OBJECTIVE Although current evidence suggests that the positive effects of multisystemic therapy (MST) on serious crime reach as far as young adulthood, the longer term impact of MST on criminal and noncriminal outcomes in midlife has not been evaluated. In the present study, the authors examined a broad range of criminal and civil court outcomes for serious and violent juvenile offenders who pa...

Each day in the United States thousands of persons are jailed on charges arising from failure to pay court-ordered child support. Some of them have been convicted of contempt of court, a crime based on willful defiance of the court order. However, most are incarcerated pursuant to the court’s civil authority to jail contemnors as a means of coercing compliance with the order. In the case of the...

The United States of America would seem to be an excellent location for using pollen data in forensic applications. The vegetation within the region is highly diverse ranging from areas of Arctic tundra to some of the most inhospitable deserts anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. The highly varied ecology, great plant diversity, thousands of vegetational microhabitats, and extensive published po...

Organized crime is a hazard to national security and the realization of institutional principles. Any society plagued by this menace must stir itself up leave no safe space for any individual or entity seeking surreptitiously transfer, conceal utilize proceeds corruption evade sanctions. In past decades, Nigeria’s effort expended on anti-corruption war, although commendable, has not been met wi...

Hovering over the peace negotiations in progress in former Yugoslavia is the international community's determination to bring to trial as war criminals those political and military leaders responsible for atrocities in Bosnia. The question clearly presented is that, however desirable the idea of war crimes accountability might appear in the abstract, pursuing the goal of a war crimes tribunal m...

to enforce general policies of article 44, ''law of enforcing general policies of article 44 of the constitution'' was recently approved by islamic consultative assembly. the main objective of the present paper is analysis and study of aspects of criminal policy inserted in the law through identification of criminal behaviors and predicted responses. with respect to criminal phenomenon, study t...

The paper reveals the meaning of term «legal owner» in relation to material evidence form property obtained as a result crime, and income from this property. It is noted that absence content concept criminal procedure law causes difficulties its interpretation by enforcement agencies. essence, legal nature, mechanism for implementation restitution Russian procedural are disclosed. Problematic s...