Friday, October 4, 2019

More Progressive Punitivism: And Today We, the Woke, Will Tell You How to Grieve Your Brother

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If you're anything like me, you might have spared a moment or two from focusing on the impeachment brouhaha to follow the horrific trage...
Thursday, October 3, 2019

"What About Arab-on-Arab Crime?" Minority Intraracial Violence and How the Left and the Right Both Get It Wrong

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As I type this, thousands of Israeli Arab citizens, residents of Magd-al-Crum (an Arab town in the Upper Galilee) are protesting against...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Which Juveniles May Be Tried As Adults? CA Supreme Court to Decide

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A legislative clash regarding the prosecution of juveniles in adult courts has reached the California Supreme Court. Bob Egelko of the Chron...
Sunday, September 29, 2019

Distress Call: Suicide Rates in California Prisons

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A couple of years ago, Michael Bien alerted us at his keynote speech at WSC to an alarming trend: mental illness was on the rise in CA priso...
Thursday, September 26, 2019

The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

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Theodore R. Davis' illustration of Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial in the Senate, published in Harper's Weekly. Much has ...

Hunger Strike in Calaveras County Jail

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Calaveras County Jail, courtesy The Calaveras Enterprise. Chapter 6 of Cheap on Crime dealt with a transition with our perception of i...

Crimmigration Meets Sentencing: Assimilating the Apprendi Doctrine to Simplify the Categorical Analysis

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As part of my visitorship at Harvard, I'm having the great pleasure of auditing Philip Torrey 's terrific Crimmigation class and lea...