Year: 2018

This video cassette, number 13 in the Crime File series, portrays a panel discussion of the rationale for and the effectiveness of the juvenile justice system, the advantages and disadvantages of processing serious juvenile offenders […]

William A. Smith, age 31, of Winnebago, Nebraska, was sentenced for Domestic Assault by a Habitual Offender.

This video cassette, number 10 in the Crime File series, assesses the impact of police foot patrol in Newark, N.J., and Boston, Mass., and presents a panel discussion of the nature and effects of foot […]

This video cassette, number 20 in the Crime File series, portrays a three-member panel discussing prison conditions in Texas both before and after a 1980 court order for the reform of prison management practices, implications […]

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.   In a […]

This 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.   The Butler program uses […]

This video cassette, number 1 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 […]

Following a description of the employee drug testing program of BE and K, a large international engineering and construction company headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., this video presents a panel discussion of the methodology, effectiveness, and […]

This video cassette, number 18 in the Crime File series, delineates the issues associated with the insanity defense, with a particular focus on the John Hinckley, Jr., case. Three panelists are questioned by the moderator […]

This video cassette, number 10 in the Crime File series, assesses the impact of police foot patrol in Newark, N.J., and Boston, Mass., and presents a panel discussion of the nature and effects of foot […]