Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, Volume 14The Institute, 1924 - Crime |
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... Jails Must Go ( 151 ) . REVIEWS AND CRITICISM .. The Legal Aspect of the Juvenile Court , by Flexner and Oppenheimer ( 155 ) -Insanity and the Criminal Law , by William A. White ( 156 ) —The Achievement of Subnormal Children in ...
... Jails Must Go ( 151 ) . REVIEWS AND CRITICISM .. The Legal Aspect of the Juvenile Court , by Flexner and Oppenheimer ( 155 ) -Insanity and the Criminal Law , by William A. White ( 156 ) —The Achievement of Subnormal Children in ...
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... jail and in the length of time such prisoners spend in jail before their cases are disposed of . In this connection , it is interesting to note that on March 31 , 1920 , a few days before the new court took effect , there were 173 ...
... jail and in the length of time such prisoners spend in jail before their cases are disposed of . In this connection , it is interesting to note that on March 31 , 1920 , a few days before the new court took effect , there were 173 ...
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... jail as long as two months after being committed before a hospital bed was available for him . We find the need for more hospital beds very imperative and we believe that the lack of them contributes very definitely to the incidence of ...
... jail as long as two months after being committed before a hospital bed was available for him . We find the need for more hospital beds very imperative and we believe that the lack of them contributes very definitely to the incidence of ...
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... jail . One month after discharge from the jail she was arrested again for larceny and this time sent to the reform school for a period of two years . When she was fifteen she committed her first robbery and for this was sentenced to ...
... jail . One month after discharge from the jail she was arrested again for larceny and this time sent to the reform school for a period of two years . When she was fifteen she committed her first robbery and for this was sentenced to ...
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... jail , unwarned , be entered as an objec- tion to the admission of testimony . ( People v . Youngs , 151 N. Y. 210 , 45 N. E. 400. ) Numerous reasons are given by different writers as to why alien- ists disagree so radically in the same ...
... jail , unwarned , be entered as an objec- tion to the admission of testimony . ( People v . Youngs , 151 N. Y. 210 , 45 N. E. 400. ) Numerous reasons are given by different writers as to why alien- ists disagree so radically in the same ...
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Page 258 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her...
Page 251 - On the contrary, they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and, whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the Government might choose to grant them.
Page 64 - ... notwithstanding the party accused did the act complained of with a view, under the influence of insane delusion, of redressing or revenging some supposed grievance or injury, or of producing some public benefit, he is nevertheless punishable according to the nature of the crime committed, if he knew at the time of committing such crime that he was acting contrary to law ; by which expression we understand your lordships to mean the law of the land.
Page 248 - And should I at your harmless innocence Melt as I do, yet public reason just, Honour and empire with revenge enlarged, By conquering this new world, compels me now To do what else, though damned, I should abhor." So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.
Page 263 - ... to the end that the evidence of criminality may be heard and considered; and if, on such hearing, the evidence be deemed sufficient to sustain the charge, it shall be the duty of the examining judge or magistrate to certify the same to the proper Executive authority, that a warrant may issue for the surrender of such fugitive. The expense of such apprehension and delivery shall be borne, and defrayed by the party who makes the requisition, and receives the fugitive.
Page 582 - Whenever a person is indicted by a grand jury for a capital offense or whenever a person, who is known to have been indicted for any other offense more than once or to have been previously convicted of a felony...
Page 141 - The several sections of this code which declare certain crimes to be punishable as therein mentioned devolve a duty upon the court authorized to pass sentence to determine and impose the punishment prescribed...
Page 251 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and SO far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Page 247 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 489 - Association should appoint a committee to meet with similar committees from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, and the American Judicature Society for the purpose of making a study and report relative to this and other subjects of common concern.