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Culture Clash : Teaching Cultural Defenses in the Criminal Law Classroom

Kuo, Susan S. - 2012

In the law school classroom, the Socratic method of legal analysis removes a dispute at issue in a given case from its sociocultural context and takes the cultural backgrounds of the parties into account only when they serve the legal argument. The language of the law commands law students to...

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A Silent Corrupting Force? Criminal Sentencing and the Threat of Recall

Gordon, Sanford C. - 2020

39 U.S. states authorize recall elections, but the incentives they create are not well understood. We examine how changes in the perceived threat of recall alter the behavior of one set of officials: judges. In 2016, outrage over the sentence imposed on a Stanford athlete following his sexual...

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Negligent Rape in Croatian Criminal Law : Was Legal Reform Necessary?

Vuletić, Igor - 2021

2011 (in effect since 2013), that criminalized unreasonable mistake of facts in the crime of rape. Croatian rape law has …

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Corruption : a glossary of international standards in criminal law

2008

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Institutional Requirements for Effective Imposition of Fines

Piehl, Anne Morrison - 2010

A long theoretical literature in economics addresses the heavy reliance of the U.S. criminal justice system on very expensive forms of punishment - prison - when cheaper alternatives - such as fines and other sanctions - are available. This paper analyzes the role of fines as a criminal sanction...

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Criminal Sentencing in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2008

How law is interpreted and enforced at a particular historical moment reflects contemporary social concerns and prejudices. This paper investigates the nature of criminal sentencing in mid-nineteenth-century Pennsylvania. It finds that extralegal factors, namely place of conviction and several...

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I'd rather be Hanged for a Sheep than a Lamb : The Unintended Consequences of 'Three-Strikes' Laws

Iyengar, Radha - 2008

Strong sentences are common "tough on crime" tool used to reduce the incentives for individuals to participate in … participating in crime may adjust. I use California's Three Strikes law to identify several effects of a large increase in the … combined with the high cost of violent crime relative to non-violent crime implies that Three Strikes may not be a cost …

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Crime and Punishment in the "American Dream"

Tella, Rafael Di - 2006

We observe that countries where belief in the "American dream" (i.e., effort pays) prevails also set harsher punishment for criminals. We know from previous work that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc). Our objective is to...

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On optimal enforcement in international crime setting

Lecorps, Yann - In: European journal of law and economics 51 (2021) 2, pp. 285-296

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Observations on the criminal law of England : as it relates to capital punishments, and on the mode in which it is administered

Romilly, Samuel - 1813 - 3rd ed

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