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To Catch A Killer: Roadblocks And The Fourth Amendment, Michael T. Morley
To Catch A Killer: Roadblocks And The Fourth Amendment, Michael T. Morley
Scholarly Publications
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First Nations And States: Contesting Polities, David E. Wilkins
First Nations And States: Contesting Polities, David E. Wilkins
Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications
The U.S. Supreme Court in an historic case in 1886, U.S. v. Kagama, which devastated tribal sovereignty by affirming the legality of the 1885 Major Crimes Act that problematically extended federal criminal jurisdiction over "all" Indians for seven major crimes—murder, manslaughter, rape, etc., (today that number has increased to 14 crimes)—more accurately declared in that same case that state governments could be characterized as the "deadliest enemies" of indigenous nations.
The Politics Of Crime And The Threat To Judicial Independence, Jeannine Bell
The Politics Of Crime And The Threat To Judicial Independence, Jeannine Bell
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Still Tough On Crime? Prospects For Restorative Justice In The United States, Sara Sun Beale
Still Tough On Crime? Prospects For Restorative Justice In The United States, Sara Sun Beale
Faculty Scholarship
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Retribution: The Central Aim Of Punishment, Gerard V. Bradley
Retribution: The Central Aim Of Punishment, Gerard V. Bradley
Journal Articles
When I worked for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in the early 1980s, criminal sentences were consistently and dramatically too lenient. Though those years marked the ebb tide for the rehabilitative ideal of punishment and indeterminate "zip-to-ten" sentences, only career felons and those convicted of the most serious crimes were candidates for the sentences they justly deserved. Hamstrung by apparently silly rules of constitutional etiquette and bureaucratic sclerosis, the police were eclipsed in the mind of the public by the cold-blooded Everyman, bound only by the law of the jungle and some elusive sense of justice. Ultimately, popular demand required …
Barriers To Reliable Credibility Assessments: Domestic Violence Victim-Witnesses, Laurie S. Kohn
Barriers To Reliable Credibility Assessments: Domestic Violence Victim-Witnesses, Laurie S. Kohn
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
This Article examines the challenges for victims of domestic violence appearing in court when the victim presents differently than the paradigmatic domestic violence victim. In particular, this Article analyzes the strategic dilemma of presenting a victim who refuses to admit (or cannot access or does not experience) fear of the batterer, and the victim who feels anger towards her assailant.
This Article addresses possible policy and tactical responses to this challenge. Suggesting legislative changes that eliminate requirements that victims prove subjective fear of a battering partner, the Article further analyzes the use of expert witnesses to assist jurors and judges …