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Vawa @ 20: Hiv, Violence Against Women, And Criminal Law Interventions, Aziza Ahmed

City University of New York Law Review

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Stalled At 20: Vawa, The Criminal Justice System, And The Possibilities Of Restorative Justice, Leigh Goodmark

City University of New York Law Review

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Vawa @ 20: Vawa And Welfare Reform: Criminalizing The Most Marginalized Women, Ann Cammett

City University of New York Law Review

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Vawa @ 20: The Mainstreaming Of The Criminalization Critique: Reflections On Vawa 20 Years Later, Mimi E. Kim

City University of New York Law Review

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Compensating Victims Of Crime, Douglas N. Evans

Publications and Research

Victims of violent crime are often unable to access financial compensation to offset the costs of victimization (e.g., medical, lost wages, funeral expenses) despite the massive amounts of money set aside for just that purpose. Currently, there is about $11 billion in the federal Crime Victims Fund (CVF). Less than 10 percent of this amount is allocated to state victim compensation programs. This report explores the funding mechanisms used by federal and state governments to compensate victims of crime, and it describes the administrative and policy problems in these systems. The report offers several recommendations for improvement. States have their …

The Growth Of Incarceration In The United States: Exploring Causes And Consequences, Jeremy Travis, Bruce Western, F. Stevens Redburn

Publications and Research

After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the United States more than quadrupled in the past four decades. The Committee on the Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration in the United States was established under the auspices of the National Research Council, supported by the National Institute of Justice and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, to review evidence on the causes and consequences of these high incarceration rates and the implications of this evidence for public policy.

Our work encompassed research on, and analyses of, the …

Bombing For Justice: Urban Terrorism In New York City From The 1960s Through The 1980s, Jeffrey A. Kroessler

Publications and Research

From the mid-1960s into the 1980s New York City experienced a wave of political violence and urban terrorism. Groups planted bombs, hijacked airliners, and engaged in assassination and attempted assassination to advance political, racial, or nationalist agendas. They included the Jewish Defense League, the Weathermen, the Black Panthers and the Black Liberation Army, FALN and other advocates of Puerto Rican independence, the United Freedom Front, Omega 7 and other anti-Castro Cubans, and Croatian nationalists. Juries often failed to convict these individuals, and others received light sentences. Judges scrutinized police actions for abuses of constitutional rights, and attorneys like William Kunstler …

Confession For The Soul?: A Defense Lawyer's Moral Advice To A Guilty Client, Jeffrey Kirchmeier

Publications and Research

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16 Things Every Defense Attorney Should Know About Fair Cross-Section Challenges, Nina Chernoff, Joseph B. Kadane

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Gideon: Looking Backward, Looking Forward, Looking In The Mirror, Steven Zeidman

Publications and Research

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Diminishing The Legal Impact Of Negative Social Attitudes Toward Acquaintance Rape Victims, Michelle J. Anderson

Publications and Research

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Resuscitating Proportionality In Non Capital Criminal Sentencing, Donna H. Lee

Publications and Research

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The Penetration Of The Criminal Justice System Into Communities Of Color: A Leadership Challenge For The Legal Profession. Address At The Convocation On The Face Of The Profession Iii: Leadership Of The Bar; Sponsored By The New York State Judicial Institute On Professionalism In The Law On April 27, 2007 In Albany, Ny., Jeremy Travis

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Back-End Sentencing A Practice In Search Of A Rationale, Jeremy Travis

Publications and Research

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