Add to ORKGThe federal criminal law is currently a chaotic collection of statutes enacted piecemeal over the past two centuries. Although there have been several attempts at codification, the result in each case has been little more than a rearrangement of the existing provisions. In recognition of the continuing need for revision, Congress in 1966 created the National Commission on Reform of Federal Criminal Laws, with a broad mandate to revise and recodify the current statutes. The Commission took its task seriously; in January 1971 it submitted tile final draft of a proposed Federal Criminal Code which, if enacted, would constitute a major reform
Discussions about the federalization of crime traditionally have focused on substantive law: a crime...
The state and federal courts largely exercise concurrent jurisdiction over most criminal law matters...
Illinois had no Criminal Code in the sense of a codified, systematic body of law functioning as an...
Any discussion of federal penal law must begin with an important caveat: There actually is no federa...
State constitutional rights and procedural protections, of course, can only be asserted in state cri...
The four chief factors influencing the quality of American justice were identified by Dean Roscoe Po...
Each American jurisdiction has a criminal code. Most jurisdictions have substantially restructured a...
The first area is the substantive criminal law, especially at the federal level. In the following pa...
The federalization of American criminal law was not an issue that would have been discussed prior to...
The Model Penal Code is among the most successful academic law reform projects ever attempted. In th...
The age of federal codification is upon us. The Federal Rules of Evidence and the new bankruptcy and...
Congress has responded to increasing public concern about violent crime by expanding the scope of th...
A major problem for those analyzing U.S. criminal law and procedure is that it does not fit the Cont...
After planning the effort for twenty years, the American Law Institute spent ten years debating and ...
Book Chapter Overfederalization in Reforming Criminal Justice: Volume 1: Introduction and Criminaliz...
Discussions about the federalization of crime traditionally have focused on substantive law: a crime...
The state and federal courts largely exercise concurrent jurisdiction over most criminal law matters...
Illinois had no Criminal Code in the sense of a codified, systematic body of law functioning as an...
Any discussion of federal penal law must begin with an important caveat: There actually is no federa...
State constitutional rights and procedural protections, of course, can only be asserted in state cri...
The four chief factors influencing the quality of American justice were identified by Dean Roscoe Po...
Each American jurisdiction has a criminal code. Most jurisdictions have substantially restructured a...
The first area is the substantive criminal law, especially at the federal level. In the following pa...
The federalization of American criminal law was not an issue that would have been discussed prior to...
The Model Penal Code is among the most successful academic law reform projects ever attempted. In th...
The age of federal codification is upon us. The Federal Rules of Evidence and the new bankruptcy and...
Congress has responded to increasing public concern about violent crime by expanding the scope of th...
A major problem for those analyzing U.S. criminal law and procedure is that it does not fit the Cont...
After planning the effort for twenty years, the American Law Institute spent ten years debating and ...
Book Chapter Overfederalization in Reforming Criminal Justice: Volume 1: Introduction and Criminaliz...
Discussions about the federalization of crime traditionally have focused on substantive law: a crime...
The state and federal courts largely exercise concurrent jurisdiction over most criminal law matters...
Illinois had no Criminal Code in the sense of a codified, systematic body of law functioning as an...