Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology articles from January 2003

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology archives from January 2003

The tenuous relationship between the fight against money laundering and the disruption of criminal finance.
January 1, 2003... This article examines the fight against money laundering as a case study of the separation between an enforcement system's objectives and performance. To launder money is to hide its illegal origin. The fight against money laundering is...

Norms and criminal law, and the norms of criminal law scholarship.
January 1, 2003... I. INTRODUCTION A. THE ALLURE OF SOCIAL NORMS The last decade has seen the emergence of what is now commonly called the study of law and social norms. (1) This cluster of legal commentary has been unusually confident in purporting to...

To serve and collect: measuring police corruption.
January 1, 2003... Stories of police corruption are cover-page news: they draw public attention and sell the newspapers. As the recent examples from Los Angeles (1) to Tokyo (2) and from New York (3) to Rio de Janeiro (4) demonstrate, no police agency is...

Pre-arrest silence: minding that gap between Fourth Amendment stops and Fifth Amendment custody.
January 1, 2003... I. INTRODUCTION The legal aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001 has raised countless issues regarding the rights of the criminally accused balanced against the government's interest in gathering...

Applying the responsible corporate officer doctrine outside the public welfare context.
January 1, 2003... As corporate scandals have returned to the front pages, it may be an appropriate time to reconsider the responsible corporate officer ("RCO") doctrine, a striking yet seldom-used innovation in the criminal law. (1) The doctrine holds a...

Beyond accommodation: reconstructing the insanity defense to provide an adequate remedy for postpartum psychotic women.
January 1, 2003... I. INTRODUCTION Victorian psychologist Dr. Henry Maudsley wrote in 1892 when questioning why mothers kill their children: "[a] mother, worn down by anxiety and ill-health," can become "very low-spirited and desponding" and "imagin[ing]...

Kidnapping federalism: the constitutionality of extending federal criminal law into the states.(Case Note)
January 1, 2003... On March 1, 1932, Charles and Anne Lindberg's twenty-month-old baby boy was kidnapped out of his nursery while he slept. (1) Known for many years after as the "crime of the century," the kidnapping of the Lindberg baby was, at the time, highly...

The real-world shift in criminal procedure.
January 1, 2003... RONALD JAY ALLEN, WILLIAM J. STUNTZ, JOSEPH L. HOFFMAN, & DEBRA A. LIVINGSTON, COMPREHENSIVE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. (NEW YORK: ASPEN LAW & BUSINESS, 2001). PP. XXXII, 1598. MARC L. MILLER & RONALD F. WRIGHT. CRIMINAL PROCEDURES: CASES,...

Criminal law and criminology: a survey of recent books.
January 1, 2003... ASSET SEIZURE R. T. NAYLOR, WAGES OF CRIME: BLACK MARKETS, ILLEGAL FINANCE, AND THE UNDERWORLD ECONOMY (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2002) 336pp The success of the policy of controlling crime by pursuing its proceeds remains...