U.S. Hate Crime Trends: What Disaggregation of Three Decades of Data Reveals About a Changing Threat and an Invisible Record
Hate Crime Trends: What Disaggregation of Three Decades of Data Reveals About a Changing Threat and an Invisible Record When prejudice-related data are combined and analyzed over time, critical information…
The Conundrums of Hate Crime Prevention
The Conundrums of Hate Crime Prevention The recent surge in hate crimes alongside persistent concerns over policing and prisons has catalyzed new interest in hate crime prevention outside the criminal…
A Trauma-Centered Approach to Addressing Hate Crimes
A Trauma-Centered Approach to Addressing Hate Crimes A dominant justification for hate crime laws is that they serve a crucial expressive function—sending messages of valuation to victims, and of denunciation…
Pick the Lowest Hanging Fruit: Hate Crime Law and the Acknowledgment of Racial Violence
Pick the Lowest Hanging Fruit: Hate Crime Law and the Acknowledgment of Racial Violence The has had remedies aimed at racial violence since the Ku Klux Klan Act was passed…
Holding Government Officials Accountable by Applying the State-Created Danger Doctrine to Cases of Suicide
Holding Government Officials Accountable by Applying the State-Created Danger Doctrine to Cases of Suicide Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act provides a means for plaintiffs whose civil rights have…
Criminalizing ESG: A Framework to Hold Corporations Accountable for Incorrect ESG Disclosures
Criminalizing ESG: A Framework to Hold Corporations Accountable for Incorrect ESG Disclosures Investors are increasingly interested in corporate environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) data, so the SEC has faced pressure…
Judicial Resistance to New York’s 2020 Criminal Legal Reforms
Judicial Resistance to New York's 2020 Criminal Legal Reforms This Article seeks to examine judicial opposition to New York’s 2020 criminal justice reforms in the context of existing scholarship on…
Habit, Crime, and Culpability
Habit, Crime, and Culpability Courts and scholars long have distinguished the wrongdoing component of criminal liability from the culpability component. In the old days, wrongdoing was thought to be crime’s…
Public Records Aren’t Public: Systemic Barriers to Measuring Court Functioning & Equity
Public Records Aren't Public: Systemic Barriers to Measuring Court Functioning & Equity In a new era of computational legal scholarship, computational tools exist with the capacity to quickly and efficiently…
Getting Out of Traffic: Applying White Collar Investigative Tactics to Increase Detection of Sex Trafficking Cases
Getting Out of Traffic: Applying White Collar Investigative Tactics to Increase Detection of Sex Trafficking Cases When federal authorities investigate sex trafficking, three realities are consistently present. First, most sex…
Rethinking Prison for Non-Violent Gun Possession
Rethinking Prison for Non-Violent Gun Possession Whatever the wisdom or folly of the belief, Americans who live in violence-affected neighborhoods often believe they need a gun for self-defense. Yet many…
Judicial Responses to Age and Other Mitigating Evidence: An Exploratory Case Study of Juvenile Life Sentences in Pre-Miller Cases
Judicial Responses to Age and Other Mitigating Evidence: An Exploratory Case Study of Juvenile Life Sentences in Pre-Miller Cases This study describes how judges in Maricopa County, Arizona responded to…