Portal:Criminal justice
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Criminal justice refers to the system used by government to maintain social control, enforce laws, and administer justice. Police, courts, and corrections are the primary agencies charged with these responsibilities. Criminology, which is the study of criminal behavior and the causes of crime, is closely related to criminal justice and is important for developing effective crime prevention and control policy. |
Portal:Criminal justice/Selected article/December 2006
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- Big city police chiefs and mayors in the United States are reluctant to enforce Federal immigration laws. (USA Today)
- National Guard is sent into New Orleans, as the city experiences a surge in violent crime, since April including five teenagers killed during on June 18. (NPR) (Times-Picayune)
- National Crime Victimization Survey statistics released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics show an 85% drop in rape since the 1970s, though these results are in dispute by some criminologists. (Houston Chronicle)
- U.S. Supreme Court rules that 9-1-1 calls can be admitted as evidence in domestic violence cases, however statements made during crime scene investigations cannot be admitted. (New York Times)
- U.K. Home Office is under fire, as it reveals that 53 prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment have been freed on parole since 2000, and for soft sentences allowed under the Criminal Justice Act 2003. (The Scotsman)
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito breaks tie in 5-4 in Hudson v. Michigan, allowing evidence admitted in cases where police did not knock when executing a search warrant. (CNN)
- Police are on lookout for human trafficking during the 2006 FIFA World Cup, with a significant portion of the estimated 40,000 prostitutes that have entered Germany have likely been trafficked. (Belfast Telegraph)
- U.S. Supreme Court, in its decision of Hill v. McDonough, allows challenge of constitutionality of lethal injection. (Chicago Tribune)
- In House v. Bell, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that new DNA forensic evidence is permissible during post-conviction appeals for death row inmates. (Washington Post)
