criminal justice
A record-breaking number of criminal exonerations occurred in the United States in 2015, including 54 in Texas. A report released Wednesday from the National Registry of Exonerations states that out of...
View ArticleLeading US Mayors to Speak on Criminal Justice Reform at John Jay College
The Feb 25-26 symposium, “Making Room for Justice: Crime, Public Safety & the Choices Ahead for Americans,” will explore the prospects for criminal justice reform as the country heads into a...
View ArticleSurviving victim in triple-murder incident fights release of personal …
The league recently changed its name to Ohio Crime Victim Justice Center. In what is thought to be a first in Summit County, an attorney from the group is representing Blankenship in the capital case...
View ArticleSteps made toward justice
In Ohio, more than 9,000 rape kits went untested for DNA matches until Attorney General Mike DeWine launched an initiative in 2011 to bring sexual criminals to justice. DeWine launched the initiative...
View ArticleLegendary cop and the missing hitchhiker
Police corruption was rife and for nearly 16 years the “grass castles” and criminal links including heroin shipments being run into the Gulf, in an estimated $60 billion empire of La Famiglia, was the...
View ArticleStandard's Kathleen Bryan wins fellowship to attend crime symposium
Kathleen J. Bryan, criminal justice reporter for The Montana Standard, has won a fellowship to attend a symposium on crime in America. The fellowship from the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at the...
View ArticleSheriff seeking outside support to help find long-term solution to crime problem
It's the long view he's working on now, an effort he said will be helped through a $180,000 partnership with the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The college is part of the City University of New...
View Article'I love you, it will be over soon'
Justice Atkinson said the defenceless victim was in her own home, where she would have expected to be safe, when she was attacked with a large knife. “This was not a planned attack, but it was a...
View ArticleJustice for Simelanes after 33 years
None of the perpetrators had applied for amnesty for her murder. “Years of negotiations and correspondence with the NPA yielded no official action,” the family said. “Pleas for an inquest were denied...
View ArticleBlood tribe seeks helps from province on justice issues
The southern Alberta First Nation is asking the province for funding to help build a courthouse and hire police officers as the band copes with a burgeoning population and a big caseload of serious...
View ArticleBlood Tribe calls for a new courthouse, more police officers as crime caseload …
A First Nation in southern Alberta is asking the province for funding to help build a courthouse and hire police officers as the band copes with a burgeoning population and a big caseload of serious...
View ArticleDr. Matthew Robinson
Dr. Matthew Robinson, a professor in the Department of Government and Justice Studies, has had two new books published. The first is “Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice,” published by Carolina...
View ArticleGovernment employees should be held liable
The law says dangerous or illegal actions have consequences. Countless U.S. citizens enter the justice system every year after authorities determine they did something that physically or emotionally...
View ArticleGang turf war between FOB and FK at centre of Billy Ly trial in Calgary
Crime scene tape seals the front parking lot of Community Natural Foods on 10th Avenue SW on Tuesday April 23, 2013. Ted Rhodes / Calgary Herald. Share Adjust Comment Print. Purported Calgary gang...
View ArticleComment | Constitutional equality for crime victims
About 9,000 violent crimes were committed last year in Kentucky. As a former prosecutor, I am all too familiar with the pain and suffering these crimes cause victims and their families. My mission was...
View ArticleESR CEO Attorney Lester Rosen Reviews Criminal Records Book and Its Impact on …
“The Eternal Criminal Record” by Professor James B. Jacobs (Harvard University Press 2015) provides an overview on the proliferation of criminal records in America for criminal justice and law...
View ArticleStates doing what Congress won't on gun control laws
There has been much media coverage on the president's plans to control gun violence, but I fear we're missing the bigger picture. Surely, the emotional frustration the president displayed while...
View ArticleEyewitness accounts not as accurate as you think
How many times have you heard someone say, “Believe me, I know it's true. I saw it with my own eyes!” When someone passionately tells us they were an eyewitness to an event, we are programmed to...
View ArticleBill Murray Throws Fans' Phones Off Restaurant Rooftop
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View ArticleFine Gael pledges to free up gardai from desk duties to fight crime
More vehicles and better use of IT will help keep communities safe and bring criminals to justice, the party also promised. Ms Fitzgerald said: "We have not, and will not, stand idly by as thugs...
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