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23 Crim. Just. Stud. 1 (2010)

handle is hein.journals/cjscj23 and id is 1 raw text is: Criminal Justice Studies                                     AZ Routedge
Vol. 23, No. 1, March 2010, 1-2                                 Taylor &Francis Group
EDITORIAL
From the Editor's desk
The use of the plain view doctrine allows police officers to seize contraband they see
without the need to obtain a search warrant. Since 1971, there has been an attempt to
apply the rationale to those situations that involve the use of senses other than sight.
The development of the plain view doctrine is explored in the paper 'Getting Touchy-
Feely: Application of the Plain View Doctrine to Plain Touch, Plain Smell, and Plain
Hearing Situations by the United States Court of Appeals and District Courts' by
Valerie Bell, Craig Hemmens, and Nichole Gerhard and its expansion to these areas.
Policing organized crime requires a contingent approach according to Petter
Gottschalk in his paper 'A Contingent Approach to Policing Organized Crime.' Both
police organizations and criminal organizations are defined as knowledge organiza-
tions. Based on the relative knowledge of criminals vs. police, four sectors emerge:
random policing, disadvantaged policing, targeted policing, and competitive policing.
In the paper 'Exploring Stolen Data Markets Online: Products and Market Forces'
by Thomas J. Holt and Eric Lampke, the authors state that the threat of hackers and
data thieves has increased, though few have considered the ways to dispose of the
information obtained from computer attacks. They have conducted a study that exam-
ines the nature of the market for stolen data using a qualitative analysis of 300 threads
from six web forums run by and for data thieves. They also demonstrate the distinct
relationships between buyers and sellers that shape the relationships and structure of
these markets.
Reem A. Abu-Lughod has a paper on 'Planning for Crime Reduction.' She states
that though there might be a decline in the overall crime rate in the USA, nevertheless
there is a need to develop improvements to reduce the number of violent crimes that
are still prevalent in the cities. Her study reviews comprehensive sets of indicators
composed of those variables consistently stated in the literature that affect an individ-
ual's sense of safety and security in the cities. She makes a correlation between
criminal offenses, physical attributes, race, gender, income, population, and other
variables.
In the paper 'Testing the Marshall Hypothesis and its Antithesis: The Effect of
Biased Information on Death-Penalty Opinion' the authors Deniese Kennedy-Kollar
and Evan J. Mandery write about prior studies having found mixed support for the
'Marshall Hypothesis.' No prior study has examined the effect of these facts on death
penalty opponents. They examined 187 undergraduates with one-sided information
that either supported or opposed the death penalty. Paired sample t-tests compared
pre- and post-test levels of support and found significant decreases in opposition
among those opposed to capital punishment at the outset, but no major change among
those who favored capital punishment.
The last paper by Jennifer LaMoure, Robert Meadows, Henri Mondschein, and
Susan Llewellyn talks about 'Interviewing Male and Female Jail Inmates Sentenced
ISSN 1478-601X print/ISSN 1478-6028 online
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DOI: 10.1080/14786011003634290
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