between prison crowdedness and prison violence that is essential to understanding the impacts of having severely overcrowded … practitioners that there is a positive causal relationship between prison crowding and violence. A simple reduced form model is … population, assuming some heterogeneity in inmates' baseline propensities toward violence. Failure to account for this can bias …

Extensive law and policy reforms in the area of domestic violence have occurred in the last several decades in the … United States and Canada, the latest being the development of specialized domestic violence (DV) courts. DV courts typically … Domestic Violence (IDV) courts, where criminal, civil and family matters are heard together in a one judge/one family model …

Around the world, policymakers and news reports have warned that domestic violence (DV) could increase as a result of …

This article analyses the factors that cause violence in Latin America. It argues that high levels of violence can not …

This paper examines a number of empirical patterns, puzzles, and anomalies relating to the problem of domestic violence … violence legislation is the product of 'ideological rent-seeking' among issue-oriented pressure groups and, once enacted, often …