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Results: 45 Studies on Criminal Justice (of 62 total)

Intimate Partner Violence and Urban Female Adolescents

Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials

Witnesses in Action: The Effect of Physical Exertion on Recall and Recognition

U.S. Justice Department: Does Neighborhood Watch Reduce Crime?

Contemporary Hate Crimes, Law Enforcement and the Legacy of Racial Violence

Neighborhood Racial Context and Perceptions of Police-Based Racial Discrimination of Black Youth

U.S. Incarceration and Correctional Population Levels: U.S. Justice Department

Muslim-American Terrorism in the Decade Since 9/11

Sex Trafficking: Trends, Challenges and Limitations of International Law

Confessions That Corrupt: Evidence from the DNA Exoneration Case Files

Percentage of Named Offenders on the Registry at the Time of the Assault: Reports from Sexual Assault Survivors

Impact of Noneconomic Damages Cap on Health Care Delivery in Hospitals

Analyzing the Islamic Extremist Phenomenon in the United States: A Study of Recent Activity

Department of Justice: Capital Punishment, 2010 Figures

Myths and Realities of Correctional Severity: Evidence from the National Corrections Reporting Program on Sentencing Practices

Analysis of Health, Safety and Greening Vacant Urban Space

Inside Interrogation: The Lie, the Bluff and False Confessions

Impact of Juvenile Curfew Laws on Arrests of Youth and Adults

Who Offers Tax-Based Business Development Incentives?

Global Prevalence of Child Sexual Abuse

Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S.

United Nations 2011 Global Study on Homicide

Rise of Muslim Foreign Fighters: Islam and the Globalization of Jihad

Length of Incarceration and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes

Malpractice Risk According to Physician Specialty

U.S. State Department: International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, 2011

Antitrust, High Tech and AT&T/T-Mobile: Research roundup

Measuring Pay-per-Install: The Commoditization of Malware Distribution

Detecting Deceptive Discussions in Conference Calls

The Road Ahead: Unanalyzed Evidence in Sexual Assault Cases

Bribes, Lobbying and Development

Right-wing extremism in Europe and beyond: Research roundup

Unauthorized Immigrant Population: National and State Trends, 2011

Combating Methamphetamine Trafficking: 2011 Federal Report

U.S. Department of Justice: Police Use of Force, Tasers and Other Less-Lethal Weapons

U.S. Government Accountability Office: 2011 Report on Criminal Alien Statistics

Displaced and Dispossessed of Darfur: Explaining Sources of Genocide

Collective Efficacy and Major Depression in Urban Neighborhoods

Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain

Survey of Youth in Residential Placement: Needs and Services

Greater Transparency in Death Penalty Decisions

U.S. Human Trafficking Incidents, 2008-2010

Facts about Sexual Violence in the United States

WHO Report on Sexual Violence Worldwide

Young Adult Gambling Links to Drinking, Drugs, Prostitution

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