Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology articles from June 2000

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology archives from June 2000

Deceit and the classificatiion of crimes: Federal Rule of Evidence 609(A)(2) and the origins of the crimen falsi.
June 22, 2000... Few conceptual schemes in criminal law are as widely accepted, or as deeply ingrained, as the classification of offenses according to the nature and degree of their harmfulness. Whenever criminal conduct is to be classified, it is necessary to...

Constitutional road maps.
June 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION Generations of constitutional scholars have obsessed over the Supreme Court's unique power of review, reiterating the anti-democratic perils that attend judicial scrutiny of majoritarian legislation.(1) To some, "judicial...

An actuarial risk of assessment of violence posed by murder defendants.
June 22, 2000... The Supreme Court held in Furman v. Georgia(1) that capital punishment was unconstitutional due to the arbitrary nature of then-current sentencing statutes. Citing jury discretion as the cause of inconsistent sentencing practices, the Furman...

Supporting the snakeheads: human smuggling from China and the 1996 amendment to the U.S. statutory definition of "refugee."
June 22, 2000... I. INTRODUCTION The traffic of human beings to the United States has a long and sordid history.(1) Although slavery and indentured servitude are now illegal,(2) the law has not stopped this country s demand for cheap labor.(3) Because...

Public Law 280 and the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act: could two wrongs ever be made into a right?
June 22, 2000... As central North America gradually became the United States and the United States gradually became a world military and political leader, Indians were marginalized, killed, and cheated.(1) Yet the United Slates recognized in its Constitution...

Misconceiving Mothers: Legislators, Prosecutors, and the Politics of Prenatal Drug Exposure.(Review)
June 22, 2000... MISCONCEIVING MOTHERS: LEGISLATORS, PROSECUTORS, AND THE POLITICS OF PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE. By Laura E. Gomez. Philadelphia: Temple Press. 1997. 207. $59.95 I. INTRODUCTION In the mid-1980s newspapers began to report an explosion of...