Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology articles from March 2007

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology archives from March 2007

Using group statistics to sentence individual criminals: an ethical and statistical critique of the Virginia risk assessment program.
March 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION In an ideal crime-fighting world, we would know every convict's criminal proclivities. An offender could be detained for precisely the right amount of time as we effortlessly balanced the many competing interests served by...

The challenge of white collar sentencing.
March 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION White collar offenders in the United States have faced sentences far beyond those imposed in prior years. (1) For example, Bernard Ebbers, former CEO of WorldCom, was sentenced to twenty-five years; (2) Jeffrey Skilling,...

Innocents convicted: an empirically justified factual wrongful conviction rate.
March 22, 2007... That would make the error rate [in felony convictions] .027 percent--or, to put it another way, a success rate of 99.973 percent. --Justice Antonin Scalia. concurring in Kansas v. Marsh, June 26, 2006 (quoting Joshua Marquis). (1) I....

A tripartite solution to eyewitness error.
March 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION "The vagaries of eyewitness identification are well-known; the annals of criminal law are rife with instances of mistaken identification." (1) "[W]e regularly sentence innocent people to death. So the underlying...

The attitudes of police executives toward Miranda and interrogation policies.
March 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION A. FRAMEWORK OF THIS STUDY B. CONSTITUTIONAL CONFESSIONS LAW: A BRIEF OVERVIEW C. IMPACT AND COMPLIANCE RESEARCH II. PRIOR RESEARCH AND POLICY ISSUES A. REACTIONS TO MIRANDA:...