Criminal Prosecution

Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanors, 11 Ann. Rev. L. & Soc. Sci. 255 (2015).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, The Economic Theory of Public Enforcement of Law, 38 J. Econ. Lit. 45 (2000).

I. Glenn Cohen, Nikolas Bowie, Megan Jones & Eli Y. Adashi, Preventing Female Genital Mutilation in the United States: The Legal Threat to Effective Action,…

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of the Death Penalty in the United States, 3 Ann. Rev. Criminology 299…

Andrew Manuel Crespo, No Justice, No Pleas: Subverting Mass Incarceration Through Defendant Collective Action, Fordham L. Rev. (2022).

Adriaan Lanni, Taking Restorative Justice Seriously, 69 Buff. L. Rev. 635 (2021).

Emma Harrington, William Murdock, III, & Hannah Shaffer, Prediction Errors, Incarceration, and Violent Crime, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (forthcoming).

Emma Harrington & Hannah Shaffer, Seeing Disparities Through a New Lens: Do Police Body-Worn Cameras Influence Downstream Decisions and Beliefs? (2025).

Emma Harrington & Hannah Shaffer, Discerning Discretion: Estimating Prosecutor Effects at Criminal Sentencing (2020).

Stephen Breyer, Federal Sentencing Guidelines Revisited, 36 Fed. Sent’g Rep. 244 (2024).

Stephen Breyer, Crimes against Humanity: Nuremberg, 1946, 71 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1161 (1996).

Rosalie Abella, The Instructive Power of Outrage: Remembering Nuremberg, 46 McGill L. J . 113 (2000)…

Michael R. Dreeben, Insider Trading and Intangible Rights: The Redefinition of the Mail Fraud Statute, 26 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 181 (1988).

Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Solving the Due Process Problem with Military Commissions, 114 Yale L.J. 921 (2005).

Alexandra Natapoff, Institutional Structures of Penal Inequality, 115 The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 821 (2026).

Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanor Declination: A Theory of Internal Separation of Powers, 102 Texas L. Rev. 937 (2024).

Alexandra Natapoff, When the Police Become Prosecutors, N.Y. Times, Dec. 26, 2018.

Alexandra Natapoff, Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice (2d. ed., 2022).