Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology articles from January 2008

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology archives from January 2008

An unholy alliance: perceptions of influence in insurance fraud prosecutions and the need for real safeguards.
January 1, 2008... I. INTRODUCTION For the past three decades, most state legislatures (1) have enacted (2) criminal statutes specifically targeted at deterring insurance fraud. (3) Unlike most criminal statutes, these insurance fraud laws not only delineate...

Rethinking Robinson v. California in the wake of Jones v. Los Angeles: avoiding the "demise of the criminal law" by attending to "punishment".
January 1, 2008... I. INTRODUCTION In its 1962 opinion Robinson v. California, (1) the United States Supreme Court held that a jail sentence of ninety days to one year for the status of being "addicted to the use of narcotics" constituted cruel and unusual...

The politics of policing: ensuring stakeholder collaboration in the federal reform of local law enforcement agencies.
January 1, 2008... I. INTRODUCTION On November 21, 2006, after obtaining a "no knock" search warrant based on false information, several Atlanta police officers stormed into the home of ninety-two-year-old Kathryn Johnston. (2) Ms. Johnston, who lived alone...

The empirics of prison growth: a critical review and path forward.
January 1, 2008... I. INTRODUCTION The single most striking statistic in the American criminal justice system is its thirty-year expansion in prison population. From 300,000 prisoners in 1977, the prison population has risen steadily to over 1.5 million as...

The felony murder rule in Illinois: the injustice of the proximate cause theory explored via research in cognitive psychology.
January 1, 2008... I. INTRODUCTION In the summer of 2006, the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed two first-degree murder convictions in People v. Hudson (1) and People v. Klebanowski. (2) Both cases involved eerily similar fact patterns where an off-duty police...

Of vice and men: a new approach to eradicating sex trafficking by reducing male demand through educational programs and abolitionist legislation.
January 1, 2008... I. INTRODUCTION At the age of four, "Andrea" was sold to a child sex-trafficking ring that operated in both Mexico and the United States. She was enslaved for twelve years, servicing mostly American men. To keep the children obedient, her...

Genetic Witness: Science, Law, and Controversy in the Making of DNA Profiling.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... JAY D. ARONSON, GENETIC WITNESS: SCIENCE, LAW, AND CONTROVERSY IN THE MAKING OF DNA PROFILING (Rutgers University Press 2007). 270 PP. In [1910 in] London, Scotland Yard and the forensic scientists of the Home Office continued to...

Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... MARK A. DRUMBL, ATROCITY, PUNISHMENT, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW (Cambridge University Press 2007). 298 PP. It is impossible for offenses against the most fundamental collective sentiments to be tolerated without the disintegration ...