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Improving Police Discretion Rationality In Handling Public Inebriates Part Ii, David Aaronson
Improving Police Discretion Rationality In Handling Public Inebriates Part Ii, David Aaronson
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Improving Police Discretion: Rationality In Handling Public Inebriates, David Aaronson , C. Dienes, Michael Musheno
Improving Police Discretion: Rationality In Handling Public Inebriates, David Aaronson , C. Dienes, Michael Musheno
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This two-part article reports on the findings of the "prescriptive" phase of the American University Law School's Project on Public Inebriation.' First, we provide a framework or model designed to contribute to efforts to improve the rationality of police discretion and the quality of discretionary justice. Second, we seek to increase understanding of, and provide the basis for improving, the intake process whereby public inebriates are delivered to designated facilities-jails, detoxification centers, etc.-in criminal and decriminalized jurisdictions. While the article focuses on the discretionary power of police officers to remove street inebriates, it should increase awareness of problems of decriminalizing …
Improving Police Discretion: Rationality In Handling Public Inebriates, David Aaronson
Improving Police Discretion: Rationality In Handling Public Inebriates, David Aaronson
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
Criminal Law Reform In The District Of Columbia, David Aaronson
Criminal Law Reform In The District Of Columbia, David Aaronson
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INTRODUCTION: The prospects for meaningful, comprehensive revision of the District of Columbia's substantive criminal laws have improved markedly in recent years. In the most promising of recent political developments, Congress established a Law Review Commission for the District of Columbia in August of 1974 with a broad mandate to give special consideration to revision of the criminal code.' Since jurisdiction to initiate revision of the criminal laws will pass to the District of Columbia Council in January of 1977 pursuant to the Home Rule Act, Congress has substantial incentive to give final approval to a new criminal code within two …