Most Recent Articles from Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

• Off-court misbehavior: sports leagues and private punishment 

  I. INTRODUCTION Hardly a day goes by without news of misbehavior by a professional athlete. In the month of February 2009, for example, the media...

  06/22/09 by Janine Young Kim; Matthew J. Parlow · More from publication

• Blue sky steroids 

  I. INTRODUCTION It should come as no surprise that the nation's political establishment in Washington, D.C., turned its attention to the scourge...

  06/22/09 by Geoffrey Rapp · More from publication

• The manly sports: the problematic use of criminal law to regulate sports violence 

  I. INTRODUCTION When not on the playing field, an athlete stands in the same relation to the criminal law as does any other citizen. (1) The...

  06/22/09 by Jeffrey Standen · More from publication

• The criminalization of poverty 

  I. INTRODUCTION The word welfare is now commonly used pejoratively--as in "welfare mother" or "welfare queen." We often hear the word welfare...

  06/22/09 by Kaaryn Gustafson · More from publication

• Legal disparities in the capital of capital punishment 

  I. LEGAL DISPARITIES IN THE CAPITAL OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Death penalty opponents charge that wealthy defendants who can hire legal counsel are...

  06/22/09 by Scott Phillips · More from publication

• The smell of Herring: a critique of the Supreme Court's latest assault on the exclusionary rule 

  "The herring, the smell of herring again.... The smell of the herring had penetrated [one's] thoughts...." ~ MARTHA BLUM, THE WALNUT TREE 227...

  06/22/09 by Wayne R. Lafave · More from publication

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