Professor Curran said the availability of guns, including semiautomatic weapons, had vastly changed the criminal environment over four decades.
So is FBI interrogator Jack Sheehan who spoke out early against torture and the criminal environment he saw developing under America's military watch.
A Jersey native and only child of Italian immigrants, The Sopranos is based on both Chase's psychology and knowledge of Newark, transposed on to a specific criminal environment.
The current Russian style of management is a mix of Soviet command-economy habits and the post-Soviet experience of doing business in an anarchic and often criminal environment.
As the United States debates whether to support the Obama administration's proposal that Syrian forces should be attacked for using chemical weapons against civilians, this video, shot in the spring of 2012, joins a growing body of evidence of an increasingly criminal environment populated by gangs of highwaymen, kidnappers and killers.
The risks associated with drug use increase, sometimes dramatically, when they are produced, sold and consumed in an unregulated criminal environment.
"Evidently, you'd understand that an operation like today's will create a large hole, an emptiness, in the criminal environment," said Belanger.
Instead of learning through interaction with positive adult and peer role models, they are basically socialized within a criminal environment.
Tight operating budgets, heavy regulation of operating procedures, and intense public scrutiny of these systems add to the challenges of working in criminal justice environments.
These protocols are therefore testing whether facilitation or coaching of interorganizational change teams – strategies that have been used successfully in industry as well as in health care (Aarons et al. 2009; Loftus-Hills & Harvey 1999; Stetler et al. 2006) – can be adapted and deployed as effective implementation processes in criminal justice environments.
