Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology articles from September 1994

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology archives from September 1994

Mistake of fact in the objective theory of justification: do two rights make two wrongs make two rights...?
September 22, 1994... "The most difficult problems in criminal theory are generated by dissonance between reality and belief, between the objective facts and the actor's subjective impression of the facts."(1) One particularly thorny instantiation of this difficulty...

A transatlantic perspective on the compensation of crime victims in the United States.
September 22, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION Lawmakers in the United States have enacted legislation providing for financial assistance to victims of crime since 1965, when the California State Legislature enacted the first state program.(1) The first attempt to...

England limits the right to silence and moves towards an inquisitorial system of justice.
September 22, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION Britain's Parliament has adopted Prime Minister John Major's proposal to significantly curtail the right to silence.(1) The new law will allow judges and juries to consider as evidence of guilt both a suspect's failure...

Is gender subordinate to class? An empirical assessment of Colvin and Pauly's structural Marxist theory of delinquency. (Mark Colvin, John Pauly)
September 22, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION For Karl Marx, the problem of crime in capitalist societies was linked to the material forces of capitalism and class domination.(1) Although Marx did not extensively discuss the problem, he did remark that criminality...

How reasonable is the reasonable man?: police and excessive force.
September 22, 1994... The authority of the police to use force represents one of the most misunderstood powers granted to representatives of government. Police officers are authorized to use both psychological and physical force to apprehend criminals and solve...

Clearing the smoke from the battlefield: understanding congressional intent regarding the innocent owner provision of 21 U.S.C. 881(a)(7). (civil forfeiture)
September 22, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION "The devil died in December,"(1) and thousands cheered. "A shower of gunfire, and there was Pablo Escobar, a punctured corpse on a rooftop in Medellin, leaking life just like every judge and cop and political candidate...

Capital confusion: the effect of jury instructions on the decision to impose death.
September 22, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION In criminal cases, the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees to the accused the right of trial by jury.(1) Historically, the jury has been exalted as the conscience of the community and as a buffer...

Criminal law and criminology: a survey of recent books.(Bibliography)
September 22, 1994... COMMUNITY POLICING--UNITED STATES Bureau of Justice Assistance, Neighborhood-Oriented Policing in Rural Communities: A Program Planning Guide (Washington, D.C.: The Bureau, 1994) 117 pp. A neighborhood-oriented policing program is one...