Plenary sessions focused on issues related to the criminalization of spouse assault and the effectiveness of drug treatment. Panel sessions focused on prosecution and judicial responses to domestic assault, juvenile delinquency factors and intervention, organizational issues in community policing, computer mapping applications, coordinated responses to violence against women, firearms and crime control, sex offender management and batterers' treatment, issues in the processing of cases involving child victims, and DNA analysis. Further panels examined child abuse and neglect, the measurement of drug abuse and violent crime, drug treatment techniques, drug courts, crime in schools, correctional options, police use of force, shock incarceration programs, gangs, and recidivism prediction. Appended figures and list of conference participants