Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology articles from January 2000

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology archives from January 2000

The Sixth Amendment right to counsel and its underlying values: defining the scope of privacy protection.
January 1, 2000... I. INTRODUCTION The Sixth Amendment(1) has been described by leading commentators as the central feature of our adversarial system,(2) nevertheless "scholars, lawyers, and judges have often lost their way" in their attempts to understand...

Small favors: Chapter 154 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the states, and the right to counsel.
January 1, 2000... I. INTRODUCTION When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor. Jane Welsh Carlyle, 19th-century Scottish poet(1) On April 24, 1996, President Clinton signed Public Law 104-132 into effect as...

Docile bodies? Chemical restraints and the female inmate.
January 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION This paper addresses a little-discussed but apparently common phenomenon--the administration of psychotropic drugs to jail and prison inmates for primarily nonmedical reasons.(2) Psychotropic drugs, which include...

Big Brother and his science kit: DNA databases for 21st century crime control?(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... I. INTRODUCTION --Pudd'nhead Wilson(1) Mark Twain was speaking about fingerprints, of course, but prophetically, he might just as well have been speaking about DNA.(2) The protagonist in Pudd'nhead Wilson was an attorney who had a...

Trials Without Truth.(Review)
January 1, 2000... William Pizzi, TRIALS WITHOUT TRUTH (New York University Press, 1999) 254 pp. Modern constitutional criminal procedure--specifically, the elaborate regime of rights and procedural safeguards for criminal suspects and defendants--has...

Random Violence: How We Talk About New Crimes and New Victims.
January 1, 2000... JOEL BEST, RANDOM VIOLENCE: How WE TALK ABOUT NEW CRIMES AND NEW VICTIMS (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999) 242 pp. While recognizing that unexpected violent attacks by strangers, causing real and sometimes permanent...

Bad Kids: Race and The Transformation of the Juvenile Court.
January 1, 2000... BARRY C. FELD, BAD KIDS: RACE AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE JUVENILE COURT (New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999) 374 pp. The juvenile court system should be discontinued, the author argues, because it is structurally unable to...

A Sin Against The Future: Imprisonment in the World.
January 1, 2000... VIVIEN STERN, A SIN AGAINST THE FUTURE: IMPRISONMENT IN THE WORLD (Boston, Northeastern University Press, 1998) 407 pp. Arguing that the institution of prison must reexamined, the author briefly presents the historical development of...