Houston Man Sentenced for Human Trafficking and Alien Smuggling Charges
Houston Man Sentenced for Human Trafficking and Alien Smuggling Charges Maximino Mondragon, 57, was sentenced today for his role in a scheme to smuggle Central American women and girls into…
Iowa Man Convicted of Interfering with Housing Rights of African-American Family
Iowa Man Convicted of Interfering with Housing Rights of African-American Family Justin Hanson, 21, of Mason City, Iowa, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids to violating the…
Korean Executive Agrees to Plead Guilty and Serve One Year in Prison for Participation in LCD Price-Fixing Conspiracy
Korean Executive Agrees to Plead Guilty and Serve One Year in Prison for Participation in LCD Price-Fixing Conspiracy A high-level Korean executive from LG Display Co. Ltd. (LG) has agreed…
Five Charged in $70 Million Dream Home Mortgage Fraud Scheme
Five Charged in $70 Million Dream Home Mortgage Fraud Scheme A federal grand jury has indicted four defendants, and an information has been filed against a fifth defendant, for their…
Cast Iron Pipe Manufacturer Sentenced for Environmental Crimes and Worker Safety Violations
Cast Iron Pipe Manufacturer Sentenced for Environmental Crimes and Worker Safety Violations Atlantic States Cast Iron Pipe Co. a Phillipsburg, division of McWane Inc. of Alabama was sentenced today to…
Examining the county‐level political considerations associated with declining reliance on the death penalty from 1990 to 2010*
Examining the county‐level political considerations associated with declining reliance on the death penalty from 1990 to 2010* Abstract Theorists have placed considerable emphasis on the role that political factors play…
Overcoming Penal Boundaries: Exploring The Evolution of Retributive Time Through Parole Decision-Making
Overcoming Penal Boundaries: Exploring The Evolution of Retributive Time Through Parole Decision-Making AbstractThe relations between sentencing and post-sentencing stages (, the implementation of prison, parole or community-based sanctions) are often…
The Inconvenient Truth About Mobile Phone Distraction: Understanding the Means, Motive and Opportunity for Driver Resistance to Legal and Safety Messages
The Inconvenient Truth About Mobile Phone Distraction: Understanding the Means, Motive and Opportunity for Driver Resistance to Legal and Safety Messages AbstractEvidence for how phone-use impacts driving is clear: phone-using…
Regional International Juvenile Incarceration Models as a Blueprint for Rehabilitative Reform of Juvenile Criminal Justice Systems in the United States
Regional International Juvenile Incarceration Models as a Blueprint for Rehabilitative Reform of Juvenile Criminal Justice Systems in the United States Adolescence marks a unique and transformative time in a person’s…
Pregnant and Detained: Constitutional Rights and Remedies for Pregnant Detainees
Pregnant and Detained: Constitutional Rights and Remedies for Pregnant Detainees Over the last thirty years, the United States has increasingly expanded what is already the largest immigration detention system in…
Defending Constitutional Rights in Imbalanced Courtrooms
Defending Constitutional Rights in Imbalanced Courtrooms Safeguarding Fourth Amendment protections is critical to preserving individual privacy rights and fostering positive perceptions of police legitimacy within communities. Maintaining an effective accountability…
The Modern Common Law of Crime
The Modern Common Law of Crime Two visions of American criminal law have emerged. The first vision is that criminal law is statutory and posits that legislatures, not courts, draft…