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The Street Perspective: A Conversation With The Police, Patrick L. Baude Oct 1975

The Street Perspective: A Conversation With The Police, Patrick L. Baude

IUSTITIA

Professor Baude's purpose in this discussion is to elicit police officers' comments on what members of the legal profession ought to know about the influence of the "street perspective" in shaping those officers' attitudes towards the criminal justice system and the role they play in it. It is police insistence on the broad validity of insights which only "the street" can provide that accounts for the considerable gulf between "front-line" enforcement officers and other functionaries in (and students of) that system. Law students (and no doubt lawyers) seem uncomfortable with the notion that our system cannot adequately be understood without …


The Systems Approach To Criminal Justice Administration, John Hartje Oct 1975

The Systems Approach To Criminal Justice Administration, John Hartje

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Eighth Amendment, Beccaria, And The Enlightenment: An Historical Justification For The Weems V. United States Excessive Punishment Doctrine, Deborah A. Schwartz, Jay Wishingrad Apr 1975

The Eighth Amendment, Beccaria, And The Enlightenment: An Historical Justification For The Weems V. United States Excessive Punishment Doctrine, Deborah A. Schwartz, Jay Wishingrad

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The North Carolina Penal System: Needed Reform, Charles E. Vickery Apr 1975

The North Carolina Penal System: Needed Reform, Charles E. Vickery

North Carolina Central Law Review

No abstract provided.


Parole Revocation In North Carolina: The Arrest Of A Parole Violator, Robert J. Robbins Jr. Apr 1975

Parole Revocation In North Carolina: The Arrest Of A Parole Violator, Robert J. Robbins Jr.

North Carolina Central Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Law And Legal Impact Of Contraceptive Use By Minors In North Carolina, Donald M. Wright Apr 1975

The Law And Legal Impact Of Contraceptive Use By Minors In North Carolina, Donald M. Wright

North Carolina Central Law Review

No abstract provided.


Criminal Procedure--Recidivism--Constitutionality Of The West Virginia Recidivist Statute, Cynthia L. Turco Feb 1975

Criminal Procedure--Recidivism--Constitutionality Of The West Virginia Recidivist Statute, Cynthia L. Turco

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Standards For Accepting Guilty Pleas To Misdemeanor Charges, Richard A. Kopek Jan 1975

Standards For Accepting Guilty Pleas To Misdemeanor Charges, Richard A. Kopek

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The guilty plea-not the trial-is the most common manner of disposing of criminal cases in America. It has been estimated that 90 percent of all convictions and 95 percent of misdemeanor convictions are the result of guilty pleas. Various reasons have been advanced to explain this heavy reliance on the guilty plea. For example, it avoids the drain on judicial resources that would occur if all cases had to be tried. In addition, it eliminates the risks and uncertainties of trials and permits flexibility in sentencing. Because of the prevalence of guilty pleas, there must be procedural safeguards to insure …


The Future Of Sentencing Reform: Emerging Legal Issues In The Individualization Of Justice, John C. Coffee Jr. Jan 1975

The Future Of Sentencing Reform: Emerging Legal Issues In The Individualization Of Justice, John C. Coffee Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

The dilemma of the American sentencing judge is qualitatively unique. Because our system of criminal justice has embraced to a degree unequaled elsewhere the rehabilitative ideal that punishment should fit not the crime, but the particular criminal, the sentencing judge must labor to fulfill the dual and sometimes conflicting roles of judge and clinician. Entrusted with enormous discretion, he is expected to "individualize" the sentence he imposes to suit the character, social history, and potential for recidivism of the offender before him. Yet, because of the general absence in our Sentencing Reform system of meaningful procedures for the appellate review …


Parole Revocation And The Right To Counsel, Paul W. Grimm Jan 1975

Parole Revocation And The Right To Counsel, Paul W. Grimm

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.