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• Director's Message

• Childhood Victimization: Early Adversity, Later Psychopathology by Cathy Spatz Widom
  
  
• Crunching Numbers: Crime and Incarceration at the End of the Millennium by Jan M. Chaiken
  
  
• On-the-Job Stress in Policing—Reducing It, Preventing It
  
  
• Community Oriented Lawyering: An Emerging Approach to Legal Practice by Roger Conner
  
  
• Piecing Together the Cross-National Crime Puzzle by Jan van Dijk and Kristiina Kangaspunta

• Recent Research Findings About Using Insects as Investigative Tools, Police Discretion, Reducing Gun-Related Crime, and Detecting Interpersonal Violence

• New & Noteworthy, Events, and Solicitations & Awards
  

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