Changes made to Facebook’s terms of use is finally generating some buzz. The “new’ terms of use has actually been in place since February 2009, and the real issue at hand is not what was added, but what was removed. Facebook has always had an “irrevocable, perpetual” license to use your “name, likeness, and image” [...]

Although it is typically envisioned as occurring between partners, domestic violence is any emotional, physical or sexual abuse by a household member. Rather than being isolated events, domestic violence tends to recur and increase in severity over time.
Oftentimes, victims wrestle with feelings of fear, loyalty, guilt and shame. Furthermore, victims who are financially dependent often [...]

Community policing is becoming an increasingly common approach in policing today. Community policing alters the fundamentals of policing. It holds that the police should work closely with residents, that they should emphasize crime prevention, as opposed to law enforcement, and that they should decentralize the decision-making authority to rank-and-file officers.
Community policing programs takes many different [...]

Policing is surrounded by many myths and stereotypes. The most enduring of these myths is that the primary role of police is crime fighting. This view of policing assumes that police devote most of their efforts to enforcing the criminal law by: patrolling to deter crime, investigating crimes, and arresting criminals. It’s something I like [...]

“I want to thank MADRE for your support. Preventive medicine, nutrition, and maternal health care… These are things we never had before.” – Health worker in Jucuaran, El Salvador.
MADRE is setting the model for smart feminist activism by working in partnership with women in local, regional, and international organizations to advance social justice by meeting [...]

A self-proclaimed ‘information detective’, Bonnie Shucha is not your average librarian. She is the sole contributor to Wisblawg — the University of Wisconsin Law Library Blog — and the fact that her personal profile appears under ‘About Wisblawg’ is a testament to the work she has put into making the site as successful as it [...]

A 25 year old man by the name of Tony Hickman has been accused of fathering a young teenage girl’s child. The sexual abuse had been going on for over a year before the girl, the daughter of one of Hickman’s friends, became pregnant. Initially, Tony Hickman denied ever having sex with the girl, but [...]

The National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence has been tirelessly working toward the goal of their mission since they opened their doors in 1999. With a clear understanding of what they wanted to accomplish, they were permitted a five year start up grant from the Department of Health and Human Services. One [...]

On October 11th of this year, six young girls got into a car with the mother of one of the girls Carmen Huertas, who was driving them all to a slumber party. She knew that she was heavily inebriated, but that did not stop her from driving a car full of children. Huertas even had [...]

A man from the city of Aurora, Illinois may be spending a good portion of his life to pay for sexually abusing a six year old child. Sixty-three year old Jerald E. Spring has been found guilty on charges of predatory sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse on the young boy that he had [...]