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Behavioral Genetics & Criminal Culpability: Addressing The Problem Of Free Will In The Context Of The Modern American Justice System, Tufik Y. Shayeb
Behavioral Genetics & Criminal Culpability: Addressing The Problem Of Free Will In The Context Of The Modern American Justice System, Tufik Y. Shayeb
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
More important than the insensitivity of certain criminal offenders to changes and benefits is the impropriety of casting the crime problem wholy in terms of a utilitarian calculus. The most serious offenses are crimes not simply because society finds them inconvenient, but because it regards them with moral horror. To steal, to rape, to rob, to assault - these acts are destructive of the very possibility of society and affronts to the humanity of their victims.
Civil Arrest? (Another) St. Louis Case Study In Unconstitutionality, Mae Quinn, Eirik Cheverud
Civil Arrest? (Another) St. Louis Case Study In Unconstitutionality, Mae Quinn, Eirik Cheverud
Journal Articles
This Article advances a simple claim in need of enforcement in this country right now: no person may be arrested for an alleged violation of civil, as opposed to criminal, law. Indeed, courts have long interpreted the Fourth Amendment as prohibiting arrest except when probable cause exists to believe that a crime has been committed and that the defendant is the person who committed the crime. However, in many places police take citizens into custody without a warrant for the non-criminal conduct of allegedly breaking civil laws. This unfortunate phenomenon received national attention in St. Louis, Missouri following the death …
In Loco Juvenile Justice: Minors In Munis, Cash From Kids, And Adolescent Pro Se Advocacy - Ferguson And Beyond, Mae Quinn
Journal Articles
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