American Court System

Marilyn McShane (Edited by) California State University- San Bernardino

• Volume Introduction, The Dimensions of Capital Murder, Hands-off, Hands-on, Hands-semi-off: A Discussion of the Current Legal Test Used by the United States Supreme Court to Decide Inmates' Rights A Contemporary Look at the Effects of Rape Law Reform: How Far Have We Really Come? Three Strikes and You're Out!: The Political Sentencing Game, Do More Conservative States Impose Harsher Felony Sentences? An Exploratory Analysis of 32 States, Measuring the Effects of the Guilty but Mentally, (GBMI) Verdict: Georgia's 1982 GBMI Reform, The Death of the Fourth Amendment Under the Rehnquist Court: Where Is Original Intent When We Need It? Gender, Crime, and the Criminal Law Defenses, Juvenile (In) Justice and the Criminal Court Alternative, Themes of Injustice: Wrongful Convictions, Racial Prejudice, and Lawyer Incompetence, The Triumph of Vengeance Over Retribution: The United States Supreme Court and the Death Penalty, 311 Race and Imprisonment Decisions, Culpability and the Sentencing of Corporations, Twenty Years of Sentencing Reform: Steps Forward, Steps Backward, The Lex Talionis Before and After Criminal Law, Should Penal Rehabilitation Be Revived? Mandatory Minimums and the Betrayal