What lessons can be learned from cost efficiency? The case of Swedish district courts

Drug Courts and Treatment: Lessons To Be Learned from the "What Works" Literatu re

onslaught of drug offenders. The model alcohol offenders have emerged, The Ill. . . crease in the number of drug courts across stands m contr~t ~o ~adl.tz~nal cour~ . the country is staggering. As of 1998, a total of 275 models by combmmg]udlClal supervIsIon drug court programs were in operation, serving an and community-based treatment in an estimated 90,000 offenders (Drug Court Programs effo...

What Can Be Learned from CMMi Failures?

The software crisis has been around since 1968 when NATO first identified the problematic nature of software development. In recognition of the need to manage the process of software development many methodologies have been proposed over the years. A recent contribution to this rich set of rigorous software development methodologies is the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI) Capability Matur...

O5: Technical Accident Reconstruction-What Can be Learned to Improve Medical Treatment in Trauma Patients

Annually, more than 1 million people were killed in road traffic accidents worldwide every year and an uncounted number were severe injured. In 2012 fatal injuries caused by road traffic accidents are under the top ten lists of causes of death in the world. It´s expected that in the near future road traffic accidents become one of the main causes of death in the world. Most of these fatal injur...

What Lessons Can Be Learned from Recent Financial Crises? The Japanese Experience

It is my pleasure, and indeed an honor, to be invited to join this panel. At the same time, however, I feel somewhat regretful to have to talk on financial crises in Japan and Southeast Asia, where until a few years ago we had taken pride in our record of financial development and stability as compared with the rest of the world. The common factors behind the recent financial instability in thi...

What Can Be Learned from the History of Developed Countries?