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Research needs related to firearm rights restoration. [PDF]

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Prosecuting Misdemeanors

2021
Abstract Although violent crime gets the most media, public, and legislative attention in the United States, misdemeanors make up approximately 75 percent of all criminal court cases, with more than 13 million new misdemeanor cases filed each year. This chapter discusses the role of prosecutors in the misdemeanor system.
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Misdemeanors

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 2015
Misdemeanors are an increasingly vital arena of criminal justice scholarship and policy. With ten million cases filed each year, and vastly outnumbering felonies, the petty offense is the paradigmatic US crime. Indeed, most Americans experience the criminal system through the petty offense process.
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Race and Misdemeanor Sentencing

Criminal Justice Policy Review, 2003
This research examines the validity of an integrative theoretical approach that consists of the “liberation hypothesis” and the “focal concerns” perspective to assess the extent racial discrimination is likely to occur in misdemeanor decision making involving less serious cases.
Michael J. Leiber, Anita N. Blowers
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Sexual Misdemeanor/Psychoanalytic Felony

Cinema Journal, 1987
The appropriation of psychoanalysis into the field of film theory has provided not only a methodology with which to study film itself (reading against the grain, theories of displacement, etc.) but has facilitated understanding of how and why psychoanalysis appears within the plots of a large number of films. Now that we are aware of Freudian theory we
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Common Law Misdemeanors

The Cambridge Law Journal, 1937
The recognition of the misdemeanor of Public Mischief has raised the whole issue of whether it is desirable that the judiciary should be in a position to extend the criminal law. The abortive Draft Criminal Code, section 5, provided that all offences should be prosecuted either under the Code or under some other statute, and not at common law ...
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