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Docuticker round up of criminal Justice-related reports

02-Jan-08

Round-up of reports featured on Docuticker in the last few weeks:
More Men, More Crime: Evidence from China’s One-Child Policy (published by Institute for the Study of Labor December 2007):
…This paper exploits two unique features of the Chinese experience: the change in the sex ratio was both large and mainly in response to the implementation of [...]

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New reports: round-up of reports from the US, Canada and Australia

18-Aug-07

A selection of recently-published criminal justice-related reports from the US, Canada and Australia:
Black Victims of Violent Crime, published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, full Report (pdf):
Presents findings about violent crime experienced by non-Hispanic blacks… Highlights include the following: Blacks were victims of an estimated 805,000 nonfatal violent crimes and of about 8,000 homicides in [...]

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Docuticker round-up

26-Jun-07

Latest criminal justice-related reports from Docuticker
Crime of Human Trafficking: A Law Enforcement Guide to Identification and Investigation (22 June), published by International Association of Chiefs of Police. Pdf here.
Managing Sex Offenders: Citizens Supporting Law Enforcement: A Resource for Law Enforcement (22 June), published by International Association of Chiefs of Police. Pdf here.
Private Criminal Justice [...]

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Docuticker round-up

19-Jun-07

Latest criminal justice-related reports from Docuticker :
Convergences and Omissions in the Reporting of Corporate and White Collar Crime (5 June) – published by Yale Law School Student Scholarship Series, a paper that “develops a novel argument for improving reporting measures in the areas of corporate and white collar crime”. [PDF download]
Explaining the Prevalence, Context, and [...]

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New publications from the UK Home Office

26-Mar-07

Three new publications this from the Home Office Research Development and Statistics Division.
First, marking the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Britain, a report on human trafficking.  Online Report 10/07 – Trafficking for the purposes of labour exploitation: a literature review is available to download as a full text, pdf document.
This report summarises [...]

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Latest forensic-relevant reports from Docuticker

24-Feb-07

Forensically-relevant reports from Docuticker. Follow the links for more details and, in most cases, links to downloadable papers:

National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Resource Guide 2007 (14 Feb) – from Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
Human Trafficking (17 Feb) – from Library of Parliament, Parliamentary Information and Research [...]

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New publications from UK Home Office

03-Jul-05

Many new reports available from the UK Home Office Research Development and Statistics site
Findings 261 – Findings from the 2003 Offending, Crime and Justice Survey: alcohol-related crime and disorder.
Findings 264 – The Voluntary Assisted Return and Reintegration Programme (VARRP) 2003: an evaluation
Online Report 25/05 – The feasibility of using electronic job search facilities in [...]

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Organized Crime and Human Trafficking in Canada

07-Mar-05

New report on RCMP website Organized Crime and Human Trafficking in Canada: Tracing Perceptions and DiscoursesChristine Bruckert Ph.D., Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa andColette Parent Ph. D., Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa In the 1990s the trafficking and smuggling of persons emerged as a subject of debate in Canada [...]

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Blunkett law will free UK’s domestic slaves

16-Nov-04

The Guardian Thursday November 11, 2004http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1348220,00.html A new criminal offence is to be created by the home secretary, David Blunkett, in an attempt to deal with the problem of Britain’s secret slaves who are brought into the country by wealthy families and virtually imprisoned in their homes. He made the [...]

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Characteristics of Chinese Human Smugglers

15-Aug-04

Characteristics of Chinese Human SmugglersNational Institute of Justice, August 2004 This NIJ Research in Brief presents findings of a study that uncovered the inner workings of Chinese human smuggling organizations by going right to the source-smugglers themselves. Researchers found that most human smugglers are ordinary citizens whose social networks provide [...]

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