This study finds that children in counties with unified family courts experienced shorter foster care spells and higher rates of reunification with parents or primary caregivers.

Municipal mixed-use zoning is one public health strategy to create more walkable neighborhoods by reducing the separation of daily activities.

Overall annual influenza vaccination rate has slowly increased among health care workers but still remains below the national goal of 90 percent.

This study takes as a starting place the inherent tension between public safety and civil rights in considering mental illness as a significant concern for firearms policy and law.

Foot patrol as a specific policing tactic appears to fit nicely into a variety of policing paradigms, and suggestions for incorporating them to move beyond strictly enforcement-based responses are presented.

This paper explores associations between awareness of New Jersey’s HIV exposure law and the HIV-related attitudes, beliefs, and sexual and seropositive status disclosure behaviors of HIV-positive persons.

This article highlights the effectiveness of child safety seat laws, reducing childhood motor vehicle injuries by 35%, and increasing safety seat usage by 13%.

To better understand these results, the study examines which patents are challenged on each drug, and shows that lower quality and later expiring patents disproportionately draw challenges.

The study finds that zoning matters. An important fraction of reported crime is associated with the primary kind of zoning on a city block

The existence of different types of accreditation legal frameworks, embedded in complex and varying state legal infrastructures and political environments, raises important legal implications for the national voluntary accreditation program.

This article evaluates the impact of healthcare worker work hour restrictions on patient safety, highlighting insufficient evidence to confirm their effectiveness in improving patient outcomes.