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1978

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An Examination Of A Desert-Based Presumptive Sentence Schedule, Arthur G. Lefrancois Dec 1977

An Examination Of A Desert-Based Presumptive Sentence Schedule, Arthur G. Lefrancois

Arthur G. LeFrancois

No abstract provided.


The Market For Legal Services: Paraprofessionals And Specialists, Selma Colvin, David Stager, Larry Taman, Janet Yale, Frederick H. Zemans Dec 1977

The Market For Legal Services: Paraprofessionals And Specialists, Selma Colvin, David Stager, Larry Taman, Janet Yale, Frederick H. Zemans

Frederick H. Zemans

This is a working paper prepared for The Professional Organizations Committee.


French Claims In North America, 1500-59, Brian Slattery Dec 1977

French Claims In North America, 1500-59, Brian Slattery

Brian Slattery

Historians usually trace the origins of Canada to the initial explorations of England and France, with emphasis upon the French voyages of the early sixteenth century involving Verrazzano, Cartier, and Roberval. France, it is said, officially asserted territorial rights in North America at this era, based upon the discoveries and acts of taking possession of its emissaries, and that these claims were sustained, if in a somewhat desultory manner, until the successful colonizing efforts of the following century. The French crown is thought to have treated North America as unowned land open to appropriation, territorium nullius, rejecting the claims of …


The Demise Of Procedural Protections In Laywitness Identifications In Federal Court: Who Is The Culprit, John F. Decker, Richard J. Moriarty, Edward Albert Dec 1977

The Demise Of Procedural Protections In Laywitness Identifications In Federal Court: Who Is The Culprit, John F. Decker, Richard J. Moriarty, Edward Albert

John Decker

No abstract provided.


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 …


The Oklahoma Supreme Court's New Rules On Legal Advertising: Some Practical, Legal, And Policy Questions, Lawrence K. Hellman Dec 1977

The Oklahoma Supreme Court's New Rules On Legal Advertising: Some Practical, Legal, And Policy Questions, Lawrence K. Hellman

Lawrence K. Hellman

No abstract provided.