The title of this post is the title of this new paper from the Square One Project at Columbia University authored by Laura Hawks, Evangeline Lopoo, Lisa Puglisi and Emily Wang. Here is a portion of the long paper’s introduction:
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Notable new essays in Brennan Center's "Punitive Excess" series focused on responding to violent crime and mandatory minimums
I highlighted here back in April the terrific essay series assembled by the Brennan Center for Justice under the title “Punitive Excess.” I have blogged about sets of new essays repeatedly (as linked below) because each new set…
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Bureau of Justice Statistics releases 2020 National Crime Victimization Survey data indicating over a 20% decline in violent victimization from 2019 to 2020
Crime data is always complicated, and the pandemic era adds a huge extra dimension to figuring out just what is happening with crime in the US and how policymakers should respond. The latest data report from the Bureau of Justice…
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Federal double jeopardy cert grant and two summary reversals awarding police qualified immunity on new SCOTUS order list
After two weeks hearing oral argument (including a short holiday week), the Supreme Court has the next two weeks “off” before its November sitting. But a final bit of SCOTUS action today comes in the form of this order list…
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New special issue of <em>Science</em> explores "Criminal Injustice: Mass Incarceration in the United States"
This new issue of Science includes a special section of articles exploring the deep roots and deep consequences of mass incarceration in the United States. This introduction, titled “An outlier of injustice,” sets up what follows this way:…
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"Doing Justice in Sentencing"
The title of this post is the title of this short new article by Michael Tonry now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract:
Anyone who would read a paper on this subject or with this title knows that sentences…
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Continuing capital commentary as SCOTUS considers Marathon bomber's capital process
In prior posts here and here, I rounded up press coverage just before and just after the Supreme Court heard oral argument in US v. Tsanaev to consider whether the First Circuit erred when reversing the death sentence given…
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"Sentencing Commission Data Tool Is Deeply Flawed"
The title of this post is the headline of this new Law360 commentary by Michael Yeager which provides an important and critical discussion of the US Sentencing Commission’s new JSIN sentencing tool. This piece develops and details some of the…
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Latest issue of <em>SMU Law Review</em> focused on criminal justice reforms
I just had a chance to notice and note here that the Summer 2021 issue of the SMU Law Review has a great bunch of articles on a great array of criminal justice topics. Here are all the pieces in…
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"New York State’s New Death Penalty: The Death Toll of Mass Incarceration in a Post-Execution Era"
The title of this post is the title of this interesting new report from the the Center for Justice at Columbia University which reinforces my sense that we ought to give a lot more attention to functional death sentences (which…
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