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How Cybercrimes Challenge Law Enforcement
Diana S. Dolliver, June 2013
Science & Technology, Criminal Justice, Security & Intelligence
How Advocates Fighting Human Trafficking Can Overcome Divisions and Build Momentum
Laura Murphy, June 2013
Jobs and Workers, Women, Religion, Criminal Justice, Social Movements, Policies in Other Nations
Black Politics and the Origins of America's Prison Boom
Michael Javen Fortner, April 2013
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Cities and Regions
The Challenge of Ensuring Just Compensation for Wrongfully Convicted Former Prisoners
Michael Leo Owens, March 2013
Criminal Justice, Courts & Court Decisions
The Role of Empathy in Crime, Policing, and Justice
Chad Posick, March 2013
Criminal Justice
Unfair Punishment at School Can Push America's Minority Students into Troubled Lives
Michael Rocque, March 2013
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, School Reform, K-12 Education
Does Providing Publicly Funded Jobs to Hard-to-Employ People Reduce Crime and Drug Use?
Sarah Shannon, January 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Jobs and Workers, Criminal Justice
The Futility and High Cost of Criminalizing Marijuana
Katherine Beckett, December 2012
Criminal Justice, Public Sector Reforms, Government Agencies, Courts & Court Decisions
How Families Suffer When So Many Fathers Go to Prison
Raymond R. Swisher, December 2012
Criminal Justice, Children & Families
Is It Wise to List Juvenile Sex Offenders on Public Registers?
Susan Meyers Chandler, December 2012
Criminal Justice, Children & Families
The Troubling Fate of Aged Prisoners on Death Row
Elizabeth Rapaport, December 2012
Criminal Justice, Aging Society
How U.S. Social Indicators are Skewed by the Failure to Count Rising Numbers of Prisoners
Becky Pettit, October 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice
How Mass Imprisonment Burdens the United States with a Distrustful Civic Underclass
Vesla Mae Weaver, October 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Civic Engagement
How Tough Policing in Immigrant Communities Can Backfire
David Kirk and Andrew V. Papachristos, October 2012
Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Criminal Justice
The Worrisome Role of Racial Prejudice in Public Support for Tough Criminal Penalties
Steven E. Barkan, July 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice
Is the Southwestern Border Really Unsafe?
Ernesto Castañeda and Josiah M. Heyman, April 2012
Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Gun Control, Criminal Justice
What Americans Believe about Voting Rights for Criminals
Christopher Uggen, April 2012
Criminal Justice, Voters and Voter Participation, Media and Public Opinion
The Disadvantages of America’s Prison Boom
Becky Pettit and Bruce Western, March 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice
Children of Imprisoned Parents – Unintended Casualties of the Prison Boom
Christopher Wildeman, November 2011
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice