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Mens Rea And Inchoate Crimes, Larry Alexander, Kimberly D. Kessler

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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The Whole Truth: Restoring Reality To Children's Narrative In Long-Term Incest Cases, Leslie Feiner

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Survey Research And Self-Defense Gun Use: An Explanation Of Extreme Overestimates, David Hemenway

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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A Call For A Truce In The Dgu War, Tom W. Smith

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Rape In The Criminal Justice System, David P. Bryden, Sonja Lengnick

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Recent Books

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Copyrights, Criminal Sanctions And Economic Rents: Applying The Rent Seeking Model To The Criminal Law Formulation Process, Lanier Saperstein

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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The Debate Over The Future Of Juvenile Courts: Can We Reach Consensus, Thomas F. Geraghty, Steven A. Drizin

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Immaturity And Irresponsibility, Stephen J. Morse

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Abolish The Juvenile Court: Youthfulness, Criminal Responsibility, And Sentencing Policy, Barry C. Feld

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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The Evolution Of Adolescence: A Developmental Perspective On Juvenile Justice Reform, Elizabeth S. Scott, Thomas Grisso

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Justice For Children: How Do We Get There, Thomas F. Geraghty

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Criminal Behavior And Age: A Test Of Three Provocative Hypotheses, Charles R. Tittle, Harold G. Grasmick

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Populism, Free Speech, And The Rule Of Law: The Fully Informed Jury Movement And Its Implications, Erick J. Haynie

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Book Reviews

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Recent Books

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Identity Notes Part Ii: Redeeming The Body Politic, Adrienne D. Davis

Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Faculty Research

These remarks were given in April 1996 at the First Annual LatCrit Conference, co-sponsored by California Western Law School and the Harvard Latino Law Review. ... Political corpus, body politic, body of law, corporate law, body of evidence, body of knowledge, the footnote. ... While the body of Christ has not been used explicitly to order secular American law and political theory, a multi-dimensional analysis of his body in Western political theory would have to include its use at a critical historic moment as an organizing metaphor for the racial order of the United States and the consolidation of the …

Criminal Law And Criminology: Survey Of Recent Books, Juliet Casper Smith

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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The Effects Of Timing And Type Of Judge's Instructions And Jurors' Beliefs On Verdicts And Sentence In A Child Sexual Assault Trial, Dawn R. (Campbell) Goldstein

Masters Theses

In order to investigate the effect of judge's instructions and juror beliefs, eighty-three undergraduate males enrolled in psychology classes at Eastern Illinois University participated in a simulated sexual abuse trial. Participants either heard standard instructions in which the judge instructed jurors to decide guilt or innocence based on evidence alone or standard instructions plus information regarding children's limitations as witnesses. Instructions occurred either after testimony or before and after testimony. Certainty of guilt was unrelated to either the timing or type of instructions. However with regard to sentence, there was a significant interaction between timing of instructions and type of …

Bargaining With Imperfect Information: A Study Of Worker Perceptions Of Legal Protection In An At-Will World, Pauline Kim

Scholarship@WashULaw

This Article presents empirical evidence on an issue at the heart of the academic controversy over the at-will rule -- namely, whether employees have sufficient information to effectively negotiate issues of job security. Using a written survey to collect data from several hundred workers, the study documents a widespread misunderstanding of the basic default rule of employment at will. The results indicate that workers consistently overestimate their legal rights, with overwhelming majorities (as high as 89%) believing that they are legally protected against arbitrary and unjust discharges when in fact they can be dismissed at will.

These findings directly contradict …

Nature Of Rules And The Meaning Of Meaning, Kent Greenawalt

Faculty Scholarship

This essay addresses two problems in legal theory. What is the nature of rules, especially legal rules? What is the meaning of a legal rule?

My main concern is the relation between these two questions. I inquire whether a sensible view of how rules work commits one to any particular approach to meaning. For this inquiry, I focus on Frederick Schauer's illuminating treatment of rules in Playing by the Rules, which he says is linked to a particular view of meaning. I assert that the linkage is much less tight than he supposes, and that competing theories about meaning are …

Policing Hatred: Police Bias Units And The Construction Of Hate Crime, Jeannine Bell

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Much of the scholarly debate about hate crime laws focuses on a discussion of their constitutionality under the First Amendment. Part of larger empirical study of police methods of investigating hate crimes, this Note attempts to shift thinking in this area beyond the existing debate over the constitutionality of hate crime legislation to a discussion of how low-level criminal justice personnel, such as the police, enforce hate crime laws. This Note argues that, since hate crimes are an area in which police have great discretion in enforcing the law, their understanding of the First Amendment and how it relates to …

Criminal Law And Criminology: Survey Of Recent Books, Juliet Casper Smith

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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1996 Executive Council Meeting Agenda And Correspondence, American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

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Terrorism And Legal Competence, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The editor examines the concept of legal concept of competency in context of terrorism.

An Exploratory Inquiry Into Community Policing Using Focus Groups: Perspectives From Social Service Providers, Tanya Leigh Ostrogorsky

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to evaluate Portland, Oregon's community policing policy by using focus groups to discuss the development and effectiveness over one year, Spring 1994 to Spring 1995. The group discussed included management level social service providers and was one piece of a large scale program evaluation. The collected data developed into six major categories: 1) personnel policies and institutional memory; 2) training; 3) consistency; 4) community involvement and responsibility; 5) partnerships or relationships, and 6) change over time. The most highly discussed issue was the discrepancy between the philosophy of the Bureau, community policing, and the …

A Study Of School Disturbance In The United States: A Twentieth Century Perspective, Part One, Gordon A. Crews

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

In 1989, President George Bush. and the Nation's fifty governors, held a historic education summit that culminated in the adoption of six National Education Goals. These six broad goals were intended to serve as a framework for future reform efforts. The sixth goal of the United States' National Educational Goals states:

By the year 2000, every school in America will be free of drugs and violence and will offer a disciplined environment conducive to learning. The stated objectives are: Every school will implement a firm and fair policy on use, possession, and distribution of drugs and alcohol. Parents, businesses, and …

Divisionews (Spring 1996/ Vol. 9, No. 3), American Society Of Criminology Division On Women And Crime

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

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Adolescent Satanists In America: Religious Commitment Or Developmental Stage?, Gordon A. Crews

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

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A Constitutional Charge And A Comparative Vision To Substantially Expand And Subject Matter Specialize The Federal Judiciary: A Preliminary Blueprint For Remodeling Our National Houses Of Justice And Establishing A Separate System Of Federal Criminal Courts, Victor Williams

William & Mary Law Review

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