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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Justice Begins Before Trial: How To Nudge Inaccurate Pretrial Rulings Using Behavioral Law And Economic Theory And Uniform Commercial Laws, Michael Gentithes
Justice Begins Before Trial: How To Nudge Inaccurate Pretrial Rulings Using Behavioral Law And Economic Theory And Uniform Commercial Laws, Michael Gentithes
William & Mary Law Review
Injustice in criminal cases often takes root before trial begins. Overworked criminal judges must resolve difficult pretrial evidentiary issues that determine the charges the State will take to trial and the range of sentences the defendant will face. Wrong decisions on these issues often lead to wrongful convictions. As behavioral law and economic theory suggests, judges who are cognitively busy and receive little feedback on these topics from appellate courts rely upon intuition, rather than deliberative reasoning, to resolve these questions. This leads to inconsistent rulings, which prosecutors exploit to expand the scope of evidentiary exceptions that almost always disfavor …
Criminalizing “Private” Torture, Tania Tetlow
Criminalizing “Private” Torture, Tania Tetlow
William & Mary Law Review
This Article proposes a state crime against torture by private actors as a far better way to capture the harm of serious domestic violence. Current criminal law misses the cumulative terror of domestic violence by fracturing it into individualized, misdemeanor batteries. Instead, a torture statute would punish a pattern crime— the batterer’s use of repeated violence and threats for the purpose of controlling his victim. And, for the first time, a torture statute would ban nonviolent techniques committed with the intent to cause severe pain and suffering, including psychological torture, sexual degradation, and sleep deprivation.
Because serious domestic violence routinely …
I'Ll Make You A Deal: How Repeat Informants Are Corrupting The Criminal Justice System And What To Do About It, Emily Jane Dodds
I'Ll Make You A Deal: How Repeat Informants Are Corrupting The Criminal Justice System And What To Do About It, Emily Jane Dodds
William & Mary Law Review
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A Strategy For Mercy, Robert L. Misner
A Strategy For Mercy, Robert L. Misner
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Dead End Of Deterrence, And Beyond, Kyron Huigens
The Dead End Of Deterrence, And Beyond, Kyron Huigens
William & Mary Law Review
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Crimes Against Autonomy: Gerald Dworkin On The Enforcement Of Morality, Lawrence C. Becker
Crimes Against Autonomy: Gerald Dworkin On The Enforcement Of Morality, Lawrence C. Becker
William & Mary Law Review
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