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So What's In A Name? A Rhetorical Reading Of Washington's Sexually Violent Predators Act, J. Christopher Rideout Jan 1992

So What's In A Name? A Rhetorical Reading Of Washington's Sexually Violent Predators Act, J. Christopher Rideout

Seattle University Law Review

In this Article, I will examine this socially constitutive function of narratives in the enactment of Washington State's Sexually Violent Predators Act.'0 This Act is a prime recent example of how social narratives-in this case, narratives of violence, pain, and outrage-lie behind the official language of the law. As Winter would point out, narrative was the vehicle that prompted legal change. The question for this Article, however, is what happens once the story has been recast into another form, here that of a statute? How well do the immediacy of the details and the authorial voice of the story lend …

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Oops - We Forgot To Put It In The Refrigerator: Dna Identification And The State's Duty To Preserve Evidence, 25 J. Marshall L. Rev. 809 (1992), Albert M.T. Finch Iii Jan 1992

Oops - We Forgot To Put It In The Refrigerator: Dna Identification And The State's Duty To Preserve Evidence, 25 J. Marshall L. Rev. 809 (1992), Albert M.T. Finch Iii

UIC Law Review

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A Modest Proposal To End Gun Running In America, Jeremy Travis, William Smarrito Jan 1992

A Modest Proposal To End Gun Running In America, Jeremy Travis, William Smarrito

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Gun violence is a serious issue in our society. However, finding common ground between those who favor, and those who oppose, gun control can be a difficult task. Mayor David Dinkins and the Police Department propose a four prong solution that would pave a middle ground acceptable to most individuals. (1) put teeth into the existing federal regulations concerning those proscribed from purchasing a gun, (2) limit interstate shipment of firearms only to those federal firearms dealers who show that they have complied with any existing local firearms dealer requirements; (3) provide tracing capabilities for interstate shipments of weapons; and …

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Reflections On Recent Remarks Of "That Unnecessary And Dangerous Officer", Roger J. Miner '56 Jan 1992

Reflections On Recent Remarks Of "That Unnecessary And Dangerous Officer", Roger J. Miner '56

Flag Day & Law Day Ceremonies

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Homicide And History, Edward L. Ayers Jan 1992

Homicide And History, Edward L. Ayers

History Faculty Publications

Violence seems more threatening today than in the relatively recent past. For centuries, crime was kept out of sight. The "criminal classes" were segregated from the rest of society. Newspapers, police, and courts paid relatively little attention to crimes among the poor. Today, things are different: television news thrives on scenes of flashing lights, distraught parents, and bloody sidewalks. Police continually patrol parts of town they used to ignore. Modern transportation permits members of the "dangerous classes" to range more widely than before. As a result, the general population is far more aware of violence now than in the past.

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Confronting Violence: In The Act And In The Word, David Boerner Jan 1992

Confronting Violence: In The Act And In The Word, David Boerner

Seattle University Law Review

In this Symposium Article, the author narrates his experience as a member of the Task Force to create Washington’s Sexually Violent Predator Civil Commitment Law.

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Limits On The State's Power To Confine "Dangerous" Persons: Constitutional Implications Of Foucha V. Louisiana, James W. Ellis Jan 1992

Limits On The State's Power To Confine "Dangerous" Persons: Constitutional Implications Of Foucha V. Louisiana, James W. Ellis

Seattle University Law Review

This Article does not attempt a complete analysis of all the constitutional implications of Foucha,nor does it attempt to provide a definitive answer to the question of the constitutionality of Washington's sexual predator statute. Rather, because Foucha addressed important due process and equal protection questions relevant to the Washington statute, the Article is an attempt to analyze the case's basic constitutional holdings and discussion on the issue of state deprivation of physical liberty.

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The Politics Of Sexual Psychopathy: Washington State's Sexual Predator Legislation, Stuart Scheingold, Toska Olson, Jana Pershing Jan 1992

The Politics Of Sexual Psychopathy: Washington State's Sexual Predator Legislation, Stuart Scheingold, Toska Olson, Jana Pershing

Seattle University Law Review

What are the principles that guide this return to indeterminacy? Taken at face value, rehabilitation would seem to be the goal of the civil commitment provisions that make avail- able a treatment program to cure and reintegrate sexual offenders. Of course, rehabilitation was unequivocally rejected by determinate sentencing reformers, who considered it both discriminatory and ineffective.6 An alternative interpretation is that the sexual predator provisions lead in an incapacitative direction-that is, they are designed to predict which offenders are so dangerous that they must be more or less permanently institutionalized to protect the society. Either way, the sexual predator legislation …

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The Community Protection Act And The Sexually Violent Predators Statute, Norm Maleng Jan 1992

The Community Protection Act And The Sexually Violent Predators Statute, Norm Maleng

Seattle University Law Review

In this Symposium Article, former prosecutor Norm Maleng discusses his experience with The Community Protection Act and Washington’s Sexually Violent Predator Law.

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Editor's Preface: Predators And Politics: The Dichotomies Of Translation In The Washington Sexually Violent Predators Statute, Nancy Watkins Anderson, Kenneth W. Masters Jan 1992

Editor's Preface: Predators And Politics: The Dichotomies Of Translation In The Washington Sexually Violent Predators Statute, Nancy Watkins Anderson, Kenneth W. Masters

Seattle University Law Review

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Washington's Sexually Violent Predator Law: A Deliberate Misuse Of The Therapeutic State For Social Control, John Q. La Fond Jan 1992

Washington's Sexually Violent Predator Law: A Deliberate Misuse Of The Therapeutic State For Social Control, John Q. La Fond

Seattle University Law Review

This Article will demonstrate that the Washington legislature deliberately chose to abuse the medical model of involuntary commitment for treatment in order to achieve lifetime preventive detention. In so doing, the legislature violated fundamental constitutional principles that underlie our system of social care and control and safeguard individual liberty.

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Proceedings Under Washington's New Statutory Scheme Providing For The Indefinite Involuntary Commitment Of Sexually Violent Predators Are Civil, Not Criminal, In Nature, Timothy Michael Blood Jan 1992

Proceedings Under Washington's New Statutory Scheme Providing For The Indefinite Involuntary Commitment Of Sexually Violent Predators Are Civil, Not Criminal, In Nature, Timothy Michael Blood

Seattle University Law Review

In this Symposium Article, the author discusses the constitutional importance of classifying Washington’s Sexually Violent Predator Act, RCW 71.09.060, as a civil commitment and not a criminal sanction.

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Problems In Imposing Extended-Term Sentences Under Section 5-5-3.2(B)(2) Of The Unified Code Of Corrections, 25 J. Marshall L. Rev. 491 (1992), Iain D. Johnston Jan 1992

Problems In Imposing Extended-Term Sentences Under Section 5-5-3.2(B)(2) Of The Unified Code Of Corrections, 25 J. Marshall L. Rev. 491 (1992), Iain D. Johnston

UIC Law Review

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Sexual Predator Law—The Nightmare In The Halls Of Justice, Robert C. Boruchowitz Jan 1992

Sexual Predator Law—The Nightmare In The Halls Of Justice, Robert C. Boruchowitz

Seattle University Law Review

In this Symposium Article, the author discusses his experience as a defense attorney with Washington’s Sexually Violent Predator Act, RCW 71.09.060.

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Washington's Sexually Violent Predators Statute: Law Or Lottery? A Response To Professor Brooks, John Q. La Fond Jan 1992

Washington's Sexually Violent Predators Statute: Law Or Lottery? A Response To Professor Brooks, John Q. La Fond

Seattle University Law Review

In this Symposium Article, the author responds to Alexander D. Brooks, The Constitutionality and Morality of Civilly Committing Violent Sexual Predators, article.

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The Juvenile Death Penalty In Washington: A State Constitutional Analysis, Bruce L. Brown Jan 1992

The Juvenile Death Penalty In Washington: A State Constitutional Analysis, Bruce L. Brown

Seattle University Law Review

This Article first briefly examines the United States Supreme Court cases dealing with the juvenile death penalty. Second, the Article describes the history and structure of Washington's death penalty statute. Third, the Article analyzes whether the state constitution's ban on cruel punishment prohibits the imposition of the death penalty on juveniles.

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Altruistic Communities And The Responsible Use Of Legal Power, John W. Ragsdale Jr Jan 1992

Altruistic Communities And The Responsible Use Of Legal Power, John W. Ragsdale Jr

Faculty Works

When an animate, conscious body - individual, collective, economic or political - is imbued with a strong central vision or focus, the ongoing actions of the body automatically become coordinated and subordinated to the dictates of that core imagery. When the center is affirmative and qualitative, then the body has a distinct capacity for self-sufficiency, endurance, and equilibrium. If, however, the central focus is negative or linear, then the capacity for internal homeostasis is greatly lessened. A core of fear, anger, or endless material craving can prompt the exercises of power that herein will be called irresponsible. Such exercises of …

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The Special Relationship Rule: Is It Consistent With The Waiver Of Sovereign Immunity? - A Study Of Kircher V. City Of Jamestown, Brian T. Cohen Jan 1992

The Special Relationship Rule: Is It Consistent With The Waiver Of Sovereign Immunity? - A Study Of Kircher V. City Of Jamestown, Brian T. Cohen

Touro Law Review

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Protective Sweep Incident To A Lawful Arrest: An Analysis Of Its Validity Under The Federal And New York State Constitution, Steven M. Fox Jan 1992

Protective Sweep Incident To A Lawful Arrest: An Analysis Of Its Validity Under The Federal And New York State Constitution, Steven M. Fox

Touro Law Review

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The Paradox Of Punishment, Paul Campos Jan 1992

The Paradox Of Punishment, Paul Campos

Publications

Retribution demands reciprocity. In this Essay, Professor Campos contends that classic retributive theory encounters a logical paradox when it attempts to equalize the status of criminal and victim through the institution of punishment. This paradox arises out of a clash between the deontological requirements of equality and justice. He concludes by speculating on the historical relationship between rationalist justifications for vengeance and the elimination of punishment as public spectacle.

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Keynote Address: Predators And Politics, Norval Morris Jan 1992

Keynote Address: Predators And Politics, Norval Morris

Seattle University Law Review

The following article is a transcription of portions of Mr. Morris's keynote address presented at the Predators and Politics Symposium on March 9, 1992 at the University of Puget Sound School of Law.

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The Constitutionality And Morality Of Civilly Committing Violent Sexual Predators, Alexander D. Brooks Jan 1992

The Constitutionality And Morality Of Civilly Committing Violent Sexual Predators, Alexander D. Brooks

Seattle University Law Review

This Article will address four major substantive constitutional and moral challenges to the Washington Sexually Violent Predator statute. The first is that the statute provides for unacceptable preventive detention contrary to American tradition and law. The second is that the terminology used to identify the mental condition of sexually violent predators is vague and meaningless, resulting in inaccurate and unfair applications and lacking in uniformity. The third objection is that the treatment program necessarily relies on a false assumption that efficacious treatment is available and argues that without efficacious treatment the statute must fail. Fourth, the confinement involved, which theoretically …

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Sources Of Security, Julie Shapiro Jan 1992

Sources Of Security, Julie Shapiro

Seattle University Law Review

The fixable problems relating to the specifics of the stat- ute thus do not raise the hardest questions that a statute like this one presents precisely because they are fixable. If I agreed that the general idea of the statute was a good one, I still might find the specifics of this statute unacceptable. But I would be able to propose an acceptable statute that accomplished the same basic purpose. Thus, although the specifics of this statute are of enormous importance to the legal questions pending in the courts and to those who must litigate under the statute, the specifics …

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Sexual Predators: Mental Illness Or Abnormality? A Psychiatrist's Perspective, James D. Reardon, M.D. Jan 1992

Sexual Predators: Mental Illness Or Abnormality? A Psychiatrist's Perspective, James D. Reardon, M.D.

Seattle University Law Review

In this Symposium Article, the author discusses Washington’s Sexually Violent Predator Act, RCW 71.09.060, from a psychiatrist’s perspective.

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Searches And Seizure Jan 1992

Searches And Seizure

Touro Law Review

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Searches And Seizure Jan 1992

Searches And Seizure

Touro Law Review

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Searches And Seizure Jan 1992

Searches And Seizure

Touro Law Review

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Searches And Seizure Jan 1992

Searches And Seizure

Touro Law Review

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Searches And Seizure Jan 1992

Searches And Seizure

Touro Law Review

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Searches And Seizure Jan 1992

Searches And Seizure

Touro Law Review

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