Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology articles from January 1995

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology archives from January 1995

Reforming incompetency to stand trial and plead guilty: a restated proposal and a response to Professor Bonnie.(response to Richard Bonnie, University of Miami Law Review, vol. 47, p. 539, 1993)
January 1, 1995... I. Introduction In the past several years, the Supreme Court has given increasing attention to the often misunderstood area of the law dealing with the competency of criminal defendants to stand trial and plead guilty.(1) As a court dealing...

Contemplating the successive prosecution phenomenon in the federal system.
January 1, 1995... I. Introduction The federal system presents a peculiarly complex successive prosecution problem. The decentralized nature of the federal prosecution effort and the intricate interstate character of federal crimes may conspire to, produce a...

The relevance of "matching" DNA: is the window half open or half shut?
January 1, 1995... The basic concepts are always the hardest. This is particularly true in the study of evidence. Relevant evidence is evidence that alte the probability of a fact that matters, and relevant evidence generall is admissible unless it is too...

Sentencing guidelines and prison population growth.
January 1, 1995... Abstract This paper explores the relationship between sentencing guidelines and prison populations in nine states. The guidelines are associated with declines in prison population growth in the six states where legislators decreed that...

Legal enforcement of morality.
January 1, 1995... In modern Western political and legal thought, the subject of legal enforcement of morality is narrower than the literal coverage of those terms. That is because much legal enforcement of morality is uncontroversial and rarely discussed....

When "heterosexual" men kill "homosexual" men: reflections on provocation law, sexual advances, and the "reasonable man" standard.
January 1, 1995... Most of the time a criminal law that reflects male views and male standards imposes its judgment on men who have injured other men. It is "boys' rules" applied to a boy's fight.(1) In a recent article,(2) Robert Mison asked the following...

Gun control and economic discrimination: the melting-point case-in-point.
January 1, 1995... "Setting a high minimum price for handguns would be an effective means of reducing availability to precisely those groups that account for the bulk of the violent crime problem."(1) I. Introduction In 1992, an estimated daily average of 36...

Confessions, Truth, and the Law.
January 1, 1995... Everyone who has an interest in the criminal justice system should read Joseph Grano's new book, Confessions, Truth, and the Law. In laying the foundation for analyzing the law of confessions, Grano first presents a thoughtful discussion of the...

Crime.
January 1, 1995... The revision and republication of an edited volume of essays on crime and public policy is not usually an event of large public significance. This volume is an exception. A revised and expanded version of a collection edited by James Q. Wilson...