Criminal Justice

Walking a Fine Line: Qualifications and Equal Opportunity in the Charlotte Fire Department

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

Between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, the fire department in Charlotte, North Carolina, successfully integrated women firefighters into the formerly all-male department. To do so, the city deftly adjusted testing procedures so that neither male...

Neighborhood Crime Watch in Boston

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case focuses on community responses to the drug problem. It examines one approach to police-community relations in which the police provide technical support to fledgling community groups, hoping to enlist the eyes and ears of concerned...

Closing the Market: Controlling the Drug Trade in Tampa, Florida

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The advent of "crack" cocaine in the mid-1980s hit Tampa, Florida like other American cities: hard. Among the crack-related phenomena which arose was that of the open-air drug market, outdoor gatherings of bold and violent drug dealers who...

Changing with the Times: South African Police in the Post-Apartheid Era

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The sudden and dramatic relaxation of South Africa's infamous apartheid race codes leaves one institution accustomed to enforcing the old laws in an exceptionally difficult position. The nation's elite national police force, feared and despised...

Seeking the Extradition of Mohammed Rashid

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This is the culminating case in a series of six which explore the relationship among terrorism, politics, and Western legal systems. In this, the focus is on the domestic political consequences in Greece which result from a US request that the...

Coca and the Shining Path in Peru's Upper Huallaga Valley: Two Presidents' Approaches

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

Two ominous developments in the Peru of the 1980s--the emergence of a Marxist guerrilla movement and a growing export trade in coca leaves bound for the US street drug market--prove to be unexpectedly related. Effectively dealing with one...

Bringing Terror to Justice: The Extraterritorial Arrest of Fawaz Yunis

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

In the spring of 1987, officials of the National Security Council inter-agency group dealing with counter-terrorism learned of the whereabouts of Fawaz Yunis, a suspect in the 1985 hijacking of a Jordanian airliner during the course of which...

Fighting Fear in Baltimore County

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The police have always taken fighting fear to be part of their job, but they have always assumed that fear reduction was an inevitable by-product of traditional crime-control techniques like patrol and rapid response to 911 calls. Early in the...

Taking Toshiba Public

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In 1986, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) learned of an illegal sale of sophisticated milling machine equipment to the Soviet Union by Japanese and Norwegian companies. What became known to the public as the Toshiba case--although the...

Mayor Evan Sweeney and the Police

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This case is one of a series of hypothetical cases about fictional "Mayor Evan Sweeney," written for executive training programs for new mayors, that frame the quintessential problems faced by municipal chief executives. This case concerns the...

Extradition of Mohammed Hamadei

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

On January 13, 1987, Mohammed Hamadei, a 22-year-old Lebanese man wanted in the US for his alleged role in the brutal 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847, was arrested in Frankfurt by West German police. Within hours, the US formally requested that...

Neighborhood Policing: The London Metropolitan Police Force

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

After 1981's fierce antipolice riots in Brixton, a heavily black and immigrant London borough, the London Metropolitan Police Force ("Scotland Yard") undertook a comprehensive re-examination of its policing practices. A new commissioner chose...