A More Just System of Juvenile Justice: Creating a New Standard of Accountability for Juveniles in Illinois
A More Just System of Juvenile Justice: Creating a New Standard of Accountability for Juveniles in Illinois For over a century, America’s legal system has made substantial reforms to change…
The Fourth Amendment in the Age of Persistent Aerial Surveillance
The Fourth Amendment in the Age of Persistent Aerial Surveillance If Big Brother made movies, persistent aerial surveillance would be its masterpiece. Small airplanes are rigged with high-tech cameras that…
Now You See Me: Problems and Strategies for Introducing Gender Self-Determination into the Eighth Amendment for Gender Nonconforming Prisoners
Now You See Me: Problems and Strategies for Introducing Gender Self-Determination into the Eighth Amendment for Gender Nonconforming Prisoners As the fight for transgender rights becomes more visible in the…
Technological Incarceration and the End of the Prison Crisis
Technological Incarceration and the End of the Prison Crisis The United States imprisons more of its people than any nation on Earth, and by a considerable margin. Criminals attract little…
Unmarked? Criminal Record Clearing and Employment Outcomes
Unmarked? Criminal Record Clearing and Employment Outcomes An estimated one in three American adults has a criminal record. While some records are for serious offenses, most are for arrests or…
The Law of Abolition
The Law of Abolition Three themes have characterized death penalty abolition throughout the Western world: a sustained period of de facto abolition; an understanding of those in government that the…
The Rhetoric of Abolition: Continuity and Change in the Struggle Against America’s Death Penalty, 1900-2010
The Rhetoric of Abolition: Continuity and Change in the Struggle Against America's Death Penalty, 1900-2010 This article seeks to understand when, how, and where the framing of arguments against capital…
Race and Death Sentencing for Oklahoma Homicides Committed Between 1990 and 2012
Race and Death Sentencing for Oklahoma Homicides Committed Between 1990 and 2012 This Article examines 4,668 Oklahoma homicide cases with an identified suspect that occurred during a twenty-three year period…
Examining Jurors: Applying Conversation Analysis to Voir Dire in Capital Cases, a First Look
Examining Jurors: Applying Conversation Analysis to Voir Dire in Capital Cases, a First Look Scholarship about racial disparities in jury selection is extensive, but the data about how parties examine…
A Culture that is Hard to Defend: Extralegal Factors in Federal Death Penalty Cases
A Culture that is Hard to Defend: Extralegal Factors in Federal Death Penalty Cases Empirical research has exposed a troubling pattern of capital punishment in the United States, with extralegal…
The American Death Penalty Decline
The American Death Penalty Decline American death sentences have both declined and become concentrated in a small group of counties. In his dissenting opinion in Glossip v. Gross in 2014,…
Congress Blewett by Not Explicitly Making the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 Retroactive
Congress Blewett by Not Explicitly Making the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 Retroactive In 2013, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals was the first Circuit Court to retroactively apply the…