Recently added articles from Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology:
Off-court misbehavior: sports leagues and private punishment.(Symposium: Essays on the Intersection of Professional Sports and the Criminal Law)
Jun 22, 2009; ... 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 reported such misbehavior on at least twenty-two out of twenty-eight days. (1) Often, such misconduct involves criminal behavior by ...
The criminalization of poverty.
Jun 22, 2009; ... I. INTRODUCTION The word welfare is now commonly used pejoratively--as in "welfare mother" or "welfare queen." We often hear the word welfare used to describe a bureaucratic mess or to describe economically and socially marginalized populations. Lost in these contemporary ...
Legal disparities in the capital of capital punishment.
Jun 22, 2009; ... I. LEGAL DISPARITIES IN THE CAPITAL OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Death penalty opponents charge that wealthy defendants who can hire legal counsel are exempt from capital punishment. Former Supreme Court Justice William Douglas, for example, noted: "One searches our chronicles in vain ...
Blue sky steroids.(Symposium: Essays on the Intersection of Professional Sports and the Criminal Law)
Jun 22, 2009; ... I. INTRODUCTION It should come as no surprise that the nation's political establishment in Washington, D.C., turned its attention to the scourge of performance-enhancing substances in professional sports. (1) This allowed politicians on Capitol Hill to take a break (2) from ...
The manly sports: the problematic use of criminal law to regulate sports violence.(Symposium: Essays on the Intersection of Professional Sports and the Criminal Law)
Jun 22, 2009; ... 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 particular requirements of the athlete's sport, where that sport includes acts of a violent nature, do not supply the athlete a special ...