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Estimating The Prevalence Of Entrapment In Post-9/11 Terrorism Cases, Jesse J. Norris, Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk Jan 2015

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. …


The Unindicted Co-Ejaculator And Necrophilia: Addressing Prosecutors' Logic-Defying Responses To Exculpatory Dna Results, Jacqueline Mcmurtrie Jan 2015

The Unindicted Co-Ejaculator And Necrophilia: Addressing Prosecutors' Logic-Defying Responses To Exculpatory Dna Results, Jacqueline Mcmurtrie

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

This article addresses a prosecutor’s development of new and bizarre theories, particularly in cases involving confession evidence, to explain away exculpatory DNA results. In Juan Rivera’s case, the prosecutor’s theory for why sperm found inside the 11-year-old victim on the day she was murdered did not belong to Rivera was that she had sex with someone before Rivera came along and raped (but did not ejaculate) and murdered her. The unnamed-lover theory is used so often by prosecutors that it has a moniker: “the unindicted co-ejaculator.” In the case of the Dixmoor Five, teenagers convicted of the rape and murder …


Missing The Mark: Gun Control Is Not The Cure For What Ails The U.S. Mental Health System, Carolyn Reinach Wolf, Jamie A. Rosen Jan 2015

Missing The Mark: Gun Control Is Not The Cure For What Ails The U.S. Mental Health System, Carolyn Reinach Wolf, Jamie A. Rosen

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Some Sources Of Crime Guns In Chicago: Dirty Dealers, Straw Purchasers, And Traffickers, Philip J Cook, Richard J. Harris, Jens Ludwig, Harold A. Pollack Jan 2015

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.


Shadow Immigration Enforcement And Its Constitutional Dangers, Maureen A. Sweeney Jan 2014

Shadow Immigration Enforcement And Its Constitutional Dangers, Maureen A. Sweeney

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Parental Incarceration: What We Know And Where We Need To Go, Christopher Uggen, Suzy Mcelrath Jan 2014

Parental Incarceration: What We Know And Where We Need To Go, Christopher Uggen, Suzy Mcelrath

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Breaking Free Of The Prison Paradigm: Integrating Restorative Justice Techniques Into Chicago's Juvenile Justice System, Judy C. Tsui Jan 2014

Breaking Free Of The Prison Paradigm: Integrating Restorative Justice Techniques Into Chicago's Juvenile Justice System, Judy C. Tsui

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Fighting Cybercrime After United States V. Jones, David Gray, Danielle Keats Citron, Liz Clark Rinehart Jan 2013

Fighting Cybercrime After United States V. Jones, David Gray, Danielle Keats Citron, Liz Clark Rinehart

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Cybersurveillance Without Restraint? The Meaning And Social Value Of The Probable Cause And Reasonable Suspicion Standards In Governmental Access To Third-Party Electronic Records, Andrew E. Taslitz Jan 2013

Cybersurveillance Without Restraint? The Meaning And Social Value Of The Probable Cause And Reasonable Suspicion Standards In Governmental Access To Third-Party Electronic Records, Andrew E. Taslitz

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Disparities In Postconviction Remedies For Those Who Plead Guilty And Those Convicted At Trial: A Survey Of State Statutes And Recommendations For Reform, Rebecca Stephens Jan 2013

Disparities In Postconviction Remedies For Those Who Plead Guilty And Those Convicted At Trial: A Survey Of State Statutes And Recommendations For Reform, Rebecca Stephens

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Compensation Statutes And Post-Exoneration Offending, Evan J. Mandery, Amy Shlosberg, Valerie West, Bennett Callaghan Jan 2013

Compensation Statutes And Post-Exoneration Offending, Evan J. Mandery, Amy Shlosberg, Valerie West, Bennett Callaghan

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Walking Firearms To Gunrunners: Atf’S Flawed Operation In A Flawed System, Michael Krantz Jan 2013

Walking Firearms To Gunrunners: Atf’S Flawed Operation In A Flawed System, Michael Krantz

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Order, Technology, And The Constitutional Meanings Of Criminal Procedure, Thomas P. Crocker Jan 2013

Order, Technology, And The Constitutional Meanings Of Criminal Procedure, Thomas P. Crocker

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Rethinking The Use Of Community Supervision, Cecelia Klingele Jan 2013

Rethinking The Use Of Community Supervision, Cecelia Klingele

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


U.S. Supreme Court Decisions And Sex Offender Legislation: Evidence Of Evidence-Based Policy?, Christina Mancini, Daniel P. Mears Jan 2013

U.S. Supreme Court Decisions And Sex Offender Legislation: Evidence Of Evidence-Based Policy?, Christina Mancini, Daniel P. Mears

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


The Responsible Gun Ownership Ordinance And Novel Textual Questions About The Second Amendment, Owen Mcgovern Jan 2012

The Responsible Gun Ownership Ordinance And Novel Textual Questions About The Second Amendment, Owen Mcgovern

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Overcriminalizing Immigration, Jennifer M. Chacón Jan 2012

Overcriminalizing Immigration, Jennifer M. Chacón

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


The Data-Broker Threat: Proposing Federal Legislation To Protect Post-Expungement Privacy, Logan Danielle Wayne Jan 2012

The Data-Broker Threat: Proposing Federal Legislation To Protect Post-Expungement Privacy, Logan Danielle Wayne

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Camreta And Al-Kidd: The Supreme Court, The Fourth Amendment, And Witnesses, Kit Kinports Jan 2012

Camreta And Al-Kidd: The Supreme Court, The Fourth Amendment, And Witnesses, Kit Kinports

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


"Historic" In A Bad Way: How The Tribal Law And Order Act Continues The American Tradition Of Providing Inadequate Protection To American Indian And Alaska Native Rape Victims, Jasmine Owens Jan 2012

"Historic" In A Bad Way: How The Tribal Law And Order Act Continues The American Tradition Of Providing Inadequate Protection To American Indian And Alaska Native Rape Victims, Jasmine Owens

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Overcriminalization: New Approaches To A Growing Problem, Ellen S. Podgor Jan 2012

Overcriminalization: New Approaches To A Growing Problem, Ellen S. Podgor

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Prosecutorial Decriminalization, Erik Luna Jan 2012

Prosecutorial Decriminalization, Erik Luna

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


A View From The States: Evidence-Based Public Safety Legislation, Juliene James, Lauren-Brooke Eisen, Ram Subramanian Jan 2012

A View From The States: Evidence-Based Public Safety Legislation, Juliene James, Lauren-Brooke Eisen, Ram Subramanian

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Judicial Intervention And Juvenile Corrections Reform: A Case Study Of Jerry M. V. District Of Columbia, Will Singer Jan 2012

Judicial Intervention And Juvenile Corrections Reform: A Case Study Of Jerry M. V. District Of Columbia, Will Singer

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Prosecution In 3-D, Kay L. Levine, Ronald F. Wright Jan 2012

Prosecution In 3-D, Kay L. Levine, Ronald F. Wright

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Two Models Of The Prison: Accidental Humanity And Hypermasculinity In The L.A. County Jail, Sharon Dolovich Jan 2012

Two Models Of The Prison: Accidental Humanity And Hypermasculinity In The L.A. County Jail, Sharon Dolovich

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Prosecutorial Discretion, Hidden Costs, And The Death Penalty: The Case Of Los Angeles County, Nicholas Petersen, Mona Lynch Jan 2012

Prosecutorial Discretion, Hidden Costs, And The Death Penalty: The Case Of Los Angeles County, Nicholas Petersen, Mona Lynch

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


The Supreme Court’S Love–Hate Relationship With Miranda, Kit Kinports Jan 2011

The Supreme Court’S Love–Hate Relationship With Miranda, Kit Kinports

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Children Of Incarcerated Parents: The Child’S Constitutional Right To The Family Relationship, Chesa Boudin Jan 2011

Children Of Incarcerated Parents: The Child’S Constitutional Right To The Family Relationship, Chesa Boudin

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


A Law Of Passion, Not Of Principle, Nor Even Purpose: A Call To Repeal Or Revise The Adam Walsh Act Amendments To The Bail Reform Act Of 1984, Michael R. Handler Jan 2011

A Law Of Passion, Not Of Principle, Nor Even Purpose: A Call To Repeal Or Revise The Adam Walsh Act Amendments To The Bail Reform Act Of 1984, Michael R. Handler

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.