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The Realities Of Prisoners' Cases Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983: A Statistical Survey In The Northern District Of Illinois, William S. Bailey Jan 1975

The Realities Of Prisoners' Cases Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983: A Statistical Survey In The Northern District Of Illinois, William S. Bailey

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The purpose of this article is to examine how prisoner section 1983 claims are treated, on a day to day basis, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. To this end, all of the available prisoner section 1983 cases filed in the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division in the years 1971 and 1973 have been reviewed. This material provides the data base for an analysis of the following issues: the veracity of the burden on the courts argument; the variations in the level of consideration given to different categories of prisoner section 1983 claims; …


Parole Revocation And The Right To Counsel, Paul W. Grimm Jan 1975

Parole Revocation And The Right To Counsel, Paul W. Grimm

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The Street Perspective: A Conversation With The Police, Patrick Baude, James F. Gallagher Jan 1975

The Street Perspective: A Conversation With The Police, Patrick Baude, James F. Gallagher

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Evaluations Research In Corrections: Status And Prospects Revisited, Ilene Nagel Bernstein Jan 1975

Evaluations Research In Corrections: Status And Prospects Revisited, Ilene Nagel Bernstein

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Book Review, Emily Calhoun Carssow Jan 1975

Book Review, Emily Calhoun Carssow

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The Future Of Sentencing Reform: Emerging Legal Issues In The Individualization Of Justice, John C. Coffee Jr. Jan 1975

The Future Of Sentencing Reform: Emerging Legal Issues In The Individualization Of Justice, John C. Coffee Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

The dilemma of the American sentencing judge is qualitatively unique. Because our system of criminal justice has embraced to a degree unequaled elsewhere the rehabilitative ideal that punishment should fit not the crime, but the particular criminal, the sentencing judge must labor to fulfill the dual and sometimes conflicting roles of judge and clinician. Entrusted with enormous discretion, he is expected to "individualize" the sentence he imposes to suit the character, social history, and potential for recidivism of the offender before him. Yet, because of the general absence in our Sentencing Reform system of meaningful procedures for the appellate review …