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Mass Incarceration

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  • ArticleVol. 101 · Iss. 6

    Criminal Law Minimalisms

    What is criminal law minimalism? At first blush, minimalism appears to be the sober and sensible cousin of abolition. Where the language of abolition…

  • ArticleVol. 101 · Iss. 6

    Criminal Law’s Hidden Consensus

    American criminal law is facing a crisis of meaning. In our mass incarceration era, most argue that we are prosecuting too many, too often,…

  • ArticleVol. 101 · Iss. 6

    In the Shadows of Suffering

    Reform. Abolish. Minimize. Criminal law scholars broadly understand that we need to do *something* about our penal system and the problem of mass incarceration.…

  • ArticleVol. 101 · Iss. 6

    Reviving Rehabilitation as a Decarceral Tool

    After advocates argued that circumstances attendant to late adolescent offenders make them less culpable for their offenses and better disposed to rehabilitation, the Massachusetts…

  • ArticleVol. 101 · Iss. 6

    What is Penal Minimalism?

    How much and what kind of criminal justice do fair societies need? This question underlies many of the debates on the criminal legal system…

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    Lessons Learned in Prison

    One way that I have tried to stay fresh as a teacher through the decades is to periodically force myself outside of my teaching…

  • CommentaryVol. 99 · Iss. 4

    Sentencing Co-Offenders

    ABSTRACT Tort law and criminal law are the two main vehicles utilized by the state to deter wrongful behavior. Despite the many similarities between…

  • ArticleVol. 99 · Iss. 2

    The Just Prosecutor

    Abstract As the most powerful actors in our criminal legal system, prosecutors have been and remain one of the principal drivers of mass incarceration.…

  • ArticleVol. 99 · Iss. 1

    Crime and the Mythology of Police

    ABSTRACT The legal policing literature has espoused one theory of policing after another in an effort to address the frayed relationship between police and…

  • ArticleVol. 87 · Iss. 6

    Rodrigo’s Portent: California and the Coming Neocolonial Order

    Through the style of a fictional narrative, this paper demonstrates how colonialism is starting to supplant race as an organizing principle, enabling whites to…

  • ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 1

    When Any Sentence is a Life Sentence: Employment Discrimination Against Ex-Offenders

    For the sixty-five million Americans with a criminal record, it is cruelly ironic that perhaps the most important resource for turning their lives around—employment—is…

  • ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 2

    Technologically Distorted Conceptions of Punishment

    Much recent work in academic literature and policy discussions suggests that the proliferation of actuarial—meaning statistical—assessments of a defendant’s recidivism risk in state sentencing…