Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology articles from September 2004

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology archives from September 2004

Community policing and youth as assets.
September 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION Over a decade after it was first introduced, community policing remains the most important innovation in American policing today. Called "the most significant era in police organizational change since the introduction of the...

The paradox of private policing.
September 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION "Most people think of security as some unarmed fat guy that can't speak English at the 7-Eleven.... That's not us at all. We're very policelike, even though we are security officers." --Security guard employed by...

Sentencing the green-collar offender: punishment, culpability, and environmental crime.
September 22, 2004... Federal law regulates waste management and pollution emissions through an intricate system of administrative rules and permits. (1) Violations of these legal requirements may result not only in civil money penalties, but also in criminal...

No means no? Withdrawal of consent during intercourse and the continuing evolution of the definition of rape.
September 22, 2004... "[A] withdrawal of consent effectively nullifies any earlier consent and subjects the male to forcible rape charges if he persists in what has become nonconsensual intercourse." (1) "John Z. wasn't guilty of rape; he was guilty of being...

Learning lessons from India: the recent history of antiterrorist legislation on the subcontinent.
September 22, 2004... I. INTRODUCTION On October 26, 2001, one month after the most deadly terrorist attack to ever be carried out on U.S. soil, (1) the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct...

Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... JOHN H. LAUB & ROBERT J. SAMPSON, SHARED BEGINNINGS, DIVERGENT LIVES: DELINQUENT BOYS TO AGE 70 (Harvard University Press 2003). 338 pp. INTRODUCTION Understanding the longitudinal patterning of criminal activity has occupied a...

Debating the Death Penalty: Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts from Both Sides Make Their Case.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... CAPITAL PUNISHMENT HUGO BEDAU & PAUL CASSELL EDS., DEBATING THE DEATH PENALTY: SHOULD AMERICA HAVE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT? THE EXPERTS FROM BOTH SIDES MAKE THEIR CASE (New York, Oxford University Press, 2004). 242 pp. This book contains...

Murdering Holiness: The Trials of Franz Creffield and George Mitchell.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... JIM PHILLIPS AND ROSEMARY GARTNER, MURDERING HOLINESS: THE TRIALS OF FRANZ CREFFIELD AND GEORGE MITCHELL (Vancouver, UBC Press, 2003). 347 pp. George Mitchell fatally shot Franz Creffield in Seattle in 1906. While Mitchell freely admitted...