In July 2008, revisions to the Criminal Code of Canada were implemented that provided police with the tools and powers to enhance the enforcement of laws against drug-impaired driving. Police were given the authority to demand a suspected drug-impaired driver submit to a Standardized Field Sobriety Test (SFST) and a drug influence evaluation by a Drug Recognition Evaluator (DRE), and to provide...

This study used hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) to examine the extent to which the organizational characteristics of state corrections agencies and local criminal justice facilities interacted in their associations with the extent to which local facilities are using evidence-based substance abuse treatment practices (EBPs). The study used data collected from two nationally representative sur...

In 2013, a federal magistrate judge denied an FBI request for a remote access search warrant, concluding that, among other deficiencies, Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure prevented him from granting a warrant to hack a computer when the location of the device was not known. Just five months later, the DOJ proposed amendments to Rule 41 seeking to eliminate the territorial limit...

Governments and legislatures in Europe have created or greatly strengthened independent regulatory agencies (IRAs). Yet they also retain many formal controls over those agencies. The article analyses whether elected politicians have used their powers to create IRAs in their own image and kept IRAs under tight control or whether they have allowed IRAs to become a distinct set of actors, and henc...

This paper investigates how local law enforcement agencies operate within a metropolitan area when there is an elastic flow of criminal activity between them. A model is developed in which a unilateral increase in local law enforcement effort has the effect of "scaring" away criminals as well as incarcerating them. Depending on the magnitude of these two effects, an MSA with many (small) agenci...

The article examines the theoretical and legal aspects of operational investigative measures to detect criminal offenses related sources ionizing radiation. Attention is focused on threat national security finding radiation beyond regulatory control under martial law conditions. A comparative analysis bases activities police units National Police Ukraine in prevention was performed. powers rega...