A Constitutional Analysis Of The Prohibition Against Collateral Attack In The Mexican-American Prisoner Exchange Treaty, Ira P. Robbins
Sep 1978
A Constitutional Analysis Of The Prohibition Against Collateral Attack In The Mexican-American Prisoner Exchange Treaty, Ira P. Robbins
Ira P. Robbins
Introduction: On November 25, 1976, the United States and Mexico concluded a bilateral treaty providing for reciprocal prisoner exchange, so that a national of one party to the agreement could complete his sentence in his home country.' The objectives of the agreement essentially were twofold: first, there was a need to ameliorate relations with Mexico on the delicate matter of the abuse of American citizens confined in Mexican prisons; second, there was a strong desire to alleviate special hardships, such as those respecting living conditions and prospects for rehabilitation, resulting from imprisonment in a foreign country.
The Treaty was ratified …
The Negotiated Guilty Plea: A Framework For Analysis, Richard Adelstein
Dec 1977
The Negotiated Guilty Plea: A Framework For Analysis, Richard Adelstein
Richard Adelstein
An early exposition of the price exaction framework and the place of plea bargaining in it.
The Plea Bargain In Theory
Dec 1977
The Plea Bargain In Theory
Richard Adelstein
A formal dynamic model of plea bargains.
Improving Police Discretion Rationality In Handling Public Inebriates Part Ii, David Aaronson
Dec 1977
Improving Police Discretion Rationality In Handling Public Inebriates Part Ii, David Aaronson
David Aaronson
No abstract provided.
Changing The Public Drunkenness Laws: The Impact Of Decriminalization, David Aaronson
Dec 1977
Changing The Public Drunkenness Laws: The Impact Of Decriminalization, David Aaronson
David Aaronson
Laws that decriminalize public drunkenness continue to use the police as the major intake agent for public inebriates under the "new" public health model of detoxification and treatment. Assuming that decriminalization introduces many disincentives to police intervention using legally sanctioned procedures, we hypothesize that it will be fol- lowed by a statistically significant decline in the number of public inebriates formally handled by the police in the manner designated by the "law in the books." Using an "interrupted time-series quasi- experiment" based on a "stratified multiple-group single-I design," we confirm this hypothesis for Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis, Minnesota. However, through …
