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Postwar Vice Crime And Political Corruption In Portland, Robert Christian Donnelly
Postwar Vice Crime And Political Corruption In Portland, Robert Christian Donnelly
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The present thesis describes the connection between political corruption and vice crime in Portland as it was portrayed by media and public institutions and agencies in the 1940s and 1950s. The main body of the thesis discusses attempts to rid Portland of its vice problem through the City Club's crusade against crime and crooked politicians in the late 1940s and early 1950s and Mayor Dorothy McCullough Lee's subsequent reform movements against gambling and prostitution. The thesis will analyze The Oregonian's expose' on bootlegging, gambling, prostitution and links drawn by the newspaper to the Teamster's Union and Oregon politicians. From there, …
Reforming The Federal Criminal Code: A Top Ten List, Paul H. Robinson
Reforming The Federal Criminal Code: A Top Ten List, Paul H. Robinson
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The Bomb Thief And The Theory Of Justification, Paul H. Robinson
The Bomb Thief And The Theory Of Justification, Paul H. Robinson
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Immaturity And Irresponsibility, Stephen J. Morse
Immaturity And Irresponsibility, Stephen J. Morse
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The Utility Of Desert, Paul H. Robinson, John M. Darley
The Utility Of Desert, Paul H. Robinson, John M. Darley
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The article takes up the debate between utility and desert as distributive principles for criminal liability and punishment and concludes that a utilitarian analysis that takes account of all costs and benefits will support the distribution of liability and punishment according to desert, or at least according to the principles of desert as perceived by the community. It reaches this conclusion after an examination of a variety of recent social science data. On the one hand, it finds the traditional utilitarian theories of deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation to have little effect in many instances. It finds instead that the real …
Crimes And Defenses Of Rodion Raskolnikov, Vera Bergelson
Crimes And Defenses Of Rodion Raskolnikov, Vera Bergelson
Kentucky Law Journal
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