Beyond Due Process: An Examination of the Restorative Justice Community Courts of Chicago
Beyond Due Process: An Examination of the Restorative Justice Community Courts of Chicago As American society has reckoned with the harmful effects of mass incarceration, there has been a push…
Casting a Ballot for Change: How to Overcome Jail Policy Deficiencies and the O’Brien Precedent to Expand Voting Rights for Jailed Individuals
Casting a Ballot for Change: How to Overcome Jail Policy Deficiencies and the O’Brien Precedent to Expand Voting Rights for Jailed Individuals Prior to the 2020 election, lawmakers in several…
Restorative Justice Diversion as a Structural Health Intervention in the Criminal Legal System
Restorative Justice Diversion as a Structural Health Intervention in the Criminal Legal System A new discourse at the intersection of criminal justice and public health is bringing to light how…
Are Police Officers Bayesians? Police Updating in Investigative Stops
Are Police Officers Bayesians? Police Updating in Investigative Stops Theories of rational behavior assume that actors make decisions where the benefits of their acts exceed their costs or losses. If…
Policing the Danger Narrative
Policing the Danger Narrative The clamor for police reform in the United States has reached a fever pitch. The current debate has mainly centered around questions of police function: What…
Like Putting Lipstick on a Pig: Why the History of Crime Control Should Compel the Prohibition of Incentivized Witness Testimony Under Fundamental Fairness Principles
Like Putting Lipstick on a Pig: Why the History of Crime Control Should Compel the Prohibition of Incentivized Witness Testimony Under Fundamental Fairness Principles Among Western nations, American courts remain…
Innocence is Not Enough: Illinois Certificates of Innocence & the Case of Wayne Washington
Innocence is Not Enough: Illinois Certificates of Innocence & the Case of Wayne Washington In 2008, the Illinois State Legislature found that “innocent persons who have been wrongly convicted of…
Toward a Socio-Legal Theory of Male Rape
Toward a Socio-Legal Theory of Male Rape In this Article, we attempt to formulate a new theoretical framework for the analysis of male rape, a phenomenon that has been neglected…
The Problem of Habitual Offender Laws in States with Felony Disenfranchisement
The Problem of Habitual Offender Laws in States with Felony Disenfranchisement Habitual offender laws operate to increase the sentence of an individual if that person already has a felony conviction.…
Felony Murder Liability for Homicides by Police: Too Unfair and Too Much to Bear
Felony Murder Liability for Homicides by Police: Too Unfair and Too Much to Bear On November 23, 2020, a fifteen-year-old boy was gunned down by five Oklahoma City police officers,…
Of Law and Men
Of Law and Men I, an Indian-American transgender woman, share stories of my sexual escapades with seven Trump supporters to move us towards new mountains in jurisprudential scholarship. I do…
Reframing Hate
Reframing Hate The concept and naming of “hate crime,” and the adoption of special laws to address it, provoked controversy and raised fundamental questions when they were introduced in the…