Indian patients go to court over cancer drug

Crossing over to let go

A function for multisite phosphorylation Many transcription factors are regulated by phosphorylation on multiple residues. Mylona et al. analyzed multisite phosphorylation in the transcription factor Elk-1 and showed that it may protect against excessive activation (see the Perspective by Whitmarsh and Davis). Phosphorylation by the kinase ERK2 occurred at eight sites, but the sites were phosph...

Juvenile Drug Court Programs

This Bulletin is part of OJJDP’s Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grants (JAIBG) Best Practices Series. The basic premise underlying the JAIBG program, initially funded in fiscal year 1998, is that young people who violate the law need to be held accountable for their offenses if society is to improve the quality of life in the Nation’s communities. Holding a juvenile offender “accountab...

Drug court PoPulation

Denise C. Gottfredson, Ph.D., is a professor at the University of Maryland Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology. Gottfredson’s research interests include delinquency and delinquency prevention, and particularly the effects of school environments on youth behavior. Brook W. Kearley is a researcher at Social Solutions, Inc. Her primary research interests include the evaluation of drug t...

Evaluation of the First Judicial District Court Adult Drug Court:

Violent Offenders in Drug Court

Drug courts are slowly beginning to expand their admission criteria to include more chronic and serious offenders since traditional probation and incarceration have failed to prevent drug use and crime. Drug courts have moved from providing diversion programs for first-time offenders charged with drug possession to developing tracks for more complex clients. Many of these new drug court partici...