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NIJ
Journal No. 253 January 2006
The following books were produced, in whole or in part,
from research funded by the National Institute of Justice.
Juvenile Drug Courts and Teen Substance Abuse
Jeffrey
Butts and John Roman, eds., Washington, DC: The Urban Institute
Press, 2004
Drug courts have been used in adult courts for years, but
their use in the juvenile justice system is a new phenomenon.
Although the number of juveniles affected by these drug
courts remains small, the programs are spreading, and their
presence is affecting how practitioners and policymakers
view drug abuse among juveniles.
With data compiled through the NIJ-sponsored National Evaluation
of Juvenile Drug Courts project, the Urban Institute has
published Juvenile Drug Courts and Teen Substance Abuse.
Edited by Jeffrey Butts, director of the Urban Institute’s
Program on Youth Justice and a senior research associate
in the Justice Policy Center, and John Roman, a senior research
associate in the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy
Center, this is the first book to delve into the ideas behind
juvenile drug courts, their history, and their popularity.
The editors recruited justice policy experts to assess evidence
of the impact and effectiveness of the programs and to help
guide the future development of juvenile drug courts.
Chapter topics include: “Drug Courts in the Juvenile
Justice System,” “American Drug Policy and the
Evolution of Drug Treatment Courts,” “What Juvenile
Drug Courts Do and How They Do It,” “Drug Court
Effects and the Quality of Existing Evidence,” “Defining
the Mission of Juvenile Drug Courts,” “Identifying
Adolescent Substance Abuse,” “Shaping the Next
Generation of Juvenile Drug Court Evaluations,” and
“Building Better Evidence for Policy and Practice.”
For more information, visit http://www.urban.org/pubs/JuvenileDrugCourts/.
Evaluating Gun Policy: Effects on Crime and Violence
Jens
Ludwig and Philip J. Cook, eds., Washington, DC: The Brookings
Institution Press/Brookings Metro Series, 2003.
Gun policy is a hot topic in the United States. In an effort
to restrict high-risk groups’ access to firearms while
preserving the gun rights of low-risk individuals, various
initiatives and laws have been enacted. But are these policies
working? Are they affecting crime rates?
Evaluating Gun Policy: Effects on Crime and Violence
provides guidance for a pragmatic approach to gun policy
using empirical research to help resolve conflicting assertions
about the effects of guns, gun control, and law enforcement.
Edited by Jens Ludwig, associate professor of public policy
at Georgetown University, and Philip J. Cook, the ITT/Terry
Sanford Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies
at Duke University, the book strives to include both sides
of the debate—to provide a “skilled and dispassionate
analysis” of gun policy issues. Produced in part with
NIJ funds, the book contains six chapters that examine the
success of Richmond-based Project Exile in reducing homicide
rates, whether gun ownership deters burglaries, whether
concealed-carry laws reduce crime, the status and number
of existing gun control laws, whether policing reduces the
number of illegal guns in the community, and the effectiveness
of laws restricting the right of domestic batterers to possess
a firearm.
For more information, visit http://www.brookings.edu/press/Books/2003/evaluatinggunpolicy.aspx.
Economic Espionage and Industrial Spying
Hedieh
Nasheri, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press,
2005.
Economic espionage is a relatively new form of white-collar
crime. The United States passed the Economic Espionage Act
of 1996; however, rapidly changing technologies have raised
important implications for future research and the use of
criminal sanctions and civil penalties in this dynamic landscape.
Economic Espionage and Industrial Spying, written
by Hedieh Nasheri, an associate professor of justice studies
at Kent State University and a visiting professor at the
University of Turku in Finland, investigates the impact
of these technology-related crimes and examines the far-reaching
effects of advances in computer and wireless communications.
Nasheri analyzes the foundations of economic espionage,
trade secret thefts, and industrial spying; shows how these
activities affect society; and then looks at the legal efforts
used to control them. The book examines more than 40 international
espionage cases and explores the legislative initiatives
undertaken by the United States to combat the rising tide
of economic espionage and trade secret theft.
The book is based on research funded, in part, by a grant
from NIJ’s International Center.
For more information, visit http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item1151426/?site_locale=en_GB.
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