The author has carried out analysis of scientific approaches to the interpretation concept and meaning institution procedural guidance pre-trial investigation in general, as well taking into account specifics criminal offenses committed by a group persons. It been argued that is one functions prosecutor aimed at ensuring effectiveness proceedings, which undoubtedly implemented form interaction ...

Batterer intervention programs were originally established in the late 1970s as feminists and others called attention to the victimization of women through domestic violence, grassroots programs sprang up, and service providers recognized that the offenders’ behavior needed to be addressed. The requirement that batterers attend intervention programs as a condition of probation or as part of pre...

The program responds to the mandate of the Justice System Improvement Act of 1979, which created NIJ and directed it to encourage research and development to improve the criminal justice system and to disseminate the results to Federal, State, and local agencies. The Law Enforcement and Corrections Standards and Testing Program is an applied research effort that determines the technological nee...

In jurisdictions with two or more tiers of criminal courts, some defendants can choose the type of trial court to be tried in. This may involve a trade-off between the probability of acquittal/conviction and the estimated severity of sentence if convicted. For instance, in England and Wales, the lower courts have a higher conviction rate but limited sentencing powers, whereas the higher courts ...

The program responds to the mandate of the Justice System Improvement Act of 1979, which created NIJ and directed it to encourage research and development to improve the criminal justice system and to disseminate the results to Federal, State, and local agencies. The Law Enforcement and Corrections Standards and Testing Program is an applied research effort that determines the technological nee...

This paper explores the opportunities for the application of network analytic techniques to the problems of criminal intelligence analysis, paying particular attention to the identification of vulnerabilities in different types of criminal organization from terrorist groups to narcotics supply networks. A variety of concepts from the network analysis literature are considered in terms of the pr...

Understanding relations between offenders in organized crimes is important for law enforcement and intelligence agencies to detect, prevent, and respond to crimes and terrorism events. However, several challenges (e.g., information overload, difficulty of relation search and extraction of relation patterns) face the task of criminal relation exploration. In this paper we present our ongoing res...