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Columbine School Massacre, Eric S. Yellin Jan 2003

Columbine School Massacre, Eric S. Yellin

History Faculty Publications

On 20 April 1999, in one of the deadliest school shootings in national history, two students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Jefferson County, Colorado, killed twelve fellow students and a teacher and injured twenty-three others before committing suicide. Eric Harris, age eighteen, and Dylan Klebold, age seventeen, used homemade bombs, two sawed-off twelve-gauge shotguns, a nine-millimeter semiautomatic rifle, and a nine-millimeter semiautomatic pistol in a siege that began shortly after 11 A.M.


Sacco & Vanzetti Case, Eric S. Yellin, Louis Foughin Jan 2003

Sacco & Vanzetti Case, Eric S. Yellin, Louis Foughin

History Faculty Publications

Nicola Sacco, a skilled shoeworker born in 1891, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a fish peddler born in 1888, were arrested on 5 May 1920, for a payroll holdup and murder in South Braintree, Massachusetts. A jury, sitting under Judge Webster Thayer, found the men guilty on 14 July 1921. Sacco and Vanzetti were executed on 23 August 1927 after several appeals and the recommendation of a special advisory commission serving the Massachusetts governor. The execution sparked worldwide protests against repression of Italian Americans, immigrants, labor militancy, and radical political beliefs.


Operation Rescue, Eric S. Yellin Jan 2003

Operation Rescue, Eric S. Yellin

History Faculty Publications

Operation Rescue, founded in 1986, became known as one of the most militant groups opposing a woman’s right to abortion as established in the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe vs. Wade.


Introduction To, Preferences And Rational Choice: New Perspectives And Legal Implications, Matthew D. Adler, Claire Finkelstein, Peter Huang Jan 2003

Introduction To, Preferences And Rational Choice: New Perspectives And Legal Implications, Matthew D. Adler, Claire Finkelstein, Peter Huang

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Comparison Of Education Level, Intelligence Quotient, And Higher Education Courses Of Individuals Who Commit Violent Crimes And Those Individuals Who Commit Nonviolent Crimes In Arkansas, W. Andranette Anderson-Blackwell Jan 2003

Comparison Of Education Level, Intelligence Quotient, And Higher Education Courses Of Individuals Who Commit Violent Crimes And Those Individuals Who Commit Nonviolent Crimes In Arkansas, W. Andranette Anderson-Blackwell

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine and compare education levels, intelligence quotients, and college courses taken or are being taken by criminal offenders who commit violent versus nonviolent crimes. One hundred males and 100 females from the states' correctional facilities were used as the sample. The sample was stratified according to four characteristics: type of crime committed (violent or nonviolent), ethnicity, age, and gender. The null hypothesis tested in this study was that there is no statistically significant difference, at the 0.05 level, in the educational levels or intelligence quotients of criminal offenders as to age, ethnicity, gender, …


Using Therapeutic Jurisprudence To Bridge The Juvenile Justice And Mental Health Systems, Michael J. Jenuwine, Gene Griffin Jan 2003

Using Therapeutic Jurisprudence To Bridge The Juvenile Justice And Mental Health Systems, Michael J. Jenuwine, Gene Griffin

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Mental Health Assessment Of Minors In The Juvenile Justice System, Michael Jenuwine, Curtis Heaston, Diane N. Walsh, Gene Griffin Jan 2003

Mental Health Assessment Of Minors In The Juvenile Justice System, Michael Jenuwine, Curtis Heaston, Diane N. Walsh, Gene Griffin

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Community Supervision Of Sex Offenders -- Integrating Probation And Clinical Treatment, Michael J. Jenuwine, Ronald Simmons, Edward Swies Jan 2003

Community Supervision Of Sex Offenders -- Integrating Probation And Clinical Treatment, Michael J. Jenuwine, Ronald Simmons, Edward Swies

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Divisionews (Winter 2003, Issue #11), American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime, Joanne Belknap, Kristin Winokur, Amy D'Unger, Alisa Smith, Susan Sharp, Amanda Burgess-Proctor, Angie Moe Jan 2003

Divisionews (Winter 2003, Issue #11), American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime, Joanne Belknap, Kristin Winokur, Amy D'Unger, Alisa Smith, Susan Sharp, Amanda Burgess-Proctor, Angie Moe

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

No abstract provided.


Applying The Responsible Corporate Officer Doctrine Outside The Public Welfare Context, Amiad Kushner Jan 2003

Applying The Responsible Corporate Officer Doctrine Outside The Public Welfare Context, Amiad Kushner

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Drug Courts And The De Facto Legalization Of Drug Use For Participants In Residential Treatment Facilities, Andrew Armstrong Jan 2003

Drug Courts And The De Facto Legalization Of Drug Use For Participants In Residential Treatment Facilities, Andrew Armstrong

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


For Mice Or Men Or Children - Will The Expansion Of The Eighth Amendment In Atkins V. Virginia Force The Supreme Court To Re-Examine The Minimum Age For The Death Penalty, Jamie Hughes Jan 2003

For Mice Or Men Or Children - Will The Expansion Of The Eighth Amendment In Atkins V. Virginia Force The Supreme Court To Re-Examine The Minimum Age For The Death Penalty, Jamie Hughes

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


To Serve And Collect: Measuring Police Corruption, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovic Jan 2003

To Serve And Collect: Measuring Police Corruption, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovic

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Norms And Criminal Law, And The Norms Of Criminal Law Scholarship, Robert Weisberg Jan 2003

Norms And Criminal Law, And The Norms Of Criminal Law Scholarship, Robert Weisberg

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Pre-Arrest Silence: Minding That Gap Between Fourth Amendment Stops And Fifth Amendment Custody, Sara Ciarelli Jan 2003

Pre-Arrest Silence: Minding That Gap Between Fourth Amendment Stops And Fifth Amendment Custody, Sara Ciarelli

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


The Tenuous Relationship Between The Fight Against Money Laundering And The Disruption Of Criminal Finance, Mariano-Florentino Cuellar Jan 2003

The Tenuous Relationship Between The Fight Against Money Laundering And The Disruption Of Criminal Finance, Mariano-Florentino Cuellar

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Beyond Accommodation: Reconstructing The Insanity Defense To Provide An Adequate Remedy For Postpartum Psychotic Women, Jessie Manchester Jan 2003

Beyond Accommodation: Reconstructing The Insanity Defense To Provide An Adequate Remedy For Postpartum Psychotic Women, Jessie Manchester

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Kidnapping Federalism: United States V. Wills And The Constitutionality Of Extending Federal Criminal Law Into The States, M. Todd Scott Jan 2003

Kidnapping Federalism: United States V. Wills And The Constitutionality Of Extending Federal Criminal Law Into The States, M. Todd Scott

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Book Review Jan 2003

Book Review

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Recent Books Jan 2003

Recent Books

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Foreword: Addressing The Real World Of Racial Injustice In The Criminal Justice System, Donna Coker Jan 2003

Foreword: Addressing The Real World Of Racial Injustice In The Criminal Justice System, Donna Coker

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Facilitating Fairness: The Judge's Role In The Sixth Amendment Right To Effective Counsel, John Capone Jan 2003

Facilitating Fairness: The Judge's Role In The Sixth Amendment Right To Effective Counsel, John Capone

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Hope V. Pelzer: Increasing The Accountability Of State Actors In Prison Systems - A Necessary Enterprise In Guaranteeing The Eight Amendment Rights Of Prison Inmates, Alison Chin Jan 2003

Hope V. Pelzer: Increasing The Accountability Of State Actors In Prison Systems - A Necessary Enterprise In Guaranteeing The Eight Amendment Rights Of Prison Inmates, Alison Chin

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Harris V. United States: The Supreme Court's Latest Avoidance Of Providing Constitutional Protection To Sentencing Factors, Julie L. Hendrix Jan 2003

Harris V. United States: The Supreme Court's Latest Avoidance Of Providing Constitutional Protection To Sentencing Factors, Julie L. Hendrix

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Unequal Justice: The Supreme Court's Failure To Curtail Selective Prosecution For The Death Penalty, Jessie Larson Jan 2003

Unequal Justice: The Supreme Court's Failure To Curtail Selective Prosecution For The Death Penalty, Jessie Larson

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


United States V. Arvizu: Investigatory Stops And The Fourth Amendment, Jennifer Pelic Jan 2003

United States V. Arvizu: Investigatory Stops And The Fourth Amendment, Jennifer Pelic

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


United States V. Drayton: The Need For Bright-Line Warnings During Consensual Bus Searches, Marissa Reich Jan 2003

United States V. Drayton: The Need For Bright-Line Warnings During Consensual Bus Searches, Marissa Reich

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Recent Books Jan 2003

Recent Books

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Apprendi In The States: The Virtues Of Federalism As A Structural Limit On Errors, Stephanos Bibas Jan 2003

Apprendi In The States: The Virtues Of Federalism As A Structural Limit On Errors, Stephanos Bibas

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


The Relationship Between Public Perceptions Of Crime Seriousness And Support For Plea-Bargaining Practices In Israel: A Factorial Survey Approach, Sergio Herzog Jan 2003

The Relationship Between Public Perceptions Of Crime Seriousness And Support For Plea-Bargaining Practices In Israel: A Factorial Survey Approach, Sergio Herzog

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.