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Is American Violence A Crime Problem?, Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins
Is American Violence A Crime Problem?, Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins
Duke Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Crime And Punishment: Benign Neglect Of Racism In The Criminal Justice System, Angela J. Davis
Crime And Punishment: Benign Neglect Of Racism In The Criminal Justice System, Angela J. Davis
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
This article is a literary review and analysis of Malign Neglect: Race, Crime, and Punishment in America by Michael Tonry (1995). Part I of this review describes Tonry's analysis of the crime policies of the Reagan and Bush administrations. Part II discusses Tonry's indictment of the War on Drugs and criticizes his failure to acknowledge the effects of discriminatory prosecutorial practices and sentencing laws. Part III critiques Tonry's trivialization of the significance of race discrimination in the criminal justice system more generally. Part IV summarizes Tonry's proposals for change and stresses the importance of documenting, examining, and eliminating racial bias …
Tiptoeing Through The Tulips: The Supreme Court's Major, But Modest By Comparison, Criminal Law Rulings During The 1994-95 Term, William E. Hellerstein
Tiptoeing Through The Tulips: The Supreme Court's Major, But Modest By Comparison, Criminal Law Rulings During The 1994-95 Term, William E. Hellerstein
Touro Law Review
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The Distinction Between Crime And Tort In The Early Common Law, David J. Seipp
The Distinction Between Crime And Tort In The Early Common Law, David J. Seipp
Faculty Scholarship
Lawyers and judges in English royal courts between 1200 and 1500 drew a distinction between crime and tort. Each type of lawsuit-each writ or action-had its own form and nature. Medieval English lawyers grouped these individual actions into categories such as real actions and personal actions, writs of possession and writs of right.' The lawyers recognized categories that later acquired the labels crime and tort, although those were not the names for them in the early common law. Crimes were prosecuted by actions known as indictments and appeals of felony. Torts were remedied by writs of trespass alleging use of …
An Economic Analysis Of The Death Penalty, Martin Kasten
An Economic Analysis Of The Death Penalty, Martin Kasten
University Avenue Undergraduate Journal of Economics
From an economic perspective, society should only use capital punishment if the marginal benefits outweigh the marginal costs. In the course of analyzing the economic efficiency of capital punishment, and before providing any recommendations, both the benefits and costs of the death penalty must be evaluated. Since the death penalty has been implemented for centuries, many people believe its benefits outweigh its costs. The evaluation of benefits in Part II will be compared to the costs assessed in Part III to determine if this long held assertion is correct.
New Strategies For Combatting Crime In New York City, William J. Bratton
New Strategies For Combatting Crime In New York City, William J. Bratton
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Lecture by the Commissioner of the New York Police Department. Remarks focused on why crime came down in New York City. It traces the history of policing before the 1970s, when police departments began to professionalize and the advent of community policing in the 1990s.