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The High Price Of Poverty: A Study Of How The Majority Of Current Court System Procedures For Collecting Court Costs And Fees, As Well As Fines, Have Failed To Adhere To Established Precedent And The Constitutional Guarantees They Advocate., Trevor J. Calligan
Trevor J Calligan
No abstract provided.
Do We Know How To Punish?, Benjamin L. Apt
Do We Know How To Punish?, Benjamin L. Apt
Benjamin L. Apt
A number of current theories attempt to explain the purpose and need for criminal punishment. All of them depend on some sort of normative basis in justifying why the state may penalize people found guilty of crimes. Yet each of these theories lacks an epistemological foundation; none of them explains how we can know what form punishments should take. The article analyses the epistemological gaps in the predominant theories of punishment: retributivism, including limited-retributivism; and consequentialism in its various versions, ranging from deterrence to the reparative theories such as restorative justice and rehabilitation. It demonstrates that the common putative epistemological …
The Hypocrisy Of "Equal But Separate" In The Courtroom: A Lens For The Civil Rights Era, Jaimie K. Mcfarlin
The Hypocrisy Of "Equal But Separate" In The Courtroom: A Lens For The Civil Rights Era, Jaimie K. Mcfarlin
Jaimie K. McFarlin
This article serves to examine the role of the courthouse during the Jim Crow Era and the early stages of the Civil Rights Movement, as courthouses fulfilled their dual function of minstreling Plessy’s call for “equality under the law” and orchestrating overt segregation.
The Kingfish’S Mineral Legacy: An Analysis Of The Legality Of State Mineral Leases Granted To W.T. Burton And James A. Noe During The Years 1934-1936 And Their Relevance To Former United States Senator And Louisiana Governor, Huey P. Long, Ryan M. Seidemann, Ethel S. Graham, Steven B. Jones, William T. Hawkins, Frederic C. Augonnet
The Kingfish’S Mineral Legacy: An Analysis Of The Legality Of State Mineral Leases Granted To W.T. Burton And James A. Noe During The Years 1934-1936 And Their Relevance To Former United States Senator And Louisiana Governor, Huey P. Long, Ryan M. Seidemann, Ethel S. Graham, Steven B. Jones, William T. Hawkins, Frederic C. Augonnet
Ryan M Seidemann
No abstract provided.