The pretrial process in Cook County : an analysis of bond decisions made in felony cases during 1982-83 /

"This research was supported in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics (Grant Number 82-BJ-CX-K425).

Trends and issues.

"Criminal and Juvenile Justice in Illinois."

Workshop on Crime Analysis Through Computer Mapping : proceedings, 1993 /

Includes bibliographical references.

Charge to the grand jury : delivered March 4, 1834 /

Delivered in the Court of General Sessions.

Trial by prejudice.

Introduction: The thirteenth juror.--Scottsboro.--Mooney and Billings.--Wobblies, communists and a wealthy Jew: Centralia. Gastonia. Angelo Herndon. Leo Frank.--The pictures in our heads: Sacco-Vanzetti. Baldwin v. Bridge. Harlan and Bell Counties, Kentucky.--On the other hand: McNamara. Herrin, Illinois. Haywood-Moyer & Pettibone. The Sweet case in Detroit. Greco and Carillo. C.E. Mitchell.

Police chief executive : report of the Police Chief Executive Committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

Mode of access: Internet.

Financial aid to crime victims /

John J. Marchi, chairman.

Crime and delinquency in California

Title varies slightly

Report of the Board of Statutory Consolidation of the State of New York on a plan for the simplification of the civil practice in the courts of the state.

Includes index.

Design guidelines for creating defensible space /

Includes bibliographical references.

State Court Caseload Statistics: Annual Report

"SD-C-5"

Gender differences in the relationship between offending, self-harm and depression in adolescence and young adulthood

Criminal offending and poor mental health are both recognised as important social problems warranting prevention and intervention efforts. Although there is some evidence for comorbidity between these problems, little research has examined the causal relationship between offending and mental health, particularly for young people. The present investigation addresses these issues by using data from the Sibling Study, a longitudinal investigation of delinquency as self-reported by 731 adolescents and young adults in south-east Queensland, Australia. The results suggest that for young women, but not men, offending behaviours (including the use of illicit drugs) lead to increases in self-harm and depression. Conversely, poor mental health, as indicated by having low self-esteem, a poor future outlook, and a belief that life is very confusing, does not influence subsequent levels of offending for either sex. The implications for prevention and intervention are discussed, with emphasis on the need for the criminal justice system to provide mental health services to young female offenders.

Escalation and deceleration of offending behaviours from adolescence to early adulthood

Relatively little longitudinal research is available in Australia to describe I the age/crime relationship in much detail, particularly patterns of offending occurring during the transition from adolescence to early adulthood. This paper addresses this issue using self-reported criminal involvement from a school-based sample, a group of socially disadvantaged individuals, and a group of officially identified offenders. The findings support the widespread research that rates of offending peak during adolescence, at which time offending is widespread, and that the criminal career is of relatively short duration. However, the results also demonstrate that the age/crime curve is not a unitary phenomenon. The type of offending behaviour being considered, the gender of the population, and the perpetrator's exposure to the criminal justice system contribute to the variability in the curve. In this study, the prevalence and mean level of overall offending for the total sample was higher during early adulthood than adolescence for vehicle offences and drug-use, rates of theft were similar in both periods, and vandalism and serious offending were lower. In addition, socially disadvantaged young people reported involvement in crime that peaked and desisted earlier in the life course compared to the school-based sample, and gender differences within these groups were also found. For the school-based sample, offending for females began and desisted earlier than for males, but within the at-risk group, the opposite was true. Implications for crime-prevention programming are discussed.

Exclusionary DNA of forensic workers and Australian forensic procedures legislation

Consideration of regulatory issues covering exclusionary DNA of forensic workers - probative effect of eliminating extraneous DNA in a criminal prosecution - current regulatory scheme leaves the legal position of forensic workers' exclusionary DNA obscure.

The dynamics of power and resistance in police interview discourse

This is a study of police interviewing using an integrated approach, drawing on CA, CDA and pragmatics. The study focuses on the balance of power and control, finding that in particular the institutional status of the participants, the discursive roles assigned to them by the context, and their relative knowledge, are significant factors affecting the dynamics of the discourse. Four discursive features are identified as particularly significant, and a detailed analysis of the complex interplay of these features shows that power and control are constantly under negotiation, and are always open to challenge and resistance. Further it is shown that discursive dominance is not necessarily advantageous to participants, due to the specific goals and purposes of the police interview context. A wider consideration of the context illustrates the contribution that linguistics can make to the use of police interview data as evidence in the UK criminal justice system.