Baer on Cooperation’s Cost

September 3, 2010 by CrimProf BlogEditor  
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Miriam H. Baer (Brooklyn Law School) has posted Cooperation's Cost (Washington University Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article explores the costs and benefits of criminal cooperation, the widespread practice by which prosecutors offer criminal defendants...

Dervan on Plea Bargaining’s Innocence Problem

September 2, 2010 by CrimProf BlogEditor  
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Lucian E. Dervan (Southern Illinois University School of Law) has posted Bargained Justice: Plea Bargaining's Innocence Problem and the Brady Safety-Valve on SSRN. Here is the abstract: If any number of attorneys were asked in 2004 whether Lea Fastow’s plea...

Harcourt and Meares on Randomization and the Fourth Amendment

September 2, 2010 by CrimProf BlogEditor  
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Bernard E. Harcourt (left) and Tracey L. Meares (University of Chicago - Law School and Yale University) have posted Randomization and the Fourth Amendment on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Randomized checkpoint searches are generally taken to be the exact...

Covey on Pervasive Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment

September 1, 2010 by CrimProf BlogEditor  
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Russell D. Covey (Georgia State University College of Law) has posted Pervasive Surveillance and the Future of the Fourth Amendment (Mississippi Law Journal, Vol. 80, No. 4, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: We are in a period of...

The Jet Blue Flight Attendant and the Criminal Law

September 1, 2010 by CrimProf BlogEditor  
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Erin Murphy (NYU) has published "Is Steven Slater a Criminal?" in USA Today. In part: Cannibalistic criminalization is also bad for the rest of us. Because harm prevention seems an unconvincing justification for this prosecution, perhaps the district attorney is...

Schulhofer, Tyler & Hug on Policing at a Crossroads

September 1, 2010 by CrimProf BlogEditor  
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Stephen Schulhofer (pictured), Tom Tyler and Aziz Z. Huq (New York University - School of Law , New York University - Department of Psychology and University of Chicago Law School) have posted American Policing at a Crossroads on SSRN. Here...

Mitchell on Obstacles to Longer Halfway House Placements

September 1, 2010 by CrimProf BlogEditor  
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S. David Mitchell (University of Missouri) has posted Impeding Reentry: Agency and Judicial Obstacles to Longer Halfway House Placements on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Over 700,000 prisoners were released into their communities in 2008, at least 50,000 of those...

Stinneford on Proportionality under the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause

September 1, 2010 by CrimProf BlogEditor  
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John F. Stinneford (University of Florida Levin College of Law) has posted Rethinking Proportionality under the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Although a century has passed since the Supreme Court started reviewing criminal punishments...

Gender, Justice, and Victim Rights Symposium Feb. 25 at Wisconsin

August 31, 2010 by CrimProf BlogEditor  
Filed under Criminal Court

Legal Scholarship Blog notes this symposium focusing on "A Gendered Perspective of Victims in the Criminal Justice System." Those interested in submitting papers should send an abstract by by October 31.

Reamey on Universality in Criminal Procedure

August 30, 2010 by CrimProf BlogEditor  
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Gerald S. Reamey (St. Mary's University School of Law) has posted Innovation or Renovation in Criminal Procedure: Is the World Moving Toward a New Model of Adjudication? (Arizona Journal International & Comparative Law, Vol. 27, p. 324, 2010) on SSRN....

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