The danger of the paid snitches

Article Abstract:

The public protection achieved by using professional informers does not outweigh the damage to citizens' constitutional rights resulting from their use. Increasing law enforcement use of these professional informers has resulted from the frustrations of the drug war, but their use has not furthered drug war success and their testimony cannot be relied on. The drug war's emphasis on prosecution rather than prevention have led noted federal judges Whitman Knapp and Jack B. Weinstein to announce they will no longer hear drug cases. Drug legalization would be better than what is going on.

Narcotics, Control of, Narcotics control, Informers

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Statutory restrictions on weapons possession: must the right to self-defense fall victim?

Article Abstract:

The inherent contradiction between the self-defense doctrine and laws restricting firearms possession may have to be resolved in the courts until a national consensus is reached. Case law indicates guns may be used legitimately in self-defense in some instances despite statutory prohibitions. Court decisions may be the best avenue available to balancing the self-defense doctrine with weapons restrictions because the courts have tended to soften statutory gun bans.

Firearms, Gun laws, Gun control

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Women in imminent danger from the law

Article Abstract:

The term 'abuse excuse' indicates anger toward people who claim abuse led them to commit a crime but it also masks unfairness toward women in legal and social systems. The laws of self-defense require imminent danger, but women may need to act, based on a history of violence, before they are physically attacked again. Postpartum depression that causes a woman to kill her own child is a mental illness and not consciously resistable as such.

Battered woman syndrome (Law), Battered person syndrome

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