Criminal Justice

Robust Web of Corruption: Peru's Intelligence Chief Vladimiro Montesinos

Publication Date: November 01, 2003

In 1990, President Alberto Fujimori swept to power in Peru on a wave of public enthusiasm for his promised reforms. Indeed, over the next five years Fujimori accomplished something of an economic turnaround miracle. He also vanquished a...

When Prevention Can Kill: Epilogue

Publication Date: August 01, 2003

In the wake of the terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in September, 2001, the United States began to take seriously threats which had, heretofore, been generally discounted. Among these was the possibility of...

When Prevention Can Kill: Minnesota and the Smallpox Vaccine Program

Publication Date: August 01, 2003

In the wake of the terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in September, 2001, the United States began to take seriously threats which had, heretofore, been generally discounted. Among these was the possibility of...

Battling for Rule of Law in Mexico City: Crime, Corruption, and Criminal Justice

Publication Date: May 01, 2003

No one disputes the need to reduce crime and corruption in the developing world in principle. But the actual operational challenges of taking on an entrenched system of corruption, one infecting law enforcement itself, can be daunting in the...

White Powder in Georgia: Responding to Cases of Suspected Anthrax After 9/11

Publication Date: January 01, 2003

In October, 2001, a series of anthrax-laced letters resulted in deaths in Florida, New York and Connecticut, in an act of apparent domestic terrorism. As a result, public health authorities throughout the United States were inundated with...

Credible Warnings or False Alarms? What the US Knew on September 10, 2001

Publication Date: October 01, 2002

Well before the fateful morning of September 11, 2001, the threat posed to Americans and the United States by Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda (The Base) network of terrorists was well documented and closely monitored. Two US agencies--the...

Democracy in Zimbabwe: The Presidential Bid of Morgan Tsvangirai

Publication Date: May 01, 2002

In early 2002, world attention turned to the upcoming election in the southern Africa nation of Zimbabwe. Once viewed as a model of relative prosperity and potential, as well as democracy in sub-Saharan black Africa, the nation faced political...

Standing up for Steel: The US Government Response to Steel Industry and Union Efforts to Win Protection from Imports (1998-2003)

Publication Date: March 01, 2002

The March 2002 decision by President George W. Bush to impose tariffs on some imported steel capped a long-running campaign by the US steel industry and its unions for assistance in dealing with surges of low-priced imported steel, often said to...

Threat of Terrorism (Epilogue)

Publication Date: February 01, 2002

In December 1999, only weeks after protests at the annual meeting of the World Trade Organization sparked violent protests which rocked the city, Seattle public safety officials face a new threat. An Algerian man has been arrested trying to...

Threat of Terrorism: Weighing Public Safety in Seattle

Publication Date: February 01, 2002

In December 1999, only weeks after protests at the annual meeting of the World Trade Organization sparked violent protests which rocked the city, Seattle public safety officials face a new threat. An Algerian man has been arrested trying to...

Epilogue: For a Culture of Building Care

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, high atop a great many of the older, concrete-block buildings of lower-income parts of central Hong Kong and the neighborhoods of the Kowloon peninsula, informal metal-framed wooden structures were built to house...

Law Enforcement and Unauthorized Building Works: Illegal Structures and the Hong Kong Buildings Department

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, high atop a great many of the older, concrete-block buildings of lower-income parts of central Hong Kong and the neighborhoods of the Kowloon peninsula, informal metal-framed wooden structures were built to house...