Improving Constitutional Criminal Procedure

Databases, Doctrine, and Constitutional Criminal Procedure

Over the past twenty years there has been an explosion in the creation, availability, and use of criminal justice databases. Large scale database systems now routinely influence law enforcement decisions ranging from formal determinations to arrest or convict an individual to informal judgments to subject a person to secondary pre-flight screening or investigate possible gang membership. Eviden...

Constitutional Criminal Procedure, by Donald A. Dripps (praeger Publishers, 2003)

ADDRESSING RACIAL PROFILING IN THE STATES: A CASE STUDY OF THE "NEW FEDERALISM" IN CONSTITUTIONAL CRIMINAL PROCEDURE David

Some have described the Warren Court's far-reaching criminal procedure cases as a "revolution." These decisions included everything from the application of the exclusionary rule to the states,' to the insistence on a right to counsel any time a state court imprisoned a defendant,2 to the requirement that police give suspects the warnings contained in Miranda v. Arizona.' Little wonder, then, th...

Models of Juvenile Procedure in modern Iran's criminal law

Studying and exploring the patterns governing each subject leads to a systematic categorization of that subject and a better explanation of the developments of that subject in the course of history. Responses to the delinquency of children and adolescents in response to the delicate and vulnerable attitude of these people has undergone various developments and has seen various policy-makings by...

Continental Criminal Procedure : " Myth " and Reality

In a recent issue of this Journal, Professor Abraham Goldstein and Research Fellow Martin Marcus discussed their observations about the criminal procedures of three European countries, France, Germany, and Italy, as representative of the "Continental" or "inquisitorial" model of investigation and prosecution.' Their inquiry was prompted, they said, by a desire to probe claims that in those coun...