scholarly journals CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE, CRIME, AND POLICE INCENTIVES: EVIDENCE FROM THE COMPREHENSIVE CRIME CONTROL ACT OF 1984

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-242
Author(s):  
Shawn Kantor ◽  
Carl T. Kitchens ◽  
Steven Pawlowski



2007 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 441-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liz Campbell

Various alterations to the Irish legal system have been effected in a bid to counter organised crime, the most radical of which was the introduction of civil forfeiture in 1996. This article examines the forfeiture process carried out by the Criminal Assets Bureau and seeks to analyse it from a theoretical perspective. Civil forfeiture may be regarded as embodying a move away from due process towards crime control, given the avoidance of traditional protections in the criminal process by its location in the civil realm. Moreover, the process may be characterised as an ‘apersonal means of tackling crime’, in which emphasis is laid on the non-moral and regulatory aspects of the law. This article further contends that civil forfeiture represents an adaptation to reality in which the State reconfigures the legislative framework so as to facilitate more readily the suppression of organised crime.







2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia DeVault ◽  
Monica K. Miller ◽  
Timothy Griffin
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