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Full-Text Articles in Law
The Rise Of Prisons And The Origins Of The Rehabilitative Ideal, Carl E. Schneider
The Rise Of Prisons And The Origins Of The Rehabilitative Ideal, Carl E. Schneider
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic by David J. Rothman
Plea Bargaining Reexamined, Lynn M. Mather
Plea Bargaining Reexamined, Lynn M. Mather
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Plea Bargaining: The Experiences of Prosecutors, Judges, and Defense Attorneys by Milton Heumann
Changed Society, Changing Law, Hence Unstable Prisons, Daniel Glaser
Changed Society, Changing Law, Hence Unstable Prisons, Daniel Glaser
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society by James B. Jacobs
Do Defendants Have An Attorney When They Have A Public Defender, James Eisenstein
Do Defendants Have An Attorney When They Have A Public Defender, James Eisenstein
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Counsel for the Poor: Criminal Defense in Urban America by Robert Hermann, Eric Single, and John Boston
Review Of Crime In England, 1550-1800, Thomas A. Green
Review Of Crime In England, 1550-1800, Thomas A. Green
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Crime in England, 1550-1800, is the second collection of essays on the social history of crime and the criminal law in early modern England to appear in recent years. Together with the essays in Albion's Fatal Tree (1975),' these offerings advance our knowledge of the subject considerably. To be sure, as G. R. Elton cautions, there are methodological problems in a field so new, and Elton's "Introduction" will serve as an excellent starting point for readers concerned with such matters. We must nevertheless recognize the accomplishments of the new school of socio-legal historians. The essays in this volume deal with …
Introduction To Book Iv, Thomas A. Green
Introduction To Book Iv, Thomas A. Green
Other Publications
The final volume of Blackstone's Commentaries sets forth a·lucid survey of crime and criminal procedure informed by those propositions concerning English law and the relations between man and state that characterize the entire work. Perhaps no area of the law so tested Blackstone's settled and complacent views as did the criminal law, particularly the large and growing body of statutory capital crimes. In the end, Blackstone failed to demonstrate that English criminal law reflected a coherent set of principles, but his intricate and often internally contradictory attempt nevertheless constitutes a classic description of that law, and can still be read …
Government Appeals In Criminal Cases: The 1978 Decisions, Edward H. Cooper
Government Appeals In Criminal Cases: The 1978 Decisions, Edward H. Cooper
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The statute allowing the government to appeal from some forms of trial court defeat in criminal cases, 18 U.S.C.A. § 3731, has a long and tangled history. In its 1970 opinion in United States v. Sisson 9ui the Supreme Court wrestled mightily with a difficult problem under the statute as it then stood, and invited Congress to amend "this awkward and ancient Act." Soon afterward the act was amended. It now provides in part that the government may appeal in a criminal case
from a decision, judgment, or order of a district court dismissing an indictment or information as to …