Friday, August 9, 2019

Film Review: Once Upon a Time in. . . Hollywood

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I just came out of a screening of Quentin Tarantino's new movie Once Upon a Time in. . . Hollywood , which I somewhat dreaded watching...
Monday, July 15, 2019

Assessing the Dangerousness of Redball Criminals: Two Israel Examples

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My forthcoming book Yesterday's Monsters examines the parole hearings of the Manson Family, who have been consistently denied parole for...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

Wrongful Conviction Journalism: Lights and Shadows

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I've just finished watching the second season of an Israeli documentary series titled Shadow of Truth, which takes on a series of chi...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Yesterday's Monsters Coming Early 2020

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I'm very excited to let you know that Yesterday's Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole is already in ...
Friday, June 14, 2019

When Cheap on Crime Becomes Mainstream: Santa Clara to Divert Nonviolent Drug Offenders

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Chapter 3 of Cheap on Crime opens with a 2009 headline from the San Francisco Chronicle, which reads, " Many Contra Costa Crooks Won...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Is Race "Baked" into the Criminal Justice System?

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Today, San Francisco D.A. George Gascón announced a new program: race-blind prosecutions, aided by machine learning. The San Francisco Chron...
Friday, June 7, 2019

Madam Secretary and How Things Could Be: Democracts, What Is your Criminal Justice Agenda?

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The wonderful CBS series Madam Secretary , whose fifth season is out, features Téa Leoni as Elizabeth McCord, a Secretary of State in a p...