注釋：

(1) Bureau of Justice Statistics Criminal Victimization, in: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs;路透社華盛頓2006年6月12日電。

(2) FBI：Violent Crime up in 1st Half of’06. MSNBC.com, December 19, 2006. in: msnbc.msn.com/id/11497293.

(3) Startling New Stats Show Cross-Country Crime Spike. ABC News, October 12, 2006.

(4) City Effort Needs to Grow. Editorial, Philadelphia Inquirer, December 12, 2006.

(5) Crime Takes Hold of New Orleans. USA Today, December 1, 2006.

(6) Police Chiefs Cite Youths in Crime Rise,

Call for More Federal Funds. The Washington Post,

August 31, 2006.

(7) [美國]《華盛頓時報》2006年11月17日報道。

(8) Weekend Shootings Kill 5. The Chicago Tribune, May 22, 2006.

(9) [美國]《世界日報》轉載美聯社消息，2006年11月17日。

(10)美國有線新聞網，2006年12月24日。

(11) Man Shoots 11, Killing 5 Girls, in Amish School. The New York Times, October 3, 2006.

(12) [美國]《芝加哥論壇報》2006年11月29日報道。

(13) 2 Ex-inmates Charge County Jail Beating. The Chicago Tribune, November 15, 2006.

(14) [美國]《洛杉磯時報》2006年11月17日報道。

(15)美聯社2006年11月26日電。

(16) [美國]《洛杉磯時報》2006年12月8日報道。

(17) In Tiny Courts of N.Y., Abuses of Law and Power. The New York Times, September 25, 2006.

(18)法新社華盛頓2006年9月4日電。

(19) U.S. Addiction to Incarceration Puts 2.3 Million in Prison. Human Rights Watch, December 1,2006. hrw.org/english/docs/2006/12/01/usdom14728.htm.

(20)法新社華盛頓2006年11月30日電。

(21) [美國]《僑報》2006年10月4日報道，“獄滿為患現緊急狀態”。

(22) [美國]《華盛頓郵報》2007年1月17日報道，“報告說移民受到虐待”。

(23) Jeb Bush's Prison Torture. www.allhatnocattle.net, Feburary 13, 2006.

(24) [墨西哥]《萬象》月刊7月號。

(25) Rising Prison Problems Begin to Trickle into Society. USA Today, June 12, 2006.

(26) Prison Death: A National Shame. The Baltimore Sun, December 6, 2006.

(27) Pentagon surfing 5,000 jihadist web sites. MSNBC News Services. May 4, 2006. in: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12634238.

(28) [美國]《今日美國報》2006年5月11日，“國家安全局有你的電話記錄”。

(29) State Dept. Accused of Screening Speakers. The Washington Post, November 2, 2006.

(30) www.eff.org/press/，2006年8月30日。

(31) Deep Pockets Carry the Day. Los Angeles Times, November 9, 2006.

(32) Parties Spend $225M on Target Races. The Baltimore Sun, November 6, 2006.

(33) Lobbyist admits to kickbacks, fraud. CNN, January 4, 2006. in: edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/03/abramoff.plea/index.html.

(34) Poll: Washington Scandals Eating Away Public Trust. USA Today, December 12, 2006.

(35) $50 million in trip for Congress. Seattle Times, June 6, 2006. in: seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003042150.

(36) Faked TV News: Wide Spread and Undisclosed. Center for Media and Democracy, April

6, 2006; Bush“planted fake news stories on American TV”. The Independent, May 29, 2006.

(37) Secret Government or a Free Press? USA Today, June 22, 2006.

(38) Journalist jailed for refusing to give

up tapes of protest. SFGate.com, August 1, 2006.

(39) Income Climbs, Poverty Stabilizes, Uninsured Rate Increases, Issued by U.S. Census Bureau on August 29, 2006. in: www.census.gov.

(40) Anxious Middle: Why Ordinary Americans

Have Missed Out on the Benefits of Growth. Financial Times, November 2, 2006.

(41) U.S. Conference of Mayors-Sodexho, Inc. Release 2006 Hunger and Homelessness Survey, in: www.usmayors.org.

(42) [美國]《紐約時報》2006年10月11日報道。

(43) Taking the Next Step for the Homeless.

The Washington Post, November 19, 2006.

(44)路透社紐約2006年12月27日電。

(45) Tackling Homelessness. The Baltimore Sun, November 20, 2006.

(46) Janis L. Magin, For 1000 or More Homeless in Hawaii, Beaches Are the Best Option. The New York Times, December 4, 2006. in: www.nytimes.com.

(47) Problems of Homelessness in Los Angeles and Its Environs Draws Renewed Calls for Attention. The New York Times, January 15, 2006.

(48) Finances of Social Security and Medicare Deteriorate. The New York Times, May 2, 2006. in: www.nytimes.com.

(49) Outsourcing health: Some employers, insurers send Americans abroad for surgery. Eagle-Tribune, November 27, 2006. in: www.eagletribune.com/lifestyle/.

(50) Persistent Race Disparities Found. The

WashingtonPost, November14, 2006.

(51) Income Climbs, Poverty Stabilizes, Uninsured Rate Increases, Issued by U.S. Census Bureau on August 29, 2006. in: www.census.gov.

(52)根據“民族意識全國理事會”(The National Council of La Raza)的拉丁裔倡議團體所做的研究。

(53) Homelessness Catches Families Even Amid Affluence. USA Today, December 22, 2006.

(54) Income Climbs, Poverty Stabilizes, Uninsured Rate Increases, Issued by U.S. Census Bureau on August 29, 2006. in: www.census.gov.

(55) Human rights committee, Eighty-seventh

session, July 10-28 2006, Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 40 of The Covenant Advance Unedited Version States

of America.

(56) Jonathan Stempel, Sixteen plaintiffs join Merrill racial bias lawsuit, Reuters, November 7, 2006. in: today.reuters.com.

(57)路透社2006年11月7日電。

(58)多維新聞網，DWNEWS.COM, 2006年11月16日。

(59) Matthew Bigg, Ethnic economic gaps persist, U.S. census data show. Reuters, November 14, 2006.

(60)據美國人口普查局2006年11月13日公布的美國人口收入、教育水平統計數據。

(61) Leslie Miller, Imams stage airport 'pray-in' as protest, Associated Press, Nov 28, 2006. in: hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/.

(62) The State of Black America 2006, Issued by National Urban League on March 27, 2006.

in: www.nul.org.

(63) [美國]《華盛頓郵報》2006年3月9日，“艾滋病謎團的答案在監獄里”。另據Prisoners in 2005, Issued by U.S. Department of Justice, November 30,2006, in: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs。

(64) [阿根廷]《號角報》2006年5月22日，“拉美移民成為美國種族主義組織攻擊的新目標”。

(65) FBI Releases Its 2005 Statistics on Hate Crime, Issued by FBI on October 16, 2006. in:

www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm.

(66) Women in Elective Office 2006, Issued by Center for American Women and Politics on December 2, 2006. in: www.cawp.rutgers.edu/index.html.

(67) U.S. Census Bureau. Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2005. in: www.census.gov.

(68) Jonathan Stempel, Citigroup U.S. gender bias lawsuit expands, Reuters, November 29,

2006. in: today.reuters.com.

(69) Betsy Gotbaum and Nancy Rankin, The Other Mothers, The New York Times, May 14, 2006. in: www.nytimes.com.

(70)美國司法部2006年11月公布。

(71) Prisoners in 2005, Issued by U.S. Department of Justice, November 30, 2006. in: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs.

(72) [美國]《僑報》2006年3月19日報道。

(73) www.census.gov.

(74) The Food Research and Action Center, Hunger in the U.S. in www.frac.org/html/hunger_in_the_us/poverty.html.

(75) [美國]《洛杉磯時報》2006年10月19日，洛杉磯郡兒童計劃委員會2006年年度報告。

(76) Health Insurance Coverage: 2005. Issued by U.S. Census Bureau on August 29, 2006. in: www.census.gov。

(77) Homelessness Catches Families Even Amid Affluence. USA Today,December 22, 2006.

(78) [美國]《世界》2006年10月31日，加州參議會交通及房屋委員會公布的調查報告，“加州無家可歸兒童近十萬”。

(79) [墨西哥]《宇宙報》2006年4月10日，“失蹤兒童的悲劇”。

(80) The Number of Death Row Inmates Declined for Fifth Straight During 2005. Issued by

U.S.Department of Justice on December 10. 2006. in: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs.

(81) Serious Violent Crime at School Continues to Fall. U.S. Department of Justice, December 3, 2006. in: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs.

(82) [美國]《芝加哥論壇報》2006年11月14日報道。

(83)《紐約時報》2006年11月14日報道。

(84) Jane Gross, Forensic Skills Seek to Uncover Elder Abuse, The New York Times, September

27, 2006. in: www.nytimes.com.

(85) Problems of Homelessness in Los Angeles and Its Environs Draws Renewed Calls for Attention. The New York Times, January 15, 2006.

(86) Study: War blamed for 655,000 Iraqi deaths.CNN, October 11, 2006. in: edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/11/iraq.deaths/.

(87) BBC新聞，2006年11月19日，By David Loyn.news.bbc.co.uk；[美國]《華盛頓郵報》網站，2006年6月4日。

(88) [英國]《獨立報》網站2006年8月7日。

(89) [美國]《華盛頓郵報》2006年12月9日報道。

(90) [英國]《衛報》，2006年2月16日。

(91) [英國]《獨立報》2006年5月28日，“關塔那摩的少年”。

(92)美聯社2006年6月11日電。

(93) UN Expert on Human Rights and Counter Terrorism Concerned That Military Commissions Act is Now Law in United States. Press Release, United

Nations, October 27, 2006.

(94) UN rights experts call for immediate closure of U.S. Guantanamo centre after suicides, UN News Center, June 14 2006. in: www.un.org/.