Departments considering the move to community oriented policing must collect systematic data to help in their strategic planning deliberations. One method for gathering useful data is through the collection of survey information from officers in the department. The Michigan State University (MSU) School of Criminal Justice, in cooperation with various police departments throughout the state of ...

This article analyzes legal language through the rhetorical, argumentative and narrative structures employed by non-represented litigants, whose linguistic interaction with the court is not mediated by professional counsel. It identifies two distinct concerns that lay litigants express when approaching justice: rhetorical effectiveness in terms of persuading the court of their case; and authent...

This study examines differences based on school gender in the teaching of Civic, Social and Political Education (CSPE), a mandatory subject Irish post-primary curriculum. These are considered relation to Westheimer Kahne’s three types citizens – personally responsible, participatory justice-oriented. The article presents findings survey conducted with 223 CSPE teachers single-sex female, male c...

humans are born with potential abilities which may emerge due to certain circumstances. in educational environments, needs, interests and capacities of individuals are wide and varied. therefore, developers and educators of training programs must provide special facilities to identify talented people in the way that justice is observed for all people. meanwhile, there is no doubt that technolog...

The previous chapter reviewed empirical findings regarding the psycho–social needs of child victims. This evidence–based examination has been integrated with the normative human rights framework presented in Chapter 2. Together they create a multidisciplinary model which can be used to evaluate public responses to crimes against children. The current chapter utilizes the needs–rights model to e...

Humans are born with potential abilities which may emerge due to certain circumstances. In educational environments, needs, interests and capacities of individuals are wide and varied. Therefore, developers and educators of training programs must provide special facilities to identify talented people in the way that justice is observed for all people. Meanwhile, there is no doubt that technolog...