... discourage survivors from seeking formal justice (Aborisade et al., 2024b). Traditional and religious institutions frequently serve as the primary mechanisms for conflict resolution, sidelining the formal criminal justice system and often prioritizing communal harmony over individual rights...

... since the vast majority of police officers across the USA are male (88 percent according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics) (Hickman and Reaves, 2006); BJS also reports that around 77 percent of officers are White. Criminal justice Students Police hiring Background investigations College...

... a balance between the rights of the patient and the rights of the public that would facilitate a willingness to share on behalf of both parties involved. Information sharing in criminal justice involves collecting and organizing facts and figures (i.e. data), giving context to data, and providing...

... States of America Policing Drugs Criminal justice Arrest Quality of life During this period, enforcement against marijuana users or sellers was among the “lowest” priorities of the NYPD – in part because violent and property crime soared, homicides increased, and sales of heroin and cocaine...

...Robert Kaminski; Faiza Qureshi Purpose The introduction of the UK's Criminal Justice Act (CJA) 2003 extended police stop and search powers. It allowed officers to stop and search for articles concerning the commission of the offence of criminal damage. The purpose of this study is to examine...

...Fida Mohammad; Paul Conway Purpose The paper seeks to document attitudes and patterns of behavior in Pakistan's criminal justice system over the past 30 years. Design/methodology/approach A conceptual discussion and approach are taken following extensive interviews, conducted in 1992‐1993...

... to be representative. Practical implications This research has shown that bond agents are not yet professionalized, but a substantial number of them desire greater professionalism in their field, and believe that more professional behavior is necessary to receive greater respect from their fellow criminal justice...

...Yue Ma The Chinese criminal justice system has undergone significant changes in the past 20 years. An important aspect of the changes is the promulgation of a series of laws that are essential to the criminal justice operation. In 1996, the National People’s Congress promulgated the amended...

... Criminal justice Caribbean In the USA and the UK, the increase in women police officers has been accompanied by increased scholarly inquiry into their job experiences[1]. The late 1960s and early 1970s saw the emergence of commentary on women doing police work, but it was not until the 1980s...

... files, the paper identifies negative consequences that informer‐based policing policies are producing for individual officers, police forces and ultimately, the criminal justice system. Criminal justice Police informers UK © MCB UP Limited 1996 ...

...Alexander Weiss; Robert F. Boruch Evaluations of criminal justice policy increasingly employ randomized experiements, especially in studies of policing. These experiments, however, raise important ethical, legal and practical issues. This paper explores some of these issues as viewed by police...