Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology articles from September 2000

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology archives from September 2000

Autumn of the patriarch: the Pinochet extradition debacle and beyond--human rights clauses compared to traditional derivative protections such as double criminality.
September 22, 2000... I. INTRODUCTION "Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it." Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest 102 (1929). A. GENERAL This article will analyze human rights law to see whether it...

Gang loitering and race.
September 22, 2000... When the United States Supreme Court held in City of Chicago v. Morales(1) that Chicago's anti-gang loitering ordinance--authorizing the police to disperse groups of loiterers containing criminal street gang members(2)--was unconstitutionally...

Train wrecks and freeway crashes: an argument for fairness and against self representation in the criminal justice system.
September 22, 2000... In early 1998, as the trial of Theodore Kaczynski approached, the public learned of a profound conflict between the accused Unabomber and his well-respected team of defense attorneys. For several weeks, the public, previously sensitized to the...

On equality, bias crimes, and just deserts.
September 22, 2000... Much of the appeal of retributive theories of criminal law flows from what they are not. Most importantly, they are not utilitarian, consequentialist, deterrence-oriented theories. They do not allow punishment of the innocent in order to serve...

The Crime Drop in America.(Review)
September 22, 2000... ALFRED BLUMSTEIN & JOEL WALLMAN, THE CRIME DROP IN AMERICA Cambridge University Press 2000. 317 pp. America is in the midst of the largest decline in violent crime rates in more than half a century. According to Uniform Crime Report (UCR)...

Criminological Theories: Introduction, Evaluation, and Application, 3d ed.(Review)
September 22, 2000... RONALD L. AKERS, CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORIES: INTRODUCTION, EVALUATION, AND APPLICATION, 3RD ED (Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Co., 2000) 310pp. Though "theory" is often cast in a denigrating contrast to "fact," properly developed...

Transnational Criminal Organizations, Cybercrime and Money Laundering: A Handbook for Enforcement Officers, Auditors and Financial Investigations.(Review)
September 22, 2000... JAMES R. RICHARDS, TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS, CYBERCRIME AND MONEY LAUNDERING: A HANDBOOK FOR ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, AUDITORS AND FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1999) 318pp. In the past decade, organized...

To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice.(Review)
September 22, 2000... BRUCE L. BENSON, TO SERVE AND PROTECT: PRIVATIZATION AND COMMUNITY IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE (NY: New York University Press, 1998) 371pp. With justice to crime victims as the prime consideration, and seeking to explain the fact that only a small...