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Full-Text Articles in Criminal Law
Ensuring Insurance: Adequate And Appropriate Coverage For Brady Claims In Illinois, Joe Delich
Ensuring Insurance: Adequate And Appropriate Coverage For Brady Claims In Illinois, Joe Delich
Northwestern University Law Review
The increase in wrongful conviction litigation has engendered a number of new doctrinal problems. This Note examines the existing rules governing insurance coverage for wrongful-conviction-related torts, in particular, due process claims for Brady violations. It then explores the rationale for the continuous trigger doctrine in the asbestos context, and argues that wrongful conviction claims call for a similar approach due to comparable latency concerns. There is a particular focus on Illinois law due to the state’s prevalence of wrongful conviction litigation and recent shifts in the law governing insurance triggers for malicious prosecution.
Under School Colors: Private University Police As State Actors Under § 1983, Leigh J. Jahnig
Under School Colors: Private University Police As State Actors Under § 1983, Leigh J. Jahnig
Northwestern University Law Review
Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, individuals may sue those who violate their constitutional rights while acting under color of state law. The Supreme Court has held that private actors may act under color of state law, and may be sued under § 1983 in some circumstances. However, courts have not been consistent in determining whether private university police forces act under color of state law. Private universities often maintain police forces that are given extensive police powers by state statutes but are controlled by private entities. Some courts have looked directly to the state statutes that delegate police power, but …
Sox On Fish: A New Harm Of Overcriminalization, Todd Haugh
Sox On Fish: A New Harm Of Overcriminalization, Todd Haugh
Northwestern University Law Review
The harms of overcriminalization are usually thought of in a particular way—that the proliferation of criminal laws leads to increasing and inconsistent criminal enforcement and adjudication. For example, an offender commits an unethical or illegal act and, because of the overwhelming breadth and depth of the criminal law, becomes subject to too much prosecutorial discretion or faces disparate enforcement or punishment. But there is an additional, possibly more pernicious, harm of overcriminalization. Drawing from the fields of criminology and behavioral ethics, this Essay makes the case that overcriminalization actually increases the commission of criminal acts themselves, particularly by white-collar offenders. …
Hidden Racial Bias: Why We Need To Talk With Jurors About Ferguson, Patrick C. Brayer
Hidden Racial Bias: Why We Need To Talk With Jurors About Ferguson, Patrick C. Brayer
NULR Online
No abstract provided.
The #Ferguson Effect: Opening The Pandora’S Box Of Implicit Racial Bias In Jury Selection, Sarah Jane Forman
The #Ferguson Effect: Opening The Pandora’S Box Of Implicit Racial Bias In Jury Selection, Sarah Jane Forman
NULR Online
No abstract provided.
Race Matters In Jury Selection, Peter A. Joy
Sox On Fish: A New Harm Of Overcriminalization, Todd Haugh
Sox On Fish: A New Harm Of Overcriminalization, Todd Haugh
NULR Online
No abstract provided.
Prevention, Not Prejudice: The Role Of Federal Guidelines In Hiv-Criminalization Reform, Sarah J. Newman
Prevention, Not Prejudice: The Role Of Federal Guidelines In Hiv-Criminalization Reform, Sarah J. Newman
Northwestern University Law Review
Thirty-four states and two U.S. territories have criminal statutes that specifically impose criminal liability for HIV transmission, exposure, or nondisclosure. With possible sentences ranging up to thirty years, these statutes have even provided the basis for convicting HIV positive individuals who never actually transmitted the virus. To address the unreasonable prosecutions of these individuals, Representative Barbara Lee of California introduced the Repeal Existing Policies that Encourage and Allow Legal HIV Discrimination Act (REPEAL Act) to the U.S. House of Representatives on September 23, 2011. If passed, the REPEAL Act would require a systematic review of these statutes and the development …
Racketeering After Morrison: Extraterritorial Application Of Civil Rico, Daniel Hoppe
Racketeering After Morrison: Extraterritorial Application Of Civil Rico, Daniel Hoppe
Northwestern University Law Review
In Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd., the Supreme Court set forth a framework to identify the extraterritorial reach of a federal statute. The Supreme Court required that a statute demonstrate congressional intent to apply to extraterritorial conduct. Under this framework, federal courts have found that civil RICO does not apply to extraterritorial conduct. However, the courts have been inconsistent in their analysis of RICO under Morrison. Some courts have found that RICO does not apply to extraterritorial enterprises while others have found that RICO does not apply to extraterritorial conduct. But the courts have been consistent in …
The Price Of Justice: Interest-Convergence, Cost, And The Anti-Death Penalty Movement, Jolie Mclaughlin
The Price Of Justice: Interest-Convergence, Cost, And The Anti-Death Penalty Movement, Jolie Mclaughlin
Northwestern University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Mug Shot Disclosure Under Foia: Does Privacy Or Public Interest Prevail?, Kathryn Shephard
Mug Shot Disclosure Under Foia: Does Privacy Or Public Interest Prevail?, Kathryn Shephard
Northwestern University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Reclaiming The Equitable Heritage Of Habeas, Erica Hashimoto
Reclaiming The Equitable Heritage Of Habeas, Erica Hashimoto
Northwestern University Law Review
No abstract provided.
What Is Wrong With Sex In Authority Relations? A Study In Law And Social Theory, Galia Schneebaum
What Is Wrong With Sex In Authority Relations? A Study In Law And Social Theory, Galia Schneebaum
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
Criminalization of Sex within Authority Relations (SAR)—such as sex in the relationship between a therapist and a patient or an employer and an employee—is a growing phenomenon. Current theories conceptualize and consequently justify SAR offenses either under a liberal conception of sexual autonomy or under a feminist conception of gender inequality. Yet both conceptualizations are inadequate and fail to capture the distinctiveness of this new legal category. Specifically, they fail to explain the main puzzle underlying SAR offenses, which proscribe sexual contact in the absence of coercion by the offender. Rejecting both liberal and feminist analytical frameworks, this Article draws …
Forward: The Past And Future Of Guns, James Lindgren
Forward: The Past And Future Of Guns, James Lindgren
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
No abstract provided.
Trevino V. Thaler: Falling Short Of Meaningful Federal Habeas Corpus Reform, Cristina Law
Trevino V. Thaler: Falling Short Of Meaningful Federal Habeas Corpus Reform, Cristina Law
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
Prisoners face many barriers when petitioning for federal habeas corpus relief, especially when asserting ineffective assistance of trial counsel claims. The Supreme Court’s decision in Trevino v. Thaler attempted to lower these barriers by carving out a narrow exception to the procedural default rule. Although a step in the right direction, this narrow exception fell short of meaningful habeas corpus reform. This Comment argues that although the Supreme Court’s decision in Trevino appears to guarantee habeas corpus petitioners the ability to raise ineffective assistance of trial counsel claims in federal court, it is unlikely to provide prisoners meaningful opportunities to …
Some Sources Of Crime Guns In Chicago: Dirty Dealers, Straw Purchasers, And Traffickers, Philip J Cook, Richard J. Harris, Jens Ludwig, Harold A. Pollack
Some Sources Of Crime Guns In Chicago: Dirty Dealers, Straw Purchasers, And Traffickers, Philip J Cook, Richard J. Harris, Jens Ludwig, Harold A. Pollack
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
No abstract provided.
Paternal Incarceration And Adolescent Well-Being: Life Course Contingencies And Other Moderators, Raymond R. Swisher, Unique R. Shaw-Smith
Paternal Incarceration And Adolescent Well-Being: Life Course Contingencies And Other Moderators, Raymond R. Swisher, Unique R. Shaw-Smith
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
No abstract provided.
The Posse Comitatus And The Office Of Sheriff: Armed Citizens Summoned To The Aid Of Law Enforcement, David B. Kopel
The Posse Comitatus And The Office Of Sheriff: Armed Citizens Summoned To The Aid Of Law Enforcement, David B. Kopel
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
No abstract provided.
Framing A Narrative Of Discrimination Under The Eighth Amendment In The Context Of Transgender Prisoner Health Care, Sarah Halbach
Framing A Narrative Of Discrimination Under The Eighth Amendment In The Context Of Transgender Prisoner Health Care, Sarah Halbach
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
This Comment looks closely at the reasoning behind two recent federal court opinions granting transgender prisoners access to hormone therapy and sex-reassignment surgery. Although both opinions were decided under the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment, which does not expressly prohibit discrimination based on gender identity, a careful look at the courts’ reasoning suggests that they were influenced by the apparent discrimination against the transgender plaintiffs. This Comment argues that future transgender prisoners may be able to develop an antidiscrimination doctrine within the Eighth Amendment by framing their Eighth Amendment medical claims in terms of discrimination based on …
Maternal And Paternal Imprisonment And Children's Social Exclusion In Young Adulthood, Holly Foster, John Hagan
Maternal And Paternal Imprisonment And Children's Social Exclusion In Young Adulthood, Holly Foster, John Hagan
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
The United States has entered its fourth decade of high imprisonment levels. It is now possible to assess the impact of parental imprisonment on children who have completed the transition to adulthood. We elaborate the role of parental incarceration from a life course perspective on intergenerational social exclusion in young adulthood. The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health [Add Health] representatively sampled the historically unique national cohort born in the 1980s, during the onset of mass incarceration. Four waves of the Add Health survey provide a valuable moving window on incarcerated parents and the transitions of their children from adolescence, …
The Psychology Of Workplace Deviant & Criminal Behavior, William Brice, Deborah E. Rupp
The Psychology Of Workplace Deviant & Criminal Behavior, William Brice, Deborah E. Rupp
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
The 2013 book Deviant and Criminal Behavior in the Workplace addresses the psychological constructs, situations, and environments underlying active counterproductive workplace behaviors. Building on a diverse range of psychological findings, this book highlights that the field of criminology needs to expand outside of the realm of violence and instead look at how deviant workplace behaviors can tie into—and motivate—other types of crime.
Estimating The Prevalence Of Entrapment In Post-9/11 Terrorism Cases, Jesse J. Norris, Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk
Estimating The Prevalence Of Entrapment In Post-9/11 Terrorism Cases, Jesse J. Norris, Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
How many of the terrorism convictions since September 11, 2001 have been the product of entrapment? Some scholars and journalists have suggested that the number is quite high. One report went so far as to claim that only 1% of terrorism prosecutions involve “real” terrorism. The government’s defenders, at the opposite extreme, come close to saying that entrapment in a terrorism case is a contradiction in terms.
Little empirical basis exists for evaluating these competing claims. Existing literature on terrorism and entrapment is typically based on detailed discussions of a few egregious cases, rather than systematic analysis of the phenomenon. …
Prosecutors And Victims: Why Wrongful Convictions Matter, Jeanne Bishop, Mark Osler
Prosecutors And Victims: Why Wrongful Convictions Matter, Jeanne Bishop, Mark Osler
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
Often, discussions of wrongful convictions focus almost entirely on the wrongfully convicted and ignore two important constituencies: prosecutors and crime victims. Both constituencies have unique connections to wrongful convictions and should be recognized as potentially powerful allies for change. Prosecutors are deeply committed to justice and to the outcomes of their cases; they can help identify and correct wrongful convictions and introduce policies to avoid wrongful convictions in the first place. Wrongful convictions matter to crime victims because convicting the wrong person leaves the real perpetrator free to commit more crimes, creates a new, innocent victim, and drains resources that …
The Chronic Failure To Discipline Prosecutors For Misconduct: Proposals For Reform, Thomas P. Sullivan, Maurice Possley
The Chronic Failure To Discipline Prosecutors For Misconduct: Proposals For Reform, Thomas P. Sullivan, Maurice Possley
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
While most prosecutors adhere to the maxim that their primary task is to obtain just results, there are some who violate their ethical responsibilities in order to rack up convictions. This article describes the distressing, decades-long absence of discipline imposed on prosecutors whose knowing misconduct has resulted in terrible injustices being visited upon defendants throughout the country. Many honorable lawyers have failed to speak out about errant prosecutors, thus enabling their ethical breaches. The silent accessories include practicing lawyers and judges of trial and reviewing courts who, having observed prosecutorial misconduct, failed to take corrective action. Fault also lies with …
Lawful Or Fair? How Cops And Laypeople Perceive Good Policing, Tracey L. Meares, Tom R. Tyler, Jacob Gardener
Lawful Or Fair? How Cops And Laypeople Perceive Good Policing, Tracey L. Meares, Tom R. Tyler, Jacob Gardener
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
Legal authorities and the public live in two separate worlds. One world is suffused with law, and the other world is suffused with people’s lived experiences that support their evaluations of fairness. When legal authorities consider whether police policies and practices are desirable, a framework regarding the lawfulness of the relevant policies and practices dominates the conversation. Police departments, their policies, and police officers’ actions are viewed as right or wrong with reference to constitutional standards, as interpreted by prosecutors, judges, and other legal actors. In contrast, we argue that the public is generally insensitive to the question of whether …
To Be Judged By Twelve Or Carried By Six? Quasi-Involuntariness And The Criminal Prosecution Of Service Members For The Use Of Force In Combat - A Grunt's Perspective, Lupe Laguna
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
Post-9/11 conflicts have altered the way that the United States of America and her allies fight wars. Over the last ten years military commanders have embraced counterinsurgency doctrine as the path to victory in the War on Terror. As they have done so, commanders have been faced with the difficult task of balancing the need to protect local civilian populations with the need to proactively target insurgent fighters. To accomplish this mission, the military has adopted rules of engagement that allow a service member to engage a target when he or she perceives that the target exhibits “hostile intent.” The …
Sentencing And Interbranch Dialogue, Eric S. Fish
Sentencing And Interbranch Dialogue, Eric S. Fish
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
American legislatures generally delegate primary control over sentencing policy to one of two actors: trial judges or a sentencing commission. In choosing between these actors, a legislature decides between two values: individualization or uniformity. If it empowers trial judges, sentences will be individually tailored to each defendant, but there will be unjust disparities because different judges have different sentencing practices. If it empowers a sentencing commission, sentences will be uniform across cases, but they will not be tailored to each defendant. This Article proposes a different architecture for American sentencing systems, one that relies on interbranch dialogue to transcend this …
Investigating The Programmatic Attack: A National Survey Of Veterans Treatment Courts, Julie Marie Baldwin
Investigating The Programmatic Attack: A National Survey Of Veterans Treatment Courts, Julie Marie Baldwin
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
Veterans treatment courts (VTCs), a recent emergence from the specialized court movement, target the population of veterans in contact with the criminal justice system. Due to the contemporary nature of their dissemination, published empirical research on VTCs is only beginning to materialize. Additionally, national surveys of specialized courts are rare and typically occur decades after the courts emerge. This Article presents descriptive results regarding the establishment, policy, structure, and procedures of VTCs using data from the first national survey of these courts, conducted in the early stages of their emergence. A national compendium of VTCs (N = 114) was created. …
Symposium On The Center On Wrongful Convictions: Foreward, Karen L. Daniel
Symposium On The Center On Wrongful Convictions: Foreward, Karen L. Daniel
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
No abstract provided.
An Ideological Odyssey: Evolution Of A Reformer, Rob Warden
An Ideological Odyssey: Evolution Of A Reformer, Rob Warden
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
No abstract provided.