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Narco-Terrorism: Could The Legislative And Prosecutorial Responses Threaten Our Civil Liberties?, John E. Thomas, Jr. Sep 2009

Narco-Terrorism: Could The Legislative And Prosecutorial Responses Threaten Our Civil Liberties?, John E. Thomas, Jr.

Washington and Lee Law Review

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If Not Now, When? Individual And Collective Responsibility For Male Intimate Violence, G. Kristian Miccio Mar 2009

If Not Now, When? Individual And Collective Responsibility For Male Intimate Violence, G. Kristian Miccio

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Criminal Justice And The Public Imagination, Erik Luna Jan 2009

Criminal Justice And The Public Imagination, Erik Luna

Scholarly Articles

As this symposium demonstrates, criminology has much to offer criminal law and procedure. But there are limits to this endeavor, such as when public policy is distorted by powerful emotions that ignore the lessons of legal doctrine and social science. This article presents one possible response in such circumstances: expanding the interdisciplinary relationship to include literary and cultural materials usually associated with the humanities. These works can inspire the public imagination in ways that law and criminology cannot, at times offering an alternative narrative to counter emotion-driven claims of necessity, for instance, and raising the exact type of questions that …