Since 2001, many state legislatures have changed their criminal sentencing policies, increasingly emphasizing approaches that are “smart on crime.” The three main areas of legislative reform involve redefining and reclassifying criminal offenses, strengthening alternatives to incarceration, and r...
Within Canada, the federal government seeks to prevent and prohibit potential domestic corruption by a combination of federal statutes, parliamentary rules and administrative provisions. The Criminal Code includes offences which prohibit bribery, frauds on the government and influence peddling, f...
Judicial elections in the United States have undergone a dramatictransformation. For more than a century, these state and local elections wererelatively dignified, low-key affairs. Campaigning was minimal; incumbentsalmost always won; few people voted or cared. Over the past quarter centuryand es...
Document discusses how policy makers can best design policies to help law enforcement and combat ever-evolving threats in the cyber realm as criminals constantly develop new techniques to target person, businesses, and interests within and outside of the United States.
This article focuses on the legal framework that bans drugs in light of the international organizations, specifically the U.N., that create these regulations focus too much on criminalization and not on human rights.
The development of international human rights law has been one of the most important legal advances of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to date. Latin America has played a significant role in this evolution. Tribunals such as the Constitutional Court of Colombia have faced specific situat...
2010 year in review of the work of the Innocence Project, a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. (palabras claves: condenas erróneas, ...
