Wednesday, December 19, 2018

The First Step Act: Humonetarianism Alive and Well

›
When my phone buzzed with a new notification, I felt a bit queasy reading that a new crime bill passed in the Senate was regarded "a vi...
Friday, December 14, 2018

Prison Abolitionism, Anti-Zionism, and the Risks of Fashionable Thoughtlessness

›
More than five years ago, I started noticing that people whose positions on mass incarceration and its discontents were similar to mine were...
3 comments:

Police You Can Trust: Enriching Our Imagination about What's Possible in Criminal Justice

›
Last night I had a real treat in listening to the wonderful James Forman Jr. speak at the Nourse Theater with Lara Bazelon , as part of th...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Progressive Punitivism: Notes on the Pursuit of Social Justice through Penal Means

›
One reaction I've gotten on my fairly popular post about the Kavanaugh hearings is that many people were feeling some unease around ...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Seizure: A Biker's Perspective on the Fourth Amendment

›
Recently, SCOTUS decided Collins v. Virginia (2018), in which the Court, by a 8-1 majority, did not uphold a search involving a motorcycle ...

Not Your Typical Kavanaugh Opinion Piece

›
To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape.                                                                                  --S...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Safe Injections Disappointment: A Call for SF Hamsterdam

›
The proposal was well thought and empirically backed: According to the principles of harm reduction , the best perspective we have on saving...