The aim of this article is to examine the role of information technologies (IT) in supporting practice and professional identity formation, both major axes for communities of practice. The article uses an ethnographic case study to understand how public defenders learn to improve their court performance. The concept of “communities of practice” helps to illuminate how the attorneys in a public ...

The sorting out of the corruption issue is one priorities for Ukrainian society on today stage country development. According to research reasons have led mass protests in Ukraine late 2013 – early 2014. Global Corruption Barometer results, done by Transperancy International 2013, 36 % Ukrainians were ready protest against corruption. results IFES public opinion has already been included into m...

This article examines the issue of procedure and forms use specialized knowledge in criminal proceedings. It is noted that main tools cognitive activities for investigation offenses are investigative (search) actions aimed at finding traces a offense, their research formation court evidence. An analysis opinions scientists regarding evolution using special justice different historical stages wa...

Given their capacity to identify causal relationships, experimental audit studies have grown increasingly popular in the social sciences. Typically, investigators send fictitious auditors who differ by a key factor (e.g., race) to particular experimental units (e.g., employers) and then compare treatment and control groups on a dichotomous outcome (e.g., hiring). In such scenarios, an important...

Construction of the Linked Dataset: The primary data for this analysis are restricted-use data collected by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and made available to researchers via the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. 1 Using the restricted-use dyadic linking files provided by BJS, we link case records across agencies as they go through the criminal justice process, enabling us to...

OBJECTIVE This study compared arrest rates on a broad range of offenses in a cohort of public mental health service recipients and in the general population. METHODS Administrative data from a state mental health agency were merged with data capturing arrests over a 9.5-year period in a cohort of persons with severe and persistent mental illness who used public mental health services and were...

U.S. courts frequently require forensic examiners to offer opinions concerning the likelihood that criminal defendants found incompetent to stand trial can have their competence "restored" through treatment. Yet no jurisdiction has established legal guidelines for testimony concerning restorability, and several authors have suggested that mental health professionals cannot accurately predict wh...

Purpose In early 2020, the world faced a rapid life-changing pandemic in form of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis. Citywide lockdowns with stay-at-home orders and mass closings quickly became “new normal.” With these new mandates, routine activity, mental health financial securities all began to experience major deviations, it clear that this could prove be rather valuable providing o...

Protesting is supposed to be revered in our democracy, considered “as American as apple pie” nation’s mythology. But the actual experiences of 2020 racial justice protesters showed that this reverence for political dissent and protest more akin folklore than reality on streets. The images from those streets depicted police officers clad riot gear armed with shields, batons, “less than” lethal w...