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Introducing Criminal Law, Stephen J. Morse

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law by Leo Katz, and Crime, Guilt, and Punishment: A Philosophical Introduction by C.L. Ten

At A Tender Age: Violent Youth And Juvenile Justice, Patrick Gallagher

Michigan Law Review

A Review of At a Tender Age: Violent Youth and Juvenile Justice by Rita Kramer

The Politics Of Predicting Criminal Violence, Sheri Lynn Johnson

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Prediction of Criminal Violence by Fernand N. Dutile and Cleon H. Foust

Crimewarps: The Future Of Crime In America, Brandon D. Lawniczak

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Crimewarps: The Future of Crime in America by Georgette Bennett

Reexamining The Law Of Rape, Janet E. Findlater

Michigan Law Review

A Review Real Rape by Susan Estrich

Pornography Is A Civil Rights Issue For Women, Andrea Dworkin

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

My name is Andrea Dworkin. I am a citizen of the United States, and in this country where I live, every year millions and millions of pictures are being made of women with our legs spread. We are called beaver, we are called pussy, our genitals are tied up, they are pasted, makeup is put on them to make them pop out of a page at a male viewer. Millions and millions of pictures are made of us in postures of submission and sexual access so that our vaginas are exposed for penetration, our anuses are exposed for penetration, our …

Humanitarian Intervention, Daniel Wolf

Michigan Journal of International Law

This article argues that humanitarian intervention to prevent the mass slaughter by a state of its own citizens is not only a morally but a legally justifiable act under current norms of international law. The first section of the article discusses the traditional international legal rules concerning the doctrine of humanitarian intervention and their relevance to contemporary law. The second section analyzes the effect of the advent of the United Nations Charter on the legality of humanitarian intervention. Drawing on state practice and the opinion of the international legal community, the third section argues that the emergence of a post-Charter …

The Ultimate Violation, Todd Maybrown

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Ultimate Violation by Judith Rowland

Evidence, Mark M. Dobson

Nova Law Review

This article discusses major Florida evidentiary case law developments occurring primarily during 1986.

History Against Free Speech: The New German Law Against The "Auschwitz" -- And Other -- "Lies", Eric Stein

Michigan Law Review

An American observer would expect the central issue in the public debate to be the conflict between the constitutionally protected values of individual freedom of expression on the one hand and public security and personal honor on the other. This, however, has not been the case. To the contrary, the constitutional issue has played a marginal role in the legislative process, and it has been resolved by the courts with obvious ease in favor of the constitutionality of the previous legislation on the same general subject. There is every reason to believe that the new law will also be upheld, …

Injury And Exasperation: An Examination Of Harm To Others And Offense To Others, Andrew Von Hirsch

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Harm to Others by Joel Feinberg and a Review of Offense to Others by Joel Feinberg

Poisoning For Profit: The Mafia And Toxic Waste In America, Geoffrey Garver

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Poisoning for Profit: The Mafia and Toxic Waste in America by Alan A. Block and Frank R. Scarpitti

Euthanasia For Sale?, A.W. Brian Simpson

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Easing the Passing: The Trial of Dr. John Bodkin Adams by Patrick Devlin

Substantive Criminal Law, William R. Eleazer

Nova Law Review

This article will survey decisions of the Florida Supreme

Court during 1985 which dealt with substantive criminal law issues

in three important areas: (1) criminal offenses, (2) lesser included

and multiple offenses, and (3) defenses to crimes.

Some Enlightenment On Crime, Shirley S. Abrahamson

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice Edited by Sanford H. Kadish

Two New Books On Guns, Franklin E. Zimring

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Under The Gun: Weapons, Crime and Violence in America by James D. Wright, Peter H. Rossi and Kathleen Daly and Firearms and Violence: Issues of Public Policy edited by Don B. Kates, Jr.

News Of Crime: Courts And Press In Conflict, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of News of Crime: Courts and Press in Conflict by J. Edward Gerald

Born To Crime: The Genetic Causes Of Criminal Behavior, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Born to Crime: The Genetic Causes of Criminal Behavior by Lawrence Taylor

The Rico Nexus Requirement: A "Flexible" Linkage, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

This Note argues that the RICO "nexus" requirement can be interpreted to limit effectively this overbroad use of RICO without emasculating the statute. The "nexus requirement" is generally described as defining the word "through" in section 1962(c), the provision of RICO that makes it illegal to "conduct or participate, directly or indirectly, in the conduct of [an] enterprise's affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity." This language establishes the necessity of proving a relationship between the enterprise and the racketeering. Once evidence of the alleged enterprise and the predicate racketeering acts has been submitted, the final element of proof must …

The Home Front: Notes From The Family War Zone, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Home Front: Notes from the Family War Zone by Louise Armstrong

The Hardest Drug: Heroin And Public Policy, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Hardest Drug: Heroin and Public Policy by John Kaplan

Equality, "Anisonomy," And Justice: A Review Of Madness And The Criminal Law, Andrew Von Hirsch

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Madness and the Criminal Law by Norval Morris

Criminal Venue In The Federal Courts: The Obstruction Of Justice Puzzle, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Courts have struggled to determine venue for cases involving obstruction of justice with similarly inconsistent results. The circuits have divided over where to lay venue in prosecutions for obstruction of justice when the defendant allegedly acted in one judicial district to obstruct a proceeding that was pending in another. This Note argues that formalistic analysis, which has led courts to set venue in the district of the affected trial, should be rejected in favor of a more policy-oriented approach. Part I demonstrates that a formalistic statutory analysis that closely inspects either legislative history or the language of the statute ultimately …

The Influence Of Modernization In Comparative Criminology, Marshall B. Clinard

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Crime and Modernization by Louise Shelley, and Readings in Comparative Criminology edited by Louise Shelley

Criminal Law And The European Communities: Defining The Issues, Christine Van Den Wyngaert

Michigan Journal of International Law

While the development of a common criminal justice policy lies more within the general objectives of the Council of Europe, of which all states composing the European Communities are members, there are nevertheless a number of problems which are specific to the Communities and which may call for a special response on their part. This article makes a short tour d'horizon of the different issues at stake and briefly describes the efforts which have been or are being undertaken to resolve them.

Parent-Child Incest: Proof At Trial Without Testimony In Court By The Victim, Dustin P. Ordway

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Note argues that the incest victim should not testify personally at trial. Rather, the child's testimony should be replaced with tape-recorded pretrial examinations of the victim by an expert, supplemented by the in-court testimony of the examining expert. Part I discusses how the present system of requiring in-court testimony by the victim harms the child, fails to correct the incest problem, and produces unreliable evidence. Part II outlines and discusses the merits of the proposed reform. Part ill examines the proposed reform in light of the defendant's constitutional rights to due process and to confront witnesses against him. The …

Vicious Circles: The Mafia In The Marketplace, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Vicious Circles: The Mafia in the Marketplace by Jonathan Kwitny

Social Research And The Use Of Medieval Criminal Records, Edward Powell

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Society and Homicide in Thirteenth-Century England by James Buchanan Given, and Crime and Conflict in English Communities, 1300-1348 by Barbara A. Hanawalt

Landlord Liability To Tenants For Crimes Of A Third Party: The Status In Florida, Theresa M. B. Van Vliet

Nova Law Review

In recent decisions,' Florida courts have allowed tenants to recover

damages from landlords resulting from criminal acts of third parties

which occurred on the landlord's premises.

Landlords Or Tenants: Who Bears The Costs Of Crime?, Miriam J. Haines

Cardozo Law Review

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