Stanford political scientist Beatriz Magaloni will lead an initiative to examine police corruption in Mexico, improve training and accountability, reduce the influence of organized crime and boost citizen trust in law enforcement.
Inside Justice offers an in-depth exposure to the criminal justice system through visits to local jails, state prisons, juvenile detention facilities, specialty courts, criminal sentencing, appellate hearings and lifer parole hearings.
Stanford law scholar Rabia Belt’s research shows that millions of votes are lost because the disabled encounter inadequate accommodations and legal obstacles.
Stanford researchers show that telephone metadata – information about calls and text messages, such as time and length – can alone reveal a surprising amount of personal detail.
Drawing on archives and oral testimony, historian Robert Crews discovers an Afghanistan that hardly fits the forbidding image that has fueled the U.S. military’s disastrous intervention there.
The implications of emerging biotechnologies and what they mean for human reproduction and making babies raises legal, ethical and social issues, according to Stanford Law Professor Hank Greely.
Stanford law Professor Alison Morantz found that company costs dropped by about 44 percent when firms replace workers' compensation with private plans.
Stanford scholar Iris Hui found that the California Coastal Commission approaches decisions through a consistent process. For her analysis, she used "text mining" to examine the commission's record.