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The Federalization Of Crime And Sentencing, Nora V. Demleitner
The Federalization Of Crime And Sentencing, Nora V. Demleitner
Scholarly Articles
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Main-Streaming Comparative Criminal Justice: How To Incorporate Comparative And International Concepts And Materials Into Basic Criminal Law And Procedure Courses, Richard S. Frase
Main-Streaming Comparative Criminal Justice: How To Incorporate Comparative And International Concepts And Materials Into Basic Criminal Law And Procedure Courses, Richard S. Frase
West Virginia Law Review
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European Perspectives On The Accused As A Source Of Testimonial Evidence, Gordon Van Kessel
European Perspectives On The Accused As A Source Of Testimonial Evidence, Gordon Van Kessel
West Virginia Law Review
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Introduction: Adding A Comparative Perspective To American Criminal Procedure Classes, Albert W. Alschuler
Introduction: Adding A Comparative Perspective To American Criminal Procedure Classes, Albert W. Alschuler
West Virginia Law Review
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Comparative Law Symposium: Is There A European Advantage In Criminal Procedure: Preface, Carl M. Selinger
Comparative Law Symposium: Is There A European Advantage In Criminal Procedure: Preface, Carl M. Selinger
West Virginia Law Review
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Reflecting On The Subject: A Critique Of The Social Influence Conception Of Deterrence, The Broken Windows Theory, And Order-Maintenance Policing New York Style, Bernard Harcourt
Reflecting On The Subject: A Critique Of The Social Influence Conception Of Deterrence, The Broken Windows Theory, And Order-Maintenance Policing New York Style, Bernard Harcourt
Faculty Scholarship
In 1993, New York City began implementing the quality-of-life initiative, an order-maintenance policing strategy targeting minor misdemeanor offenses like turnstile jumping, aggressive panhandling, and public drinking. The policing initiative is premised on the broken windows theory of deterrence, namely the hypothesis that minor physical and social disorder, if left unattended in a neighborhood, causes serious crime. New York City's new policing strategy has met with overwhelming support in the press and among public officials, policymakers, sociologists, criminologists and political scientists. The media describe the "famous" Broken Windows essay as "the bible of policing" and "the blueprint for community policing." Order-maintenance …
Wielding The Double-Edge Sword: Charles Hamilton Houston And Judicial Activism In The Age Of Legal Realism, Roger Fairfax
Wielding The Double-Edge Sword: Charles Hamilton Houston And Judicial Activism In The Age Of Legal Realism, Roger Fairfax
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
A new progressive movement in the law profoundly affected the American judicial climate of the 1930s and 1940s. The jurisprudence of American Legal Realism, which sprang from the progressive American sociological jurisprudence, boasted the adherence of some of America's most influential legal minds. Legal Realism, which complemented the New Deal reform legislation emerging in the 1930s, advocated judicial deference to legislative and administrative channels on matters of social and economic policy. Judicial activism, which had been used as a tool for the protection of economic rights since the late nineteenth century, was seen as inimical to progressive social reform and, …
Towards A Model Penal Code, Second (Federal?): The Challenge Of The Special Part, Gerard E. Lynch
Towards A Model Penal Code, Second (Federal?): The Challenge Of The Special Part, Gerard E. Lynch
Faculty Scholarship
The Model Penal Code is among the most successful academic law reform projects ever attempted. In the first two decades after its completion in 1962, more than two-thirds of the states undertook to enact new codifications of their criminal law, and virtually all of those used the Model Penal Code as a starting point. The Model Penal Code was influential in a variety of different ways. First, the very notion of a systematic codification of criminal law received a dramatic boost from the Model Penal Code. Apart from the degree to which any particular state recodification resembled the Model Penal …
Criminal Law: Oklahoma's New Standard Of Proof In Competency Proceedings: Due Process, State Interests, And A Murderer Named Cooper--Cooper V. Oklahoma, Seth Branham
Oklahoma Law Review
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