Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

The primary responsibility for the enforcement of the criminal law in the United States has been assigned from the beginning to the agencies of local government--to the sheriff, the coroner, and the prosecuting attorney of the county and to the police...

"In this land of lies, an ounce of good circumstance is worth many pounds of oral evidence...."(1) Judicial tribunals usually exercise considerable caution regarding the admissibility into evidence of expert testimony concerning some new phase of...

The cloud of uncertainty that has hovered over the law of confessions as a result of several United States Supreme Court decisions of the past few years has been dissipated to some extent by the Court's rulings and opinions in four very recent cases.(1)...

Whenever a champion of individual civil liberties is branded as anti-American or as a fellow traveler of the communists he becomes highly incensed. And rightly so, because there is nothing un-American about being a civil libertarian, even of the starry-eyed...

(THE SUPREME COURT AND THE POLICE)(*) Over the past several years, whenever the Supreme Court of the United States rendered a decision that imposed a new restriction upon the police, many persons were heard to say: "If only the police, prosecuting...

Today we are faced with a serious international threat to our national existence. This we all know and recognize; and we are taking reasonable and appropriate measures to guard against any Communist attack upon this country. We are also trying to hold...

Until the televised Kefauver Committee hearings several years ago, relatively few people knew that there was such a thing as the constitutional privilege, against self-incrimination. At that time this little lesson in civics came to the great mass...

On June 10, the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Terry v. Ohio, rendered a decision that will greatly aid the police in their efforts to prevent crime and apprehend criminals. That decision, however, must not be interpreted by the...

I. INTRODUCTION In 1997, President Clinton vetoed the most recent incarnation of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban(1)--a controversial piece of legislation that prescribes criminal penalties such as fines and imprisonment for any physician performing...