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Adult Punishment For Juvenile Offenders: Does It Reduce Crime?, Richard E. Redding Dec 2005

Adult Punishment For Juvenile Offenders: Does It Reduce Crime?, Richard E. Redding

Richard E. Redding

This chapter discusses the research on the general and specific deterrent effects of transferring juveniles for trial in adult criminal court, identifies gaps in our knowledge base that require further research, discusses the circumstances under which effective deterrence may be achieved, and examines whether there are effective alternatives for achieving deterrence other than adult sanctions for serious juvenile offenders. As a backdrop to this analysis, the chapter first examines the role of public opinion in shaping the get tough policies, and how policy makers have misunderstood and perceived support for these policies.


Booker On Crack: Sentencing’S Latest Gordian Knot, Steven L. Chanenson Dec 2005

Booker On Crack: Sentencing’S Latest Gordian Knot, Steven L. Chanenson

Steven L. Chanenson

No abstract provided.


Purposeless Restraints: Fourteenth Amendment Rationality Scrutiny And The Constitutional Review Of Prison Sentences, Michael P. O'Shea Dec 2004

Purposeless Restraints: Fourteenth Amendment Rationality Scrutiny And The Constitutional Review Of Prison Sentences, Michael P. O'Shea

Michael P. O'Shea

No abstract provided.


The Value Of Plea Bargaining, Scott W. Howe Dec 2004

The Value Of Plea Bargaining, Scott W. Howe

Scott W. Howe

This article defends plea bargaining and responds to a trend in the academic literature to evaluate bargaining according to a shadow of trial efficiency theory. The efficiency perspective on bargaining gained prominence in the early 90s when two highly respected academics, Robert Scott and William Stuntz, along with a prominent Circuit judge, Frank Easterbrook, endorsed it in articles appearing in the Yale Law Journal. Judicial efforts to justify regularized plea concessions on penological grounds were widely viewed among academics as unpersuasive, and almost all of the academic commentary on bargaining was negative. The shadow-of-trial efficiency theory offered something new. Based …


Consistency, Proportionality, And Substantive Judicial Review In Capital Sentencing, Geoff Moulton Dec 2004

Consistency, Proportionality, And Substantive Judicial Review In Capital Sentencing, Geoff Moulton

Geoff Moulton

No abstract provided.


"Smoke Gets In Your Mind": The Legal Framework For The Crime Of Arson, John L. Anderson Jan 2004

"Smoke Gets In Your Mind": The Legal Framework For The Crime Of Arson, John L. Anderson

John L Anderson

No abstract provided.


Does Apprendi V. New Jersey Change The Standard Of Proof In Criminal Forfeiture Cases?, Stefan D. Cassella Dec 1999

Does Apprendi V. New Jersey Change The Standard Of Proof In Criminal Forfeiture Cases?, Stefan D. Cassella

Stefan D Cassella

The article, written shortly after the Supreme Court decided Apprendi v. New Jersey, sets forth the arguments why the decision will not require the imposition of the reasonable doubt standard in criminal forfeiture cases, nor require that forfeiture matters be tried to a jury.


Beyond Penry: The Remedial Use Of The Mentally Retarded Label In Death Penalty Sentencing, Robert L. Hayman Jan 1990

Beyond Penry: The Remedial Use Of The Mentally Retarded Label In Death Penalty Sentencing, Robert L. Hayman

Robert L. Hayman

No abstract provided.


Going To The Penitentiary: A Study Of Disparate Sentencing In South Dakota (With Steve Wise), Frank Pommersheim Jan 1989

Going To The Penitentiary: A Study Of Disparate Sentencing In South Dakota (With Steve Wise), Frank Pommersheim

Frank Pommersheim

No abstract provided.


I Fought The Law And The Law Won’: A Report On Women And Disparate Sentencing In South Dakota (With Chris Hutton, And Steve Feimer), Frank Pommersheim Dec 1988

I Fought The Law And The Law Won’: A Report On Women And Disparate Sentencing In South Dakota (With Chris Hutton, And Steve Feimer), Frank Pommersheim

Frank Pommersheim

No abstract provided.


A Handbook On Sentencing, Brian Slattery Dec 1971

A Handbook On Sentencing, Brian Slattery

Brian Slattery

This book aims to show that sentencing, like any other area of the law, is governed by reasonably well-defined principles and rules. Although these rules are known to any experienced judge and are frequently invoked in judgments, they have never been organized into an explicit and coherent system and have suffered from this neglect. This book provides not only better access to the rules but also a logical framework within which they can be discussed and applied. While the work has specific application to Tanzania, it should be of use throughout East and Central Africa, whose nations have similar penal …