Böcker av Nathan James

In light of the police shootings of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and John Crawford III in Beavercreek, Ohio, among others, The New Black Fest commissioned seven emerging black playwrights to write 10-15 minute monologues that explore their feelings about the well-being of black in a culture of institutional profiling.

Reviews the history of Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), the National Incident-Based Reporting System, and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and the methods each program uses to collect crime data. This book compares the similarities and differences of UCR and NCVS data.

The 109th Congress passed legislation that allows the federal government to civilly commit sexually dangerous persons. Civil commitment, as it relates to sex offenders, is when a state retains custody of an individual, found by a judge or jury to be a sexually dangerous person.