Day archives: November 8th, 2014

Sixty-Five Years of International Criminal Justice: Facts and Figures (2013)

Smeulers, Alette and Hola, Barbora and Berg, Tom van den, Sixty-Five Years of International Criminal Justice: Facts and Figures (2013). International Criminal Law Review (2013), 7-41. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2520472 “The international criminal justice system comprises nine international criminal courts and tribunals; six are still operational and three have closed down. On average, they …

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Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research

FBI Seeks Expanded Access to Surveil Computers Around the World

Ed Pilkington – The Guardian: “The FBI is attempting to persuade an obscure regulatory body in Washington to change its rules of engagement in order to seize significant new powers to hack into and carry out surveillance of computers throughout the US and around the world. Civil liberties groups warn that the proposed rule change amounts …

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Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens

Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens. Perspectives on Politics / Volume 12 / Issue 03 / September 2014, pp 564-581 “Each of four theoretical traditions in the study of American politics—which can be characterized as theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy, Economic-Elite Domination, and two types of interest-group pluralism, Majoritarian Pluralism and …

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Subjects: Congress, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 25th Anniversary

“The iconic fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago today shocked international leaders from Washington to Moscow, London to Warsaw, as East German crowds took advantage of Communist Party fumbles to break down the Cold War’s most symbolic barrier, according to formerly secret documents from Soviet, German, U.S., Czechoslovak and Hungarian files posted today …

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Subjects: Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Study Calls Out Workplace Telepressure

Please Respond ASAP: Workplace Telepressure and Employee Recovery. Barber, Larissa K.; Santuzzi, Alecia M. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Nov 3 , 2014, No Pagination Specified. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0038278 “Organizations rely heavily on asynchronous message-based technologies (e.g., e-mail) for the purposes of work-related communications. These technologies are primary means of knowledge transfer and building social networks. As a by-product, workers …

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Subjects: E-Mail, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Medicine

Convictions from FBI Investigations Vary Widely by Region

“The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during FY 2014 the government reported 10,979 federal criminal convictions resulting from cases referred by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Drug offenses accounted for about one fourth of these convictions (23.8 percent) followed by white collar crime (21.6 percent). Nationally, there was an average of 35 …

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Subjects: Courts, Defense, Government Documents, Legal Research
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