Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology articles from January 1999

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology archives from January 1999

Clarifying entrapment.
January 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION The edges of the criminal law in the United States (and elsewhere, but we concentrate on the United States in this paper) are partially formed by various defenses that reflect in large part the frailty of human nature. The...

Emergency circumstances, police responses, and Fourth Amendment restrictions.
January 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION A. BACKGROUND In a large police department, such as one in a large municipality or a state police agency, law enforcement officials must simultaneously respond to a myriad of "crisis" situations. Some of the situations...

Responding to child homicide: a statutory proposal.
January 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION While public opinion in the United States often is hard to accurately measure, an occasional dramatic criminal case presents an issue with such starkness that the public response demonstrates society's instinctive reaction...

Race, juvenile justice, and mental health: new dimensions in measuring pervasive bias.
January 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION Delinquent Children, are those, who through Ignorance, Vice, Folly, Sport Carelessness, Thoughtlessness and in a hundred other ways, violate City Ordinances, Laws, statutes or the Rights of Others, for which there must be...

Four models of the criminal process.
January 1, 1999... FOUR MODELS OF THE CRIMINAL PROCESS I. INTRODUCTION Ever since Herbert Packer published "Two Models of the Criminal Process" in 1964,(1) much thinking about criminal justice has been influenced by the construction of models. Models...

Louisiana's newest capital crime: the death penalty for child rape.
January 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION In Louisiana, prosecutors are currently seeking the death penalty against two men accused of raping children in the case of State v. Wilson.(2) In 1995, Louisiana passed a state law making it a capital offense to rape a...

America's experiment with capital punishment: reflections on the past, present, and future of the ultimate penal sanction.(Review)
January 1, 1999... AMERICA'S EXPERIMENT WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: REFLECTIONS ON THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF THE ULTIMATE PENAL SANCTION (James R. Acker, Robert M. Bohm, and Charles S. Lanier eds., Carolina Academic Press 1998) 586 pp. I. INTRODUCTION...

The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies.(Review)
January 1, 1999... THE DEATH PENALTY IN AMERICA: CURRENT CONTROVERSIES (Hugo Bedau ed., Oxford University Press, 1997) 524 pp. I. INTRODUCTION These new books focusing on capital punishment issues come at a time when if there is not renewed interest in...

Death in the Dark: Midnight Executions in America.(Review)
January 1, 1999... John D. Bessler, DEATH IN THE DARK: MIDNIGHT EXECUTIONS IN AMERICA (Notheastern University Press 1997) 200 pp. I. INTRODUCTION These new books focusing on capital punishment issues come at a time when if there is not renewed interest...

Death at Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Donald A. Cabana, DEATH AT MIDNIGHT: THE CONFESSION OF AN EXECUTIONER (Northeastern University Press 1996) 319 pp. I. INTRODUCTION These new books focusing on capital punishment issues come at a time when if there is not renewed...

Just Revenge: Costa and Consequences of the Death Penalty.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Mark Constanzo, JUST REVENGE: COSTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE DEATH PENALTY (St. Martin's Press, 1997) 206 pp. I. INTRODUCTION These new books focusing on capital punishment issues come at a time when if there is not renewed interest in...

The Death Penalty: A World-Wide Perspective.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Roger Hood, THE DEATH PENALTY: A WORLD-WIDE PERSPECTIVE (Oxford University Press, 2d rev. ed. 1996) 307 pp. I. INTRODUCTION These new books focusing on capital punishment issues come at a time when if there is not renewed interest in...

Death Work: A Study of the Modern Execution Process.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Robert Johnson, DEATH WORK: A STUDY OF THE MODERN EXECUTION PROCESS (Wadsworth Publishing, 2d ed. 1998) 262 pp. I. INTRODUCTION These new books focusing on capital punishment issues come at a time when if there is not renewed interest...

The Death Penalty -- For and Against.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Louis P. Rojman & Jeffrey Reiman, THE DEATH PENALTY--FOR AND AGAINST (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 1998) 175 pp. I. INTRODUCTION These new books focusing on capital punishment issues come at a time when if there is not renewed...

The Killing State: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture.(Review)
January 1, 1999... THE KILLING STATE: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN LAW, POLITICS, AND CULTURE (Austin Sarat ed., Oxford University Press, 1999) 263 PP. I. INTRODUCTION These new books focusing on capital punishment issues come at a time when if there is not...

CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY: A SURVEY OF RECENT BOOKS.
January 1, 1999... CAPITAL PUNISHMENT--UNITED STATES AMERICA'S EXPERIMENT WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: REFLECTIONS ON THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE ULTIMATE PENAL SANCTION (James R. Acker, Robert M. Bohm & Charles S. Lanier, eds.) (Durham, NC: Carolina...