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Crime In Public Housing: Clarifying Research Issues, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Tamara Dumanovsky, J. Phillip Thompson, Garth Davies Jan 1998

Crime In Public Housing: Clarifying Research Issues, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Tamara Dumanovsky, J. Phillip Thompson, Garth Davies

Faculty Scholarship

In recent years, crime and public housing have been closely linked in our political and popular cultures. Tragic episodes of violence have reinforced the notion that public housing is a milieu with rates of victimization and offending far greater than other locales. However, these recent developments belie the complex social and political evolution of public housing from its origins in the 1930s, through urban renewal, and into the present.

Stereotypes abound about public housing, its management, residents, and crime rates. In reality, variation is the norm, and it is these variations that affect crime. The study of crime in public …


Genetic Technology And Its Impact On Culpability For Criminal Actions , Marcia Johnson Jan 1998

Genetic Technology And Its Impact On Culpability For Criminal Actions , Marcia Johnson

Cleveland State Law Review

This article addresses only one issue, one which our judicial system ultimately must address: the criminal responsibility one will bear for committing a crime when the actions are determined by the actor's genetic make-up. Part I of the article traces the roots of genetic research from Darwinism to eugenics and Nazi racial purity theories. Part II reviews theories and studies which support the concept of genetic influence on social, particularly criminal, behavior. Part III considers the impact of the genetic revolution on our criminal justice system with special emphasis on the effect on our system's fundamental concept of free will. …


The Court Upholds A State Law Prohibiting Physician-Assisted Suicide, Brett Feinberg Jan 1998

The Court Upholds A State Law Prohibiting Physician-Assisted Suicide, Brett Feinberg

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Federal False Statement Prosecutions: The Absurd Becomes Material, Bradford R. Hise Jan 1998

Federal False Statement Prosecutions: The Absurd Becomes Material, Bradford R. Hise

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Legislating Through The Use Of Commentary: The Sentencing Commission's Interpretation Of 994(H) Of The Sentencing Reform Act, Jeffrey H. Knox Jan 1998

Legislating Through The Use Of Commentary: The Sentencing Commission's Interpretation Of 994(H) Of The Sentencing Reform Act, Jeffrey H. Knox

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Mental Illness: A Sexually Violent Predator Is Punished Twice For One Crime, Eli M. Rollman Jan 1998

Mental Illness: A Sexually Violent Predator Is Punished Twice For One Crime, Eli M. Rollman

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Physician-Assisted Suicide And Voluntary Euthanasia: Some Relevant Differences, John Deigh Jan 1998

Physician-Assisted Suicide And Voluntary Euthanasia: Some Relevant Differences, John Deigh

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


An Inquiry Into The Right Of Criminal Juries To Determine The Law In Colonial America, Stanton D. Krauss Jan 1998

An Inquiry Into The Right Of Criminal Juries To Determine The Law In Colonial America, Stanton D. Krauss

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Recent Books Jan 1998

Recent Books

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Alcohol And Homicide In The United States 1934-1995--Or One Reason Why U.S. Rates Of Violence May Be Going Down, Robert Nash Parker, Randi S. Cartmill Jan 1998

Alcohol And Homicide In The United States 1934-1995--Or One Reason Why U.S. Rates Of Violence May Be Going Down, Robert Nash Parker, Randi S. Cartmill

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Asymmetrical Causation And Criminal Desistance, Christopher Uggen, Irving Piliavin Jan 1998

Asymmetrical Causation And Criminal Desistance, Christopher Uggen, Irving Piliavin

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Understanding The Time Path Of Crime, John J. Donohue Jan 1998

Understanding The Time Path Of Crime, John J. Donohue

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Another Stab At Schneckloth: The Problem Of Limited Consent Searches And Plain View Seizures, Michael J. Friedman Jan 1998

Another Stab At Schneckloth: The Problem Of Limited Consent Searches And Plain View Seizures, Michael J. Friedman

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Lindesmith V. Anslinger: An Early Government Victory In The Failed War On Drugs, John F. Galliher, David P. Keys, Michael Elsner Jan 1998

Lindesmith V. Anslinger: An Early Government Victory In The Failed War On Drugs, John F. Galliher, David P. Keys, Michael Elsner

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Does Congress Abuse Its Spending Clause Power By Attaching Conditions On The Receipt Of Federal Law Enforcement Funds To A State's Compliance With Megan's Law, W. Paul Koenig Jan 1998

Does Congress Abuse Its Spending Clause Power By Attaching Conditions On The Receipt Of Federal Law Enforcement Funds To A State's Compliance With Megan's Law, W. Paul Koenig

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


The Misappropriation Theory: A Valid Application Of 10(B) To Protect Property Rights In Information, Keith Adam Simon Jan 1998

The Misappropriation Theory: A Valid Application Of 10(B) To Protect Property Rights In Information, Keith Adam Simon

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Consequences Of False Confessions: Deprivations Of Liberty And Miscarriages Of Justice In The Age Of Psychological Interrogation, Richard A. Leo, Richard J. Ofshe Jan 1998

Consequences Of False Confessions: Deprivations Of Liberty And Miscarriages Of Justice In The Age Of Psychological Interrogation, Richard A. Leo, Richard J. Ofshe

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Protecting The Innocent From False Confessions And Lost Confessions--And From Miranda, Paul G. Cassell Jan 1998

Protecting The Innocent From False Confessions And Lost Confessions--And From Miranda, Paul G. Cassell

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Using The Innocent To Scapegoat Miranda: Another Reply To Paul Cassell, Richard A. Leo, Richard J. Ofshe Jan 1998

Using The Innocent To Scapegoat Miranda: Another Reply To Paul Cassell, Richard A. Leo, Richard J. Ofshe

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Requiring Battered Women Die: Murder Liability For Mothers Under Failure To Protect Statutes, Michelle S. Jacobs Jan 1998

Requiring Battered Women Die: Murder Liability For Mothers Under Failure To Protect Statutes, Michelle S. Jacobs

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


The Limits Of The Preventive State, Carol S. Steiker Jan 1998

The Limits Of The Preventive State, Carol S. Steiker

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


A Look At The Use Of Acquitted Conduct In Sentencing, Erica K. Beutler Jan 1998

A Look At The Use Of Acquitted Conduct In Sentencing, Erica K. Beutler

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Fourth Amendment And Traffic Stops: Bright-Line Rules In Conjunction With The Totality Of The Circumstances Test, Aaron H. Mendelsohn Jan 1998

Fourth Amendment And Traffic Stops: Bright-Line Rules In Conjunction With The Totality Of The Circumstances Test, Aaron H. Mendelsohn

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Exluding Automobile Passengers From Fourth Amendment Protection, Jenny L. Riggs Jan 1998

Exluding Automobile Passengers From Fourth Amendment Protection, Jenny L. Riggs

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Cyberporn And Censorship: Constitutional Barriers To Preventing Access To Internet Pornography By Minors, Glenn E. Simon Jan 1998

Cyberporn And Censorship: Constitutional Barriers To Preventing Access To Internet Pornography By Minors, Glenn E. Simon

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Lawyers, Guns, And Money: What Price Justice, Timothy R. Terry Jan 1998

Lawyers, Guns, And Money: What Price Justice, Timothy R. Terry

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Problems Presented By The Compelling, Heartwrenching Case, Yale Kamisar Jan 1998

Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Problems Presented By The Compelling, Heartwrenching Case, Yale Kamisar

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Religious Perspectives On Assisted Suicide, Cristina L.H. Traina Jan 1998

Religious Perspectives On Assisted Suicide, Cristina L.H. Traina

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Comments On Kamisar, Daniel D. Polsby Jan 1998

Comments On Kamisar, Daniel D. Polsby

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Recent Books Jan 1998

Recent Books

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.