Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods
Interview with Akiva Liberman, The Urban Institute
Crime File: Drugs - Community Response
This Crime File video presents a segment that describes an organized neighborhood response to drug trafficking in Philadelphia; followed by a panel discussion of the effectiveness of this program and community drug control efforts in a section of Los Angeles.
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Crime File: Drug Addiction
This Crime File video presents a panel discussion of the biological causes and effects of drug addiction, with a focus on cocaine, and examines treatment principles and the characteristics of those most likely to benefit from treatment.
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Crime File: Drugs - Workplace Testing
1990
This Crime File video presents a description of the employee drug testing program of BE and K, a large international engineering and construction company headquartered in Birmingham, Ala.; followed by a panel discussion of the methodology, effectiveness, and ethics of such testing.
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Crime File: Juvenile Rehabilitation
This Crime File video presents a portrayal of the Paint Creek Youth Center, a treatment program for serious juvenile offenders in Bainbridge, Ohio; followed by a panel discussion of the effectiveness of such programs and issues in their expanded use.
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Crime File: Crime and Public Housing
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Crime File: Drugs - Military Interdiction
1990
This Crime File video presents a segment that describes the National Guard's role in interdicting drugs at the border in El Paso, Tex.; followed by a panel discussion of the nature and effectiveness of the military's role in drug law enforcement.
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Crime File: Drugs - Asset Seizure
1990
This video, in the crime File series, presents a segment that describes the implementation of drug asset forfeiture law in Broward County, Fla., followed by a panel discussion of the pros and cons of forfeiture law.
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Crime File: Drugs - Youth Gangs
1990
This Crime File video presents the portrayal of the nature and activities of juvenile gangs in Los Angeles; followed by a panel discussion of gang involvement in drug trafficking, sociological explanations of gangs, and strategies for countering gangs.
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Crime File: Legalization of Drugs
1990
This Crime File video presents overview of the nature and effects of some drug legalization in Holland; followed by an examination of arguments for and against drug legalization as presented by panelists Ethan Nadelmann, assistant professor at Princeton University, and Herbert Kleber, deputy director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
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Crime File: Drugs - Treating Offenders
1990
This Crime File video portrays the shock-incarceration, boot camp regime for drug offenders at the Butler facility in New York State, followed by a panel's assessment of the effectiveness of such programs.
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Crime File: Drug Education
This Crime File video discusses the DARE program in Los Angeles attempts to teach elementary school children to turn away from drugs before they get to junior high school, where peer pressure is strong.
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Crime File: House Arrest
In response to rising incarceration rates and prison overcrowding, Florida has developed the first statewide house arrest program. This 'Crime File' segment examines this program and its use of electronic monitoring devices.
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Crime File: Drug Testing
In this Crime File video, James Q. Wilson moderates a panel of three (Jay Carver, Director of the D.C. Pretrial Services Program; Elizabeth Symmonds, attorney with the Capitol Area Affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union; and Dr. Eric Wish, a drug researcher)
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Crime File: Restitution and Community Service
This Crime File video examines the development of new methods for restitution is providing sentencing alternatives to fines, probation, or imprisonment.
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Crime File: What Works - Research and the Police
This Crime File video reviews three studies evaluating the effectiveness of policing strategies.
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Crime File: Probation
This Crime File video examines the probation system in Los Angeles County, California, a jurisdiction burdened by prison overcrowding, rising probation caseloads, and inadequate financial resources.
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Crime File: Drug Trafficking
In this Crime File video, James Q. Wilson moderates a panel of three (Mark Kleiman, Harvard University Research Fellow; Mark Moore, Harvard University Professor; and John Lawn, Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement Agency), this team discusses Federal and local enforcement strategies against drug trafficking.
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Crime File: Neighborhood Safety
One of the series of videos from the 'Crime File' public affairs program, this video on neighborhood safety mainly uses a panel interview to describe, evaluate, and identify success factors for police-citizen crime prevention programs; programs considered include citizen patrol, block watch, police 'storefront' services, and police door-to-door contact with citizens.
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Crime File: Domestic Violence
1985
Using an interview panel format, this Crime File video focuses on the findings of an experimental program in Minneapolis, Minn., pertaining to the most effective police method for dealing with domestic assaults.
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Crime File: Victims
1985
One of the series of videotapes from the 'Crime File' public affairs program, this video on victims uses a panel interview and other interview segments in considering crime victims' needs and attitudes, victim compensation, victim impact statements, and measures for improving victim services.
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Crime File: Prison Crowding
This video, in the Crime File series, provides an overview of the problem of prison overcrowding and considers various strategies for addressing it; three panelists discuss the advantages and disadvantages of various remedial strategies.
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Crime File: Deadly Force
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Crime File: Biology and Crime
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Crime File: Exclusionary Rule
This video, in the Crime File series, presents background material on some U.S. Supreme Court decisions pertinent to the use of the exclusionary rule in sanctioning illegal police searches and seizures (Mapp v. Ohio and Shepherd v. Massachusetts); the moderator, James Q. Wilson, poses questions to Professor Yale Kamisar, University of Michigan Law School, and D. Lowell Jensen, Associate Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, designed to probe the controversial implications of the exclusionary rule.
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