In 1989, Ada JoAnn Taylor sat quietly in a nondescript chair contemplating her choices.'On a
cold February evening four years earlier, a sixty-eight-year-old woman was brutally …

Neste trabalho, inserido na área de concentração Sistema Penal e Violência e na linha de
pesquisa Sistemas Jurídico-Penais Contemporâneos, objetiva-se desenvolver uma análise …

On January 17, 1959, James Zeno walked deliberately up three flights of stairs and knocked
on the door of Beatrice Lynumn's Chicago apartment. 2 Zeno, who had been arrested by …

This book lays out the foundation of a privacy doctrine suitable to the cyber age. It limits the
volume, sensitivity, and secondary analysis that can be carried out. In studying these …

Plea bargaining'is a crucial feature of our criminal justice system, as approximately 95% of
convictions that occur within a year of arrest are obtained by a guilty plea. 2 Despite its …

This paper draws on liberal communitarianism to analyze two National Security Agency
programs: the bulk phone records collection program and PRISM. Specifically, the paper …

Scholarship on negotiation theory and practice is rich and welldeveloped. Almost no work
has been done, however, to translate to the criminal context the lessons learned about …

ABSTRACT Justice Stephen Breyer recently made international headlines when he
emphasized that reforms to the capital punishment process have apparently failed to …

When Carol Anne Bond discovered that her husband had impregnated her best friend
Myrlinda Haynes, she sought revenge.'Bond, a trained microbiologist employed by a …

Pre-trial detention is a major component driving mass incarceration in the United States.
While over 11 million people are detained in jails annually, only a small portion …