Is the FBI's Criminal Justice Database, CODIS, Approaching Its Expiration Date?

Draft Expiration Date : August

Classic IP traffic engineering considers a fixed IP layer topology. In this draft, we address the limitations imposed by such static network topology. This work is motivated by introducing dynamically provisioned links to improve static IP traffic engineering constraints, and leverage the freedom of provisioning links on demand. This draft introduces the concept of a closed-loop link provisioni...

Juvenile Sex Offending: Its Prevalence and the Criminal Justice Response

The public perception of sex offenders tends to be of predatory stranger rapists and child molesters. 1 A typical child molester is perceived to be the predatory child sex offender who lurks around schoolyards and playgrounds.2 The public exposure of child exploitation networks or ‘rings’ which produce and share child pornography reinforces the stereotype of the classic child molester as a pred...

Victorian Criminal Justice System

The criminal trial constitutes a drama performed by its leading actors (legal professionals) plus supporting actors (including spectators). How conscious and strategic are their performances? This article argues that conscious legal performativity is part of a sustained tradition of 'infotainment' with lasting implications for today's real-life courtroom dramas. The adoption of stereotypical co...

Dangerousness and Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice Ethics

George Fletcher emerges in his writing, as in his life, as a colorful and highly individual figure. The last thing one expects of him is the surrender of individual identity to an anonymous submersion in the collective. Yet doctrinally he is a collectivist. In his recent writings, he has been seeking to collectivize just about everything: action, responsibility, guilt, liability, self-defense, ...