Author: Committee on Law and Justice

Bullying - long tolerated as just a part of growing up - finally has been recognized as a substantial and preventable health problem. Bullying is a...

Eyewitnesses play an important role in criminal cases when they can identify culprits. Estimates suggest that tens of thousands of eyewitnesses mak...

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the nation's primary resource for advancing scientific research, development, and evaluation on crime an...

Injury and death from use of excessive force by police officers remain a common concern in countries across the globe. Despite local, national, and...

After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States more than quadrupled during the last fo...

In the past decade, a number of state, local, and tribal jurisdictions have begun to take significant steps to overhaul their juvenile justice syst...

Reliable and valid forensic science analytic techniques are critical to a credible, fair, and evidence-based criminal justice system. There is wide...

The history of the U.S. criminal justice system is marked by racial inequality and sustained by present day policy. Large racial and ethnic dispari...

Scholars, policymakers, and the public view police legitimacy and community trust in the police alike as essential components of an effective polic...

The U.S. Department of State, through its Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), provides foreign assistance and supp...

The US Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) provides assistance and supports capacity building for crim...

The conditions and characteristics of correctional facilities - overcrowded with rapid population turnover, often in old and poorly ventilated stru...

Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers...

Immigration enforcement is carried out by a complex legal and administrative system, operating under frequently changing legislative mandates and p...

Despite efforts to reduce drug consumption in the United States over the past 35 years, drugs are just as cheap and available as they have ever bee...

Each year, child protective services receive reports of child abuse and neglect involving six million children, and many more go unreported. The lo...

Every day in the United States, children and adolescents are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. Despite the serious and...

Bullying has long been tolerated as a rite of passage among children and adolescents. There is an implication that individuals who are bullied must...

To derive statistics about crime to estimate its levels and trends, assess its costs to and impacts on society, and inform law enforcement approac...

Proactive policing, as a strategic approach used by police agencies to prevent crime, is a relatively new phenomenon in the United States. It devel...

Nearly 600,000 people are released from state and federal prisons annually. Whether these individuals will successfully reintegrate into their comm...

To derive statistics about crime to estimate its levels and trends, assess its costs to and impacts on society, and inform law enforcement approac...

The U.S. Department of State, through its Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), provides foreign assistance and supp...

Training police in the knowledge and skills necessary to support the rule of law and protect the public is a substantial component of the activitie...