Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology articles from March 2002

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology archives from March 2002

Life terms or death sentences: the uneasy relationship between judicial elections and capital punishment.
March 22, 2002... I. INTRODUCTION One day Louise Harris approached her lover, Lorenzo "Bo Bo" McCarter, with a proposition that led to an agreement to kill her husband. (1) Harris and McCarter paid Michael Sockwell and Alex Hood one hundred dollars to carry...

Understanding infanticide in context: mothers who kill, 1870-1930 and today.(Chicago)
March 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION On July 29, 1911, the Chicago Tribune reported the story of a Miss Mary Stastch. An immigrant from Austria, Stastch was arrested in connection with the death of her three-week-old baby, which was found behind a residence in...

Lunatics and anarchists: political homicide in Chicago.
March 22, 2002... As a former member of the Chicago police department, a practicing Chicago attorney and longtime member of the Chicago City Council, I am intrigued by political homicide in Chicago. The colorful mayhem and peculiar prairie personality of...

Afterword to "Lunatics and anarchists: political homicide in Chicago".
March 22, 2002... The assassination of Mayor Carter Harrison is included in this data set as Case No. 898, the entry appearing below in its entirety. 898:1893 Harrison, Carter, H., Mayor of Chicago, shot dead at his home, 231 Ashland Av., by Eugene...

Homicide in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
March 22, 2002... Homicide rates are understood in large part by comparison. Almost without thinking we compare this year to last, this place to that. Usually we make modest leaps in time and space, taking adjacent sites and time periods in an effort to hold...

Firearm deaths, gun availability, and legal regulatory changes: suggestions from the data .(Chicago)
March 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION On February 27, 1926 the story of a shooting incident involving a Thompson machine gun appeared on the cover page of the Chicago Tribune. (1) That day, Al Capone went to a local hardware store and ordered three of these...

Capital punishment for the crime of homicide in Chicago: 1870-1930.
March 22, 2002... I. INTRODUCTION: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, RACE AND POVERTY In the criminal justice system, the ultimate and final act in any homicide case is the application of the death penalty. Of course, not all homicides result in a death sentence, and not...

"I loved Joe, but I had to shoot him": homicide by women in turn-of-the-century Chicago.
March 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION During a 1914 murder trial, Chicago's State's Attorney Maclay Hoyne observed that "while the honest woman, or the average woman, is less prone to commit crime than men... when a woman does become a criminal, she sinks lower...

Homicides among Chicago families: 1870-1930.
March 22, 2002... There are at least two exciting aspects of the files available to the authors of this volume. One is the age and range of the data--the fact that these accounts of Chicago homicides cover a sixty-year period that starts in 1870. (1) In...