Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology articles from September 1996

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology archives from September 1996

Deterrence and the death penalty: the views of the experts.
September 22, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION The American public has long been favorably disposed toward capital punishment for convicted murderers, and that support continues to grow. In a 1981 Gallup Poll, two-thirds of Americans voiced general approval for the...

Juror reactions to attorneys at trial.
September 22, 1996... It is often suggested that attorneys have a powerful influence on trial outcomes, and that jurors react as much or more to the attorneys as to the testimony presented by witnesses. Yet few studies have investigated the extent of that...

Decision-making in criminal defense: an empirical study of insanity pleas and the impact of doubted client competence.
September 22, 1996... This Article presents an empirical study of attorney-client decision-making in a sample of 139 criminal cases in which the key decision was whether to pursue a clinically supported insanity defense. The study is of interest for two reasons:...

Toward the decentralization of criminal procedure: state constitutional law and selective disincorporation.
September 22, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION When one surveys the growing body of criminal procedure cases in which the decision is grounded in a state constitutional provision, a rather startling trend becomes manifest.(1) It is increasingly evident that at some...

The proportionality review of capital cases by state high courts after Gregg: only "the appearance of justice."
September 22, 1996... Much of the discussion is designed to explain the process of record-gatrhering and the methods of analyses, both of science and law, that can be used to conduct proportionality review and to assess the relevance of the data to system-wide...

Justice, Liability, and Blame: Community Views and the Criminal Law.
September 22, 1996... Paul H. Robinson & John M. Darley, Justice, Liability, and Blame: Community Views and the Criminal Law (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995). 307 pp. The relationship between popular opinion and law is a complicated one, especially in a society...

Art Crime.
September 22, 1996... John E. Conlin, Art Crime (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1994) 322 pp. Art crime is big business. It is estimated that thieves steal over $1 billion worth of art each year.(1) Combining these losses with additional losses from other...