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Putting Women First, Mary Coombs May 1995

Putting Women First, Mary Coombs

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Gender, Crime, and Punishment by Kathleen Daly


Federal Defender Services: Serving The System Or The Client, John J. Cleary Jan 1995

Federal Defender Services: Serving The System Or The Client, John J. Cleary

Law and Contemporary Problems

Cleary discusses how defense services should be provided. He reviews the evolution of the right to effective assistance of counsel and the advent of compensated defense services and suggests reforms.


Democratic Responses To International Terrorism, Christopher L. Blakesley Jan 1995

Democratic Responses To International Terrorism, Christopher L. Blakesley

Scholarly Works

This volume provides a multidisciplinary study of terrorism. The editor notes at the outset the difficulty of definition: "Terrorism is not a one-dimensional problem; it transcends many frontiers: political, jurisdictional, institutional, disciplinary and methodological. So approaching the problem from only one perspective may lead to only partial understanding and an incomplete strategy for developing constructive responses” (p. 3). Note the tendency of even this careful statement to assume that terrorism is always committed by others, Also, although legal definition and consideration may be implied by the terms polical, jurisdictional, institutional and disciplinary, which are indicated as various dimensions of …


Criminal Law And Criminology: Survey Of Recent Books, Juliet Casper Smith Jan 1995

Criminal Law And Criminology: Survey Of Recent Books, Juliet Casper Smith

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Process And Progress: Reviewing The Criminal Justice Act, Edward C. Prado Jan 1995

Process And Progress: Reviewing The Criminal Justice Act, Edward C. Prado

Law and Contemporary Problems

Prado describes the results of a comprehensive study of the federal defender program and concludes that as the federal criminal justice system evolves, the Criminal Justice Act program must adapt to ever-changing conditions.


An Essay On The New Public Defender For The 21st Century, Charles J. Ogletree Jr. Jan 1995

An Essay On The New Public Defender For The 21st Century, Charles J. Ogletree Jr.

Law and Contemporary Problems

Funding for public defender services is woefully inadequate. Ogletree offers some anecdotal advice for public defenders and those designing public defender services.