Court that has jurisdiction over cases alleging violations of criminal law. Some judicial districts do not distinguish between the types FIGURE C.22 An alternate light source made by SPEX® uses different wavelengths of light. With special color...

An agency or institution of the federal, state, or local government, other than the office of the public defender that performs as part of its principal function, activities relating to the apprehension, investigation, prosecution, adjudication,...

Criminal justice is the system of, practices, and organizations, used by national and local governments, directed at maintaining social control, deter and controlling crime, and sanctioning those who violate laws with criminal penalties. The primary...

When the NI deals with global issues in a fractured world it can uncover some strange anomalies. For example our relative wealth in the North enables us to imprison far more of our (usually poor) citizens than is even conceivable for the resource-starved...

In a secular state, laws are supposed to reflect common or, at least, majoritarian moral values. Civil laws prohibit race and sex discrimination primarily because civil rights activists and feminists succeeded in framing discrimination as a moral wrong. Criminal laws punish behaviors widely...

Here’s a bit more reshuffling from Eliot Spitzer, who, earlier today, named a new interim communications director. Spitzer announced that his commissioner for the Division of Criminal Justice Services, Denise O’Donnell, will now also serve as Assistant Secretary for Criminal Justice. O’Donnell is filling...

The House voted Tuesday to pay off up to $60,000 in student loans for lawyers who commit to working as public defenders or prosecutors for at least three years.The bill, which would cap the loan spending at $25 million a year, passed 341-73. A similar...

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Whether self initiated or governmentally generated, the media and government focus public attention on unique social problems; crime myths thus begin to take shape. Whether it be through criminal acts being heightened to a crime myth or exaggerating ordinary events in life.