Publications

This issue discusses constitutional changes to blended sentencing. Up until February 2000, three states had faced challenges such as these: Minnesota in 1995, New Mexico in 1996, and Montana in 1997. Only the Montana statute…

This report briefly discusses the Battered Child Syndrome as a defense for the murder of an abusive parent. Do victims of child abuse have some special justification for murdering their abusive parents? To date, four…