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The Harmful Addiction To The War On Drugs, Walter E. Block, Alan G. Futerman
The Harmful Addiction To The War On Drugs, Walter E. Block, Alan G. Futerman
Touro Law Review
Most modern societies prohibit the use of addictive drugs such as cocaine and heroin. We contend this is a mistake. They should all be legalized, forthwith, since their usage constitutes a victimless crime. But more, we also maintain that these jurisdictions are actually addicted to these unjust and harmful laws since, no matter what the logic or the evidence about the perniciousness of this legislation, it still remains on the books
Major Privileges And Shortcomings Of Cryptocurrency In The Republic Of Uzbekistan, A Davronov
Major Privileges And Shortcomings Of Cryptocurrency In The Republic Of Uzbekistan, A Davronov
ProAcademy
This article explores the use of crypto assets in criminal activities, also analyzes the law on digital economy
Reasonable Suspicion And Mere Hunches, Craig S. Lerner
Reasonable Suspicion And Mere Hunches, Craig S. Lerner
Vanderbilt Law Review
In Terry v. Ohio, Earl Warren held that police officers could temporarily detain a suspect, provided that they relied upon "specific, reasonable inferences," and not simply upon an "inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or 'hunch."' Since Terry, courts have strained to distinguish "reasonable suspicion," which is said to arise from the cool analysis of objective and particularized facts, from "mere hunches," which are said to be subjective, generalized, unreasoned and therefore unreliable. Yet this dichotomy between facts and intuitions is built on sand. Emotions and intuitions are not obstacles to reason, but indispensable heuristic devices that allow people to process diffuse, …
The Balance Between Fighting Street Gangs And Adhering To The Constitution In Southern California, D. Cameron Beck, Jr.
The Balance Between Fighting Street Gangs And Adhering To The Constitution In Southern California, D. Cameron Beck, Jr.
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
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"Carrot And Stick" Sentencing: Structuring Incentives For Organizational Defendants, John C. Coffee Jr.
"Carrot And Stick" Sentencing: Structuring Incentives For Organizational Defendants, John C. Coffee Jr.
Faculty Scholarship
The new "Draft Guidelines for Organizational Defendants" released by the U.S. Sentencing Commission on October 25, 1990, explicitly adopt a "'carrot and stick' approach" to sentencing. While the boldly instrumental use made of sentencing penalties and credits in these guidelines will trouble some, the larger question is whether the Commission's social engineering will work. Two issues stand out: First, is the Commission's carrot mightier than its stick? At first glance, this may seem a surprising question because the "stick" in the Commission's guidelines seemingly packs a Ruthian wallop: fines under the draft guidelines are based on a multiple of the …