Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Body-Worn Cameras in Prison?

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I just got off the phone with a person who is serving a long sentence in a CA prison (I will keep the person's details to myself to p...
Sunday, February 9, 2020

Release Party for Yesterday's Monsters

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Hi, Dear Readers! My new book Yesterday's Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole is out from UC Press and I am in...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

The Prefrontal Cortex Strikes Again: Bill to Raise Age for Trying Juveniles as Adults to 20

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The Sac Bee reports : A California lawmaker argues that 18- and 19-year-olds aren’t mature enough to do prison time if they break the law,...
Monday, January 27, 2020

Progressive Prosecution Meets Organizational Discombobulation: Chesa Boudin and the Case of the Police-Citizen Mutual Violence

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Let's start with the important stuff. My wonderful students have established an excellent new journal, the Hastings Journal of Crime and...
Thursday, December 26, 2019

Should Therapists Disclose that Patients Have Looked at Child Porn?

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Today, the Supreme Court of CA decided , 4-3, that a legal challenge mounted by California therapists against a law requiring them to report...
Friday, December 6, 2019

Nonexistent Reentry in CA: When People Are Duped Into Thinking It's All Their Fault

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The opening chapter of Foucault's Discipline and Punish compares two penal scenes: the drawing and quartering of a regicide and a drab ...
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Criminal Justice Discrimination for Unseen Categories: The Case of Mizrachi Jewish Israelis

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--> The case was not unlike hundreds of others in the Israeli army: a soldier, 18 or 19 years old, left his unit to go home ...