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Kids, Cops, & Communities, Us Department Of Justice, Carnegie Corporation Of New York
Kids, Cops, & Communities, Us Department Of Justice, Carnegie Corporation Of New York
National Institute of Justice Office of Justice Programs
This report is designed to help law enforcement administrators and officers understand and institute a strategy to help prevent violence - community-oriented policing services carried out in collaboration with youth-serving organizations. Popular police prevention approaches such as D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), G.R.E.A.T. (Gang Resistance Education and Training), and the McGruff "Take a Bite out of Crime" campaigns have helped prepare police officers to work hand in hand in a variety of ways with local affiliates of national youth-serving organizations. In a growing number of cities, police are working with youth groups and finding that violence involving youth is rapidly …
A Resource Theory Of The Criminal Law: Exploring When It Matters, Richard O. Lempert
A Resource Theory Of The Criminal Law: Exploring When It Matters, Richard O. Lempert
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This paper might look very different had I been asked a sensible question. Instead, I was told that the focus of the program for which this paper was originally prepared was "Does law matter?" and that my particular assignment was to discuss the question of whether the criminal law mattered. Of course criminal law matters. One hardly need be a committed functionalist to conclude from the dense net of criminal laws that envelop modern societies that criminal law must matter or else we would not have so much of it or, conversely, because we have so much of it, it …