Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology articles from September 1999

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology archives from September 1999

Confessions and culture: the interaction of Miranda and diversity.
September 22, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION A. THE ADVENT OF MIRANDA In 1966, the Supreme Court issued one of its most significant rulings(2) when it decided the case of Miranda v. Arizona.(3) Recognizing that police officers often use sophisticated and devious...

Reforming American penal law.
September 22, 1999... This article develops a new code-based, comparative, and comprehensive program for American penal law. Without this fresh start, the discipline of American penal law will play no significant role in the inevitable reconsideration of arational...

The collapse of the harm principle.
September 22, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION In November 1998, fourteen neighborhoods in Chicago voted to shut down their liquor stores, bars, and lounges, and four more neighborhoods voted to close down specific taverns. Three additional liquor establishments were...

Managed health care in prisons as cruel and unusual punishment.
September 22, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION Billy Roberts, a prisoner in an Alabama state prison, had a history of severe psychiatric disorders.(1) He was often put on suicide watch, and received large doses of psychotropic drugs.(2) A managed health care company,...

The effect of the federal sentencing guidelines on inter-judge sentencing disparity.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION A. THE GOALS OF SENTENCING REFORM The sentencing reforms of the past twenty-five years have had several goals, including "truth in sentencing," control of prison populations, and reduction of unwarranted disparity. The...

Reforming HUD's "one-strike" public housing evictions through tenant participation.
September 22, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION: THE CONFLUENCE OF POPULAR AND LEGAL CONTROVERSY With a garden overflowing with nasturtiums and three grandchildren in her care, Ann Greene seems like the last person anyone at the Alemany housing complex would...

Charting a new course for juvenile justice: listening to outsiders.
September 22, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION We have spent a lot of time in the Cook County Juvenile Court defending young people charged with serious crimes. Like many lawyers who do this work, we have struggled to understand and to comprehend the larger phenomenon...

Synthetic Panics: The Symbolic Politics of Designer Drugs.(Review)
September 22, 1999... PHILIP JENKINS, SYNTHETIC PANICS: THE SYMBOLIC POLITICS OF DESIGNER DRUGS (New York and London, New York University Press, 1999) 247 pp. In the view of social constructionists, the degree of social fear of a social problem is dependent less...

Violent Racism: Victimisation, Policing and Social Context.(Review)
September 22, 1999... BENJAMIN BOWLING, VIOLENT RACISM: VICTIMIZATION, POLICING AND SOCIAL CONTEXT (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998) 377 pp. "Violent racism," the author argues, must be understood as an attitude of racial exclusion, and particular racial attacks...

The Freedom Not to Speak.(Review)
September 22, 1999... HAIG BOSMAJIAN, THE FREEDOM NOT TO SPEAK (New York & London: New York University Press, 1999) 241 pp. American jurisprudence has generally recognized that the freedom of speech also includes the freedom not to speak, i.e., freedom from...

Gotham Unbound: How New York City Was Liberated from the Grip of Organized Crime.(Review)
September 22, 1999... JAMES B. JACOBS WITH COLEEN FRIEL & ROBERT RADICK, GOTHAM UNBOUND: HOW NEW YORK CITY WAS LIBERATED FROM THE GRIP OF ORGANIZED CRIME (New York and London, New York University Press, 1999) 329 pp. The crime organization generally known as...

Battered Women in the Courtroom: The Power of Judicial Responses.(Review)
September 22, 1999... JAMES PTACEK, BATTERED WOMEN IN THE COURTROOM: THE POWER OF JUDICIAL RESPONSES (Boston, Northeastern University Press, 1999) 240 pp. This is a study of how the courts are responding to battered women seeking legal protection. The issues...

Crimes of the American Nuclear State at Home and Abroad.(Review)
September 22, 1999... DAVID KAUZLARICH & RONALD C. KRAMER, CRIMES OF THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR STATE AT HOME AND ABROAD (Boston, Northeastern University Press, 1998) 195 pp. The authors present three case studies of American state action regarding nuclear weaponry,...