Full text of Title 14 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes as amended through the 2018 legislative sessions. Used by attorneys throughout Louisiana, our edition is published with the practitioner in mind. It has text in 12 point font size which reads across the whole page (no dual columns), and does not have unnecessary editorial materials or commentary. With a detailed table of contents, this 2019 edition of the Louisiana Criminal Code is a useful reference book for attorneys and law students. To view an abstract of the Criminal Code visit: https://www.gulfcoastlegalpublishing.com/louisiana-law-books/lcrc2019/

Perfect for your briefcase or the courtroom. Formatted and compiled with the practitioners and law students in mind, this 2022 edition of the Louisiana Criminal Code has easy to read text on letter size pages that reads across the whole page (no dual columns) and a detailed table of contents that allows you to quickly access the provision you need. Contains all statutes of Title 14 as amended through the 2021 Legislative Sessions.

This 2019 edition of the Louisiana Civil Code contains the full text of all articles as amended through the 2018 legislative sessions. Used by attorneys throughout Louisiana, our edition is published with the practitioner in mind. It has text in 12 point font size which reads across the whole page (no dual columns), and does not have unnecessary editorial materials or commentary. With a detailed table of contents, this 2019 edition of the Louisiana Criminal Code is a useful reference book for attorneys and law students.

A central puzzle in jurisprudence has been the role of custom in law. Custom is simply the practices and usages of distinctive communities. But are such customs legally binding? Can custom be law, even before it is recognized by authoritative legislation or precedent? And, assuming that custom is a source of law, what are its constituent elements? Is proof of a consistent and long-standing practice sufficient, or must there be an extra ingredient - that the usage is pursued out of a sense of legal obligation, or, at least, that the custom is reasonable and efficacious? And, most tantalizing of all, is custom a source of law that we should embrace in modern, sophisticated legal systems, or is the notion of law from below outdated, or even dangerous, today? This volume answers these questions through a rigorous multidisciplinary, historical, and comparative approach, offering a fresh perspective on custom's enduring place in both domestic and international law.

This report serves to assess the Nation¿s progress in addressing juvenile crime. The 2007 data bring some welcome news, as the recent trend of modest increases in juvenile arrests in 2005 and 2006 has been broken. The good news is reflected not only in the 2% decline in overall juvenile arrests and the 3% decline in juvenile arrests for violent crimes from 2006 to 2007 but also in the data for most offense categories, for males and females, and for white and minority youth. However, one area that merits continued attention is disproportionate minority contact with the juvenile justice system. For example, the arrest rate for robbery among black juveniles was more than 10 times that for white youth in 2007. Charts and tables.

Looks at how prosecution of offenders is evolving in the contemporary legal milieu.