?
ABSTRACT This Note explores the international implications of a plan proposed by two bounty hunters in the Tacoma, Washington area to charge U.K. thrill seekers to accompany them on manhunts in the United States. Part II explains the differences in Colonial American society that resulted in the...

'I hunt men': meet the self-ordained officers of the bail-bond industry.
On bail-bond row, the neon signs shine all night, and "bail daddies" sell freedom to those with cash and collateral. This seedy terrain is also the prowl of the most unregulated and bizarre "professionals" in the criminal-justice food chain. "I hunt men. I am a bounty hunter,"...

Mississippi Red.
Well you asked me, so I'll tell you. I'm a hustler. Nothing big-time or anything like that, just an ordinary colored fellow doing the best I can with the best I've got. And, that's all I got to say about that. My daddy was a bail bondsman...

Sorting out federal and state judicial roles in state institutional reform: abstention's potential role.
INTRODUCTION The Kansas City School District will move vigorously to raise achievement levels of its students after a federal judge dismissed what had become one of the costliest desegregation cases ever, Superintendent Benjamin Demps has vowed. Demps hailed the decision Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple...

Crime control through private enterprise.
Israel Kirzner (1997, 62) explains that entrepreneurial discovery of opportunities gradually and systematically pushes back the boundaries of ignorance, thereby driving down costs and prices while increasing both the quantity and the quality of output. In the public-sector production of crime control, ignorance abounds, costs are high and rising,...

The unsettling resettlement of Vietnamese boat people.
THE RESETTLEMENT of Southeast Asian refugees in Sacramento, Calif., offers a pointed example of the social practices by which new immigrants are shaping the emerging U.S. urban landscape. This reterritorialization has created problems, as well as opportunities, within the Vietnamese migrant community. The practice of similar customs and traditions...

The lull before the storm: adult children who kill their parents.
This study is the fourth article in a series of articles devoted to understanding red-collar criminals. The first study, "Fraud Detection Homicide: A Proposed FBI Criminal Classification" (Perri & Lichtenwald, 2007), advanced the proposition that there is a sub-group of white-collar criminals who are capable of vicious and brutal...

Law and the market: the impact of enforcement.
INTRODUCTION I. THE LEGAL ORIGINS DEBATE II. THE COMPARATIVE RESEARCH ON ENFORCEMENT A. Regulatory Structure B. Enforcement Inputs C. Enforcement Outputs D. A Special Case: Insider Trading E. Private Enforcement F. The Special Case of the United States G. Criminal Enforcement H. Enforcement Styles III. THE BONDING HYPOTHESIS IV....

Science and problem solving in a political world: insights from Katrina.
ABSTRACT While as scientists ecological economists pursue objectivity and empiricism, as problem solvers we strive to move our policy solutions to pressing problems onto the political agenda. To what extent is a rigorous scientific understanding of sustainability issues necessary and sufficient for creating more sustainable policies? If...