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APRI Highlights - Spring 2003
Hot Topics
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Debra Whitcomb
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Director, Grant Programs and Development
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Quick question: How many APRI publications are on your bookshelf? Whatever your answer is, the number will increase substantially over the coming months.
APRI has embarked on an ambitious publishing venture. Every one of our program areas is contributing to a Special Topics series to digest important information for prosecutors in a concise, reader-friendly format. These reports will be small (6x9) and short (generally less than 30 pages), and they will share a common cover design.
Two Special Topics publications have already hit the streets: Bringing Balance to Juvenile Justice (from APRI’s National Juvenile Justice Prosecution Center), and Cross-Designation & Federal Firearms Laws: What Prosecutors Need to Know (from the Gun Violence Program). Both documents have attracted significant attention from the prosecution community and beyond.
Other reports in the Special Topics series are already underway. For example, Crash Reconstruction Basics for Prosecutors is the first of eight reports to be produced by APRI’s National Traffic Law Center. Other forthcoming titles include:
- Creative Strategies in Community Prosecution (from the National Center for Community Prosecution),
- Truancy and Delinquency: Breaking the Cycle (from the National Juvenile Justice Prosecution Center),
- Half a Nation by 2010 (from the National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse) and
- Promising Practices in Partnering to Reduce Gun Crime: Prosecutors’ Guide to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (from the Gun Violence Program).
In addition, three emerging issues in elder abuse case law will be addressed in separate publications, scheduled for release later this spring.
Look for APRI’s Special Topics series at the NDAA Summer Conference at Snowmass. Each publication will also be posted on our website when it is available.
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