Criminal Justice

Neighborhood Policing in Los Angeles

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

For more than fifteen years the Los Angeles Police Department has made community relations and community mobilization important -- sometimes key -- elements in the way it goes about its work. This case focuses on the evolution of the LAPD away...

Ellen Schall and the Department of Juvenile Justice

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

This "Innovations in State and Local Government" case begins in January 1983, when Ellen Schall is appointed commissioner of New York City's Department of Juvenile Justice, an agency in upheaval. DJJ was established to detain seven- to...

Internal & External Corruption in the Philippines' Tax System (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In an effort to weed out corruption in the government, President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines fired 2,000 government officials suspected of corruption, among them the commissioner of revenue, in the fall of 1975. That September, Marcos...

Internal & External Corruption in the Philippines' Tax System (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In an effort to weed out corruption in the government, President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines fired 2,000 government officials suspected of corruption, among them the commissioner of revenue, in the fall of 1975. That September, Marcos...

Overcoming Police Corruption in Hong Kong (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1985

This two-part case outlines the efforts of the Hong Kong government in the past fifteen years to reduce the widespread corruption within its ranks, particularly in the police force. Part A begins with background information on police corruption...

Overcoming Police Corruption in Hong Kong (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1985

This two-part case outlines the efforts of the Hong Kong government in the past fifteen years to reduce the widespread corruption within its ranks, particularly in the police force. Part A begins with background information on police corruption...

Corrections Corporation of America

Publication Date: January 01, 1985

This case is designed to raise issues having to do with privatization of public services. It describes the early history of Corrections Corporation of America, a Nashville, Tennessee company devoted to the ownership (or leasing) and management...

The Two Oaths of Richard Helms

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

In 1973, former CIA director Richard Helms was called to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as a follow-up to hearings confirming his nomination as ambassador to Iran. However, the primary issue of these sessions became the...

Oversight of the Criminal Division (Supplement)

Publication Date: January 01, 1981

Philip Heymann, assistant attorney general in the criminal division of the Department of Justice, is under pressure from Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to provide them with files on several public corruption cases and to...

Oversight of the Criminal Division (C)

Publication Date: January 01, 1981

Philip Heymann, assistant attorney general in the criminal division of the Department of Justice, is under pressure from Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to provide them with files on several public corruption cases and to...

Oversight of the Criminal Division (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1981

Philip Heymann, assistant attorney general in the criminal division of the Department of Justice, is under pressure from Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to provide them with files on several public corruption cases and to...

Oversight of the Criminal Division (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1981

Philip Heymann, assistant attorney general in the criminal division of the Department of Justice, is under pressure from Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to provide them with files on several public corruption cases and to...