NCJ Number
179515
Date Published
1990
Length
30 pages
Annotation
This document contains an article on computer crimes, one on intermediate punishments, and one on law-related education in primary and secondary schools. It also contains abstracts of other publications of interest to criminal justice professionals.
Abstract
Computers are now being used to commit crimes such as bank fraud and drug trafficking. An article discusses the nature of computer crime and notes some innovative prevention and investigation programs developed by several jurisdictions. A second article proposes that intermediate punishments between prison and probation become an important part of structured sentencing systems. A third article discusses how law students and other volunteers visit primary and secondary school classrooms to teach good citizenship and respect for the law. The document includes abstracts of publications concerning corrections; courts; criminalistics and forensics; criminology; drugs and crime; juvenile justice; law enforcement; offenses; reference and statistics; system policy and planning; technology and systems; and victims. Figure