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.

Stephanie C. Kane, associate professor in Indiana University's Department of Criminal Justice, discusses piracy, poverty and global trade in the wake of several recent high-profile pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia.

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.

It's time for the U.S. legal system to re-emphasize "first principles," including protection of individual and family rights, in laws dealing with the abuse and neglect of children, Indiana University Bloomington faculty member Roger J.R. Levesque writes in a new book.

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 Indiana University Center for Studies of Law in Action, which for decades has trained police officers and forensic laboratory technicians, has been honored by the International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety in recognition of the contributions the center has made to alcohol and traffic safety awareness and education. Past recipients of this international award include the British Medical Society, the National Safety Council and Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

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.

World AIDS Day is Dec. 1. These experts at Indiana University discuss AIDS/HIV in rural America, home HIV-antibody testing and abstinence-only AIDS prevention, teens and HIV, and an IU-Kenya partnership.

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.

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Indiana University Bloomington faculty offer insights into the 2000 Olympic Games.