Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Law Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Criminal Law

Criminal Law

Ira P. Robbins

1977

Articles 1 - 2 of 2

Full-Text Articles in Law

Punitive Conditions Of Prison Confinement: An Analysis Of Pugh V. Locke And Federal Court Supervision Of State Penal Administration Under The Eighth Amendment, Ira P. Robbins Apr 1977

Punitive Conditions Of Prison Confinement: An Analysis Of Pugh V. Locke And Federal Court Supervision Of State Penal Administration Under The Eighth Amendment, Ira P. Robbins

Ira P. Robbins

The 1960's marked a watershed for the criminal justice system. In such areas as search and seizure, right to counsel and the privilege against self-incrimination, the federal courts first defined substantive constitutional rights and then imposed them upon disinclined functionaries at the state level. At first, these innovations raised thorny questions of constitutional interpretation about the rights involved, but, as is especially visible in the search and seizure area, the debate more recently has focused on the remedy chosen by the Supreme Court for enforcing these rights against the states.' This pattern of escalating federal involvement in the criminal justice …


Learning By Redoing, Review Of A. Von Hirsch, Doing Justice: The Choice Of Punishments, Ira P. Robbins Dec 1976

Learning By Redoing, Review Of A. Von Hirsch, Doing Justice: The Choice Of Punishments, Ira P. Robbins

Ira P. Robbins

Book review of Doing Justice: The Choice of Punishments. By Andrew von Hirsch. New York: Hill & Wang, 1976. Pp. xi, 179. $8.95.