Pre-Imprisonment Employment Drops: Another Instance of the Ashenfelter Dip?
Pre-Imprisonment Employment Drops: Another Instance of the Ashenfelter Dip? A number of recent studies examining the effects of imprisonment on ex-prisoner labor market outcomes have reported sizable pre-imprisonment employment drops.…
The Downstream Effects of Bail and Pretrial Detention on Racial Disparities in Incarceration
The Downstream Effects of Bail and Pretrial Detention on Racial Disparities in Incarceration Bail and pretrial detention decisions may have important consequences for racial disparities in incarceration rates. Poor minority…
A Guiding Hand or a Slap on the Wrist: Can Drug Courts be the Solution to Maternal Opioid Use?
A Guiding Hand or a Slap on the Wrist: Can Drug Courts be the Solution to Maternal Opioid Use? As the opioid epidemic has expanded its reach, the number of…
Coerced Fate: How Negotiation Models Lead to False Confessions
Coerced Fate: How Negotiation Models Lead to False Confessions Police interrogators across the United States employ tactics that can lead to coerced, often false, confessions. While police departments have shifted…
Motus Animi in Mente Insana: An Emotion-Oriented Paradigm of Legal Insanity Informed by the Neuroscience of Moral Judgments and Decision-Making
Motus Animi in Mente Insana: An Emotion-Oriented Paradigm of Legal Insanity Informed by the Neuroscience of Moral Judgments and Decision-Making Legal insanity is deeply rooted in an intellectualistic conception of…
The Regulatory Challenge of Public Corruption
The Regulatory Challenge of Public Corruption Read the syndicated article here
Virtual Shackles: Electronic Surveillance and the Adultification of Juvenile Courts
Virtual Shackles: Electronic Surveillance and the Adultification of Juvenile Courts In recent years, there has been a groundswell of attention directed at problems within the American criminal justice system, led…
Not Yet Gone, and Not Yet Forgotten: The Reasonableness of Continued Mandatory Detention of Noncitizens Without a Bond Hearing
Not Yet Gone, and Not Yet Forgotten: The Reasonableness of Continued Mandatory Detention of Noncitizens Without a Bond Hearing Section 1226(c) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act…
Reduced Culpability Without Reduced Punishment: A Case for Why Lead Poisoning Should be Considered a Mitigating Factor in Criminal Sentencing
Reduced Culpability Without Reduced Punishment: A Case for Why Lead Poisoning Should be Considered a Mitigating Factor in Criminal Sentencing The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, where residents discovered dangerous…
Parental Prisoners: The Incarcerated Mother’s Constitutional Right to Parent
Parental Prisoners: The Incarcerated Mother's Constitutional Right to Parent The United States prison population has grown at alarming and unprecedented rates in recent decades, with certain states imprisoning more individuals…
The Effects of Body-Worn Cameras on Police Activity and Police-Citizen Encounters: A Randomized Controlled Trial
The Effects of Body-Worn Cameras on Police Activity and Police-Citizen Encounters: A Randomized Controlled Trial Many have suggested that placing body-worn cameras (BWCs) on police officers improves the civility of…
A Broken Windows Theory of Sexual Assault Enforcement
A Broken Windows Theory of Sexual Assault Enforcement The law of sexual assault is in conflict. Jurisdictions struggle with the conceptual shift from thinking of rape as forcible sex to…