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2015

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Learning From Our Mistakes: Using Immigration Enforcement Errors To Guide Reform, Amanda Frost Dec 2014

Learning From Our Mistakes: Using Immigration Enforcement Errors To Guide Reform, Amanda Frost

Amanda Frost

Immigration scholars and advocates frequently criticize our immigration system for imposing severe penalties akin to (or worse than) those in the criminal justice system — such as prolonged detention and permanent exile from the United States — without providing sufficient procedural protections to minimize enforcement errors. Yet there has been relatively little scholarship examining the frequency of errors in immigration enforcement and identifying recurring causes of those errors, in part because the data is hard to find. This Article begins by canvassing some of the publicly available data on enforcement errors, which reveal that such mistakes occur too frequently to …

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Expunging America's Rap Sheet In The Information Age, Jenny Roberts Dec 2014

Expunging America's Rap Sheet In The Information Age, Jenny Roberts

Jenny Roberts

"Getting a Second Chance After a Criminal Record.", "Want to Expunge Your Record?', "South Carolina Debating If It Should be Easier to Expunge a Brush with the Law." "Making a Fresh Start in Little Village." These are only some of the headlines of newspaper articles and television segments that came up in a Google Alert for "expungement" during one typical week in late 2014. The same week, in Cincinnati, Ohio, city council members backed expungement of low-level marijuana convictions. Expungement news that week was not limited to the United States. In Jamaica, the legislature passed a bill that allows expungement …

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U.S. Legal Profession Efforts To Combat Money Laundering And Terrorist Financing, Laurel S. Terry Dec 2014

U.S. Legal Profession Efforts To Combat Money Laundering And Terrorist Financing, Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

This article was prepared for the Symposium on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, which was the first academic symposium of its kind, and included speakers from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the FDIC, and the IRS. It focuses on the legal profession and explains how the US has implemented the FATF Recommendations that address the role that "gatekeepers," including lawyers, can serve to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. After setting forth introductory material about the intergovernmental organization called the Financial Action task Force or FATF, the FATF Recommendations, and the degree to which the FATF Recommendations have …

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Crime Victims And Offenders Face To Face: An Overview Of The Tdcj Victim Offender Mediation/Dialogue, Richard B. Keeton Dec 2014

Crime Victims And Offenders Face To Face: An Overview Of The Tdcj Victim Offender Mediation/Dialogue, Richard B. Keeton

Richard B. Keeton, Esq.

This paper focuses on the Victim Offender Mediation/Dialogue program unique to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Victim offender mediation is "a process that provides interested victims an opportunity to meet their offender, in a safe and structured setting, and engage in a mediated discussion of the crime." The goal is to hold offenders directly accountable for their actions while providing support and assistance to the victims. With the assistance of a trained mediator, the victim is able to tell the offender about the crime's physical, emotional, and financial impact, while receiving answers to lingering questions about the crime and …

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Cruelty In Criminal Law: Four Conceptions, Paulo Barrozo Dec 2014

Cruelty In Criminal Law: Four Conceptions, Paulo Barrozo

Paulo Barrozo

This Article defines four distinct conceptions of cruelty found in underdeveloped form in domestic and international criminal law sources. The definition is analytical, focusing on the types of agency, victimization, causality, and values in each conception of cruelty. But no definition of cruelty will do justice to its object until complemented by the kind of understanding practical reason provides of the implications of the phenomenon of cruelty. No one should be neutral in relation to cruelty. Eminently, cruelty in criminal law, a human-created phenomenon, vigorously calls for responses in the form of preventive and corrective action on the part of …

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La Transformación Del Papel Del Abogado Defensor En El Nuevo Sistema De Justicia Penal Mexicano, In Dilemas Contemporáneos Sobre Ejercicio De La Abogacía En México: Colección De Ensayos (Book Chapter), Gerald Lebovits Dec 2014

La Transformación Del Papel Del Abogado Defensor En El Nuevo Sistema De Justicia Penal Mexicano, In Dilemas Contemporáneos Sobre Ejercicio De La Abogacía En México: Colección De Ensayos (Book Chapter), Gerald Lebovits

Hon. Gerald Lebovits

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