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Gender Disparities In Plea Bargaining, Carlos Berdejo Oct 2019

Gender Disparities In Plea Bargaining, Carlos Berdejo

Indiana Law Journal

Across wide-ranging contexts, academic literature and the popular press have identified pervasive gender disparities favoring men over women in society. One area in which gender disparities have conversely favored women is the criminal justice system. Most of the empirical research examining gender disparities in criminal case outcomes has focused on judges’ sentencing decisions. Few studies have assessed disparities in the steps leading up to a defendant’s conviction, where various actors make choices that constrain judges’ ultimate sentencing discretion. This Article addresses this gap by examining gender disparities in the plea-bargaining process. The results presented in this Article reveal significant gender …


A Survey Of State Fetal Homicide Laws And Their Potential Applicability To Pregnant Women Who Harm Their Own Fetuses, Andrew S. Murphy Apr 2014

A Survey Of State Fetal Homicide Laws And Their Potential Applicability To Pregnant Women Who Harm Their Own Fetuses, Andrew S. Murphy

Indiana Law Journal

A discussion of the recent case in which a pregnant Indiana woman named Bei Bei Shuai was prosecuted for fetal homicide following a failed suicide attempt and later miscarriage. The Comment uses this case as a comparison point for different cases and statutes in all fifty states and suggests possible principles for a more unified doctrine and approach.


Domestic Violence And State Intervention In The American West And Australia, 1860-1930, Carolyn B. Ramsey Jan 2011

Domestic Violence And State Intervention In The American West And Australia, 1860-1930, Carolyn B. Ramsey

Indiana Law Journal

This Article calls into question stereotypical assumptions about the presumed lack of state intervention in the family and the patriarchal violence of Anglo- American frontier societies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By analyzing previously unexamined cases of domestic assault and homicide in the American West and Australia, Professor Ramsey reveals a sustained (but largely ineffectual) effort to civilize men by punishing violence against women. Husbands in both the American West and Australia were routinely arrested or summoned to court for beating their wives in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Judges, police officers, journalists, and others expressed …


Lucky: The Sequel, Martha Chamallas Apr 2005

Lucky: The Sequel, Martha Chamallas

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


With Justice For Whom? The Presumption Of Moral Innocence In Rape Trials, Stacey Pastel Dougan Apr 1996

With Justice For Whom? The Presumption Of Moral Innocence In Rape Trials, Stacey Pastel Dougan

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Why Civil Protection Orders Are Effective Remedies For Domestic Violence But Mutual Protective Orders Are Not, Elizabeth Topliffe Oct 1992

Why Civil Protection Orders Are Effective Remedies For Domestic Violence But Mutual Protective Orders Are Not, Elizabeth Topliffe

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Beyond Maryland V. Craig: Can And Should Adult Rape Victims Be Permitted To Testify By Closed-Circuit Television?, Lisa Hamilton Thielmeyer Jul 1992

Beyond Maryland V. Craig: Can And Should Adult Rape Victims Be Permitted To Testify By Closed-Circuit Television?, Lisa Hamilton Thielmeyer

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Does Plight Make Right: The Battered Woman Syndrome, Expert Testimony And The Law Of Self-Defense, Mira Mihajlovich Oct 1987

Does Plight Make Right: The Battered Woman Syndrome, Expert Testimony And The Law Of Self-Defense, Mira Mihajlovich

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Indiana Criminal And Penal Legislation Respecting Women (Concluded), Daniel James Feb 1933

Indiana Criminal And Penal Legislation Respecting Women (Concluded), Daniel James

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Indiana Criminal And Penal Legislation Respecting Women, Daniel James Jan 1933

Indiana Criminal And Penal Legislation Respecting Women, Daniel James

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.