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Prison and Police Abolition
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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…
Benjamin Levin -
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,…
Steven Arrigg Koh -
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.…
Daniel S. Harawa -
ArticleVol. 101 · Iss. 6
Does The State Have an Obligation Not To Enforce The Law?
Does the State have any obligation not to enforce its own law? Scholars have long debated whether and to what extent we—that is, us…
W. Robert Thomas -
ArticleVol. 101 · Iss. 6
Minimalist Criminal Courts
Many penal abolitionists hold that criminal courts have been complicit in mass incarceration and essential to an irredeemably unjust and discriminatory system. As abolitionist…
Yoav Sapir & Guy Rubinstein -
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…
Máximo Langer -
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.…
Brandon Hasbrouck -
ArticleVol. 98 · Iss. 4
Police Prosecutions and Punitive Instincts
This Article makes two contributions to the fields of policing and criminal legal scholarship. First, it sounds a cautionary note about the use of individual prosecutions…
Kate Levine