Participants in the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program classes, including IUPUI students and inmates at the Plainfield Re-Entry Educational Facility (PREF) and the Indiana Women's Prison, will take part in end-of-semester celebrations in the next week. This was the third time an Inside-Out course was offered at PREF and the second time at the Indiana Women's Prison.

Piracy taking place off the coast of Somalia is, from a legal perspective, very close to terrorism, and there are legal mechanisms for dealing with both, says Steve Russell, associate professor in the Indiana University Bloomington Department of Criminal Justice.

The March 2009 issue of Book Marks features books about the Romanian-born French philosopher E. M. Cioran, the late style of composer Claude Debussy, the use of irony in the Hebrew Bible, developments in civil and criminal law on child maltreatment, and the roles of Muslims in Western politics.

Blackhawk and Bell Jet Ranger helicopters, bomb-dismantling robots, police SWAT vehicles, ambulances and fire trucks will be among the attractions when Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis observes its second annual Public Safety Career Day on Monday, Aug. 11

The Indiana Women's Prison will host a graduation ceremony on Monday, July 28, for the 24 students who completed the semester-long Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program course, a collaboration between IUPUI and the prison. Family members, IUPUI faculty and facility staff will attend.

Professor Craig Bradley of the Indiana University School of Law--Bloomington is available to discuss whether the U.S. Supreme Court may reconsider a recent case in which it ruled 5-4 that child rapists cannot be executed and that capital punishment is reserved for murderers.

Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs announced it has established the Indiana University Public Policy Institute. Located near the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus, the new Institute will serve as an umbrella organization for SPEA-affiliated centers that conduct research and provide expertise on urban and environmental policy, health policy and criminal justice.

Government policymakers and nonprofit agencies focused on criminal justice and public safety now have a new resource at their disposal: The Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs today (April 24) announced the creation of the IU Center for Criminal Justice Research.

Jody Madeira, professor at the Indiana University School of Law--Bloomington, explains that there is little consensus and no guidance from the courts on whether lengthy sentences for young offenders constitute cruel and unusual punishment. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from Christopher Pittman, a South Carolina youth sentenced to 30 years in prison without parole for the murder of his grandparents when he was 12 years old.

Inmates and college students learn together in the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, a collaboration of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and Indiana's Plainfield Re-Entry Educational Facility. Wednesday morning, the Plainfield facility will host a ceremony for the 17 students who completed the semester-long course.

A panel of experts will discuss how issues of race affect the implementation of the death penalty on Tuesday, April 1, at the Indiana University School of Law--Bloomington. The program, titled "Intersection of Race and Jury Composition with the Death Penalty," will take place from noon to 1 p.m. in the law school's Moot Court Room.

The rapidly changing media environment of American adolescents is having both positive and negative effects on their development, according to Roger Levesque, a specialist on adolescents and the law at Indiana University Bloomington and editor of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. In his new book, Adolescents, Media and the Law: What Developmental Science Reveals and Free Speech Requires (Oxford University Press), Levesque integrates research on what the law considers "speech" in adolescent development with research on policies regulating adolescents' rights and their place in society.

Crime and violence against abortion clinics are no longer in the headlines, but that doesn't mean they no longer happen. A new study reports on the ongoing vandalism and harassment that are part of the job for those who work in many abortion clinics nationwide.

Indiana University Bloomington professors discuss some of the enduring effects of the September 11th terrorism attacks with respect to aviation safety, military intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security and research on bioterrorism.

Nearly 50 professors and graduate students from Indiana University will be presenting research or otherwise participating in the American Sociological Association's annual meeting in Montreal Aug. 11-14. "Criminological transition" in Russia, the male marriage bonus and voter turnout trends are just some of the IU research findings that will be discussed.

Stephanie Kane, an associate professor in Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Criminal Justice, is conducting research on port cities around the world. IU Bloomington Law Professor David Fidler teaches a course titled "National and Homeland Security Law." Their insights relate to the controversy involving plans by a Dubai-based company to operate major U.S. ports.

A conference titled "Toward a Model Death Penalty Code: The Massachusetts Governor's Council Report" will be hosted Sept. 10-11 by the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington. The conference is expected to serve as a "next step" toward developing a national model for capital punishment, according to Joseph L. Hoffmann, the Harry Pratter Professor of Law at IU Bloomington and co-chair of the Massachusetts Governor's Council on Capital Punishment.

Dennis Rome wants to open people's eyes to a form of indoctrination they experience day in and day out. It poisons race relations in the United States, he says, by contributing to negative stereotypes of African American men, creating damaging self-fulfilling prophecies for black youth and bolstering an age-old fear many white Americans have of African Americans.

Roger J.R. Levesque, professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Indiana University Bloomington, recently received the Society for Research on Adolescence Outstanding Book Award for his book, Not by Faith Alone: Religion, Law and Adolescence.

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The topic of teenagers, religion and the law is explored in a just-published book by Roger Levesque, a professor of criminal justice at Indiana University.